Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
MANY PALATIAL
TRAINSAFFECTED
BY SCHEDULE CUT
Broadway Limited Is Among
Those to Be Taken Off as Re-
suit of Fuel Shortage
By A ssocidted Press

Chicago, Dec. 6.--Drastic curtail-
ment of passenger train service
throughout the country, the eastern
and southern regional directors TAX
ing virtually the same action as that
two days ago by the central north
and southwestern directors, to-day
had been ordered as a fuel consegva-
ton measure. AS the strike of coal
miners entered its sixth week,
optimism, which some operators
were said to feel, was not reflected
in actual favorable Developments re-
ported from the coal fields.
More Industries Close.
Additional industries to-day were
closed or had given notice that
operation would be suspended after
to-day, while the coal-saving orders
that already had put Chicago on u
six-and -one-half hour business day
and affected other cities of the GEN.
trail west, north and southwest to a
lesser degree, were extended to other
places. At Chicago a siX-hour-day
beginning Monday was decreed and
members of the regional coal com
mittee predicted that a few days
continuance of the miners walkout
would force a four-hour-d day.
Few Miners Returning
Only in isolated instances and
in small groups were miners report
ed to be resuming production. In
the great central competitive field
and in others of the larger organized
areas the miners generally main
tanned their attitude of remaining
away from work until a larger wage
increase than the fourteen per cent.
decreed by the Federal Fuel Admin
istration was forthcoming.
Production of coal at the Kansas
strip pits by volunteer workers in
creased however. and \plans were
advanced for similar work in Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Take on Broadway Limited
In the reduction of approximately
one-third in train miles" ordered
in passenger traffic. some of the
country's palatial trains were affect
ed. They included the Twentieth
Century on the New York Central
and Broadway Limited on the Penn
sylvania between New York and
Chicago and North Pacific coast
points.
The reduction in the central. north
and southwestern regions is effective
Monday, in the southern Tuesday
and in the eastern Wednesday,.
Many cities and towns in Ne
braska Montana and Western Kan
sas still were virtually without coal,
however, and substitutes were at
premium.
Canadian coal sh'.=lents some
what relieved the situation in the
far northwest.
New York Cuts on Heat o..
l.. ,iI Nf Al
nent, New York City's conservation
steps consisted of turning off heat
in subway, elevated and surface cars
during rush hours; eliminating
heating of cabins on ferryboats
operated by the railroad admins
tration and voluntary darkening of
signs by theater managers except for
one hour in the evening. Many of
the electric advertising signs along
Broadway remained lighted.
The conference of Governors of
ten states set for Sunday at st.
Louis, to-day had been postponed
indefinitely. Governor Frederick D.
Gardner, of Missouri, who called it,
announced the meeting would not
be held until the Federal Fuel Ad-
ministration acted on resolutions
which the Governors adopted q
week ago requesting more liberal
distribution of fuel in the middle
west and that q rHel director for
each state be named.
Untle. Martial Law
In connection with the plan to
operate Oklahoma mines with VOL
unteer labor, martial law had been
proclaimed in that State for the
first time.
Governor Robertson placed six
counties containing coal mines un-
der martial law.
North Dakota mines may be taken
over and operated, in any emer-
gency by the Governor after July
next, under a bill passed by a
special session of the Legislature
last night.