Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-01-25
POLICE CHIEF
To CLOSE ALL.
STORES INC|TY
6 O'clock Rule to be Enforced
Strictly; Few Exceptions
are Allowed.
ORDER IN EFFECT TODAY
Rule Does Not Relate to Sa-
Ioons-FueI Administrators
Insists on Rule.
ORDER IN EFFECT TODAY

In order that strict enforcement -
the o'clock closing order mny boI
had IN this city Chief of Police Patrick
J. Burke, acting upon Instructions
from City Fuel Administrator O. w,
Ramsay, ordered all OF the policenicn
of the city going on duty this altar
noon to report stores which do not
close promptly at o'clock. Admins
traitor Ramsay further informed the
chief that these storekeepers who per-
sist in keeping open will be dealt with
to the full extent Of the administrat-
or's power. This order does not e.
feet saloons. beng made especially t.
&C use the closing of n,ar-v of the smA IL
er stores which have not been living
up to the o'clock closing order. Tha
merchants who have been closing a4
6 o'clock have made many Complaints
about the smaller stores which con-
iness from the places which are closed.
Fuel Administrator Ramsay's orde9
will force these to close.
Recorder H. E. Pickersgill has been
appointed by the Fuel Administrator
Oliver w. Ramsay, as special aast6t-
ant with assistance and authoritH 06
Mayor John F. TenBroeck to line up
certain shop keepers who have
broken the closing law. Many-efz zfholo
~
other small places of thi End and i
special exemption has been xr4u9~4
them by Fuel Administrator RamMW
to remain open until O'Clock, - tbdV
do much of their business after u&aa
have returned from work. In refer.
ence to their being allowed to rema4a
open until O'clock AdNini.9Ea4ef
- whom l11yi e. p
opsM AftSF eelock ~ sivsn 49,. 49,!
| fhSy must cfoss. But fhos6 1hD l1|1
shoes for sale are not to sell them ~
ter o'clock or are they to have ~
light displayed In the shop, except
ing that needed for repairing sho11
This law applies to only, one mGa
shops"
1t is the belief f the fuel admfn-
istrator that a meeting now being held
in Washington will grant several Ax-
emptions. one Of them being to allow
barber shops to remain open on each
Monday until noon. A ruling has al.
ready been made that all farriers or
(horseshoers) may remain open All day
Monday to shoe horses, but no other
work can be done.
The plants producing fire brick and
fire clay products will resume oper-
alton If instructions from Washington
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pected.
A delegation from the saloons. hotel
and liquor stores of the city visited the
fuel administrator this morning and
stated that they desired to cooperate
with the fuel administrator in every
way and wanted to do their part in
living up to the spirit of the move
ment and called meeting for Sunday
afternoon of all the liquor men of the
city at which time the fuel adminis-
traitor win be present and . suitable
agreement reached.
The following petition has been re-
eeived by Fuel Administrator Ramsay
from the Retail Grocers and Butchers
Association of this city:
Oliver w. Ramsay, Esq,
Chairman Of the Perth Amboy DIS.
trict, State Food Administration
of New Jersey.
We the undersigned. members of the
Retail Grocers and Butchers Associa-
tion of the city of Perth Amboy. New
Jersey, do hereby show that at the
present time there is not an equal dis
tribution of sugar in this city.
We find that We must have sugar to
supply our customers at least q pound
a week. At the present time we cam
not even distribute one quarter OF
that.
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