New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Few Violations Mark
City's Coalless Day

Workless Monday, third and possibly
last of its kind. yesterday produced the
nearest approach to a Puritanical Sab
bath in New York that the city has ex-
perienced in a generation. What the
Garfield closing order failed to do in
the way of clearing the business dis
trict was accomplished by frigid blast
CT wind that roarcd through the can
yons OF lower Manhattan, carrying hats.
Signs and few struggling pedestrians
before it,
There was practically no activity
throughout the metropolitan district
that was not in some way connected
with the movement of freight and coal.
CIR the feeding of the city.
FROM outward appearances New York
has become Injured to the supposed
hardshlps of two voorhees, days in each
seven. Should the proposal now being
&C nsldered by Dr. II. A. Garfield for
adopted it will be necessary for the
city to readjust itself to the old
regime.
The rare thrills of the otherwise
quiet holiday, were provided by the few
unpatrotlc business men. includinr
several with German names, who at
tempted to hang out the sign, "Busi-
ness as USUAL One barber told a
deputy fuel administrator who attempt
ed to convince him that he could not
remain open during the afternoon to
York. '~N 1T ~" ""''''e' '"ah New
Must Appear in Court
>. ne administrator summoned DO
i'ceman and the barber, still swinging
a a, razor over nervous patron, repeated
inc remark to the policeman. To-day
nc w'li receive an opportunity to repeat
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!atfey, while confronted by possible
jan sentence and fine.
Although more than fifty violators of
the order were found, the total repre-
Scntcd such a small percentage of the
business men who patriotically accented
Its restrictions that the administrators
We're highly pleased with the result.
they agreed that New York had made
an earnest effort to cooperate with the
Federal government in conserving fuel.
But as for specific results, the dav
could not be classified as a conspicuous
success. Instead Of the 10000 tons OF
coal that optimistic fuel men had pre-.
d'cted would be delivered hero during
the day. only 10000 tons were delivered
This was about equally divided between
cold apartment houses and public scr
Vlcc corporations.
Even with this relief the public ser
nee corporations were said to average
but scant twenty -four hours supply
OF coal in their bunkers. None of the
transportation companies had sub
otantial surplus of coal last night.
Plans to make a concerted drive
against the Jersey railroad terminals,
which were supposed to have more coal
| in their pockets than could be moved,
/ came TO naught The supply of coal
not only proved to be far less than had
been expected. largely because of the
blockadins of the railroads by snow and
ice, but the small domestic sizes were
SO tightly embedded in ice aud snow
cars until they had been thawcd out by
steam.
Albert II. Wiggin, state fuel admin
istrator, hoped to receive definite in
formation as to the conclusions at the
conference of administrators at Wash
ington regarding whether the workless
Monday should go. None was received,
however. Reeve Schley, who repre-
sented New York at the conference,
went to the capital to tell Dr. Gar
field that local conditions demanded
the continuance of the weekly shut
| down.
Ld"ard T.. Norman, deputy county
fuel administrator, who received the
reports Of Investigators who had
combed the city for violators Of the
worklcss day order, prepared a mass Of
evidence that will so to the prose
cutors. Of fifty or more violations, it
is likely that only eighteen or twenty
Will be called upon to answer in court.
Among the violators of the order
were several drug stores that took ad-
vantage of the fact that they were
permitted to remain open for the sale
of medicinal supplies to sell candy,
cigars, books and other staples
A loft building at 1880 West Twenty
sixth Street was reported to be hous-
ing the largest number of violators of
the order to be found in the city. Every
tenant was declared by the investiga-
tors to have continued business as
usual using both heat and light.
Other violators were found to con-
sist chiefly of small stores on side
streets. b. Weissmann, barber at 6S5
Columbus Avenue, was reported as re-
manning open after he had been warned
twice to close his doors +. L. Gross,
another barber at CTS Columbus Ave
nue., was named in similar report in
which prosecution was recommended.
Many Saloons Open