The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-07
TURN OVER 800 TONS TODAY
Company Takes Lead in Diverting Coal
Bought for Factories to Keep Civic
Institutions and Home Fires Burn
Foresight Profits People.

Following its repeatedly expressed
determination to do its bit to keep
Kenosha warm even though its own
great business was put in peril, the
American Brass Company on Tuesday
turned over to County Fuel. Admins.
traitor, Walter NJ. Burke six car loads
of anthracite coal total of more than
three hundred tons and this great coal
pile IS being distributed to homes in
Kenosha today. The Brass Company
received seven ears of coal on Mon
day morning. Tt was a three weeks
supply for the company but with the
belief that enough coal could be Sc.
cured from day to day to keep the great
plant supplied ana knowing that many
Kenosha people were anxious the com
pany turned the coal over to the fuel
administrator.
1T came as a great help to us de-
clared Fuel Administrators Burke this
morning." We could not have taken
this coal as We know the needs of the
Brass company and with people stand
ing in line pleading for coal we did
not know what we were going to do.
It was lust at this stage that the Brass
Company volunteered. Peonle do not
know how much this and other coal
turned over by this company have
meant in fighting these coal shortage in
Kenosha.
owe just want to do our bit" said
one of the officials of the company this
morning. |FWe realize that people in
Kenosha are suffering and if we can
spare something to help out conditions
we are going to do it. We have been
little more fortunate than some of
the people in getting coal on account
of the fact that our orders were placed
very early last year and lot of our
coal has been delivered We have been
able to get along without shutting
down for any extended period. We
know that some people have looked at
the coal pile here with envious eyes
but we are not holding any coal that
is not needed for the business and we
believe that Kenosha people want this
business to keep running to capacity
if possible"
Since the opening of the winter the
American Brass Company has turned
over to distributing coal companies in
Kenosha more than 5000 tons of hard
coal. Many people did not know that
the coal which was delivered to them
came through the Brass Company. The
company did not advertise the fact
and they furnished the coal at a price
which made it possible for dealers to
deliver it to the people in the city at
a price much lower than has been
charged for the coal In some other
cities More than 400 tons Of hard coal
and coke were also delivered from the
Brass works pile to homes in Kenosha
and the company is constantly "help-
ing out" whenever the demand is
made upon it.
Kenosha factories have not been
sIaekers in the fuel situation. They
have not sought to hoard the coal in
order to avoid possible shortage later
in the winter. When school buildings,
and the water works were in. need
several of the Kenosha factories have
done their part in supplying the need.
The Brass Company, the Cooper I'M
derwear Company, the Hosiery Com
pany, The Allen Company, the Balm
Wagon. Company and Simmons Com
pany have all diverted coal from their
yards in order to keep fuel supplies
for needed institutions.
Many times the coal piles at the
factories have been skimped in order
that little might be delivered to meet
some civic need.
That the Kenosha people have not
felt more seriously the pinch of cold
weather and foal famine was largely
i1ue to the American Brass Company
and other big industrial organizations
in the city. These companies have re-
peatedly given up coal for public dis
tribution when in so doing it the
managers of the big factories took
chances of being out of coal and forced
to shut down.