The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-30
Carey Asked To Rush Fuel to
Board of Education.
banner Delivers a Knockout to
the Fuel Hogs.
TWO TONS TO A CUSTOMER
That Is All Local Dealers Are
Allowed To Sell.
Whole State Bare of Coal
Situation Serious.

Coal hogs received Knockout to-
day.
Topeka coal dealers cannot sell
consumers more than two tons OF coal
under an order today by c. II. Danner,
state employment agent, in charge OF
local coal administration. Danner de-
clared the rich must bear coal short
age hardships with the poor. Filling
of Topeka coal bins until conditions
improve will be prohibited under the
Danner order.
banners latest ruling went to all
Topeka retailers today. He declared
that a careful check would be kept on
all sales and effort made to prevent
preferential sales. No deliveries in
excess of two tons will be permitted.
The order will affect scores of To-
/ pekans who have placed orders for
their winter supply and are awaiting
deliveries.
I'm this crisis the rich must suffer
with the poor" said Danner. Merely
because a man has plenty of money,
! he should not be given preference
over man who works by the day and
cannot buy as much coal as he wants
or really needs. If the rich give over
some of their big orders, there is a
chance for the poor man. Both may
get enough fuel to keep warm. If the
hogs try to grab it all. there will be
suffering and probably serious trou-
| BILE.
Hopes for Relief.
Under the order which have sent
to all local dealers, no man will be
permitted to receive more than two
/ tons of coal upon a single order.
Il am hopeful of early relief from
the present shortage. But if relief
doesn't come, dealers will not be per-
mitted to dump ten and fifteen and
twenty ton orders in one mans bin
and tell another man he must shiver
becouse there is no coal for him. The
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| situation. Conditions here are really
serious. 1t is an ill chosen time to be
| a hog. Every one had better keep
warm tonight than to get up cold the
next day and cause suffering and
want in hundreds of homes"
Following the order regulating coal
deliveries. Danner sent a telegram to
! Emerson Carey of Hutchinson, state
! fuel administrator. asking that ship
ments of coal be Immediately directed
to Topeka that schools may be kept
| open. Danner stated that the coal
supply fer Topeka schools would meet
| two days dema nds.
There is one car on hand today"
said Danner. 'In order that all
| schools may remain omen the ship
ment is being allotted on the basis OF
a wagon load for each school car
! for the Topeka schools was comman-
deered in Kansas City yesterday. Five
cars are on the way. But no one
! hHcNS wien lney VIII come. IheY
may go thru Kansas City, too
Two C"fs al week To Schools.
Administrator Carey was asked to
1 allot two cars of coal a week to To-
/ peka schools until conditions are ad-
! justed.
Railroads are using sixty to seventy
five per cent of the output of mines
Carey told Danner in "a letter received
/ this morning. Under the order OF
Harry A Garfield. federal administra-
tor, railroads must be cared for
Carey stated there has been no move
ment of coal to Kansas retailers for
several weeks.
IF the percentage of cars is fur
nished as suggested, there will not be
pound of coal going to the CONNER
cial trade" Carey said in his letter
The lump coal will all go to the rail-
roads and the bi-products in the way
! of screenings to the manufacturing
plants. This has practically been the
case and there has been no movement
of coal to the retailers in Kansas for
/ several weeks The state is bare of
coal and something will have to be
done pretty soon to relieve the situa-
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