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a | ae — ' Famine Broken as City Gets 33,000 Tons of Coal iorld, ) ‘FINAL Che | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | “Circulation Books Open to All. | aise Coprviehty 1018, by, The Pree xblohiag NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918, 18 PAGES PRIO Bipesiies cso ates ‘Co. (The New York World). elsewhere, $500,000,000 TO IMPROVE RAILROADS; INCOME GUARANTEED IN WILSON PLAN $$ $$$$_— —_—_—_—_—_—_ wn Co END OF COAL CRISIS NEAR: SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HELP Go RUNIRAL CALLED GOVERNMENT RAILROAD BILL TGS SMASH PATH WCE GH GREAT HOGOEN FRE ~ og EPEAT TANS TO 226,600 TONS IN JERSEY THAT MENACES WE WARPLANTS | fea ae scope U.S TOHEVEEXCESS INCOME 5 =< Pr ype COOnvoy Breaking Through the Kill van Kull '" %« -Builing att Declared by Railroad Director to) men Encrusied in lee Be “Key to the Situation”"—New : iss . 7 bs G0 10 PRISON FOR York Receives 33,000 Tons. . f FUEL CRISIS AT GLANCE Dat DRAFT “ Wilson in Message Declares Private Interests Must Be Safeguarded, Necessary Extensions Made: No Private Loans to > Hamper War. “. Government Is to Guarantee an In- come Equal to the Average Annual W" the thermometer hovering around zero, New York faced Mother Is Sent to the the the worst fuel famine in {ts history unt « this after- i Tarieeaia Bue noon, when it was announced that 39,000 tons of coal had Tombs, voy atnieadiport,| Net Rate of the Last Three Years azrived here. Ice breaking tugs smashed a path through the Kill van Kul opening up the way to 226,600 tons moro at tidewater ‘This forecast was issued by the Weather Bureau “Partly clondy to-night and Saturday. Continued cold to- sight. Slightly warmer Saturday, Moderate northeast wi The mercury dropped to 2 degrees below zero carly ‘his 5 ing, thes slowly began rising The New Jersey Fuel Administrator \ssucd an order to-day for bidding the re-consignment to New York of coal sent to Hudson County. This affects about 1,000 tons dally. Long lines of shivering women stormed coal serves being ca:led out to provent a revival of ri A... Meslat FIREMAN ; Betweon thirty and forty pub! schools were forced to close by “Thi! sera cehiah: abarted 1H: dhe: Wallin lack of fuel or bursting water pipes.. paper: ethat/and:apréad herds t9.two'l ec Eighty-seven more cars of coal were sent thre enn —Provision for ane: Suits. ~ RRS ONES | NNRALROAD ee fa ”’ President Must Approve New FASS AD. PLE ~ BISMM LKELY = 10 BE CORNED ~ BY ENTENTE ALLIES Siete s, police re U. 5. TROOPS CALLED OUT To adjacent buildings, was of such pro- , vanla tunnels, all for Brooklyn and Long Island p portions that army officers in com nd t ti Lr J ihate DUN ape a te got none cf tt mand of tho Hoboken Port of Em aaeuat ay lit Rejects the Russian! # Securities—Limit Put that Governn: t ian é ics tha Ohaine aceon age came ee “os "the 22d United States Infantry to wh ‘ M Will Insist Upon n Dividends, ote ‘ ; é throw a cordon thres blocks in ex Lichtermann t to Hist Rights.” Gon. f \a'n army ‘Cull, which have bound New Ye ™* 30 T0 40 SCHOOLS tent abautishe biaxbiand do adalat thal eaga tn the Gone Judes Hand wi . : The Ant wa e being) WASHINGTON, J {The Ad- | City in the tolls of coal famine, have | firemen in subduing minor fires which 1 DUL provides The President's programme be- See NE UO re are now either moving, through clouds of burning paper bits \uthorized to| sides calling for a $50,000,000 ap- | Propriation to be used as “revolve Ww to operating income for the | broad channel of clear » 4 ani 4 ally de ti r nt The An tow r Veo ay Just compensa for cperation and mainte: once, Port Reading, N. J Yard t ter Han A vrldea ys : eal dese foe income at an annual rate| elle for compensation tc By 5 o'clock this afternoon 33, Liat ily ract at ‘ nt early as may be to] Peads at the rate of thei enn to Rissa “| WUXTRY! MAYOR HYLAN ; 000 tons of coal— anthracite, bituminous and bunker—had been delivered by barges at the various oa! docks in New York Thirty-three laden coal barges rying 23,210 tons, hav: at Port Reading the work of t breakers in clearing a channe f to-morrow these, too, will erin to + move toward New York. A. H. Smith, Director of the Pu Railroads, sent a t tor General Mead three fiscal years, Any def 500,000,000 fun od meanwh Two hundred jackies from the i - ciara Brooklyn Navy Yard were rushed to biclits ' 5 $ jon Is Made Tha RT T | the scene of the fire on the tug Por n une | tiac near noon. They ran three lines . = bi : as ew w& of hese to the blaze amid the cheers RAILROAD BROTHERHOOUS { Motorma Gpsiaht Anes east, ar Games xed by the Pen n await impedes “possession, use, opera: of spectators tion or control” of the roads, It s regarded as pr eoluding a strike, Ail new vatlroud ¢ would be : t dent ; aS tog 2 ES advising him of t ‘ av KM van Kull chan * ' by Smith character and vonclusive f tles hold the New York na $ A z ad In the opin { 9 ; f “ee EVIVAL OF THE WAR LOOKED * FOF 7 New York's shore FOR SHIPBUILDING PLANTS 2° 2%% commento" 967 NORWEGIAN SHIPS : 08 so Renate 1 waa i ity FORTY BARGES OF COAL FOUND x 4 SUNK IN THE LAST YEAR 208 seri: ‘toro te sun| BOAAD-OF AUBITORR leemaltiey sine ce erase STUCK FAST IN in| Hurle that i¢ ® TEXT OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S He also . enlon in New The first coal barges Authority From the wake of © breakers doy Ongre; ST 935,000,000 Te sarees oh cio i poked eet r 4 ADDRESS TO CONGRESS in the tce, 1 rescu e- | Hurley Doing Fon tae THRE FIRE TUGS AND ENGINES i an Neaakara aie asker ‘ for SENT FROM NEW YORK VOD Vew Vor that these ¢ é of precious fr y ie Tho coal ter ributury t " iat . 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