Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-02-04
PLANTS CLOSED
FORLACK Of FUEL
Appeal by Mccormick to
Washington for More
Coal for County.
punty Fuel Administrator Charles

bunty Fuel Administrator Charles
Mcc corm.ck leff for. Washington.
ID. c., Saturday night TO use hfs ma iIiaasas
ence to obtain coal for this locality
and relieve the situation that con-
fronts the city and industries at this
time. Several of the Industries will
have to close unless they receive fuel
shortly. The National Fireproof1ng
Company Is already entirely closed as
are other firms because Of lack of
fuel.
Administrator Ramsay said this
morning, The county fuel admins
traitor is giving his entire time to fuel
matters and Is on the job continual
ly." AS Administrator Mccormick
has not returned It is not possible to
say what the outcome of the confer
ence will be.
Difficulty was experienced this
morning by the local police depart
ment in registering alien Germans as
they are required to supply the gov
ernment at the time they register
with four photographs of themselves
Administrator Ramsay was notified
by the chief of police that as the pho
tographers were closed in accordance
with the Monday holiday order it was
impossible to get the photographs
taken.
The fuel administrator gave Chief
Burke permission to open any photo
graph shop he found necessary In or
der to have the pictures taken.
Conditions at South Amboy are SER
ious, there being no coal in the city.
The fuel administrator, Mayor Kerr
of that city, requested that the local
administrator send some coal from
hi Dtt a.,
city hall where class of school chill
dren are holding sessions because of
the crowded condition of the city
schools. Although Administrator
Ramsay is not allowed to send coal
out of the city, he sent two tons Of fuel
to South Amboy assuming all respon-
sibility.
AS far as known at the present time
everyone Is obeying the closing order
today. No reports to the contrary hav-
ing been received by the administrator.
There were sixty-one cars of coal
arriving at the local dock in transit
yesterday and last night, of which
twenty-five have been dumped into
barges. There Is little coal on the sid
ings at this time.
Tho following plants and industries
In the county of Middlesex have been
granted exemption from all closing or
ders by State Administrator Richard
G. Jenkinson:
Alpha Chemical Company, Bound
Brook: Armour Fertilizer Company
Chrome; Badenhousen Company,
Bound Brook: Butler Howell Com
pany, New Brunswick; E. I. DUPONT
deNemours. Parlin: J. D. Evans. Gill
lespie: T. A. Gillespie. Gillespie: T. A.
Gillespie Loading Company. Perth AM
boy; T. A. Gillespie Company. Parlin;
National Synthetic Chemical Company.
Perth Amboy: Nixon Vibrating Com
pany. New Brunswick; Wright-Martin
Aircraft Corporation. New Brunswick.
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ing anything under nineteen feet will
be able to go up the river to the ter
minal.
All of this wonderful progress has
been made with weather conditions
more severe than have been expert
enced in this section in many years.
The coming of warmer weather and
the passing of the ice from the river
will find the work on the immense
terminal advancing even faster than