The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-19
10000 PLANTS
CLOSED IN CITY
~, 100000 Wage Losses and
More Than 100000 Idle
in Metropolitan Area.
BUSINESS STILL PUZZLED
Schley Gets l.5OO Applications
for Permits and Grants 65:
Steps to Enforce Order.

The immediate results of the mrs. day
OF obedience to Dr. Garneld's orders
were that approximately 10000 indus.
trial concerns, large and small. shut up
shop. throwing probably 100000 men out
OF work in Greater New York. In the
whole metropolitan district there were.
II was estimated, from ! 900, 900 to l.
] zoo. 900 idle men.
The loss In wages for the hrst day
under the new order was estima ted by
labor leaders and economists at $4,000
900 for the great Industrial territory
! urbs md near Jersey.
! The Edison company reported de-
crease Of 40 per cent. in tho amount q.
| current consumed and estimated that in
Manhattan and Brooklyn. It saved $500
| tons Of coal during the day.
! There was very complete shutting
down Of industry. from the big concerns
that employ thousands to the obscure
tailor shops that find Jobs for two or
| operation closely touches Government
work and which had obtained or which
expected to obtain exemption, continued
| to turn their whels.
stores aud saloons ODe1.
For the rest, the city went on about
as usual. but apprehensively and very
much In the dark as to just what Is ex-
pected from IT, stores Of all kinds re.
NAMED open. Saloons catered to the
thirsty. Once buildings hived their usual
tenants and maintained their usual ac'
| tivities except that here and there elevator
| service was reduced and there was come
| curtailmsnt in heating and lighting. De-
partment stores maintained their Gus
! tomary trade. and hinted that when or
| IL they have to close on DR.. Garheids
cerulean Mondays they will pay Their
people. They hope, however. to obtain
| such a modification Of the order as viii
permit them to continue business on
| Mondays as usual
| Banks operated imperturbably. since
they have been especially exempted by
Gov. whitman under the provisions
which gave him authority. The stocF
exchanges were hard at work In a YER!
dull and apprehensive markell marke'
which seemed accurately to register th'
general feeling OF depression caused p9
the Garfield mandate.
Throughout the city there were almost
frenxied appeals to all sorts OF authori
ties for such Information as wouiu en-
tighten industry and ordinary business
as TO it's rights. The offices Of the Fue
Administration. the Police Department
the United states Marshal ana the news
papers were besieged for information o.
use in solving the worst puzzle that evei
confronted a workaday people. IN
chaos had not lessened over night Il
anything it had increased
y, Wigsin Advises Aids.
Albert II. Wiggin, State Fuel Admins
traitor, cleared up the muddled situat'oi
IN some extent yesterday when he toie
his subordinates, the administrators II
the several counties Of the state. ina
they might use their best Judgment u
granting exemptions in cases wner'
health or property would be endangeEe'
nv shutting OF. heat and in cases OF th'
manufacture OF food which Is not perish
able nor for Immediate consumption.
He telegraphed to the county admins
traitors that retail stores and saloon
must close on Mondays. Arsenais ar
eyempt. also the Savage Arms, th'
Remington. the Union Metallic Cartr,as'
and the National Brass and Copper Tuo'
compan.es TO the extent OF firearms an'
ammunition. He told his aids to asl
tho United States Attorneys and Mar
shals 10 help them enforce the order.
Reeve Schley, administrator OF New
York county, considered 1900 exemption
ann,ications and granted sixty-five--
lauudries, milk dealers. opticians. drug
pist. ard concerns supplying hospital
and banks.
All office building applications wer
turned down.
Twenty complai ints Of violations wer
/ received and after Investigation e!ec'ri
isht and power were ordered smut OF
from Ave plants--all of them clothing
manufacturers on the East Side.
steps Taken 10 Enforce Order.
Fuel Administrator Wiggln took meas
ures to insure its enforcement. IL
notified Thomas d. Mccarthy, Unitc'
States Marshal and Frederick Bugher
police Commissioner, to be alert for vio
lations Tho Police Commissioner a
much in the dark as anybody. asked III
Corporation Counsel for ruling L
guide the department.
/ White there was an undoubted cTor
on the part of the heads of industria
concerns to obey the letter OF the or
der. they werds confused and uncertain
AZ to whether they merited exemption
| The entire situation remained tangle'
and will unquestionably have to awai
n multitude OF detailed rulings by Di
| Garfield himself
Generally speaking. industry stoppe'
short. On the east side OF Harlem al
| Of the breweries were closed excep
| that Of George Ehret. and II was sal,
there that II was expected'to close to
day. The Nathan Manufacturing Com
pany. at First avenue and i06h stree,
which makes shells for the Government,
shut down and posted bulletin statinl
that the plant would remain closed unit
next Tuesday. Mora than 1000 mon ar
| employed there. The question Of pa.
asttates thsss workers. AZ It does hun
dreds of thousa nds at other plants.
On the west side of Harlem the Sin
clair Valentine Company, manufacture
Of printers ink, shut its doors. al0n
with the Bernheimer 4 schwarts Brew
cry and numerous other large concerns
| Abraham Raroff OF the lntcrna tionu