Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-19
$4,000 TONS OF COAL DAILY
ORDERED TO PHILADELPHIA "A

perintendent of the philadclph!a az,
Reading Railway.
The same opinion was expressed .
n pennsylvania Railroad official.
went even further.
" consider Director Kruscns proco,,
ings as unjustifeble and hgh-handcd.
he said.
charles q. Beach. supcrirteudcut 90
the New York division ot the Rcadirl
with whose consent Director Krusen too
over the two loaded cars. I'D today tha'
he regretted that Director kruscn had
not Informed him how badly in need ui
coal he was.
'1f he had done So said Mr.. Beach
we should have tried to supply him
as VIC have supplied individual aid in
many cases"
Thomas Robins, the only member of
the fucl committee in the city today,
avoided comment on Director Krusen's
| action
Director krusen's conduct Of Block
| Icy rs been admirable" he said when
asked TO talk about the coal seizure.
He has transformed II from byword
into model institution"
Director krusen said that he was "a
hlppy anarchist" in reply to charges
that had not observed legal me lsurc :.
| ~ am the happlest anarchist In Phil
adclphia.' he said.
| Director krusen. when tSd Of the re.
buke OF Mr.. Garfield, replied as fol-
lows
II haven't as yet received the repri.
mand--when I get II I will answer it,
| y physician who visited the office OF
the local coal administrator in the Com.
mcnwealth Building today was ordered
to leave that place. According TO tn,
] clerks tho p,N.ginian tai
them in loud tone because one Of his
patients had failed to receive coal The
doctor was led to the door by police.
man who is detailed there
No laborers were available TODAY Ia
shovel coal into the bumpers of the West
Philadelphia High School for Boys. at
! Forty-seventh and Walnut streets. SO a
delegation of students of that schoo
was pressed into service. T. tch student
was paid for his services at the rate OF
| twenty-five cents an hour. Payment
was made in thrift stamps.
Lack of transportation facilities ac.
cording to Fairfax Harrison. chairman
of the Railroad War Board. isn't en-.
tirely responsible for the coal shortage
The real shortage, according to Mr.
FairfaX's statement. is due to the enor.
nous increase In the demands for coal
THE railroads. Mr. FairfaX's state.
ment reads. appeal from the general
| statement being made upon this sub
ject Ia the incontroNertible fact The
records Of the railroads show not onlN
that The coal operators have produced
more dN than ever before. but that
in the eight months April to November
inclusive. the railroads have hauled and
delivered 1885 more carloads. or about
Ia, ,O0O.O00 more tons Of anthracite thar
in the same months OF 1916. This was
an increase of - per cent over the best
record ever previously made
The records show that in the sam,
months the railroads hauled 925,G91
more carloads, or about ) 0O0. .000 NOR,
tons of bituminous coal than i'm the cor
responding period of 1916. This showi
an Increase of s per cent over the bes
record ever previously made.
The present coal problem is not. a
has been represented, altogether "A prob
lem of transportation. 1t is primaril,
i.a problem of distribution, for which tn