Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
Fuel Administrator Brings
Reassuring News Back
From Washington, Where
He Was in Conference
RIVER COAL TO MEAN
MUCH TO INDUSTRY
Manufacturers Who Use BIZ
luminous May Feel Short
age; Householders to Re-
ceive Full Protection

That Harrisburg will receive her
full share of anthracite for domestic
consumption next winter was the re-
assuring word brought back from
Washington to-day by Ross A.
Hickok, Dauphin county fuel ad-
ministrator, who conferred with the
anthracite, committee of the Federal
Fuel Commission. Mr.. Hickok also
conferred with the state fuel COM
mission at Philadelphia.
Harrisburg will receive 157, ,920
tons of anthracite for the 191S-1919
winter season. This is a substantial
increase over the 1852 tons which
have supplied Harrisburg's needs
during the last two winters. 1t is
more than the amount that was esti-
mated as necessary to take care of
Harrisburg householders next winter
when the fuel administration made
a survey of the city's needs. The
157,920 tons is to cover the period
from April l, 1918, until March. 81
1919.
The remainder of Dauphin county
will be equally well fixed during the
coming winter, the fuel administra
tion reported this morning.
To ReaSsure Many
The local fuel administration made
this statement as a reinsurance that
the small shipments of anthracite
here during May do not mean hlt
Harrisburg is facing a coal shortage.
During May Harrisburg should have
received 5,400 tons of anthracite,
according to the figures at the local
fuel administration office, but the
shipments amounted to but 1854
tons. This was due to the fact that
hard coal is being shipped to the
New England states in large guam
titles to avoid a famine there next
winter.
II was informed that the whole
country has been proportioned and
there will be absolutely no changeIn
the figures / gave you. The anthra-
cite committee guarantees us that
supply. There is no question at all
in the minds of the fuel administra-
ton that Harrisburg will receive fuel
to the amount of the figures given
me yesterday" said the fuel admin
istrator this morning.
Mr.. Hickok added that the dealers
will receive largely increased ship
ments of anthracite during the next
few months. Coal is coming into
VIC CITY HOW III largely augmented
quantities.
Saved by River Coal
The bituminous situation is seri-
Gus, however, with Il prospective ma
tional shortage of 6O,00O,OOO tons.
Harrisburg is far more advanta-
Seously fixed regarding the bitumin-
Gus situation than many other cities
of its size because of the immense
amount of river coal used here. The
fuel administrator says that there
are many industries in the city using
river coal which would have to sus-
pend operations next winter if thew
were depending on bituminous. The
Government will deny bituminous
coal to any but essential industries
Many of Harrisburg's largest indus
tries, the fuel administrator said
are regarded as essential.
The fuel administration has re-
ceived orders that in supplying fuel
the railroads. domestic consumers,
hospitals. charitable institutions
Army ana Navy cantonments, public
utilities, byproduct coke plants which
furnish gas for household use. tele-
phone and telegraph plants, ship
ments for bunker purposes, munic-
lpal, county and state offices are to
be supplied first.
The local administrator, in addi-
ion, has ordered every city dealer
not to make a single shipment of
domestic size coal to any Industrial
establishment, in order that house-
holders will receive all the coal that
can be burned in their homes.