The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1918, Page 14

~ ney ee " . } ‘ ' ' = — = = | bd Che eFilhity satoro, Non-Essential Industry «its, By J.H. Cassel . ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH YULITZER, _— aun amine wat es een n e 1 e biished Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, r en ay Sete Mak how, Bow fake ee RALPH PULITZDR, President, 49 wr, SILER sent Eos By Albert P 7 JOSEPH PULITZER, Je, Secretary, 63 Park Tiow. iy ert ayson e rhu ne ‘ ~“Fintered at the Post-Office at New York as Gecond-Clase Matte | Coprright, 1018, by the Preas Pubilahiog Go, (Toe New Tork Brening World). Subseription Nates to The Bvening |For Bngiand and the Continent and NO. 60.—THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. & or ent Cobol, je WON ORE OR tho best part of two years the Civil War dragged on One Year : + 46.00 /One Year.........5 “ 915.40 with varying fortunes. In the summer of 1862 the One Month “ at 60/One Month. 180 Union general, McClellan, had scored a dreary failure MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRBSE, to capture Richmond, In the early autuma bei The Asociated Prose te grey penile to the pee tor. szbiication of ai! news Acsveteben eame year the Confederates, under Lee, had tried to io Nr ce wot olberwue crodited th this paper and leo the Toval news published beret y + -< +mbddhathe shies reid aes red carry the war into tho enemy's country by invading vOLU 5 Maryland. They had been stopped at Antietam and =, ILUY 58 . sececeseeNQ, 20,60. “ ‘Aiden < ae hurled back into Virginia, Thither the Union “Army of the Potomac” had followed them, but with Burnside TOO MUCH GLOOM. in command of it now instead of McClellan. I On @ bluff above the Rappahannock river’s south coal situation has been spread bank stood the wmall clty of Fredoricksburg, Across 60 firet thought should have been the river from the city the village of Falmouth formed t 5 ntr one end of a small railroad that led to a harbor of the sisphcbicmianslia nie Potomac. Burnside, therefore, decided that Fredericks: p factories and places of amusement has taken Durg@ Would be a good buso for his operations against Richmond. And he re ed 1 t ; } | solved to occupy the lito bluft-edued city. He marched towards redere oD @ tone of dark and pe foreboding unwarranted by condi ickeburg. But on the river bank he had to wait for two weeks until ho { hat ex ‘could get pontoon bridges for the crossing of the stream. Meantime Lee and tone that ¢ “Stonewall” Jackson, with a strong Confederate army, reached Fredericks- Instead of tuckli b of coal distribution with a vigor calcu- ‘burg and made ready to defend it. The Confederates did not enter the olty itself In any great numbers, but built fortifications behind it. lated to put hope and confidence into American industry, fuel admin- On Dec, 10 the pontoons arrived. Sharpshooters in Fredericksburg be~ 1 a A Ned 1 . hy ‘gan to cut down the bridge builders. Burnside bombarded the town to ‘ istrators have pulled long faces over their problems and made moun- ruins and at last got his army across. He seized the ruined elty, but Lee's Rsk dipping army held the fortified high ground behind tt. ? j teins of their difficulties, 5 o On the morning of Dec. 13 the Union army made stea the country what they could do for it, they " @ gencral advance upon the Confederate lines, and the } Instead of y at they ould do fo they } Hed ay } battle of Fredericksburg was on. have sought to reconcile it to suffering and privation. 5 dried wh For hours the fight waged hotly. Gen. Meade, H eae 1 1 ‘ . ARAL ett 16,000 Pennsylvanians, drove a deep wedge ' into ‘ Instead of asking the public to be patient until conditions can the Confederate ranks at the far right, but the Union assault on the rest of lk ud they have riake dar the © the fleld was too widely scattered for re-enforcements to make the wedge ‘ be bettered, they have bid it prepare for the worst. deep and wide enough to break Lee's line in two. Where is somebody who will pull us out of this gloom? With varying fortunes the tide of battle ebbed and flowed, until early ' n the afternoon Burnside directed his chief assault against an eminence f Where is somebody with an open eye and a working brain cnown as Marye's Hill, which was black with Confederate batteries, These , i 7 riceaeyl batteries had been scourging Frederickybung, and Burnside sought to al- ) who will take a grip on the coal situation here in New York and lence them. * . . F Up to the lower slope of the hill marched the Unton divisions, in face of a j put an end to a coal famine which exists only because there is no withering artillery fire that heaped the ground with dead. Still the bluecoats . 1 kept on, stolid and steadily, until an unseep line of Confederate trenches one with energy enough to get down to the practical business of behind a stone wall, directly in the assailants’ path, vomited one murderous hauling coal? rifle volley after another full in thetr faces, } fm ar ‘ i : P Mortal endurance was not proof against this combination of artillery / % There were 359, tons of coal] at tidewater yesterday and infantry. The advancing Union brigades were swept back like dead i the leaves before a gale, A rally and a second attack followed. Bu | tons at New Jersey ports, the farthest of which is leas than fifteen stone wall it met the same bloody tate as the first. So di a third aaaeeae : miles t i y distance f N ( Yity! | Says Gen. Couch ‘ miles transporting distance from New York City! I had never seen fighting like th othing approaching it in terrible And yet with this immense supply of coal close at hand, as The falling. ee ee ) ’ falling.” A fourth charge crumpled and failed. Then nightfall ended the carnage, ; The next morning Burnside refused to reopen. the {The ‘Abandoned? attic. Except for minor skirmishing, there was ev- ue prostrate or Evening World pointed out, with ferries available and thousands of | carts idle, the only remedy for coal shortage must be, according to} 7 ini i h erywhere the dull reaction of utter fatig the Fuel Administration, to close factories and theatres! Purpose. hay re the dull reaction of utter fatigu eee several successes of Union arms elsewhere on the fleld were wiped out by the hor aughter on Maryo’s Hill, That hill was the key of the Confederate position, It was still untaken. It was untakable, | Yer two days Burnside held Fredericksburg, but he again, And under cover of darkness, on the night of I the river with his baffled army, leaving Lee and Jack: possession of the fleld. battle of Fredericksburg had cost the Unton wounded, 12,653 men, of whom more than 7,000 fell in t ture Marye's Hill, The total Confederate loss was The following are the amounts of anthracite coal officially re-! corded at Now Jersey tidewater terminals, in cars, pockets and barges, for the last three days: would not attack he recrossed undisputed January 12.....66e eens Se eeeeeeroererens 176,000 tons January 13.....60eeees Fete eeeeeeeeeeeneeee January Wh... scccececeees 50 tons | 282,760 tons | In a single twenty-four houra, between 6 A. M. Sunday and 6 A.| rmy, in killed and attempts to cap- { Mae, hen ai | Bachelor Girl Reflections Coal piling up on the Jersey water front at the rate of 2,750 By Helen Rowland mane cimereones The Wife Deserter, The Jarr Family <.gnctimmuncuorwe., losses and privations of an acute coal famine! itself. By Sophie Irene oeb By Roy L. McCardell Is this the best that Fuel Administration can do? 3 . a Ken ¥ ress Publishiog Co, (The New York Evening Word Do Fuel Administrators never step out of their offices or com- a WOMAN signing “I I he had foreswort | will be the last of Augus piritous Hauors | Mr. Rangle. writes to me as follow matter of barges, tugs and ice breakers, or carts and ferry boats, with “L wish, my d e his friend Rangle baa an ol M. Monday, there was an increase of 31,500 tons in the supply of j So often that which seems like a m sixty Loree- bower devotion during courtship turns out to be noth- ing but his sixty mule-power determination after ma: riage. , assumed the part and the garded it altogethe t of the tine |family a charge « ~ began | joke on my name, mittee rooms long enough to sec that coal distribution hereabouts is a! eaves bl community | for my ; : \ benefit and for} ur relatives, and ot st care 1 Jurr, like other|but it's too true to laugh at, so we emergency wages, if need be, to secure labor? | thousands of other| His offspring. ‘That is the civic 8 to be my will only bave a smile on It,” sald| The time to act like a Ge spy is before you f it, and for that | aan ne of his cri s,|Gus dolefully | Mr. J. walted to hear no more} | Not that Mr. Jarr had ever drunk from where he stood unseen In the) 1 War has {ts brighter slde for a lot of men, and one to excess or that his friend Rangle|#ide entrance, but s! d out quictly | / reason why th h: . ss. In fact,|and, after a tew m s' delay on t y there has been such an increase in en- : outside, came in through the FEN noma Sasements and marriages since it started 1s probably poor souls, you marry &@ man—not afterward, stringent law is neces would write an|may assume his natu article on ‘wife de noe overload ta” ihe 8 Sut there is the o serters” It might) oxen heart of the Ww g them, a8 woll| hind—of the little children to whom |had ever smoked to ex as my husband,|the affair must daily be explained |poth had sworn off from their leas: | t Tet us hope the new Director of Piers, appointed by Director of | § Railroads McAdoo to exercise unlimited authority in handling coal at, Jersey tidewater terminals, turns out to be a man of action who thinks |e the only way to move coal i to move it, and who doesn’t believe in| because a pretty girl can’ i ‘ q i) t b n some way, somehoy a 5 front door briskly, as tho y girl can’t keep her mind on h t Z famine with abundance fifteen miles away, ; Bick to thelr | 30 some, way, Aomenaws |e vie lous cate tion, . ; oa et Srey though be bad! ting and at the same time try to be a “brilliant coaversatiocailet ae ne " 1} ase senses but ve a uniform system in every t might ve better for each | 4 a ppec . aG. We } - " Meanwhile, if Mayor Hylan wants to help relieve the coal | ~:~ “We were mar-| State so that every man would be|had Mr. r taken the Greetings, my merry ent” anes A man will steal a girl's heart, and then feel h * | “Seow ied te ars and | Pesponsible if he Stat Je r >w to ab n from smok-| Mr. Jarr, seemingly not noticing the Pees me OU » GN en feel hurt and {ndj, shortage in New York, why doesn't he send over to New Jersey | svar iBteat ith ac@der litho citt whom | Hie. wife and ohidi Wlete bee \one es Se ee ene RD uunereal air of all present, “Greet-|Fefuses to take ft back again when he has finished With tent ee every cart at the city’s disposal to bring back by the ferries coal lhe {dollaed und who came ufter ul work and at ienst the But, bo that Gus! ¥ »sy and robust, | - crdered for the city’s needs? | struggle through | nd death, We ones. found himself | A bed e-yed a A man loves, the first time, with the enthusiasm and rec! leseness of. ier hes wore exceedingly happy all through fe Allied upon, unter |the slde door of ike @ hundred years old," an amateur—the last time, with the caution’ and se restraint of an. Why close more schools when coal is within easy reach? {those years, and were paying for a his is hard enough: bul to Gus. | epicure, " 1 i t ere yt 80! v of mor your! t all authorities adopt The Evening World’s coal slogan: Behl Aesny Peel COs aireeay aN —_ i i vil ‘ of a ch which ¥ > toll with & broken J A “brilliant philosopher” i a ho works out « 4 “HOWL LESS, HAUL MORE,” eras | whi sad. Ah, scorntully. | , Bese RR} op $ 4 Man Who works out a scientific theory’ « 2 ; t nat : tives Cour Hl sat ples can tell helf my |‘? breve something that the average girl {s born knowing, It’s about time this city saw the cheer and hopefulness of act OD | ty nell aula summeni DH woman oh women all of he sneered. _ pel some of the despondency which doubt and inaction on the part} wh« as " a| Wil » make the | ut_men y, yes,” sald Mr, Jarr, 1 can HOW TO WRITE AN EPIGRAM, Administ as ere ay ! ‘ aked. O ans mn tell your age exactly, Let me see Led 4 to the Lady Who Taught Me How to Bake a Chicken.) paiblla a raul Ave in, th al situation, ie sine tictiad twalve ve He: neh ‘ your teeth. Open your mouth Yake one medium sized fdea, nelther too Nght nor too heavy, Be c ———————- “It is too horrible to do, Many that he at you want to sce my mouth | ture that {t 8 fresh enough to poach. Trim off all the feathers, and eet Letters Frc the P ] tail, I uid not think KPa) Fat yl nglo couldr for?” asked Gus. “Are you the doc- |1n the back of the mind to simmer for threo or four days. Dress with n \* 4 ers »m Ic eople wonue. be #0 in thameat @Ral imuve tale ink,” } say ‘You ain't well, There 48) plump short verb, a nice noun and a few sclatillating adjectives (Roget Please tmit communications to 150 words way dovelving her ows TL epee of Gus of pants on your tongue? “| Brand). Mix carefully, and spice with a dash of satire, a pinch ot eyni ieee Weis can the Saath Meackbant ta f 1 €) en Sia atanerdn y m chan ry I want to 120k hi ar teeth | cism and flavor with the eex question. Serre hot off the griddle, P, 4 To the EAkor of The Evening Wor To the Eaitor cd The Ewing Wadi : women are / to meet in a place like this and have | to tell your age, just like @ borse,” |ware pack your chicken, It wasn't edible, ey As a Brovklynite, 1 want to thank paper has donc r would | time will come! . good time. I'll bet you what you) s#ld Mr, Jai ‘Open your mouth—} _ ess sia ent ein cat eat of N ‘ . ed enee au {like that in & few more years you| but keep it shut.” rau, hi 0 ylan for the est he ts ‘ A cle ky rye Greece | of N Gus hesitated at this command, : ‘ if you can do not ur of her! will go Museum of Na i e) zs > taking tn reference to the deplorabl whe aint : V & da the brave vate | Cameacs pan ak laa nut then sensing Mr. Jarr meant he Te re the ime Inters service which the B. K. T. 1s giving Puaeae 1 tay und a mother | aide of the ak t of| Was to show his teeth but not to say | - {Renrintes From The Evening World, Jan, 1913.) t t ae argue, 1 wer , ; y ei engr ritg 4 foot lor anything, he preacnted his molara for| PANUARY halt gone and where 19 Theodomer marched 0; the p ow me to correc ay-Myrtlo he wished. 1 mad vy ya wh em five hundred foot lor ‘nama oe 5 winter? Nothing yet even ap-|SWebla to avenge his wrotusta dante one mistake of his relative to giving |4itions are disgr and julgo ny Little girl ina ae ene See “Huh, looks Uke a ce il ok proaching xero weather, The | {1,78 the cold was so intense that the! ? the B. R. T. notice that he will ride | worse each why we We The wo ee aa cese!” remarked Mr, Ranglo dis-| Hudson 14 cpon, ‘Tho river boats are | Sea wero entirely teosne (the, Black on ite cars at Bervice sai ‘ onsidered in ideal suoh f there, beside ne laintull still running to Albany, ‘The grass in| snow in ‘oy nlaone was Atty ft un irregular schedule on!knew uw \ woman y see a wax works { ully, Sentral Park | * ieee leep, anc Bg coy Tecan SHiGk tka Gai Seta tae {hae por conteibutes ; Nae A sig agnearin “Well, you are just about forty. | Centr 1 Park is as green as if It wore | deep, and the Ico was heaped 10 such is ana thing can be dof sates amail to (Rune appy tamily—ney Hid? Oa te SN eedtogs tents Arleleht lk gala Sth TAer, | old waves aro half-hearted | the wails to fall none? a8 t0 cause ie can bed ea t eae aan hort {Of ba eM 4 OV No two Cafe, Which Used to Be| Gus snorted incredulously, “You| *!rs, ashamed to hang about more] yn geo the Adr he servi is pail i Us better scr. sure 1 neve it pi ye y the | Gus's Corne fe, Which : inact hat ceo miad than twenty-four hours. Lurope has | trozen over. wh rlatic wag entirely and the Seeply erate OF Brooklyn will bo| hag os poiled fe, 1 was | oan f Popler Befor Ww ent, Suessed that, growled, wevere weather. Black fog de- | oz" over. Tn 891 and $99 the vines ita wack . leeply & ALB. RW. | just out y “ big for r = a Fericht. It v a , and, “Guessed it?” repeated Mr, fed upon London two days ago | died in their ot the cold and cattle vod 7 ‘ Nass He Owns One Seuttle of Coal, married, 1 had no BOR knee LA Is N Extract!" "" tell you, I can tell your age exactly,| With “frost.” But wha English #0 inte 4 ~ In 1067 the cold T am surprised that after the time | 1. the kaitor of The Evening Wor junti! that bad woma 1 AAgD BH i : . Saat just the same as though you were al call, “frosv” is often only a mild 25! travellers Jit Goomennt ginast, of the and expen: nun in the wood | lives. But he y puni ‘ iexti sew { M ls Re ‘| to 30 degrees Fahrenheit «ide 1any were frozen to r q , ney hi Apple ‘ 1orse, by looking at your teeth, Le’ ~ death on the road. Wine cask + ot a Punic Service Commission that the ey woman 1 y ve L Extinct extra a e t to b vey eo ine casks burst i ' ‘ to the pose’ mer years? Are |vory pain Q king person, | thelr own ety, 8 . Gu Ev 1 ; again and [ll tell you the! ess en mense noise ae te st with an im- hey are in the dark « Flag A do ei) dare say , ve aman sai ; : ‘ou were born,” | f the a | Acne 1 1281 the Yea in railway service t srookiyn The wate tol’ | rowtul man," Pater , have thelr ne whiske u Aghia t jor t cold and. terrible 7 | Austria’ were completely buried ist | Broo no water inore Ps an. {that jour " Gus again opened his mouth to Mr. . snow, In 13H ‘all the public has to cndure. The Publi man for th t 1 7 Ki at € a by lappened to our fine old | were ¢ it the rivers in Italy Servi Commission should hav law b ‘ pau t alv ox ag| Jarr’s scrutiny, and Mr, Jarr, still re-) Western bilzzards that {t used to|"e'e frozen. In 1468 the winter was jerv nial mmo iaeiol ride af werte ere . o* membering what he had overheard e one shiver only to read about? masts in Flanders that thé wine known these conditions without be! antag are wi the, | | Take ncinutas Maforel eased It looks as if the’ civi a] yrae cut with hatchets to be ‘ise }. forced by Mayor Hy ake sume 4 ed pine y | = cally at Gus's teeth and then said: | * Bm let off nowsde ‘ trees and ths, 1 1684 many © | kind of action f ; : Hy 1 worry ‘ ‘ “ef ale that 2 the bones, k nd oaks in England The Brooklyn. Ci 4 adve ' B hay Hers 1 ) 1 it w Yes, you were born o bah 6: od at the souls i with the frost. In 1691 the JT Bee: Gila Sab le RAYNE ; ‘ ; i fo ; of June te Jof its ancestors, Ty tines, | Katves ai 82, Intense that starved must say that from ‘epor pi c i , five up ¥. : 4t thelr mark and were remembered | 1),, spot yy eecoMe of the winters Brooklynites are moving out aa|f the p hom e QUITE SOME HEM this stand I , nals 8 Ab ay Farts of business | {°F wenerat Uke ib " Have ¢! {itgation and coal f ; A ceartmania | Pn ently : a em of . fire ra t out of business 1 old rds of hard winters in em away, or ty a kind Provi- quickly as they can find apartments | just that ith n| Worst orde Jo . the : A 1 when after fortyrseven years he has|/the Middie Ages tho race to-day {ice tempering the wind to a weak. in Manhattan, Hoping that the|o We don't know | vows-vows of love, vows ‘ie \ Hundred. 1 was Jus got horse teeth but no horse sense,"| bardly recognizes the planet it lives !°P°4 4nd relaxed humanity? 4 . . fit sibility, the most sacred ¢ d the da | . Tasively, Yell, b or ple: In the year 401 t ~ 4 movement you have started may im feat ul [Seu A sf HH he eald conclusively, “Well, ova, n, ¥ IF exATID a: In ear 401 se editortal observations of five 4 prove travelling facilities, I remain World's thermometer wister| Unlike the soldier not been ¢ ith go Vaa) what are we going to ba Colder nm over. years ago F “ae i would scarcely be appro- L. Le 100 dawrana in the ahada drafted, He bas choven the love nlatinum and precious stone it| weather? > the Danube was fivecn, ao tut priate for the prevent winten -