New Britain herald., 1918-01-05
Holmes and Says City Coal and Wood Company Is Selling to Farm ingtOn People.

ington People.
 | Mayor George A. Quigley stated this afternoon that Ernest w. Christ, 1 chairman of the New Britain fuel commission had advised him earlier ! in the day that he had written letters i to all local coal dealers asking them to refrain from shipping any coal out i of New Britain, except to possible leutomers in Elm Hill or similar sub- { urbs dependent upon local dealers for i their supply. Shortly thereafter SUD- ! porting previous complaints received by the mayor, l.. c. Denison, proprie- tor of Denison's Garage, called Mayor Quigley on the telephone and made the, claim that coal was being taken [ from New Britain and being delivered in neighDoring towns The mayor states that MT. Denison said this has been going on for several days and by < 4tracing the teams learned that some of them came from the yards of the i City Coal and Wood Go.
 | Mayor Makes Investigation. 1 Determined to make an official in | yestigation to see whether it was true ! that any charges that local people ere being discriminated against in favor ! of cut of town buyers could be sub stantiated, Mayor Quig.ley paid an of- ficial visit this noon to the yards of the City Coal and Wood Co, There, the mayor says, he talked with several of the drivers and from information giv- en him he saw fit to issue the follow ing statement for publication:
 a ""Drivcr Daniel OLeary, Delivery Ticket B 17,670-5,O00 pounds of egg coal to be delivered to house next to the Country club, Pennington, Conn. Team owned by the Pennington Ice, Coal and Wood company.
 | f'Driver Jacob Cooper, Delivery i Ticket B17, 7,669-3,900 pounds of egg coal assigned to W. S. Cowles, Farn- ington, Conn. Y Driver E. T. Blakesley, DeHvers Ticket BY 7,661-3, 900 pounds No. 2 nut coal, billed to F. A. Caldwell, to be delivered to Fred Miles, Farming ton, Conn.
 Team Driven by B. Nash, of Farm 7! ington, Conn., 1-2 tons of furnace coal for J. B. Ryan, Elm Tree Inn, Pennington. Conn.
 Three tons of coal being loaded for ] Frank Caldwell, of Farmington. Or ders for five tons of coal. Drivers: Orrie Iampson, Charles Blinn and Albert Rlinn, all of Farmington.' The mayors statement concludes with the following paragraph:
 MT. Johnston, when asked why he was permitting coal to be sent out of the city, replied that he was acting under instructions of MT. T. Russell, fuel administrator"
 War Bureaus Statement.
 Earl Kisselbrack, of the War ! Bureau, gave out the appended state ment this afternoon:
 'F. H. Johnston, Of the City. Goal and Wood company, called upssthe War Bureau on the telephone ahfs | morning and stated that if thataA lice wished to do something to asAtet the J, coal situation in New Britain f$Eould \ do so by getting some helpxfQ e4hen ! to alInIoad coal cars on&tf1e dings ,3 upon which their wassS nrrARe i charges, owing to the Citys sd 4 Wood company y's ina bil tx ecs7re ! labor to- unload coal. I '-rhe War Bureau, uodn gyestiga- I ton, found there were s any coal l. cars on the City Coal and yS&od com 1 pany's siding, and the T3 Bad com pany stated that there hstS not been any coal cars on that sidinE toda.y.'ss
 MT. Kisselbrack, recefNsd a report that the City Coal & WoodTo. was. aI- legged to have sold coal atsthe yard at
 55 cents per 100 pounds when the
 price set by the fuel administration . is 55 cents per 100 pounds delivered. The clerk is said to have called up the City Coal and Wood company office to
 make inquiry regarding the allega-
 tion and the followink9 cryptic con
 versation is said to haze ensued.
 T have the honor tp inform you
 on authority of Mr. Thomas w. Rus
 sell that the people Of New Britain
 ought to be mighty lucky to get coal
 without kicking on the price between 1 ff-optip1cd On Ninth pareA