The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-31

II can only reply" said the petroleum
Commuters expert on queries. that err
rands OF necessity I'm rural districts
where steam or electric transportation
ia not available are specifically per
mitted."
II object to this dispersion upon Engle-
wood" the inquirer snorted.
Are you quite sure that your visit
to your mother-in-law would not be a
pleasure tripT' the counsellor then Of
fered.
"You don't know my nother-in-law,"
retortcd the other, and 30 the conversa-
ton ended
Another man pleaded urgent necessity
for a trip TO Boston to bring home his
wife. He would 30 to Boston to-day.
but as she was i'll and could not. by
her Doctors orders travel the whole
distance In one day. they would have
to make the return journey on Sunday
and Monday. As the man will have TO
be back at work on Tuesday. this Is
the only chance He said his wife was
In no condition for travel by train.
The petroleum committee seemed to
think that here was an exception TO
the rule which the Fuel Administration
had not thought OF. but II could only
tell the anxious husband that he must
Use MS own luhehtehe
Fiivver Owners HIT Hardest.
The Twelfth Street Silver Cornet
Band, Brooklyn. was excited over the
prospect OF having to foreeo its annual
picnic at Glen Cove, but this was not
officially regarded as a necessary ex-
pedition. An Easthsmpt!on. L. l.. rec
tor telephoned that tomorrow was con-
f,rmation Sunday for his parish. that
Bishop or two were coming. and that
his vestrymen would ind II hard to get
to the church from their scattered coun-
try estates without their motors TO
him IL was suggested that the sanction
Ing OF necessary trips In rural districts
nigh apply to this case.
Stanley p. McMin. managing editor
Of the Motor World and Automottrc In
dustrfes. pointed out yesterday that
more than half Of all the cars in use
in the United States are Fords and that
the inconvenience of the ban in Sunday
riding will be felt most severely by per-
sons OF modest means, most OF whom DC
not use their cars on other days.
Mr.. McMin has the latest figures on
gasolene production, which he says come
from the Bureau OF Mines. The daily
average in June wSe 10,b00.7s1 gallons
and the months total 3l5,02S.445 gal
Ions, as against 31s.391,160 for May.
The amount on hand on June 80 this
year was 41S,440.s53 gallons. and on
the corresponding day last year was
337. 00o. 900 gallons. From January to
July l this year production was in
creased 81 per cent. and In the same
period the Fuel Administration esti.
mated that consumption increased 29
per cent.
The number OF gasolene using cars
and trucks in the United States on July
this year was b.46s.s3l. 1t had been
increased by 525.ss5 In the preceding six
months.
Asked IL the United States was get
ting much gasolene from Mexico, Mr.
McMin said that Mexican petroleum
yielded only Is per cent. gasolene. as
compared with 80 per cent. from the
American product. He said that In 1871
Mexico yielded 61,o00.o00 barrels OF
crude oil. OF which one-half came to the
United States. which itself produced
01.319.31s barrels in 1917 and 246.992.-
OILS barrels In 1916. the years increase
being 20 per cent. The United States
produced 80 per cent. more gasolene in
1917 than in 1915.
But the wholesale price" added Mr.
McMin. has stayed at "a cents for a
year and a half. A month and a half
ago the Fuel Administration permitted
wholesalers to raise their price one-hali
cent a gallon because of increased freight
rates, and the retailers were allowed to
charge half q cent more. Yet the price
at garages now ranges from 26L to 20 y
cents q gallon.