The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23

ton by the United States fuel admin
istrator.
"(dJ Printers or publishers of daily
papers may burn fuel as usual except
ing on every Monday from January y
10 March -. 1919, inclusive, on which
days They may burn fuel to such ex
tent az is necessary 10 Issue such edi
! Hons ns such papers ciistomarily issue
on, important national legal holidays
and where such papers do not issue
any editions on n holiday, they are per-
mitted 10 Issue one edition on the said
Mondays.
| Doctors OFFICES Excepted.
''(c) Printing establishments may
burn fuel on January IL, 10, 20 and %
10 such an extent as IL necessary to
issue current numbers Of magazines
0nd other publications periodically is
sued.
ION each Monday, beginning Janu-
airy u. 1918, and continuing up TO and
including Monday, March %, 1913, no
fuel shall be burned Except to such an
extent as Is essential to prevent injury
TO property from freezing) for the pur.
pose of supplying heat for:
"(a) Any business or professional Of
fices, except offices used by the United
States, state, county or municipal gov
ernments, transportation companies or
which are occupied by physicians or
dentists.
"(b) Wholesale or retail stores or
any other stores, business houses or
buildings whatever, except for the pur-
pose Of selling food only, for which
purpose stores may maintain necessary
heat until 2o'clock for the purpose of
selling drugs and medical supplies
only, stores may maintain necessary
heat throughout the day and evening.
Theaters Must Close Down.
zee Theaters, moving picture
houses, bowling alleys, billiard rooms.
private or public dance halls, or any
other place of amusement
con the above specified Mondays no
fuel shall be burned for the purpose of
heating rooms or buildings In which
liquor is sold on these days.
mo fuel shall he burned on any Of
the foregoing specified Mondays for
the purpose OF supplying power for the
movement Of surface, elevated, subway
or suburban cars OF trains IN excess of
the amount used on the Sundays previ.
Gus thereto
Official Explanation Of Order.
The fuel administration issued the
Following statement explaining the
scope Of its coal priority order:
"rhc unprecedented weather condi-
lions Of recent weeks and the made
guacy of the present coal supply and
transportation facilities To meet the
elOrin"nS wartime demands have
radc necessary immediate restrictive
measures rs to the use Of coal in that
part Of the United States east Of the
Mississippi river,
The movement Of coal in transpor.
ration must be 50 directed as To aid
The director general of railways In
dealing with the railroad emergency
Created by recent blizzard conditions.
Domestic consumers IF coal must be
Ecri warm and other absolutely neces-
silE consumers must be supplied.
Industries Must Be Restricted.
"All industries must be equally re-
Su'icicd in their use of coal In order
that the available supply for the re-
Of the winter may he properly
and may be made sufficient
FOR absolutely essential needs.
ITO meet these necessities the fuel
has ordered as m imme-
liatc emergency measure that on the
days Of January ~, 10, 20, II and %
preference and priority In the delivery
and use of conl shnll he given only to
those consumers whose consumptiOn
Of coal Is absolutely necessary.
These include, In order. Railroads,
domestic consumers. hospitals and
institutions. public utilities.
ships NJ tidewater for bunker purposes.
United States government use. munIc-
ipal and county government FOR nee
csary public use and manufacturers Of
perishable foods or food for hnmedi-
ate consumption.
During the Ave days of january
ls. 10, 20. 81 mud % designated, no
manufacturing industry shall be al
lowed To operate even II IL has It's coal
supply on hand.
by this means all Industries will be
placed on IN equal footing and each
VIII he called upon 10 make its share
of the sacrifice necessary 10 maintain
the nation at the highest possible point
Of economic and military efficiency for
the prosecution Of the war.
"coailess Mondays" TIL March %.
I'm addition TO this emergency re-
over the designated five days,
the fuel administration has ordered
That all use OF fuel except by consum-
ers classed rs absolutely necessary
shall be prohibited on Monday Of each
week from January % to March 25
that Is, on January %. February 4,
ii, Is, % and March 4, IL, IS and 25.
THE order under which these re-
strictions are made Is designated to
distribute with absolute impartiality
the burden Of patriotic denial. All
classes of business are treated alike.
Except on the days covered I'm the