The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-24
new ORDER
TO SAVE FUEL
IS IN EFFECT
Federal Fuel Administrators Order
Again Making Two Nights Each
Week Lightless Goes Into
Eject Today.

l
ing is in receipt of the new order oS
the Federal Fuel Administrator which
goes into effect today. Mr.. Browning
points out that under the new or
der requires the discontinuence of the
use of light for Illuminating or dis
playing of any show windows and
signs in show windows from sunrise
to sunset and its entire discontinue
ence in Maysville on Monday and
Tuesday nights of each week.
The official order follows:
1t appearing to the United States
Fuel Administrator that it is essen
tial, in furtherance of the national Sc
curity and defense, the successful
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 dstribu-
ton and prevent, locally and general
| ly scarcity thereof, and that to these
fuel shall be limited and restricted in
the manner hereinafter set forth,
The United States Fuel Administra-
tor, acting under authority of an EX-
ecutive Order of the President of the
United States, dated % August, 1917,
approximating said Administrator,
and of subsequent Executive Orders
and in furtherance of the purpose Of
said orders and of the Act of Congress
therein referred to and approved Au-
gust 10, 1917
HEREBY ADJUDGES that in his
opinion the use of fuel, or of light
generated or produced by the use or
consumption of fuel for any of the
purposes hereinafter described eX-
cept as hereinafter provided, is waste
full, and that any person using fuel
or light for such purposes, except as
aforesaid, is engaging in a wasteful
practice or device in handling or deal
ing with fuel, and that the use of fuel
or light for such purposes except as
aforesaid, is preiudicial 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,
l. No city, village or town and nc
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 main
tenance of lights in the streets, parks
or other public places of such city,
village or town, except under the fol-
lowing restrictions and limitations:
(a) Street illumination automati-
cally 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:
(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;
(c) The amount of public lighting
in any city, village or town shall be
only as much as may be necessary for
safety, and the use of lights common
ly known as cluster lights for pur-
poses of display or decoration shall be
reduced to such portion only of the
cluster as it necessary for safety.
2. The Local Fuel Administration
Cor the territory within which any
city, village or town is located shall
arrange with the proper municipal or
town authorities of such city, village
or town for the regulation of public
lighting in accordance with the pro-
vision of paragraph Number l of this
order. Regulations for public light
ing so arranged shall in each case be
subject to the approval of the proper
State Fuel Administrator, and in case
be subject to the approval of the
proper State Fuel Administrator, and
in case regulations in accordance
with said Paragraph l for the public
lighting of any city, village or town,
satisfactory to the State Fuel Admin
istrator of the state within which the
same is located, shall not have been
arranged between the local Fuel Ad-
ministration and the proper municipal
or town authorities as hereinabove
provided, within ten (10) days from
and after the effective date of this or
der, said State Fuel Administrator is
hereby authorized and directed and
prescribe such regulations for such
city, village or town, and the same
shall be valid and binding.
g. Outdoor lights within a city,
village or town, other than those men
toned in Paragraph Number / of this
order, which involve, directly or in
directly, the use or consumption of
coal oil gas or other fuel, shall not