The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-03
RAILROADS RUSHING
CARS Of CORN EAST
Six Thousand Daily on Way 90 Mar
kct, Director General Me-
Adoo Says
FOOD FOR ALLIED ARMY
Supply Goes 10 Seaboard Cities for
shipment Abroad and WIN Help
Take Grcat Pressure OF Demand
for Wheat

Washington, Feb. 2--Six thousand
carloads Of corn are being rushed
daily 10 the markets OF the East and
interim ediate points Il was announced
tonight by Dircctor-GenerAi McAdoo.
The cities to ne relieved first are
New York, Philadelphia and Dalti-
more for shipments to the allies.
LARGE stores sire moving also to Chi
caEo. Kansas city and Omaha. As
surauces werc given tonight that with
any degree OF IL let-up In the heavy
weather the corn bolt would be
cleared of Its burden OF over produc-
tinU ny the end ~ March. This will
In turn take great pressure OF the
demand on the wheat supply,
An order was issued 70 Eastern
railroad lines 10 turn over to the
Western lines all available empty
equipment In box cars and rotrigera-
tors. Mose than 1000 cars viii be
moved into Chicggo and from there
So sent into the districts where they
are most needed. They viii he load
poultry food and he Kept moving In
an endless belt long a. the neces-
sity exists.
Removes Fpcigaa Congestion
The railroad administration has
now arrived at tho point where the
movement OF cars our OF the cen
Sestad freight belt OF the eastern aea-
board exceeds the incoming by near
~ 10000 cara a day. There were
moving eastward TODAY 57,245 load
"a cars and 9,S02 ompties. The west
ward movement was 81. 341 loads and
42.s63 empties, an increase over the
previous day Of 5000 cars: 1895 ef
tNis increased movement being emp
tics
In tho West Virginia district the
distribution Of empty cars was great
iv affected on account of high water
on the Chesapeake ~ Ohio sew
eral bridges were washed out. Al
several roivts IN the mountain region
SNOW conditions prevented placing OF
the empty cars at the mines,
The situation throughout the CEN
trail west was bad Low tenn peratures
prevented operation entirely at some
pointz An ice gorge at Madison,
Ind, broke this afternoon. opening
Ire Ohio river from Madison tn
louisville but leaving huge fields OF
broken Ice.
River Frozen Solid.
At Louisville the river is frozen
solid with seventeen inches of ice,
The big Rorges at Fernhank and
North Bound are still holding but the
railroad offlcials are hopeful they will
break any hour. relieving the hooded
district OF Cincinnati where passen-
ger and freight service are both i'm
perilled.
Giving an indication of the oil sit
uation facing the country and which
the forthcoming oil proclamation OF
President Wilson will relieve, Conn
missioner McChord's report 10 the
director general shows that on tho
Atchlson, Topeka and Santa Re rail-
v,av at Topeka are 500 carloads OF
fuel oil aud ffty-four more in transit;
also i,470 empty tank cars at eta
tons and 1871 in transit.
These lines serve seventy loading
stations and refneriee having total
loading capacity OF f,125 cara daily"
saws the commissioner Sufficient
power and labor are available and
il ia stated that any congestion that
exists can he cleared up in two or
three days. n there In an outlet for
cart bound business There In no EN-"
barge on either fuel oil or empty
tank oars"