Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-12-06
Supply Limited and Short
age Already Being
Felt
FACTORY MAY CLOSE
O. D. Glass Co., Has But Weeks Sup
CONSUMERS Limited to Ton
Majority Already Supplied

The shortage of coal already is be-
ing felt in Alexandria, although there
I has been no suffering from lack of
coal thus far. Manufacturers, however
sare somewhat apprehensive, and un>
less coal is received Within the next
week the first plant to close down
will be the Old Dominion Glass Com
! -pany, which concern has but a weeks
! supply on hand.
Representatives of other manufac-
| turing concerns, many of which are
big coal users, when interviewed to-
| day by representative of the Ga
/! zette, stated that they while they
/ had no surplus coal on hand they
! expressed the opinion that coal they
! have on hand together with the coal
in transit would tide them over for
several weeks,
The various dealers stated they had
only limited supply on hand, and
.ome dealers are restricting consum-
ess to ton at time, and other deal5'
! ers, have no anthracite coal. Several
dealers, however, expect coal shortly
and With what is on hand togethe!
with what they expect they hope to
keep the consumers supplied with a
limited quantity of fuel at least.
George D. Hopkins, secretary and
treasurer of the Old Dominion Glass
! Company, stated today, that his COM
| pany has on hand only sufficient
( quantity of coal to last week, This
I concern uses about twenty tons of
/ coal daily and unless coal is received
during the coming week this factory
will be compelled to discontinue opera
]! tions throwing out of employment $50
Nmen.
n A. Seldtkeller,. superintendent of
the Alexandria County Lighting Com
pany, stated that his company has
sufficient supply Of coal on hand to
carry, them over until: other coal
on the road is received. This company
uses carload of coal daily.
/ The Southern Railway; Company, ac-
cording to George R. Buddin, division
superintendent, has about four or five
days supply on hand for use on this
division. Mr.. Buddin, however, is Of
the opinion that an additional supply
soon will be received here from
Charlotte, N. c., which will relieve the
situation.
X R. NJ. Much, assistant treasurer
of, the Virginia Shipbuilding Corpo-
ration. said that corporation has a
sufficient supply on hand to meet its
reedA> for some time to come. al
though mere was no surplus coal.
Julian Y. Williams. president of
the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chem
ical Company, stated his plant is
operated by electric power, furnish
ed by the Alexandria County Light
ing Company, and the failure of the
manufacturers to obtain their usual
supply of coal would also effect the
company he represents. His con-
cern he said had not a limited re-
serve stock Of coal on hand.
The Bryant Fertilizer Company
also is operated. by electric power
furnished by the Alexandria County
Lighting Company. and is in about
the same situation. at the Alexan-
1 oria Fertilizer and Chemical Com
pany.
Samuel w. Pitts, vice president
and treasurer of w. A. Smoot and
Co., Inc. stated that the Smoot
Company has a limited supply Of
coal on hand and is limiting or
ders of private householders to =
ton at time.
Mr.. Pitts further stated that {
majority of private consumers alst
already have put away their win
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