Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-18
]. s. Rallies to GarfieLd's Support
OF
Garf5eJd's
NeW Fuel
Order

United States fuel administrator, all
persons selling fuel in whatever ca
pacity shall give preference to or
ders for necessary requirements:
"(a) Of railroads.
"(b) OF domestic consumers, hos
pitfalls, 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
strictly government purposes, not
including orders from or for facto-
ries or plants working on contracts
for the United States;
"(f) Of municipal, county or state
governments for necessary public
uses;
"(g) Of manufacturers of perish
able food or of food for necessary
immediate consumption.
THE order further provides that
on January Is, 10, 20, 81 and p,
1918, no fuel shall be delivered to
any person, firm, association or
corporation for any uses or require
ments included in the foregoing list
until the requirements included in
the list shall have been first deliv-
cred
"On the following days, namely.
January 10, 10, 20, II and %, 1918,
and also on each and every Monday
beginning January %. 1918, and con-
tinuing up to and including March
25, 1918, no manufacturing plant
shall burn fuel or use power de-
rived from fuel for any purpose ex-
cept:
"(a) Such plants as from their
nature must be continuously oper-
ated seven days each week, to avoid
serious injury to the plant itself or
contents.
"Cb) Manufacturers of perishable
food
"(c) Manufacturers of food not
perishable and not in immediate de-
mand who may burn fuel to such an
extent as is authorized by the fuel
administrator of the state in which
such plant is located or by his rep
resentative authorized therefor, upon
application by the United States food
administrator.
"(d) Printers or publishers of
daily newspapers may burn fuel as
usual excepting on every Monday
-
inclusive. on which days they may
burn fuel to such extent as is nee
essary to issue such editions as such
papers customarily issue on impor-
tant national legal holidays and
where such papers do not issue any
editions on a holiday they are per-
mitted to issue one edition on the
said Monday.
Stores and Theaters
"te) Printing establishments
which NAV burn fuel on January IS,
10. 20 and % to such extent as is
necessary to issue current numbers
of magazines and other publications
periodically issued.
ION each Monday, beginning jan
uary 81, 1918, and continuing up to
and including Monday, March %,
1918, no fuel shall be burned lex
cept to such extent as is essen
tial to prevent injury to property
from freezing) for the purposes of
supplying heat for:
"(a) ANY bushes sor professional
offices, except offices used by the
United States, state, county OF mum
icipal governments, transportation
companies or which are occupied by
banks or trust companies or by ply
sicians or dentists.
"Cb) Wholesale or retail stores, or
any other stores, business houses or
buildings whatever, except that for
the purpose of selling food only, for
which purpose stores may maintain
necessary heat until IL O'Clock noon;
and for the purpose of selling drugs
and medical supplies only. stores
NAV maintain necessary heat
throughout the day and evening.
"(c) Theaters, moving picture
houses, bowling alleys, billiard
rooms, private or public dance
halls. or any other place of amuse-
ment:
ION the above specified Mondays
no fuel shall be burned for the pur-
pose of heating rooms or buildings
in which liquor is sold on those
days.
''No fuel shall be burned on any
of the foregoing specified Mondays
for the purpose of supplying power
for the movement of surface, ele-
waited, subway or suburban cars or
trains in excess of the amount used
on Sundays previous thereto.
THE order provides that nothing
i'm this order shall be held to forbid
the burning of fuel to heat rooms
or such portions of buildings as are
used in Connection with the produc-
ton or distribution of fuel.
"The state fuel administrators are
authorized by the order to issue or
ders on special applications for re-
lief, where necessary, to prevent in
jury to health or destruction of or
injury to property by fire or freez-
ing.
THE order is effective in all of the
territory of the United States east
of the Mississippi river, including
the whole of the states OF Louisiana
and Minnesota"