The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-12-09
RATIONING OF COAL
IN DOMESTIC SIZES
TO START MONDAY
Order Affects Whole City
and Parts of Nassau and
Suffolk Counties.
LOTS OF SUBSTITUTES
Consumer Must Accept and
Dealer Deliver Two
Kinds of Fuel.
LARGE SAVING EXPECTED
People Are Warned to Get
Anthracite Before Weather
Blocks Delivery.

Beginning Monday the whole OF New
York city goes upon limited rations in
its consumption of domestic sizes OF
anthracite coal.
Arthur S. Learoyd, fuel administra-
tor for districts 1 and ., which in
clude all boroughs Of the city as well
as parts of Nassau and Suffolk coun-
ties. Long Island, issued yesterday,
with the approval Of William III.
Woodin. State Fuel Administrators,
local order No. 8, effective Monday.
1t is promulgated as direct result of
! Thursdays fuel conference in Albany
between Gov. Miller and the several
district fuel administrators of the
State. The order follows:
Each delivery of the sizes Of an
thracite known as crate. broken. egg,
stove. chestnut or range coal, where
such coal is used for heating purposes
! and where the delivery consists OF
two tons or more, shall be preceded
or accompanied by a delivery of not
less than 25 per cent. of buckwheat,
coke, bituminous coal or other substi-
tutes. No delivery OF less than one
ton of substitutes is required under
this order"
Has to Accept Substitutes.
This order, Mr. Learoyd explained,
makes 1t obligatory upon the dealer to
nd To mt
with every delivery. for illustration,
amounting to from two to four tons OF
domestic size. anthracite an additional
ton of sore sort e substitute fuel OF
those named. AS the dealer is not re-
quired to deliver any or these substi-
tute grades in lots OF less than one ton.
this means that the customer who gets
hereafter a two ton delivery of domestic
anthracite must stand ready to accept
along with IL one ton (Which in his case
really amounts to so per cent. OF his
two ton order) of the less desirable
substitute.
Where the delivery OF domestic an
thracite amounts TO a single ton only. on
the other hand. the obligatory use with
II of substitute fuel does not apply.
Should small consumers attempt To
evade the spirit OF the order by trying
TO have their dealers make successive
one ton deliveries a few days apart,
Mr. Lesroyd said. It would not take the
dealers long to detect and check the sub
terfuge.
The order was drafted during con-
ference in (which Mr.. Woodin. in his
office, 155 Broadway. met all the city's
deputy administrators and also Commis-
sioner Grover A. Whalen, who attended
as the representative OF Mayor Hylan.
Mr. Learoyd expressed the opinion that
an immediate resultant of this order
would be the saving each week or from
1b, 900 to 30, 900 tons OF domestic anthra-
cite. He intlmated that, should the
stringency become more acute. 1t might
become necessary later to issue more
drastic order.
Much ConI on, sfdetrncks.
AS proof that 1t ls possible for all re-
tailers to obtain enough substitute fuel
10 enable them to comply with the order
he cited figures showing that there are
standing on the rail at New Jersey tide
water points q. 500 tons Gao carloads) OF
the steam size anthracite and 1,52O tons
(3s carloads) OF the pea size anthracite.
For all this fuel there were yesterday
no orders.
Mr.. Learoyd estimated that. In addi-
ton, there were afloat here 5000 tons OF
No. buckwheat 00o boatloads) and
about 1900 tons OF soft coal. This ag-
gregates more than 10000 tons of sur
plus substitute fuel here waiting
market
Supplementing the text OF the official
order. Mr.. Woodin said:
ITO meet the present emergency II is
further recommended that whenever
possible the minimum OF substitutes OF
25 per cent. be increased and that
wherever practical substitutes be deliv-
cred with orders OF less than two tons.
The support and cooperation OF the pub
lie is essential II the utmost relief Dos
siblc is to be obtained under this order.
and consumers are urged. for their own
protection and for the public good. TO
order the highest possible ratio OF sub
stifute fuel"
Boy Scouts and other agencies will dis
triuule to-day an educational pamphlet
prepared by the State Fuel Administra-
ton entitled Substitutes for Domestic
Sizes of Anthracite and How to Use
Them