The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-14
VICTORY EXPANDS: OVER
$4,000 PRISONERS; FRENCH ATTACK
ONLY ONE-THIRD COAL
SUPPLY CAN BE BOUGHT
Barre Consumers of Anthracite May
Purchase More in the Winter, Says
State Administrator.

Consumers of domestic coal in Barre
are now entitled to only third of the
supply given them last winter, according
to notice served ON local fuel dealers
by Fuel Administrator H. j. M. Jones.
Changing conditions make necessary the
new ruling, and while the statement is
made that present sales must be limited
to one-third of the normal purchase, it
does not follow necessarily that consum-
ers are to be deprived of the opportunity
to purchase more coal in the winter.
In every instance homes are to be
given the preference this winter" Mr.
Jones stated to an interviewer to-day.
Which means that there may be hard
times ahead for churches, bowling al
leys, pool and billiard parlors and bar
rooms, among other places that are re-
garded in the present instance as being
non-e&ential.
Use more No. | buckwheat coal and
buy more wood is the terse advice
which the fuel administrator hands out
to the consumer His recommendations
were concisely given in the interview
and should be carefully scanned by read.
ers of The Times. 1t is not the purpose
Of the fuel administration to let the peo-
pie suffer from cold weather this winter,
but the people are asked to meet the coal
dealers and the administrator at least
half way by using the so-called buck
wheat coal, which is an anthracite fuel.
and substituting wood wherever possible.
In short, it is to be inferred from Mr..
Jones story Of the situation, as narrated
TO his interviewer, that conditions in
Barre are no worse than obtain else
where in~the state but that they may be
very measurably alleviated If the con-
sumner carries out the recommendations |
In his remarks Mr.. Jones strongly em.
phasized the fact that the consumer must !
look at the fuel situation from Feb. ] |
angle instead Of Sept l5, when few
sticks Of wood or bundle of last weeks !
newspapers will remove the chill in the
house and leave the householder to re-
assuring thoughts of the beautiful In.
dian summer days that must intervene
before the winds of winter blow. Said |
the administrator;
Last spring the q. S. fuel administra-
tor gave instructions to deliver full quo
tas of coal 70 consumers of six tons and |
less, and two.thirds of the larger orders
These instructions were issued before we
knew the amount of coal that could be
allotted TO Vermont. The dealers, began
70 deliver coal as per these instructions,
N rotation as per these orders, insofar
IS they could The price April was
he low mark. In June the freight rates
we're advanced, and this made an increase
n the cost Of coal Sept the producers
# coal advanced their price, necessitat-
ng another advance in the retail price
Mr.. Jones paused at this point to an
wer long distance call from the dealer
n Putney, who wanted TO know some
hing about coal cars. 1t was the first
# any number Of calls that are sent in
Turing the day. They come from as far
lorth as Jay and up from the south as
lear the Bay state line as Nottingham.
The fuel administrator set in motion the
that will send an empty gon-
ola or two into Putney and then re.
umed
When we received instructions from
Washington last spring TO make deliv-
ries and to urge the people to buy, we
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