The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-25
INDUSTRIES STOP To CONSERVE COAL
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR GIVES
DRASTIC ORDER TEMPORARILY
HALTING BUSINESS.
EDlCT AFFECTS ALL LINES
Manufacturing Suspends For Five
DAYS and All Activities To Observe
Following Nine Mondays AS
Holidays.

Washington, Jan 1S.-Threatened
with a national calamity due to the
shortage of coal, President Wilson.
through Fuel Administrator H. A. Gar
field, ordered a temporary shutdown
of factories and other industries and
a general hating of business east OF
the Mississippi, including the entire
states of Minnesota and Louisiana.
The shutdown is ordered from next
Friday to the following Tuesday, in
elusive, and the nine following Mon
days.
On these IA days no manufacturing
plants will be operated except those
requiring continuous operation to
avoid injury to plant, those producing
perishable foods and those producing
other foods whose operation is desired
by the food administrator.
The Regulations.
Regulation making provision for a
more adequate supply of coal for rail-
roads, domestic consumers, public util-
tiles and other uses necessary to the
national security.
The United States fuel administrat-
or, acting under the authority of an
executive order of the president of the
United States, dated Aug. %, 1917, APP
pointing said administrator, in furth-
erance of the purposes of said order,
and of the purposes of the act OF con-
gress therein referred, approved Aug.
10. 1917, and finding it essential eff
fectively to carry out the provisions
of this act to make provision for a
more adequate supply of fuel for rail-
roads, domestic consumers, public util-
tiles, and for other uses necessary to
the national security in certain parts
of the United States, hereby makes
and prescribes the following regula-
ton:
Until further order of the United
States fuel administrator all persons
selling fuel in whatever capacity shall
give preference to orders for neces-
sary requirements:
"A-Of railroads.
"B-Of domestic consumers, hospit-
ais, charitable institutions and army
and navy environments.
"C-Of public utilities, telephones
and telegraph plants.
"D-Of ships and vessels for bunker
purposes.
"E-Of the United States for strict
ly governmental purposes; not includ
ing orders from or for factories or
plants working on contracts for the
United States.
"F-Of municipal, county or state
governments for necessary public use
"G-Of manufacturers of perishable
food or of food for necessary imme
date consumption.
1.-THE order further provides that on
Jan. Is, 10, 20, 81 and %, 1918, no fuel
shall be delivered to any person, firm
association or corporation for any uses
or requirements not included in the
foregoing list until the requirements
included in the list shall have been
first delivered.
Certain Plants to Run.
"On Jan. IS, 10, 20, 81 and %. 1918
and also on each and every Monday
beginning Jan. %, 1918, and continu
ing up to and including March %
1918, no manufacturing plant shall
burn fuel or use power derived from
fuel for any purpose except
"A-Such plants as from their ma
ture must be continuously operated
seven days each week, to avoid serious
injury to the plant itself or its con
tents.
Manufacturers of perishable
foods.
"C-Manufacturers of food not per
ishable and not in immediate demand
who may burn fuel to such extent as
is authorized by the fuel administra
tor of the state in which such plant is
located or by his representative au
thorized therefor, upon application by
the United States food administrator
"D-Printers or publishers of daily
papers may burn fuel as usual except
ing on every Monday from Jan. 81 tC
March 25, 1918. inclusive, on which
days they may burn fuel to such ex
tent as is necessary to issue such edi
tons as such papers customarily issue
on important national legal holidays
and where such papers do not issue
any editions on holidays they are per
mitted to issue one edition on the sale
Monday.
'E-Printing establishments ma!
burn fuel on Jan. IS, 10, 20, 81 and %
to such extent as is necessary to issue
current numbers of magazines and 9th
err publications periodically issued.
80" Has 900 Men in War Service
Minneapolis, Jan. 1S.-The Univers
ty IF Minnesota has 900 men in var
Gus branches of the United States wa
forces, and 152 of them have er
listed since the college year began
Oct. 10, Dean j. B. Johnston of tn
academic college announces. Regis
trar E. B. Pierce said that 65S add
tiOnal men in the engineering, med