The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-01-18
All Office Buildings, Laun-
dries, Mills, ETC., Have
Shut Down Mondays.
MAY STOP ICE
HOUSES FOR DAY
Buildings Where Dentists
and Doctors Have Office
Not to Be Heated.

All ONCE buildings. laundries, saw
houses in Pensacola are affected by /
the order OF fuel Administrator Carr
field prohibiting, with certain excer n
tions, the use or fuel on Mond3ys,l
according TO telegram received yes
terday morning by Wilmer Hayward
Escambia county administrator. fromi
Arthur T. Williams, State administra-
tor.
Though the measure is admittedly
a drastic one, IL is general in It's terms.
and the construction placed on IL by
the administration makes il even
broader than appeared when first publ
lished.
After repeated inquiries from local
fish houses, Mr. Hayward teiegraphed
the state administrators yesterday
morning requesting an interpYetatio,
OF the order, and asking specfnlcallyi
whether ice plants, supplying refris-
Grafton to fish companies would be
permitted to operate. The state ad-
ministrator answered that they would
be permitted 70 operate onry waere
they are supplying ice TO cold storage
plants, which is believed TO mean that
the local Ash companies viii be per-
mitted TO operate unmolested.
Regardless OF whether or not dem
lists and physicians have Offices in
buildings, heat viii be shut on in tnose
buildings on Mondays, prohibiting, on
cold days, much office practice by tho
doctors. practically closing the dental
Offices altogether.
Under the construction placed on IN
order, all laundrics will be forced
-ssiosu, without consideration for th.sige
patrons This, II In stated, will PIE
ciude prompt work TO private custo-
mers, and create shortage IN notes
and restaurants depending on a daily
supply OF fresh linen.
Sawmills will be closed, despite the
fact that they supply their own fusl,
and manufacture fuel for others.
During the entire day. yesterday,
storm of protest poured into the
office OF Mr. Hayward. matched by an
even greater volume Of honest In
quiries. Publication OF the order In
The Journal and simultaneously
throughout the United States, created
an almost chaotic condition in some
business houses.
No information concerning the en-
foreement of the law has been given
out but IL is taken for granted that
this viii be the duty of the federal
authorities. as wen as the tase unoer
similarly drawn proclamations
According 10 Associated Press de-
spatches from Washington last night,
no other notification will be given
those affected than publication OF tie
order I'm newspapers.
Both District Attorney John l.. Nee
ley and United States Marshal James
B. Perkins stated yesterday that they
had received ne instructions in regard
10 inforcing the order, but II rs
lieved to have the same force and
effect as regulations made by the pres
ident, and the food administration un-
der the grant of authority contained
in the war resolution.
AS soon as the order was published
yesterday, II. III. Thornton of the Ad-
visory Fuel Committee sent the fol-
lowing telegram 20 State Fuel Admin
istrator wiliiams
do not understand fuel commission
ers order operative January eighteenth
includes wood manufacturing Indus
tries like saw mills md planning mills
as In their operation they create their
own fuel in sawdust and shavings and
create fuel for public in trimmings.
saw dust and shavings. Understand
following coal burning industries may
operate Ice plants whose refriger-
ators conserve food and Iaundries be-
cause public utility Instruct refer
ence office buildings in which dentists
and physicians locaded. Wire quickly.
THORNTON"
To which he received the following
reply:
Order includes saw mills and plan
Ing mills, laundries and ice plants ex.
cept for refrigeration to conserve food,
Office buildings required TO have no
heat on Monday beginning the twenty
first instant and until Monday March
twenty-hfth. Have mailed order to-
light TO chairman local committee
WILLIAMS"