The New York herald., 1922-08-03
FUEL AUTHORITIES
READY TO ALLOCATE
New York and New Jersey
Supplies to Be Doled Out +.
on Priority Plan.

Preparations to conserve New York's
coal continued yesterday with the or
ganization of committees and sub
committees and the gathering of in
formation, Shipping circles prepared to
allocate bunker coal and imported coal
which will arrive in this port from
England regularly this month.
According to several officials, condi-
tions may not be as difficult as at first
suspected. With the cooperation of
dealers, shipping men and others having
valuable data and information the
ALLEGATION of the eity's supplyS-of both
anthracite and bituminous soon will be
under way.
Priority lists undoubtedly will be
made SO that necessary industries will
be protected by an allowance of coal
and permission to purchase more after
they have made all possible saving.
Similar action Is being taken by the
authorities in New Jersey, where the
coal strike and rail trouble has dis
organized many industries.
Some Big Dealers Uneasy.
The decision of the railroad executives
on tuesday to turn down the peace offer
OF the Government has made many big
dealers uneasy. One said that after the
action of the railway men it was any
ones guess what the result would be
and that the coal industry had not been
helped Some of the dealers are going
TO pc caught short. too, as a few had
depended on a settlement or some indi-
cation of 1t. ra
1t was pointed out as being highly
significant that the rail men had
struck just when the production by the
non-union field had begun to be an
important factor in the coal strike.
One man prominent in the shipping
district said that the railroads handling
the output from the non-union mines
have been the hardest hit by the shop
strike. He contended that the leaders
of the striking miners had spent inn
mense sums and considerable time to
induce the rail men to strike and
cause trouble especially for the roads
which were handling the noH-union coal
production, which he said had been
rapidly weakening the chances of the
striking miners.
. The manner In which the supply Of
bunker ceal dropped off within a
single month was indicated in the fig
ures for Hampton Roads, where in june
the receipts of nen-union coal were
more than $4,000 tons. but following
the rail strike. which began the first
of July, dropped to less than half that
amount. Some barge shipments Of
bituminous still make their way to this
city from Hampton Roads and other
Atlantic ports, but they are rare.
The action to be taken by the New
York State Emergency Committee, Of
which Eugenlus II. outerbridge. head
of the Port Authority, Is chairman, is
not known In detail. 1t was said, how
ever, that the largest part of the COM
mittee's activity will be In getting re-
ports from shippers, dealers and others
~ the amount Of coal available here, and
o. any means by which this supply can
be stretched
Dealers probably will be called on TO
submit reports about receipts and outgo
of the coal which arrives in this port
and is distributed to various concerns.
Less buying I'm Great Britain.
Reports from London said there was
considerable 1ull in the American
buying of British coal. The rates have
taken a slight drop as the result, all
though no definite single rate could
be learned. Two OF the largest British
coal firms announced that they had
sold ahead for August and September,
but of course this is not exclusively to
the American trade. The expected ran
settlement also had its effect on the
British market and little buying was
recorded.
Eighty-five per cent. or the American
vessels are oil burners, this being the
largest percentage OF oil burning ships
in any fleet In the world. British FLEETS