The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-17
ALL TELEPHONES SILENT
Administrator Quits Office Early and
Leaves Word Office Will Not Be Re
Opened Until Late in Afternoon
Dealers In Active Cooperation.

Coal continued to be the big PROPOSE
ton in Kenosha today. 1t was a case
Of deliveries rather than sales and for
the first time in years there was no
coal sold in Kenosha regardless OF the
fact that more customers were wanting
Il than ever before. Coal deliveries
were being made rapidly. Every team
that could be requistioned into service
was busy hauling coal in half ton lots
and the immediate demands of q lot
of people all over the city were being
met. 1t was useless for people wanting
coal to call on the telephone as at the
offices of the coal dealers no one was
answering Che phones and at the office
of Fuel Administrator Burke the phone
had been closed to service. 1t was an
nounced to all appeals for the fuel ad-
ministrator that his office would not be
opened again until four O'Clock this af-
ternoon. Many people came to the Office
of the fuel administrator this morn
iug but in keeping with the order of
Tuesday to clean up deliveries before
more orders were issued no orders were
sent out during the day. Administrator
Burke was not in his Office during the
day and he left no word as to where
he could be reached by telephone or
messenger After the grand rush of
Tuesday and with the knowledge that
every bit of team service to be secured
in the city would be kept busy deliver
ing the coal ordered then he reached the
conclusion that there was no necessity
Of his answering telephone calls.
The half ton deliveries of coal were
being sent out as regularly as clock work
all day today and they appeared to
be reaching the right places. There
was no danger of the supply of coal in
the city being used up today as with
all possible deliveries it would be i'm
possible to reach the bot nf the
Kenosha coal pile. 1t was 1-4pected
that before the day was over there
would be new supplies Of coal reach
ing the city over the Northwestern
line. Administrator Burke has made
several appeals to the State Fuel Adj
ministrator for aid in getting the coal
trains to moving into Kenosha and it
is expected that these appeals will have
some effect. There has been some con-
fusion in ordres for coal but only few
parties have been forced to suffer ON
account of errors in fFrouting' the
coal orders. The dealers themselves
were offering active cooperation to the
plans of the fuel administrator to get
the best possible distribution of the
Kenosha coal supply. Demands for i'm
mediate delivery were taking the right
of way over deferred deliveries to re-
gUlar customers and every possible eff
fort was being made to put the coal
where it was most needed.
Tomorrow morning Administrator
Burke will be on the job again and
starting at nine o'clock he will begin
issuing new orders for delivery. It is
expected that by that time practically
all of the orders now in the hands of
the dealers will have been taken care
of There has been a number of hard
problems to solve in regard to colIec-
tions but these are all being ironed out
and it is thought that the plan of the
fuel administrator will prove practical
in every way.
Reports from the factories of the city
TO-DAY indicated that some coal was
coming into them by cards and the
managers of the big plants are hopeful
that no men viii be thrown out of
employment on account of the coal
shortage Some of the factories have
only a small supply of fuel but they
have it bought and it is on the way and
they have been promised deliveries.