The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-16
FUEL BOARD May
CLOSE OFFICES
AT FIVE O'CLOCK
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made by the Bridgeport Fuel Com
mission under the leadership of T. j.
Pardy to supply wood to those in need
OF fuel.
Many pathetic. scenes were enacted
in the various stations when women,
many of them with a number of small
children applied to the kind hearted
bluecoats for enough fuel to cook the
little food which they were able to get.
Babies cried with the cold while very
old men looked on with a sad express
sion of utter helplessness.
Up to this afternoon there were no
less than fifty applications for the
small supply of wood entered at the
Third Precinct. Thirty-ive orders at
the Second Precinct, twenty-five ap-
plcations at the Fourth Precinct and
eighteen at the First. 81 b"
The Bridgeport Paper Box Co., en-
ploying SO or more persons, will also
have to close if coal is not obtained
within the next day or two. The Ives
Toy Manufacturing Co. is also near
the closing point, and, being nom
essential plant, cannot obtain a fur
Their supply-of coal.
No shipments of hard coal have
been received in the city since last Fri
day. Orders issued by the fuel COM
mittee-are being delivered through one
dealer, the City Ice & Coal Co., which
is being mainly supplied by the
American Brass~Co. No other dealer
in,the city has atom of hard coal in
hissbins.
The demand for quarter ton orders
wass exceedingly heavy at the commit
tees office this, morning and the sec
rotary, William F. Sheehan. rather
than turn away several hundred coal
seekers, mostly women, attempted to
accommodate all-and as result orders
for two days in advance have been
taken. 1t is expected the office will
close temporarily for one or two days
later in the week. More than 500
persons had applied at the office up
to noon.
Amending the order which barred
saloons, churches, dance halls the
aters or bowling alleys from getting
COAL Administrator Siemon announced
today that they would be given coal
only when they-proved they had com
piled with the committees requests.
The Bridgeport Fire Department
wasssaved from a serious situation to-
day by the arrival of % tons of egg
coal, which was lent to the committee
by the Bridgeport Brass Co.
r. The matter of closing drinking clubs
is expected to come before the COM
mittee for immediate consideration.
The Algonquin club, through it's presi-
dent, r. A. Beers, says the members
are willing to close, but this would
not save any fuel. Beers said the club
directors would do whatever is de-
sired by the committee. The Seaside
club, it is said, also offers to close its
entire building, if the committee so
desires. Other clubs in. which liquor
is sold, are also expected to follow
suit, or at least observe the saloon
keepers hours.
The Knights OF Columbus is the
. -iiFHAg3f the lodgesFto comply with the
com pittee's request This lodge has
notified the committee that it will
discontinue it's fraternal activities en-
tirely in an effort to save fuel
No arrivals either by rail or water
were reported by the committee to-
day. A barge load of hard coal re-
ceived last week has been drawn tc
the docks of the Wheeler & Howes
Co, where it will be distributed under
the committees direction.