The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
Ire Jam Broken in Kill van
Kull-50.OOO Tons of
Fuel Liberated.
RELIEF NEAR FOR CITY
Brooklyn and Queens Get
195 Cars-SuppIy in Ter
minals to I;r Pooled.
MANY HorEAs NAY CLOSE
Women and Charity Commit
tee Arrange to Furnish
Poor With Fuel.
MANY HoTEAs NAY, CLOSE

Solid accomplishment in the direction
Of breaking the coal famine in this city
vas made yesterday when a fleet Of
powerful railroad tugs working under
the direction Of Alfred II. smith. Federal
Director OF Railroads in tho East, At.
tackled the icebound waters Of the
lower bay and broke channels 100 feet
In width through the Kill van Kull
Rarian nay and Princess Bay and
opened up smaller channels through
Gowanu5 Canal and NewtowQ Creek.
By means Of bargss thus liberated
from heavy ice $4,000 tons Of coal was
y nbrr,,ed FOR consumption in this city
and half tneraamoInt had been brought
to piers sionk the shores OF Manhattan
Island by late afternoon. At least half
he coal of the total get free Is hard
anthracite, NJ for consumption in fur
naees in buildings OF various sorts. and
the rest IL bunker coal. The liberation
Of the bunker coal will enable some Of
,Ae 100 or 200 vessels which have been
unable TO proceed to sea ON account
Of lack Of fuel to weigh anchor within
The next few days.
Added to the supply which came by
barges from the lower bay Gas carloads
came into the city through the Pennsyl-
vani tubes and on car floats owned by
the Erie. Lackawanna and r.ehish
Valley roads OF these cars icJ passed
through the Pennsylvania tunnels alone
and relieved the shortage Of coal in
Brooklyn, Queens and that part of Nam
haitian borough adjacent, to Queens.
noro Bridge. The average load Of a
'a'lrcAd car being forty ave tons. i,earYy.
loese tons ee coal came In on carr.
~ this amount 500 tons was aent over
'laeensbcro Bridge By trucks from
'As sunnyside yards at Long Island City.
hAAAS 70 Peel Csai.
Another arrangement which should ma
terially speed mp the actual landing of
coal on the New York water front was
eached at meeting Of railroad men In
ht ofhces Of the Fuel Administration, at
which II was agreed that all the rail-
'oads having terminals In or near the
ct, "poof their coal. or let It 20 straight
from car to barge regardless OF it's rise
and quality. In the past certain rail-
roads have handled certain kinds Of coal
and other railroads other kinds. and the
oartes receiving II at piers have waited
t'r special aIlotments. By pooling II all
40 soon as car OF coal reaches a pier
n will he transferred to the nearess
barge and hurried to the city water
front,
Mayor Hylan also took hand IN the
iuel relief yesterday, when he instructed
'he different Borough Presidents Of the
city to ofer to the Fuel Administrative ion
'he services Of as many borough EN-.
Woyeee| as could be spared from their
street cleaning and other borough de-
partnents Manhattan alone sent twen-
t-siS OF It's carts and drAers out on the
'ask Yesterday. and had them busy all
ray at the Lehigh Valley yards at the
''ot OF West Twenty-sevenfh street.
Under an order by Police Commits
noner Bugher tho police to-day will
make house to house canvass Of all
coal in the various police precincts and
VIII report coal hoarders as well az vol
uhteers who may have little more coal
man they urgently need and are willing
10 contribute some of it. to sufferers
Mhen the police have compiled lists OF
.he coal wagons from the Highway,
fark and Street Cleaning departments
VIII call for the coal and take 1t 10 dis
"iouting depots, where II will be sold
Or given to the poor.
Pants Dewntown.
Downtown New York suffered a few
nosrs OF genuine panic yesterday when
~ T. Jenkinaon, State Fuel Administra.
.oT Tor New Jersey. refused to allow any
soal 10 be brought by truck from that
S'ate 10 lower New York. and set the
polce OF Jersey City, Hoboken and Wee.
.a"ken TO guard the coal piers and en-.
"rcc his order. He had misunderstood
.Na'n. instructions received by him
IRON the National Fuel Administration
~ Washington. and remained obdurat,
l'r SIX hours until he received a tele.
cram from DR.. Garfield. expla ining "a
I'm mat all coal passing through New
S.'S'E was not necessarily New jersey
e'ol and that such Of II as was con,
sehed To New York must be liberated.
IN account OF the high value of wa.
"r''oh' property there are no coal pcck,
.S y" on the shores OF the lovcr city and
~ ~ coal which is consumed in downtown
IW nfW York comes to it by truck over thu
,rtn mupson ferries from New : Jersey
trough Mr. Jenkinsons refusal ~ Del
,' ~ the coal which was consigned
70, '"e use of lower New York wa,
A., ""'eu III u cIoSe call FOR nun
.u' ~ office buildings, and one o
,m n'nI me New York Life Insuranc,
INNING, actually ran out OF coal Ant
,nh ,oEeh It's doors at o'clock In III,
rsrnoon Two other buildings tn,
aano'' Trust and the Empire Trust, Gu
.o"n their elevator services to two car,
M, and finally late in the Afternoon
..,, mon Trust suspended Its eievato
service altogether.
Hotel WeR Alarmed.
ln'' 5"fore the meeting of the rail
,pH' Won az the Fuel Admnistrat tioI
'I' was a meeting OF hotel mon ther
ha mp OF an panicky IA coiiec; lion O
'' p'oprietors Az ever got togethc
" one room. Virtually an of then
P"''1 that the hotels they repre
wee In narrow straits and that !
=, ~ no rclicc for them by to-da,
~ ' quarter OF the larxest hotels h
=. '' would have 20 send their pa
"'' ana ctosc their doors
fore ihcy were nbout
'',..'' on Fodrth FoOe.