Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-20
A SHOvELFUL OF COAL
Equivalent To Half Pound OF Sugar
Or half Loaf Of Bread Or Half
A Pint OF hsiIk.

The householder must realize that
when he throws a shovefuI OF anthra-
cite coal into his furnace its value
Is equivalent TO half a pound OF sugar.
or half loaf of bread. or half pint
OF milk"
That is the manner in which Van H
Manning. Director Of the Bureau OF
Mines, Department OF the Interior.
endeayored TO impress the State as
sistants of the Fuel Administration
with the necessity for the economic
cal use of fuel. The State deputies
had been called together in Washing
ton by DR.. II. A. Garfield. the Fuel
Administrator, for family council
concerning the urgent work to be
taken up in each State.
The householder must, therefore.
appreciate that it is now worth while
to examine his house and to overhaul
his heating equipment" continued
Mr.. Manning. Weather strips, dou-
bic windows, pipe covering, clean
fues and chimneys. and tight fittings
il ash pits, doors, hampers and furnace
parts will all pay. Damper control is
one OF the chief secrets of economi-
cal heating Clean heating surfaces
are most essential as SCOT is a poor
er conductor of heat than asbestos.
Care, attention, and taking pains will
be the greatest factors in saving do
nestle coal"
MIR. Manning said that about twenty
per cent Of the six hundred million
tons of coal mined in the United
States is used for house heating and
that it is shoveled by more than
fifteen million people
Americans have been as wasteful
of coal as of other resources" con-
tinued Mr.. Manning largely because
coal has been abundant. To many
consumers it has seemed hardly worth
while to give time and thought to the
saving of coal. Conditions have sud
denly changed. Today it is every.
body's business to save coal Coal is
the foundation stone of industry.
Without it the production of equip
ment for war must halt. One mans
careless and wasteful use may mean
an idle factory or a cold house for his
neighbor With the world looking to
us largely for its coal supply, with
increased demands at home, with
scarcity of available labor, with over
taxed transportation facilities, the
consumer of coal must pause and give
serious consideration to the problem
which confronts the country
If the people can be reused to an
intelligent consideration of the burn
ing of coal, they can begin TO save ten
per cent of the production, or sixty
million tons, at once With more eff
fort, thorough instruction and mod
crate remodeling of coal-burning
equipment, which could all be accom-
plished during the war, a further con
siderable saving could be made.
THE possible saving when present
practice is compared with the best
ideal practice is very large. If it
were possible to supply the need of
this country for light, heat, and power
through the highest type of mechani-
cal devices, and if we could make a
skilled user out of the average user
we could probably get along with half
as much coal as we are now consum-
ing. This ideal is far beyond present
realization. We cannot scrap all out
of-date power plants We must start
with doing the best with what we
have. We must begin saving coal at
onco