St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-17
LICHTLESS TWO
NIGHTS ORDER


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Hereby orders and declares that,
until further or other order of the
United States Fuel Administrator,
and subject to modification hereafter
from time to time and at any time.
l. No city, village or town and
no person, firm or corporation under
any contract with any city, village
or town, shall use or consume any
coal, oil, gas or other fuel for the
of lights in the streets,
parks or other public places Of such
city, village or town, except under
the following restrictions and limita-
tons:
(a) Street illumination auto
matically lighted, maintained by or
for any such city, village or town,
in the streets, parks or other public
places thereof, shall not be lighted
before sunset and shall be turned out
not later than SUNRISE
CO. Street illumination lighted
by hand in any such city, village or
town shall conform as nearly as may
be to the requirements hereinabove
prescribed for automatic lights;
(c) The amount of public light
ing in any city, village or town shall
by only SO much as may be necessary
for safety, and the use Of lights COM
monty known as cluster lights for
purposes of display or decoration
shall be reduced to such portion only
of the cluster as is necessary for
safety.
2. The Local Fuel Administra-
ton for the territory within which
any city, village or town is located
shall arrange with the proper mu-
nicipal or town authorities Of such
city, village, or town for the regual-
ton of public lighting in accordance
with the provisions of paragraph No.
of this order. Regulations for
public lighting 80 arranged shall in
each case be subject to the approval
of the proper State Fuel Administra-
tor, and in case regulations In &C
cordance with said paragraph No.
for the public lighting Of any city,
village or town, satisfactory to the
State Fuel Administrator of the state
within which the same is located,
shall not have been arranged be-
tween the Local Fuel Administra-
ton and the proper municipal Or
town authorities as hereinabove pro-
vided. within ten days from and after
the effective date of this order, said
Fuel Administrator is hereby author
lied and directed to prescribe such
for such city, village. or
tha aho11 hn v01i6
and binding.
8. Outdoor lights within city,
village or town, other than those
in paragraph No. l of this
order, which involve, directly or in
directly, the use or consumption Of
coal, oil, gas or other fuel, shall not
be lighted until thirty minutes after
"a The use Of light generated or
produced by the use or consumption
of coal, gas, oil or other fuel, for
or displaying advertise
ments, announcements or signs, or
for the external ornamentation o:
any building shall be entirely dis
On Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday of each week.
within New England and the states
of New York. Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the
District of Columbia, and shall be
discontinued on Monday and
Tuesday Of eac hweek in all the re-
mainder of the United States.
Exception: Bona flde roof gar
dens where meals are served and OUT
door restaurants, also establishments
devoted exclusively to the exhibition
of outdoor moving pictures at which
admission is charged, are exempt
from this section.
Alb The use Of light generated
or produced by the use or consump-
ton Of fuel for illumination or dis
playing any shop windows, store
or any signs in show win
dows, shall be discontinued from
sunrise to sunset and shall also be
on the nights. specified
in paragraph "a.
S The State Fuel Administrators
within the several states are hereby
directed and authorized to see that
the provisions of this order are OBJ
served and carried out within their
several states, to report violations
thereof to the United States Fuel Ad-
and to recommend to
him action to be taken with respect
to such violations.
This order shall be effective on and
after July -. 1918.
Signed,
H. A. GARFIELD,
U. 8. Fuel Administrator.