The Detroit times., 1917-12-14
LIlLI lAnk
LUEL LHUN
STILL VERY
SERIOUS
Plants Must Surely
Shut Down If Supply
Isn't Increased

I Of rauF ats of fa. e..'ai.unt FI
dav ueuIng There is na way OF
oyading The c0,l facts
ne oitvs rormsl WptiOu 0'
coll is from 500 f0 1000 ears per
day only 10 cars we're retc.Fct
Thursday q 'uCss scurufH .aW
p0rcd ~ DE actual ufrds, hU
enough 20 keep several plants ruu
ming q little longer Up t1 noon
Friday n pa.try ii cars hau trll Alcd
thru. hardly rl9agh 20 mrut'on
tNery ctfort n b-.HI made by the
fegeTai fuel administration thru ire
local and state repre- eutalves 20
get coal here Plants such as hc
Eclson company. which supplies
power to SCORES cf plants as well
as current lCr residences thruout
the city suburbs, wl receive frat
cousi liberation a shutdown ~ che
Edison plants woua be Fer.0js
blow 20 De.rc industries, set the
company was facing such posst
bility Friday afternoon.
Unless coal begins arriving in
latge quantities soon, nothing can
prevent The closing down ~ some
az the industries The Edison com.
pany has received ad'lcss from
W. shington that 60 VIII DE taken
care or. and n there Is 10 hI-c1 IL
the Arrangements, lt win oe sale Co.
keep going Eur the situation -s far
from secure
Congestion on the railroads Tack
of motive power and the cold
weather are an factors iD the situa
tier. Suggestions yor relirf are
freely offered bur tne SOLUTION ~
'bC difficulty would seem t1 be
largely up fo Wsshlngion.
Some Of the coal men 90 So Tar as
10 advocate the construction 0f en-
tire new lines 20 the mines. which
are NOW unable u keen their- M
ductior up 10 the maximum for lack
% cars in which 20 load the coal
Then, TOO. the terminals are so con
gested AZ both ends OF the line that
when the empties are moving down
the loaded cars are held az aEMl vice
versa
In this connection. &c has been sug
gested that the railroads enter into
looping arrangement one road
bringing up The loaded cars and an
other delivering the empties % The
mines. under which the loaded cars
would be brought north over one line
and the empties sent back over an
ether
Detroit Itself is better OF than
most Of its industries The water
board has a fairly ample stock ot
coal on hand and the lighting com
mission has enough stored 90 keep
t going until the middle OF January.
The schools also are well supplied.
For this reason the board. Thursday
night. frowned on suggestion tnat
ihe Christmas holidays be- extended
another week
The hard coal that was supposed
TO be on the way from Buhalo seems
10 have been lost 10 tho shuttle \
small amount is coming into the
citv on private contracts, but
Charles r. Wertz. assistant fuel
agent for the city. warns persons
who are depending on anthracite 10
forget it
There will be no more hard coal
this winter in any quantity says
Wertz "It is going 20 large rae
tories i'm the east and elseW here
that are now using hard coal IN
place of gas u means that De
troiters will have TO get used 70
burning soft coal wouldn't al
wise its use in base burners its not
practical They should be taken
down and q shectirun or some otneI
kind of stove that Vili burn soft coal
substituted
According To- SIR Werly The gov
ernment is dividing Che country inio
zones and win revise tae enfife sys
TEN of distributing the coal lpply-
Under THIS Arrange aeueu' NifMEan
will get its coal hie1! from o'io,
Indiana. and It's 0W.n mine he safs 4.
while The West Virginia product VIII
be delivered nearer hons
Dodge Brothers FRIDAY morning.
RI newed their offer to help 'he cify
suppl, the fueliess thrI fhe police
departmeut. The Roberts Mantle
turing com pany made slmllar -ftr
Mrs Robert INe Schorr Nife ~
nr. Schorr suggests that some 1i
the urplus supply in the bins of tne
schools might be used, on me orders
of The police bureau. FOR relief puI
noses in emergent cases. The schools
viii have a couple OF weeks holida'
AZ Christmas. and during that time
there would probably be opportunity
~ replenish any portion OF The SUP
nlv devoted 20 relief'purposes no"
says Mrs Schorr.
p ". Ga-pow. writing on the iet
ter head Of The Jacob Guthard q
Son company, eays Deiro'ters car
ave 100. 600 tons of coal this winfc'
bv the simple expedient % siftni
their ashes Al $40 per ton. he esii
mates the saving az $1,000 600 Mar'
householders. he says do nor -slf
their ashes because of the dust H
has n plan for eliminating The dus
that rs simplicity itself Here it is
put ashes in q metallic recsptaclt
and when thls is full pour on abou
"a halfDail Of water Then leave tn
a~hes tand until the following day
wacn they can bo siited without
dus' md about 30 per cont of then
reclaimed FOR fuel