Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-01
he carrying out of this plan impos.

the carrying out of this plan impos- sibie.
 After having our plans approved by the president of the New Haven read, we wired Washington requesting an order for loading barges at the piers in New York and unloading them at Belle dock, New Haven, into coal cars for delivery to retail dealers in in- tericr Connecticut points badly in need of coal" Mir. Russell said. "rhe reply was this wire" and he tossed to the reporter the following telegram from the fuel administration at Washing ton:
 With weather conditions which have prevailed. docks at New York and Philadelphia are being taxed to the utmost to do what they have been doing. It is impossible to get further tonnage through for movement to in- terior Connecticut towns via Belle dock, New Haven. They are now working in shifts of 10 hours each, and are even then unable to supply New fork, Brooklyn and your Connecticut coast communities"
 'Aiready we have succeeded several
 times in keeping some of the largest plants in the state from closing down, " Mir. Russell went on, ''by diverting l cars on the rails to them. In a num- Der of instances also we have kept
 electric light companies and trolley
 companies from closing down by fol- lowing this method. We also have had
 to divert cars on the rails for relief to domestic consumers in cities in a
 number of instances.
 1 The mayor of one large Connecticut city said to me in a telephone eonver- sation that if it were not for the ex- | Af hA $1zA t1a~ Sl<.n | believed that average householder l would now be paying SEQ a ton fol coal. In the present conditions if coa, were Sz0 a ton in Connecticut I haven,
 the slightest idea that Connecticut
 would be receiving any more coal thar it is at the present time. It would
 merely be case of higher price an6 no more coal.
 ssWe have been successful se7era
 times in diverfing a sufficient supply
 Of coal to the Old Soldiers home a
 Noroton and several other state in,
 stitutions which were entirely out O.
 fuel to keep the inmates from suffer.
 ing.
 More or less has been printed abou
 the Storrow emergency coal which i, supposed to come into New England
 This is an additional supply of 800 can
 & day Of all-ran coal. Of the theoret
 ical 800 cars a day, the first 200 car, were to be delivered each day to tn, railroads of New England for thei
 own use in keeping the locomotive
 running. My Understanding is tha
 up to the present time there has no
 been hardly enough of this coal re eeived to meet the railroads demand
 for 200 ears a day.
 II 'In the anthracite situation ou principal aim has been to bring al,ou as far as possible an absolutely equa , division Of coal among consumers ii
 need, and for this reason it has seem , ed necessary to put into force tn
 emergency check of requiring write ! statennsnts as to coal on hand an , limiting the maximum sold to any in dividual. While this undoubtedly ha caused much inconvenience to pur chasers, we have the satisfaction c l feeling that it has resulted in a faire , distribution than would have been DOS s1ble under any other system. } s1n some places like Waterbury, tn , fues committee has actually been seiz } ing coal originally intended for facto t ries and diverting 1t to domestic US
 The local fuel administrator in Water bury seized seven cars in this manne 3 on the 18th. 18th and 20th of tn c month and has continued to do 3 where it has been necessary. Tn 3 coal is turned over to the dealers an I distributed for domestic use where . is imperatively needed under the loc : fuel administrators order We ha, 6 authorized our local ehairrnen all ov,
 the state to do this wherever it is in j perative, and although we cannot te e just how many cars have been
 diverted, we know 1t is a considerab l. number"