The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-17
ANTHRACITE COAL.
vermonters Urged to Conserve in Every
Way Possible.

operate In determining plans for just
and equitable distribution of anthracite
coal according to individual needs, and
it is the duty of all domestic consumers
and of manufacturers to adopt all con
sistent means possible for the conserva-
ton of coal. To this end it is urged that
all domestic consumers and manufacture
ers who can so do regrate their furnaces,
if necessary, so as to burn Nc. / buck
wheat coal, or finer grades of anthracite,
or use bituminous coal, and local fuel
committees and coal dealers are request
ed to bring this matter specifically to
the attention of such consumers.
The reason for the foregoing recon-
mendation exists in the fact that all No.
buckwheat and finer grades are not i'm
Guided in the allotment of anthracite
made to Vermont by the United States
fuel administration. Therefore, whatev-
err anthracite of these smaller grades is
used In community so much more an
thraeite of domestic sizes, pea or larger,
will be available for those who cannot,
in the opinion of the local fuel commit
tee, consistently readjust their furnaces
To encourage such action, the federal
fuel administration requires every indus.
trial plant using No ! buckwheat, or
any of the domestic sizes of anthracite.
to secure permission to use such. This
permission is called exemption when used
in its relation 10 section one of the fed
eral order of Jan, IL, 1913, governing dis
tribution of coal, which exemption can
be obtained, If the manufacturing plant
is entitled TO anthracite en- account Of
the character of its work, by making
application to Mr.. A. S. Learoyd, United
States fuel administration, Washington,
d. G. Consequently local fuel commit
tees and coal dealers should see to it
that no anthracite coal, No. ! buckwheat
10 broken inclusive, Ia delivered to any
industrial plant until II has obtained the
necessary exemption
In accordance with the order issued
by the United States fuel administra-
ton on Jan. IL, 1918, the following
classes of activities are entitled TO re-
ceive anthracite coal, No. | buckwheat
and larger, without obtaining exemption
from Washington:
Railroads, domestic consumers, hospi-
tails, charitable institutions, army and
navy environments, public utilities, by.
product coke plants supplying gas for
household use, telephone and telegraph
plants, manufactures of food products,
municipal, county and state buildings
Other activities, including manufactur-
ing plants having government orders,
must obtain exemptions.
In the foregoing exempted classes are
included school buildings, creameries, ho-
tel kitchens, restaurants ard bakeries.
Hotels (not including kitchensl
churches, business blocks (not including
tenements, Office buildings. printing
plants, garages and manufacturing plants
using either for heating or power, must
secure exemptions.
Green houses. - Private greenhouses
should be discontinued. Commercial
greenhouses are not entitled to receive
anthracite coal, but may receive bitumi-
nous coal to the extent of so per cent Of
their normal requirement.
Bituminous Coal
Every manufacturing plant should ap-
ply TO the priorities board of the war in
dustries board, Washington, D. c., for
classification, and If no blank, P. IL. form
No. /, has been furnished by said board,
application should be made to this Office
for one
A classification of an industry deter
mines not only whether or not it may be
included on the preference list for the
purpose of receiving coal, but it also de
termines its class on the preference list,
whether A or B.
If an industry is not put on the pref
erence list, it may be elassed as C or D.
according to its relative Importance as
an essential industry. The fact that
manufacturing plant has war contracts
does not necessarily qualify it for the
preference list.
If there is a surplus OF coal after the
industries under A and B of the prefer
ence list have been cared for, ii viii be
apportioned TO industries not on such
list, according to their relative import
ance.
Any industry unable to obtain btu
minous coal should first secure its classi-
fcation and then apply to this office for
assistance.
The priority list Of the war industries
board is a designation of those classes of
industries whose products are essential
to winning the war; the preference list
is the classification Of the particular in
dustries according to the essential nature
of their products The priority list and
the preference list are practically the
same; one is classification of industries
by their products and the other is a
classification of the individual industries.
Local fuel committees and coal dealers
are reminded that, according to instruc-
tions No. 80, the excess of anthracite
coal above the two-thirds on orders of
six tons or more should be held in re.
serve and no delivery of this one third
excess should be made by any coal deal
er until ne has received permission from
this office. In order to insure an equit-
able distribution of anthracite coal, local
fuel committees are hereby instructed to
examine the applications for such to de
termine the relative needs of the various
consumers and to Greet and supervise
the distribution Of this one third excess
according TO individual and actual needs
of consumers, regardless of the amounts
Of their respective applications Undoubt-
eddy in many instances two.thirds Of the
respective amounts applied for by some
consumers will be sufficient to supply
their needs.
There should be no abatement on the
part of local fuel committees in the en-
couragement of the citizens of their re-
spective communities to supply them
selves with wood, so far as they are
able. H. j. NJ. Jones,