Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-18
GARFIELD HAS SIGNED THE ORDER
 CLOSING DOWN MANUFACTURING PLANTS

will be permitted to operate on full time.
 After a conference with Dr. Garfield tonight, Food Administrator Hoover issued the following statement in that connection:
 Tt is my understanding that Dr. Garield's order does not include grain elevators, grain mills, bakeries, stock yards, meat packing establishments cold storage houses, sugar factories and refining plants or any other form of food industry.
 Further, there are certain other in- dustries not directly handling foods upon which food production depends. and Dr. Garfield has agreed to leave determination of the position of these industries to state food administrators, who will secure supplies for them through state fuel administrators. The flow of footstuffs must continue with out interruption"
 Preferential Treatment.
 In giving preferential treatment to certain classes of consumers not only are fuel dealers ordered to supply these consumers first, but state fuel admin istrators are empowered and direct
 ed'' to divert to the classes specified such fuel as arrives for other con- sumers in their communities during
 the next five days. Under this clause
 large quantities of coal en route from the mines to factories office buildings and stores must be seized by the state administrators and distributed. No order of preference is established between the classes which are allowed to receive coal The abstract of the
 order given out last night put these classes under sub-heads, indicating that they would be supplied in the order named. The official text retains | the same order-railroads, domestic consumers, public utilities, ships, gov ernment purposes and, manufacturers of perishable foods-but grouped them l all together and one has no precedence
 over the other.
 Hotel and Cafe Bars Must Close. | Prohibition of the use of fuel by l various consumers will close hotel and cafe bars in the eastern half of the lcountry on the Monday holidays unless the arrangements prefer their estab- lishments to be heatless. The clause including saloons among those con-
 sumers which may not burn coal or
 the next ten Mondays, from Jan. q to March 25, contained an added pro-
 vision excepting hotels and public eat
 ing houses from the operation of the
 order provided they neither sell nol serve intoxicating liquors on the dave
 in question.
 Another difference from the prelim
 mary abstract is in provision tha operation of manufacturing plant. which must be kept running continu TGl In Tn1nf nrfN dly 0rra must be +only to such an extent as il necessary" during the next five day, , and the succeeding ten Mondays. Thi' would apply to blast furnaces ant
 other such plants.
 No Large Editions of Newspapers. : In their Monday editions, which ar limited to those ordinarily issued ol I holidays, newspapers are enjoined iron l issuing the large editions usually pu f out on Sundays.
 Public utilities buildings, telegraph
 and telephone offices have been adde ,. in the official order to the list of busi s ness buildings which may be heate : on the Monday holidays.
 The order for preferential sale t l specified consumers is made effectiv : until further notice." The clause fo 3 diversion of fuel to them is effectiv s only from Jan. IS to 22, inclusiv, C IProhibition of the use of fuel by man a Iufacturing plants, with certain excep . dons, is operative Jan. Is to 22, inclu
 ave, and the nine succeeding Monday
 up to and including March 25, a tots
 lsof twelve and one-half working day n if Sunday is counted out and Saturda F is regarded, as in many instances, a q a half holiday. Provision of the us 3 of fuel for heating office buildings an . stores, with certain exceptions, is et = fective on the ten Mondays Jan 21 | k March 25.
 e Violation of the order is punishab t by the penalties provided in the Leve
 bill, $5,O00 fine or two years 'imprisor
 ment, or both.
 n Garfield's Explanatory Statement. s Fuel Administrator Garfield's state e ment in explanation of his order fo = lows:
 q '"The most urgent thing to be dor = is to send to the American force if abroad and to the allies the food an = war supplies which they vitally nee d War munitions, food, manufacture A articles of every description, lying e Atlantic ports in tens of thousands n tons, where literally hundreds of ship h loaded with war goods for our me
 and the allies. cannot take the ses
 because their bunkers are empty
 lcoal. The coal to send them on the et way is waiting behind the congeste s, freight that has jammed all terminal Il Fuel For Ships Departure. l. Tt is worse than useless to ber . our energies to more manufacturir I when what we have already man, .s factured lies at tidewater congestir ,e terminal facilities, tanning the raj ,e road yards and side tracks for lor d distances back into the country. I'd power on earth can move this freig Ig into the war zone where it is need, e until we supply the ships with flu
 "Once the docks are cleared of u s. valuable freight for which our m, ,h and associates in the war now wait " vain, then again our energies al Ie power may be turned to. manufactu if ing, more efficient than ever, so tn is a steady and uninterrupted stream d vital supplies may be this nations a 3 swer to the allies cry for help! D. Freight Yards and Docks Congestet al Tt has been excess of productic to in our wartime speeding up, that ut done so much to cause congestion l. our railroads; that has filled t g freight yards to overfowing; that h nt cluttered the docks of our Atlan- al ports with goods waiting to go abros 1- At tidewater the flood of freight h stopped The ships were unable ,e complete the journey from our facto ies to the war depots behind the f h ing line.
 d- Weather Added to Difficulties is Added to this has been dif1icul rs of transporting coal for our own q w mestic needs. On top ofsthese difficl h. ties has come one of the most territ to severe winters we have known