The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-22
REVISED TEXT OF THE CLOS
ING ORDER.

text OF Fuel director GdrueIu 5
drastic closing order, which was
effective at midnight, Thursday,
January II.
A regulation making provision for
Ia more adequate supply of fuel for
railroads, domestic consumers, pub
. lie utilities and other uses necessary
to the national security.
The United States Fuel Admins
TRAITOR acting upder the authority
of an executive order of the Presi
dent of the United States dated
August %, 1917, appointing said
Administrator, in furtherance Of the
purpose of said order and of the
purposes of the act of Congress
therein referred to approved August
10, 1917, finding it essential eff
fectively to carry out the provisions
of this act, to make provision for a
more adequate supply of fuel for
railroads, domestic consumers, pub
lie utilities and for other uses nee
essary to the national security in
certain parts of the United States,
hereby makes and prescribes the fol-
lowing regulations:
Section /. Until further orders
of the United States Fuel Admins
traitor all persons selling fuel in
whatever capacity shall, in filling
their. contracts for orders now on
hand, give preference to necessary
current requirements of railroads.
domestic consumers, hospitals. char
liable institutions, army and navy
cantonments, public utilities, by-pro
duct coke plants supplying gas for
household uses, telephones and tel
egraph plants, shipping for bunker
purposes, the United States for
strictly governmental purposes (nOt
including factories or plants work
ing on contracts for the United
States), manufacturers of perishable
food or of food for necessary imme
date consumption, and municipal,
county or State governments for
necessary public use. Any tonnage
remaining after the foregoing pre-
ferred shipments have been made,
may be applied in filling any other
contracts or orders.
Section 2. On the following
days, namely, January 18, 10, 20,
21 and %, 1918, the State Fuel
Administrators and their accredited
representatives in the various COM
munities in the territory in which
this regulation applies, are hereby
empowered and directed to divert
such fuel as arrives in communities
in carload lots to keep current re-
Quirements, and to provide an ade-
quate and normal supply for such
consumers of fuel as are specified in
Section hereof.
Section 3. On the following days,
namely, January IS, 10, 20, FL and
%, 1918, and also on each and
every Monday beginning January
%, 1918, and continuing up and in
Guiding March rs, 1918, no manu-
facturer or manufacturing plant
shall burn fuel or use power deriv-
ed from fuel for any purpose, with
the following exceptions
(a) Plants which necessarily
must be continuously operated seven
days each week to avoid serious in
Jury to the plant itself or its con-
tents may use only such quantity Of
fuel as is necessary to prevent suen
injury to the plant or its contents.
| (b) Manufacturers or plants man
ufacturing perishable food or food
necessary for immediate consump-
ton.
(c) Manufacturers of food not
perishable and not necessary for i'm
mediate consumption may burn fuel
to the extent authorized by the Fuel
| Administrator of the State in which
such plant is located or by his fully
authorized representative upon ap-
plication by the United States Food
Administrator.
(d) Plants necessary to the print
| ing and publication of daily papers
may burn fuel and use power der1v-
ed therefrom as usual, except that
on every Monday, from January Fl,
to March 25, 1918, inclusive, they
may burn fuel or use power derived
therefrom in only to such extent as
is necessary to print and publish
editions as such plant customarily
prints and publishes on legal holt
days other than the Sabbath; or If
such plants do not customarily print
or publish any editions on such legal
holidays, they may burn fuel or use
such power to such extent as%ls nee
essary to issue one edition on the
said Monday.
(e) Printing establishments may
burn fuel on January Is, 10, 20, Il
and 3d. 1918, to such extent as is
necessary to issue current numbers
of magazines and other publications
periodically issued.
Section 4. On each Monday, be-
ginning January Il, and continuing
up to and including Monday, March
I25, 1918, no fuel shall be burned,
! Except to such an extent as is es-
sential to prevent injury to property
4. from freezing) for the purpose OF
supplying heat for:
(a) Any business Or professional
offices. except offices used by the
United States, State, county or mu-
nicipal governments, transportation
companies, public utilities compa-
MES, telephone and telegraph COM
panies, banks, trust companies, ply
sjcians or dentists.
OBJ Wholesale or retail stores or
any stores, business houses or bust
ress buildings whatever, except that
for the purpose of selling food only,