Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-25
coal SITUATION
OFFERS col TRAST
TO ONE YEAR AGO


Hauling coal in the daytime to GUS
toners and making deliveries OF fuel
TO their customers on demand, and
hauling coal at night until the mid
night hour from the depot to their
coal yards, fopt Of Main street, the
Parlett Il Paelett company Is kept
busy along other lines than year
Eago
When asked why the coal carts
laden with nut. No 2 and No 3 Are.
passing through the streets at night,
Mr.. Parlett told Capital representa-
tive yesterday that II is 70 enable
them to make deliveries during the
day. the same carts being used for.
hauling and delivery He also re-
ferr4d to the contrast of year ago
! whene there STOOD In line as early as
six o'clock In the morning. men, wom-
ZEN and children, waiting their turn to
buy coal. and bare their order taken.
while they shivered Iii the darkness Of
winter morn Ia temperature near
| zero. Today there ii mild weather
and plenty oe coal on hand to meet
demands wits8ont q coal line and
lscramblIng for It.
4 mercifnl providence has inter
vened betweeft the common people and
the fuel people so far this winter, and
lup to this time few people have been
inconveniehced By the absence OF coal
lin their cellars
4 The unusually mild weather has
rendered unnecessary artificial heat In
Ia number Of homes, and those who
have supply are conserving the
fuel AS result there liz not now the
expected demand for coal OF, wood
The jobbers are filling orders with.
Iout delay when called upon, but they
do not appear 10 be pnahing the east
fern operators who have been holding
them up as they pleased
There Il no Keeling against the lo-
cal dealers pho 1t II admitted have
been doing aeerything In their power
to satisfy their eustomers. but there is
an I'll conceaied delight In these GUS
toners having the opportunity to put
lone over on the big coal operators.
who are prifitaeTing ut the expense Of
weather continue several weeks ldng-
i er. the two-thjrds supply allotted by
Y the fuel aHuanistration early IN the
year will sufnke for the remainder Of
the winter, ard the big profits Of the
mine owneSs stil have gone glimmer-
ling.
Aside from the fact that household
Iers can dfspg aae with the usual heat
required Ia ery cold weather. they
Learned d lek5 On last winter which en-
labIes them SIlen Ia pinch To do
without c66s alkogether. and they are
lprofiting a0s dinghy. All the time coal
was obtatbs ee those caught without
fuel bought ID ali oil and gas stoves
lin the mar Il and managed to keep
warm even Aep the thermometer reg1
istered clos % zero.
February s now approaching and
Ethe operate have not yet been press
ed though Fry nre ready and willing
now that ths1 have succeeded lii rails
Ing the prisas to an hitherto unflaard
of height, AZ supply the public OF.
fers are mode 10 supply the market
with all thaS d needed at their prices
but the pubsse y not biting III hun,
dreds Of hoaFea the oil and the gas
stove ID being used both for cooking
and heating purposes while the coal
in the bunkRrs II being saved FOR zerc
weatElsr, No complaints are being re-
y ceiyed from any source similar tc
those registered last year when the
city was obliged to peddle coal to the
poor i'd small quantities