Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
Danger of Suffering
 From Lack Of Coal
STILL is IMMINENT, FUEL OPEL
 = GALS SAY
NO COAL IN MANY CITIES
pr. Garfield Says the Danger is Too Great to Permit Any Relaxation in Present Efforts to Conserve or In- crease Coal Supply.

Washington, Feb. 6. = Danger of widespread suffering from lack of coal still is imminent. Fuel administration officials declared tonight in announc- ing officially the continuance of the Monday closing order.
 Homes in Cities Without Coal.
 State administrators have report ed that thousands Of homes in New York and other cities of the east and middle west have no coal and cannot get it in sufficient quantities to make living conditions bearabie.
 Coal Movement Almost at Standstiil
 This situation, coupled with today. railroad administration reports that freight and coal movement was al- most at a standstill both yestehday and today in the east, prompted Fuel Administrator Garfield to announce that "the possibility of human sui fering is too imminent to permit any relaxation in the present efforts to conserve and increase the existing supply of coal"
 Hope For Relief Next Week. Dr. Garfield expressed the hope, how ever, that after. next week railroad freight. en1bargoes and preferential coal deliverie orders may be used as substitutes for heatless Mondays to 1 effect coal saving.
 Tt is hoped" he said. "that with the shutdown on Monday, February Ii, and the closing in many states on the day following Lincolr's Birthday, it will be possible henceforth to rely up- on embargoes and the preference in movement of food and fuel ordered by the director general of railroads"
 Considering Suspension Next Tuesday l The fuel administration is consid- l ering issuing request that all indus tries and business houses suspend op-
 erations next Tuesday, Lincoln's Birthday.
 Industrial Suspension Success. Officials are now convinced that the
 industrial suspension has been effica-
 cious in actually saving fuel in quan-
 titles and that the consumption al
 other times has not been increased by the temporary shutdown. Without at- tempting to measure the result by comparative statistics, officials cited , the report of the. National Committet
 on Gas and Electric Service, that ir
 29 large cities gas and electric com , panies saved from q to a5 per cent , of their normal coal consumption ol the five day suspension period betweel
 January r. and 22, and on the heat
 less Mondays. These public utilities : were said to furnish fair index o the general saving.
 ) Plants Using Last Days, Supply.
 State and local fuel administrators . reported today that hundreds of man : ufacturing plants are using their las days emergency supply of coal with
 out immediate prospects of obtainin,
 more. In many cities, householder 7, besieged railroad yards to get fey A bushels of the coal from the cars tha :, came trickling in over railroads crip pied by yesterdays bitter blizzard.
 Traffic Less Than Half Normal.
 For the railroads. weather condi e tions today were little better, bu n still freighl traffic was less than hal r of normal, and although coal and pref d lererce everywhere, comparativel
 small stocks of 1t were hauled. En
 zines could not reach mines throug l. twenty foot snowdrifts in some Penn a sy1vania regions and consequently th g mines were idle Officials pointed ot n that the full effect of this derange
 ment will be felt tomorrow and Sat
 urday, and even by the middle of ne, Q week if weather still remains as hos d tile to successful operations.