The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-16
STATIONS ARE OPENED
Small Lots Are Distributed
Under Municipal
Supervision.
OUTLOOK Is BRIGHTER
Various Bodies Working To-
gether to Keep All Sup
piled With Fuel.

Large quantities of the emergency
relief anthracite coal forwarded to
New York through the efforts of the
special committee formed at the wish
OF the Anthracite Coal Operators AS
ISOLATION have reached des ination.
Some OF it was being apportioned and
distributed yesterday to persons whose
need was shown by Health Depart
ment inquiry to be most urgent. Many
additional carloads are on the RAIL-
hurrying from the mines to this city
DR.. ROYAL 5. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, explained that his inspect
ors. who hitherto have restricted their
inspections for the most part to apart
ment houses and tenements, are check
ing M more especially the acute fuel
needs of the jewellers in one and two
family houses. Central distribution
stations are to he established in con-
venient parts of the city as clearing
houses for Goa, which the Health De-
partment agents authorize to be sent
TO each needy consumer. These sta
tons will be coal yards belonging to
dealers who are cooperating with the
local emergency coal committee. They
will be kept stocked with the several
domestic sizes Of anthracite, according
to their needs. and as rapidly as the
arrival of the relief coal permits.
The first of these distributing stations,
Commissioner Copeland sslid. was opened
yesterday by the Stokes Coal Company,
~ Ninth avenue and Thirty-fourth
street Names and locations of others
will be made public as soon as they are
established.
Keeps Eye on Prices.
DIR. Copeland said that at the Stokes
station anthracite could be had yester-
dav in lots from 100 pounds up to one
ton for each needy customer. In SO far
az concerns the 100 pound lots. he said.
sbeN would be on sale at so cents
hundred mounds I'VE are chiefly con-
eerned al present TO get the emergency
coal here in sufficient quantity, said
DR. Copeland, but perrol ally | intend
also to keep an eve upon the lrices
charged. to see that there. shall be no
proiteering.
John f. Birmingham. chairman of the
relief committee said he was gratfed
with the progress made, but he did not
care to give figures yet indicating what
had been accomplished. He and his as
sociates. he said had every reason for
announcement; they believe the erner-
gency will have been net and overcome
within a few days il the public will he
patient. Mr.. Birmingham held confer
s.nces with Joseph NJ. Lonerga1. sdper-
vising chief sanitary inspector OF the
Department of Health Arthur +. Rice,
commissioner of the New York Retail
Coal Dealers Association. and Samuel
Diumruond. representing the retail coal
dealers of Brooklyn. Together they
formulated plans for the handling and
equitable distribution Of the relief coal
ms fast as II arrives.
Mr. Rice. whose special province will
be that Of distribution. will have as his
active aids Michael f, Burns. Thomas
+. Farrell and Nicholas L. Stokes. coal
dealers. OF Manhattan DIN J Sterhens
OF The Bronx. and Richard J. Wulff
and T. V. Patterson assisting Mr.. Drum
rnond in Brooklyn.
Newark Gets $50 Tons.
Newark received $50 tons OF anthra-
cite ordered by Mayor Gillen from indie
pendent operators as a relief expedient.
He rounded up a lot Of coal delivery
wagons and trucks and supplied fuel
10 the first applicants on his waiting
list, which comprises 800 names The
Mayors price was s1250 a ton.
United States Senator william NJ.
Calder. chairman OF the Senate COM
m'ttee on reconstruction and produc-
ton. while in Chicago a few days ago.
agve TO the Black Diamond an inter-
view explaining what he did not mean
in his threat Of coal mine liberalization.
He explains his pan thus:
III coal prices do not drop and drop
20 a sane level within very short time
Z shall Introduce a biz In Congress
which II passed will authorize the an
polntment Of what might be called a
national coal commission. This com
mission will be empowered to fix and
regulate coal prices. not at the mines
alone. but In every step taken in the dis
tribution Of coal until IL is placed In
the bins Of consumers This commits
zion would also be empowered 70 regu
late the transportation Of coal and in
general TO dictate In all those mattora
which enter into the marketing Of the
nations fuel supply"
Brookiyn's High Prices.
The Investigation being made bv Dis.
trict Attorney Lewis into the coal situa-
tlon IN Brooklyn took a turn vesterdsv
indicating that high prices prevailing sor
anthra cite have been caused In part by
The 'pyramiding profits OF not one but
two or more wholesalers or middlenen
between the mine and the consumer
Mr.. Lewis oot7lncd the information
from q member 1 prominent middle
nan conce'u 10 this city. This con.
oern, 10 is charged. sold considerable
coal 70 a Br, oklyn retail dealer who has
been cooperating with the District At
torncy.
MIlIE CONGRESS- OPENED.