Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-09
WEST END CHURCHES AID
y. d. 81. IN FUEL CONSERVATION
Onion Services to BE Held Each
Wednesday and Sunday Night
'suA While Crisis Lasts.
BETTING NO ANTHRACITE COAL.
Fuel Commissioner Byrd Protests
Against Order Directing Output
OF Pennsylvania Mines to New
England-Nay Fix Price OH Wood.

In order 10 do their part In conserv-
ufS the fuel supply four large West
lend churches will. until the critical
stagc OF the fuel shortage is past. hold
Gfiion services each Wednesday and
sunday nights. The hrs; OF these SER
vices will be PRAYER meeting Tonight
1T Westminster Presbyterian Church,
corner OF Davis and Park Avenues.
Churches joining in this movement
arc: Hanover Avenue Christian, Rev.
George ". komper, pastor; Wcstmin-
stcr Presbyterian, Rev. y. y. Fair, D.
D., pastor. Monument Methodist, Rev.
Graham II. Lambeth. u. n. pastor;
First English Lutheran. Rev. J. j..
Schcrcr. Jr., pastor.
At tho union service tonight at
Westminster Church the address will
be delivered BY Or. lambeth Further
announcement will be made OF the To-
cation OF the union sunday night SER
vioc and of the speaker.
The coal shortage may be greatly
relieved in Virginia and in Richm ond
it State Commissioner Harry Flood
Byrd succeeds in getting rescindcd the
order of the National fuel adninistra-
ton, which takes the Pennsylvania coal
to the New England States leaving
Virginia with practically none from
that section. Mr.. Byrd stated ycster-
day that he was doing everything he
could to bring about plcnti.ude Of
cndeavors in this particular undertake
Ing would not be fruitless.
no ANTHRACITE NOW
BEING SHIPPED TO VIRGINIA
1t would seem that there would be
little difficulty in obtaining the
anthracite from Pennsylvania, far less
for Virginia than for the New Eng
land States, because the distance from
tho mines is not as great. but as the
order now stands there Will be none
shipped to Virginia.
During this period OF shortage of
coal and for the duration of the war,
since 50 much OF il is sent out of the
country, the fuel administration is urE-
ing tho substitution of wood wherever
this is practical BILE. Cooperation on the
part of individuals in the substitution
would aid greatly the fuel administra-
ton in carrying out the purposes for
which il was created
A standard price for wood per cord
has not yet been definitely decided upon
for. this city. though from reports as
TO the minimum costs of cutting, trans
PORTING and distributing it the most
conservative estimate is thought to be
somewhere around ST..
IL state convict labor is utilized In
cutting the wood, as 1t has been said
Commissioner Byrd is planning and
preparing to do, the price to the con-
sumner would be brought down to the
low iiSure OF So cord, for the State
would sell it direct at just what it cost
To get il to the consumer. This would
also cut out the competition Of loca
dealers.
Prices all over the State will neces
s;srily vary aa each local commission
has"thc authority to regulate its own
rate, but II is thought that the differ
cnce would be OF no consequence. How
ever the Richmond commission feels
that the figure now being considered
Will prove adequate tn the situation
and work out very satisfactorily.