The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1918-01-03
COAL SITUATION HERE
DESPERATE; PEOPLE
CLAMOR|NG FOR FUEL
CONTINUED from FIRST rarcJ

straight 10 Camp Upton. five 20 East
New York. two 70 Flushing, two 70
Mineola and scattering cars to va
rious suburbs Of tho city.
The remaining cars have been
shunted 20 the Harold Avenue cato
OF the railroad yards and thence the
coal is being taken by wagons to
New York over Greensboro Bridge.
Al the office Of Fuel Admins.
traitor Wiggin Il was said to-day
that 1900 carloads Of coal had
arrived at Jersey tidewater over.
night. Nine hundred Of these
ears, or $4,000 tons, were TO be
apportioned 10 New York; the re.
mainder was to 90 TO New Eng
land.
Tho unloading OF tho Goa, In tho
Jersey terminals is progressing sat
isfactorily. according 10 Harry T.
Peters. Chairman Of the Fuel Con-
sorvation Committee But there the
work Of relieving New York Is halted
by the icy hand OF the cold snap.
Because all OF the heaviest tugs in
the harbor have long since been ro,ni-
sitioned by the Government for war
work none but lighter towing craft
remain. and these found Themselves
to-day buckinR river ice which was
almost impossible Of penetration.
COURTS SHUT DOWN BECAUSE
OF LACK OF COAL.
All the courts except ono IN the
Criminal Courts Building closed
down to-day because OF the !ack OF
coal. Judge Grain held session In
room near tho basement, where
there was a little heat. but a holiday
was declared in five parts OF General
Sessions and two parts OF Special
Sessions.
Elevators IN the building stopped
running and visitors wcrn forced to
climb the stairs Tho District At
torney's staff on tho third and fourth
floors wore their oYercoats and the
rooms were like barns. The superln-
tendent said there was not n BIT OF
coal I'm tho building.
Similar conditions prevailed IN tho
Tombs. Prisoners who had overcoats
wore them and all suffered severely
from the cold Warden Hanley few
days ago got some coal in response
to an appeal from tho civic author
tiles. but tho last Of it has been used.
Relief is promised lato this afternoon.
How desperate people are growing
under the pinch OF the coal famine
was shown to-day by two dramatic
instances in widely separated COM
munities The tenants OF a three
story apartment house At No. ssi
Whitlock Avenue. the Bronx, armed
themselves with axes and broom han
dies and marched into the basement
where the furnace had remained
dead" for three days. They ripped
apart and broke up all the partitions
and fed the wood into the furnace.
A mob - 500 people swopped down
up0n loaded coal train on the Erie
tracks nj the sixth Street yards,
Jersey City, early to-day and carried
off in blankets. wagons and aprons
all the coal from two cars before the
police reserves descended upon them.
Borough President Connolly OF
Queens reported to Mayor Hylan to-
day that tho Department OF Public
Works under him has tho following
force available for coal distribution
when It reaches Long Island city by
way OF tho Pennsylvania tunnels:
Fifteen foremen, II assistants. 2l6
men, 80 teams OF horses, g. single
horses and carts and two auto trucks
II we get tho coal in Queens wo'n
SEQ that II IL 40 distributed that
within twcnty-four to forty-eight
hours every family In need viii be
taken care Of" declared Cc-nolly.