New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Shivering the Only
Penalty for Those
Who Work Monday
There Is Nothing to Pre-
vent Business but the
Temperature

Tomorrow will be shivering Monday
for working New York Business ac-
tivity, for the first time in Father
knickerbocker's venerable career, will
be gauged, not by the ambition or will
power Of his family, but by the thcr-
mometer.
The fuel authorities have agreed that
If Big Business must go on tomorrow
and on nine Mondays to come it must
TIE weather. Not a business office will
be heated unless it is in the specially
exempt class. Few arc in this class.
SO typsts must type in spasmodic
fashion, pausing frequently to warm
stifiened fingers in ovcrcoat pockets
Adding machine operators must ma
nipulate their keys under the handicap
of glove-cncased fingers. and masters
Of finance, if they choose to take the
helm for the day, will do their "bt"
while stamping about their mahogany
trimmed offices.
Lawyers will keep warm in their
Offices by rehearsing potential argu-
ments before the courts. Gesticulations
will serve the double purpose Of en-
phasizing telling points and circulating
blood through benumbed bodies.
Saloons Must Keep Cold
Saloons may remain open tomorrow
and all the succeeding nine Mondays,
provided they turn off the radiators,
refrain from stokiQg the stoves and
let patrons depend entirely upon
the combustibles behind the bar for
warmth.
Albert H. Wiggin, State Fuel Adj
ADMINISTRATOR, said last night that
there was nothing in the Garfield or
der to prevent the saloons opening,
ovxI i a..
employed the heating qualities of alco-
device they would be violating the
order only in spirit, which is not pun
shable
they may even remain open Monday
nights, apparently, for when asked
specifically about this phase of the
question, Mr.. Wiggin replied:
"lf you will read the order it says
nothing about lights"
But there was some difference Of
opinion on that point. Harry T. Peters,
chairman of the conservation commit
tee of the fuel administration. de-
clared that, according to his interpre-
tatlon of the order, neither saloons nor
stores could use lights, because the
generation of light required the ex-
penditure of fuel. That, however, was
only an Interpretation
No Liquor for Restaurants
Fuel administrators said that "red
INK" table d'hote Adjustments, and
restaurants run in connection with sa-
looms, would come under the same rul-
lngs as bars if they served LIQUORS
with meals. Their patrons have the
choce--wineless meals in heated
rooms, or keeping warm with vine
while they eat.
1t appears that the most comfortable
PEOPLE in all New York, with the ex-
oeption of those who remain at home
Tomorrow, will be theatre patrons
laundry workers and blacksmiths.
Likewise, for the first time in his
tory, compensation has been found for
the agony endured by sitting in a
dentists chair. For all dentists will
be permitted tomorrow to keen full
head Of steam turned on.
And It the shiverlng citizen can pre-
vail upon his physician to grant him a
consultation. the citizen can stop
sshiveiring. For all physicians also NAV
heat their Offices.
In short, the thermometer will be a
barometer tomorrow of New York's in
dustrial activity. If the weather be
MUD. little change perhaps will be
noticed in the voice of the citv. but if
1T be cold and severe there is lkeIv ~
be ,scurrying for cover by those in,
trepid enough to do business without
heat. '''0"'