Evening star., 1918-01-12
COAL |S0N WAY TO
MEET COLD WAVE
Washington Promised Enough
Fuel for Predicted Fall in
Temperature.
CARS DIVERTED TO D. C.

With another cold wave predicted by
the weather bureau, Washington still is
on short rations of coal. But more am
pie supplies are on the way.
Receipts of anthracite during the last
twenty-four hours were described by
Fuel Administrator Weaver today as
@liheral." He said a good supply of
soft coal had come in. ,4-.5
Mr.. Weaver received a letter this
morning from L. A. Snead, distributor
for the national fuel administration,
notifying him that five trains of hard
coal were got out of Philadelphia
yesterday bound for Washington. and
that orders had been issued putting into
have an average of 2,400 tons of anthra-
cite day.
Soft Coal Diverted to D. c.
Mr.. Snead also notified Administrator
Weaver that 200 cars of soft coal had
been diverted to Washington, and that
diversion of other cars would be made
in favor of the capital until the supply
was adequate. He asked to be advised
just how much soft coal Washington
needs each day, promising that it should
be Forthcoming.
About eighty cars of hard coal are
on the way to Washington. This as
surance is contained in today's sum
mary of freight conditions, transmitted
by c. c. McChord, interstate commerce
commissioner. designated to keep in
touch with freight movements, to
McA
Basis From Daily Reports.
Commissioner McChord's daily re-
ports now form the basis upon which
the office of the director general is
seeking to expedite movements of cars
to points where their contents are
badly needed. That portion of today's
shipments shows that on January 8 in
the east side yards of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Philadelphia there are
thirty-three cars of anthracite coal for
Baltimore, seventy-three for Washing
ton and ten for Potomac yard Some or
these ten were for Washington and
others for points south.
In addition there were at the Phila-
delphia yard of the Pennsylvania road
on the same date four cars of hard coal
for Washington. This indicates that the
twenty-four cars reported there on Jam
uary either are on the way or have
arrived in Washington.
Consider Cutting Off Churches.
Mr. Weaver today had under consider
alton the suggestion of Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield that supplies of coal be
curtailed to, or cut off entirely from,
churches. theaters and other non-essen-
tial consumers. He said that any con-
servation program ordered or advised
by the National Fuel Administration
would be enforced in Washington but
he was not yet ready to announce that
coal would be denied to this class of
local consumers.
Mr.. Weaver expects the National Fuel
Administration to live up to it's promise
that Washington, being the National
Capital. and therefore an essential war
industry, shall be supplied with coal.
but he does not hold that there is in
volyed in this promise any assurance
that residents here shall not have their
amusements curtailed. Washington
people must be kept warm and fed in
order that they may work efficiently
for the government. but it is not con-
tended that their efficiency depends on
the continuance of performances in
theaters and moving picture houses
and worship in all the city's churches.
Mr.. Weaver's position is that while the
necessities of Washington people must
be met, they have no claim to luxuries
beyond the residents of other cities