Newport daily independent., 1918-08-06
L|GHTLEss NIGHTS
 WILL BE RESTORED

County Fuel Administrator w. D. l McLain has received the following:
 It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that it is essen tial, in furtnerance of the national security and defense, the successful l prosecution of the war, and the sup port and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to lessen and prevent the waste of fuel, and to secure an ade- quate supply and equitable distribu- tion and prevent, locally and general ly, scarcity thereof, and that to these ends, it is necessary that the use of fuel shall be limited and restricted in the manner hereinafter set forth.
 The United States Fuel Adminis- i trator, acting under authority of an executive order of the president of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said administrator, and of subsequent executive orders and of the act of congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,
 ! Hereby Adjudges that in his opin- ion the use of fuel or of light gener- ated or. produced by the, use or con- sumption of fuel for any of the pur- poses hereinafter described, except as hereinafter provided is wasteful, and that any person using fuel or light for such purposes, except as afore- said, is engaging in wasteful prac-. tice or device in handling or dealing with fuel, and that the use of fuel or light for such purposes except as aforesaid is prejudicial and injurious to the national security and defense, and a cause of scarcity locally and generally, and said United States Fuel Administrator.
 Hereby Orders and Directs 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, 1. 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 mainten- ance of lights in the streets, parks or other places of such city, village or town, except under the following re- strictions and limitations:
 (a) Street illumination automat- ically 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;
 1 (b) Street illumination lighted by hand in any such city, village or town shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements hereinabove pre- scribed for automatic lights;
 Co The amount of public lighting in any city, village or town shall be only so much as may be necessary for safety, and the use of lights com- monly known as cluster lights for purposes of display or decoration l shall be reduced to such portion only 1 of the cluster as is necessary for safety.
 2. The Local Fuel Administration 1 for the territory within which any city, village or town is located shall arrange with the proper municipal authorities of such city, village or town for the regulation of public lighting in accordance with the pro- visions of paragraph Number l of this order. Regulations for public lighting so arranged shall in each case be subject to the approval of the proper State Fuel Administra- tor, and in case regulations in accord ance with said Paragraph 1 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 between the Lo- cal Fuel Administration and the prop. CT municipal or town authorities as hereinabove provided, within ten (10) days from and after the effective date of this order, said State Fuel
 Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe such regu
 lations for such city, village or town
 and the same shall be valid and bind
 ing.
 8. Outdoor lights within city
 village or town, other than thos' mentioned in Paragraph Number
 of this order, which involve, directly
 or indirectly, the use or consumption
 of coal. oil. gas or other fuel, shal