The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-02-01

Rfaetisaily every industry in the
TsffitsFy Of Hawsii, IL. seriously az
feetsd BY the prospective shortage Of !,
oil, together win the announe emcnt
frsm washington by Fuel. Aiministrs
tor Garfield Of proposed governmental |
donffbl Of tIiesoil industry. So serious
il the aitnetiSn that industrial planes
using oil Tor fuel are advised BY the
Union Oil Company TO convert their oill
burners over ana prepare TO use coal 1
The Union. Oil Company served no.
tice yesterday upon all its Island pa !
irons Of the cancellation Of all Island |
quantity and time contracts for fuel
oil and Of an advance Of two cents .
barrel for all oil supplied on contract |
just how acute Is the threatened fuel
oil shortage m0the Islands had not
struck consumers sqnarely until they
received the suspension notice Of thesl
Union, Oh Company's. contracts yester-
day morning, which came from thu
main, Office Of the company in Los An
geles,, but which was sent, out here by
the district sales manager, ii. B.
Wellar ~ "a iss.s5 rs Syse Fl, 4
Even receipt of the contract cancel
lation. notice did not seriously disturb
some OF the bigger users of fuel oil UNI
III they noticed concluding statement
Of the notice which said: lt'|
1--WE strongly nrgs such Of ouF Aeus-
toners as can place themselves in POI
sition to do 90, to convert from fuel OH
to coal or other fhel. 1fs aitst1
Supply May DO Cut on III
Such advice coming from the sri ers
Of fuel oil could NOT. but, be impressive
Of the probability of the oil supply be-
ing cut or from Honolulu and othsF
Island ports, and darkening to the OPP
tifnism Of some who Thought g the gov-
eminent will look after u.s. ttI
Subsequent to the. issuing Of the cam
eelIhtiOn natieess there came the Assoc
ciated Press despatch telling Of Scene
tasy Garfisld q plan for rigid oil CON
troll, which may iarI may not be good
news for the Islands. 1t is possible
that under government control nearly
elly the available fuel oil will be used
for Rovarnment war uses, OF those OF.
the Allies, which would cut out the cor.
poration o. Individual consumers from
supply. ~. ". n, AZ N 81
Communicating of all the oil tanlers
on the Pacific by the government,
which have q carrying capacity Of $500
TINS or more, 10 given rs the reason by
the Union Oil Company why Its con
tracts must be suspended. ,. The cancel
lation notice says that the only hopes
of the company for continuing the sup.
Plying, of it's customers who receive,
their, oil by tanlSers In the Coastwise
service il by the granting of the use of
such ships as the United States Ship.
ping Board may not require. It says,
that three Of the largest tankers have
already been withdraMn from the Pa
eifie Coastwise service. :
aitnakion Ssrtoug' i.i1. EAl. I..,., ~
q Notices, Of practically, the same
portant have been or win be sent out
by the Associated Oil Company and the
standard Oil Company. This caneella,
tion notice quickly follows Q notifcal
tion Of the Standard Oil Company that
II might be- forced very shortly to susl
pend its eontraets filled by water hauls
under the pcontingency clause. This
warning was issued in San Francisco
With Hawaii deprived Of her fuel oil
supply the leading industry would be
badly crippled, besides creating a prob
lem as 20 how oil, burning ships are TO
be. supplied with fuel here to keep
them in service,
= The intention of the oil companies 70
cancel. their contracts and the threat
OF shortage here.ywas communicated
TO w. II. Avery, general advisor of the
AsanO Syndicate which operates the
Il al - nd ha
was asked how they were 10 get their
normal supply. VA 4 n n slt{F r.. : ~
Mr., Avery was In Honolulu yesterI
daE iae passenger on the Korea Maru
bound for Japan, and he appeared cons
siderably perturbed over the announce
ment. He. explains, however, that the
spraying the coal burned, and are not
wholly dependent upon oil for fuel. \
This, though, 10 not so fortunately
the ease in many Of the big. plantation
mills, on other steamship lines, in
bakeries, machine shops and in many
other Industrial plants which use and
are equipped only for the use of oil.
lIiovefs balcery at o. large expense,
only reeently converted It's plant so
fuel oil could be used instead of coal
May BE No Gas II .' ....9 80 Z
Nc Honolulu would feel seriously, any
decided srsstrietion Of its oil supply
and probably be driven back to some
OF the practises Of decade or more
ago to get light and fire in many homes
and business places, for without oil,
the Honolulu Gas Company would have
TO- 40 completely out of business, as
il Il entirely dependent upon oil for
making gasl GH Saf a't&
'tTlisrs is, no substitute for oil in
making gas--tha, only alternative Is TO
discover natural gas, IL gas. IL still to
d be used, once the oipsRpply il stopped, Y
a was explained yesterday. And
, thsIe = no natural gas In Hawaii. "