Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-22
Full Text
Of Official
Fuel Order

wv text or the Official oTueE
issued by Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield last night follows:
United States Fuel Administration,
Washington, D. C.,
Jan Il. 1918.
Regulation Making Provision for
More Adequate Supply of Fuel
for Railroads. Domestic Consum-
ers, Public Utilities, and Other
Uses Necessary to the National
Security.
The United States fue4 admins
traitor, acting under the authority
of an executive order of the presi-
dent of the United States, dated
August %, 1917, appointing said
administrator, in furtherance of
the purposes of said order and of
the purposes of the act of congress
therein referred to, approved Au-
gust 10, 1917, and finding it essen
tlal effectively to carry out the
provisions of this act, to make
provision for a more adequate sup
ply of fuel for railroads, domestic
consumers, public utilities, and for
other uses necessary to the ma
tional security in certain parts of
the United States, hereby makes
and prescribes the following regu-
lation:
Section /. Until further order of
the United States fuel admins
TRAITOR, all persons selling fuel in
whatever capacity shall, in filling
their contracts or orders now on
hand, give preference to necessary
current requirements Of: Rail
roads, domestic consumers, hos
pitfalls, charitable institutions,
army and navy cantonments, pub
lie utilities, by-product coke
plants supplying gas for household
use; telephone and telegraph
plants, shipping for bunker pur-
poses, the United States for strict
ly governmental purposes (not in
GLIDING factories or plants working
on contracts for the United States),
manufacturers of periShable food
or of food for necessary immediate
consumption, and municipal, coun-
ty or state governments for neces-
sary public uses. Any tonnage re-
manning after the foregoing pre-
ferred shipments have been made
may be applied in filling any other
contracts or orders.
Section 3. On the following days,
namely, January Is, 10, 20, 81 and
%, 1918, the state fuel admins
traitors and their accredited repre-
sentatives in the various communi-
ties in the territory in which this
regulation applies are hereby en-
powered and directed to divert
such fuel as arrives in such com
munities in carload lots to meet
the current requirements and to
provide an adequate and normal
supply for such consumers OF fuel
as are specified in section 1 here
Of
Section s. On the following days,
namely, January is, 10, 20, 81 and
81, 1918, and, also, on each and
every Monday beginning January
%, 1918. and continuing up to and
including March 25, 1918, no man
ufacturfer or manufacturing plant
shall burn fuel or use power de-
rived from fuel for any purpose,
with the following exceptions:
(a) Plants which necessarily must
be continuously operated seven days
each week to avoid serious injury
TO the plant itself or it's contents
may use only such quantity of fuel
jury to the plant or it's contents.
(b) Manufacturers or plants man
ufacturing perishable foods or foods
for necessary immediate consump-
ton
Co Manufacturers of food not per-
ishable and not necessary for i'm
mediate consumption may burn fuel
to the extent authorized by the fuel
administrator of the state in which
such plant is located, or by his duly
authorized representative, upon ap-
plication by the United States food
administrator.
Id Plants necessary to the print
ing and publication of daily papers
may burn fuel or use power de-
rived therefrom as usual, except
that on every Monday from January
u to March 25, 1918, inlusive, they
may buVn fuel or use power derived
therefrom only to such extent as is
necessary to print and. publish such
editions as such plants customar-
lily print and publish on legal holi-
days other than the Sabbath; or, II
such plants do not customarily print
or publish any editions on such
legal holidays, they may burn fuel
or use such power to such extent
as is necessary to issue one edition
on the said Mondays.
(e) Printing establishments may
burn fuel on January IS, 19, 20.
u and %, 1918, to such extent as
is necessary to issue current num-
Der of magazines and other publ
cations periodically issued.
Section 4. On each Monday begin
ming January 81, 1918, and continu-
ing up to and including Monday,
March rs, 1918, no fuel shall be
burned Except to such extent as
is essential to prevent injury to
property from freezing) for the
purpose of supplying heat for:
(a) Any business or professional
offices, except offices used by the
United States, state, county or
municipal governments, tranSpor-