Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-09
Curtis Company
Offers Its Coal

/ Continued from Page Ono
/ force and It's legal counsel especially
! busy today.
/ The seizures were ordered as a result
/ of an order from National Fuel Admin
/ istrator Garfield that all SHOP" cars
/ TO interstate points must be unloaded
and repaired as soon as possible. Until
/ this order was issued. supplanting the
regulations preventing the seizure of
coal bound for interstate points. Mr..
/ Potters office was Obliged to keep its
| hands off this important tonnage In this
! State.
To relieve tae needs oi the Pennsyl-
vania Sugar Refining Company. which,
although II has sufficient supplies OF raw
! sugar on hand TO meet Its immediate
needs had SO little coal that 1t would
have been obliged to shut down It's plant
at noon today, Mr.. Potter ordered the
seizure of six cars OF bituminous coal
consigned TO the chester Tube COMPANY
and which were about TO be unloaded
| In the company's yards at Chester Inc
| coal will be brought back at once. Ac-
I cordlng TO George II. Earle, Jr.. presi-
dent of the sugar refining company. u
has been operating under capacity lot
sotnc time on account OF the lack oi
coal
a.; ,, .,,s ,od,v ,bat tho coal
WI, o.tu. .,'.o,,~hnut the state has i'm.
proved greatly in the last few days ana
1 that. with continued mild weather, no
would hope for still more positive re-
| lief in the local coal shortage.
United states soldiers may ne called
to Philadelpha U" ,,'' ,,',,n.o
cars from bcing rdIueu ny "''''
/ homes are without fuel.
/ CONTINUED raiding of fuel cars mas
reacted in such way that many deal
ers unable TO obtain police protection
for their shipments have withdrawn
/ their orders from operators. thereby
/ lessening the shipments of coal to ihlla-
( delphia.
,,-o,,f, r.c,vis chairman of the
r,,iIa1o,nbio coal committee, blaming
t,a ,taor,asad sblpuents here on this
rar, has annealed to United states Dis
,,I,, ,,,orn.v Kane for Federal protec-
,,n, ,o rut a stop TO the thefts.
H. ,arrod tho phiiadclnhio malice
,,.r,., ,,iih doing nothing TO prevent the
,,ids In his letter to Mr.. Kane he SAYS
Lo a. ,nnvinced the policc department
T. Wholly inefficient in protecting prop-
c,t,. and that il is time for the Govern
ucut to step IN and protect coal ship
,n.nts He said no believcdCtnuch of the
stolen coal ~ being sold bv unScrlIpulous
ror.ors for prolit.
4 81 myself have secn A policeuau stand
i,g an - car of coal on Washington
,ys,,,n actually directing ,hc distribu-
,ior 90 conf to rn iders This thing has
COM N, Ionx enough and # we cannot
,a, r,lisr In one wuy we will got if In
gnother" he said
pefpeol op men and women. arrested
ror s,eoIinp coal from N. railro ,ds. to
nv Onns marked todav's proceedings i'm
no rnllrc stations Th.y were sent TO
iaI
Narisirate Harris. Of the Thirty-scc-
ord etreet and Woodland avenue sta
tiou ,old that several of the eleven men
md ,vnn,ou hroupht before him This
r,,,,,i,,, yero "reneaters,'-n -nrisoners
~, h,d di.charpad nreviouslv through
.t.t,d.haortedness This tim, he soyc
-, IN ,b. ,Itorrati,. or Nv. dave In
ial ar e. 20 fine They took the five davs
j.; iau ,r,,o,. ma h.en arrested by Penn
a,,y,a,i, paiIrnad Detectives last might
,,,,,r Thirtia,h and South streets
u,ra than A., ron of coal was rouud in
.i., no.sesslon Of four italians arrested
last night for stealing the precious car
hon from the Philadelphia and Reading
Hallway.
They were arrested by Policeman
Adler, Of the ''cTlldnloNh avenue ana
I.yconing street station, at Ninth and
ontario streets, whcr" they wer" found
to have stolen twenty-four bags of coal
each weighing over 100 po'indS. from tn"
cars pn tue 'rarhS n,'" Wy 'n,S Ma"
sleds nllco up VIZ" Wv '''' ''.u i'''l
~ the STATION reiuH'" !" pay nn'a vi
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.Iusticc Agent Frank l.. Ciarbarino, hone
,but tho Federal order revol;iug the
Mondav closing mandate for all states
south of virginia would he extended
tn psunsylyania was held our at the
,,,ol ,dn,irtytr,tion nnlce.
i"''
The cancclling OF the order. II was
pointed out. depended entirely on the
amount of fuel brought To- the city,
w.i,h ~ continuation, of tho nird weather
,h i,,,.rnnscd qbinn,uts hec.uen of
,,,a ,,,,s.il+ti,,. or Federal nrotoc,ion rn,
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