Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-18
FUEL CONSERVATION
STIRS BUSINESS men
But They Have Planned to Comply
With Government Mandate.
FEW EXCEPTIONS ARE MADE
Though Dispensers Of Focdstaffs Are
Exempt Some Grocers Will Observe
HaIf-HoIiday Mondays.

Although the drastic order issued
by Fuel Administrator Garfield.
whereby all manufacturing and in
dustrial plants are required to cease
operations for the next FIVE days, be-
ginning with today, and setting aside
Monday as a general holiday for the
next ten weeks 1or all classes Of busi-
ness with the possible exception Of
drug stores and newspaper plants,
presents rather perplexing prob
lem Annapolitans apparently are
doing their utmost 10 comply with the
national mandate.
It appears that many persons here
in Annapolis do not fully understand
the order Of the Fuel Administrator
which has been sent broadcast
throughout the country, and multi
tude OF inquiries are being made as
to what classes Of business the edict
applies Every line of business, how
ever, with the exception Of stores
that dispense food and drugs are in
cluded in the ban, and any person
who fails to toe the scratch is sub
jeet to fine Here is an epitome of
the provisions Of the Garfield order
For FIVE days, beginning today, all
manufacturing plants east of the Mis-
sissippi, save those making foodstuffs
shipyards and certain plants specific
ally exempt, are denied the use of
fuel
Since tomorrow is a half-holiday
and Sunday is one of the five days,
the actual stoppage OF industry takes
place for three and a half days.
The next 10 Mondays also viii be
holidays and stores Except those for
the sale of food and drugs, Offices
except doctors and dentistsD /,
theatres, moving picture houses, dance
halls. saloons and other places Of
amusement nay not burn fuel
On those days. too, Sunday trans
portation schedules must be adopted
While the stores that sell foodstuffs
are placed in the excepted class, yet
the proprietors of a number of such
places in the city are devising a plan
to conform to the order as far as pos
sible For instance, some Of the
grocerymen have already given no.
tice to their patrons that they viii
close their places Of business at the
noon hour on the ten Mondays stipu-
lated
Schools also are in the excepted
class, but there has been more or less
talk Of closing the public institutions
OF instruction in the city and county
to help save, and in the meantime, to
accumulate fuel. Some of the teach
ers, it is said, have expressed a will
ingness to teach their classes at their
respective homes during the emer-
geney situation. Mr.. George Fox,
County superintendent of Education
in discussing the situation today,
stated that he thought the night
classes conducted at the city high
school three or four nights during the
week should be discontinued.
Action AZ st. Johns College.
In response to the Official order by
the government, the Faculty of St
Johns College decided this morning
that dances in the gymnasium must
be discontinued for the present
Tho student body, having made ali
their arrangements for dance this
evening. urged that sufficient heat
would linger in the building from its
afternoon use. and on the understand
ing that steam was to be cut off after
the basketball game the Faculty has
allowed The dance to take place.
AS it is necessary.to heat the dormi-
tories where the students are lodged
and the central plant supplies heat
for all the other buildings as we'll, tht
College Will not be clnsed