The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Z ete sn Ye. __ PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyright, 19) Co. (The ew COAL, MILLIONS OF TONS, HELD BY THREE COMPANIES TO MANIPULATE THE PRICE! Evening World. hessalleuiion Discloses Moun- tains of Culm, Small Sized, Already Mined, Sufficient to End for Years All Fears of Coalless Days and Lightless ments and Factories. ATACOST OF 10 TO 25 CENTS A TON —And It Can Be Sold in New York City at About $3 a Ton. Never Cost the Companies a Cent to Mine— Fresh Mining Curtailed While Quantities| of Culm, as Evening World Photographs Show, Are Being Shipped at Enormous Profits—Congress Should Act at Once. | By Sophie Irene Loeb. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | POTTSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 27.—There is absolutely no reason for New York to shiver for the want of coal. There is no reason for coalless days or lightles nights in the City of New York or any place dependent on anthracite coal except the greed of the rail- road companies owning this coal and the lack of action by the| Government through the Fuel Administrator, Dr. Garfield. The rates for coal are | away beyond its actual worth, Ali] this is proved by thracite coal fields The Evening World's investigation in the an a condition of affairs so startling as to de mand a Government investigation of the entire coal industry The Government would find such a close corporation of coal} companies and railroads, which has kept the people using anthra- | at the inescapable action, Not only this, but only a half day’s journey from New York City there lies out on the surface of the earth enormous mountains of coal—millions of tons—that need only to be shipped to New York and could be used in hundreds of factories and apartment houses. In fact, this very coal is now being shipped, and has been for a long time, at a cost to the companies ranging from 10 cents to 40 cents a ton and sold in New York City for the prevailing prices of coal, some of it nearing $10. These mountains of coal arc cite coal mercy of a few coal barons, as would warrant called culm banks, this coal was mined and not usable t Years ago| grates and fur-| naces were not made for the purpose of this fine coal, cludes chestnut, It was laid aside, pay for mining it. coal, Now this smal! coal has accumulated into mountains, | In view of this, in these times of stress, very little fresh coal would teed to be mined. These culm banks could be quickly transported to New York and sold for less than $3 a ton, with great profit to the companies It is being sent to New York now and sold with freshly mined coal. I have seen it being lifted oiit of the mountains and put into railroad cars and, after undergoing the simple operation of washing and screen- cause the which in- and similar smaller coal, “docked” in their They were only paid for the large pieces of | pea, rice and the miners were Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ hy The Prees Publishing Nights—Suitable for Furnaces in Apart-|$ Kept Back (the Scandal of It!) to Maintain: High Ptices—Can Be Loaded Into Cars : De OSRRECSORE He ! © Bo owen ee DES TRUCE ASKED BY BULGAR KING NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. 22 PA York World), FRENCH-AMERICANS DRIVE ON: PRISONERS NOW TOTAL 16, 000. First of Series of Photographs of Culm Bank I Being Loaded on Railroad Cars for Shipment to New ¥ ork Hb EG SROSOFEE HE OTTE DHE EE CHB 064444 4-404-6-08-0-0466-966404 Pode ee EES HIS picture, and Read fa few at Mount Taifley, shows how the Ph g Coal and Iron Company is loading adelphia coal at a mined years ago mulated transported in larg eee coal that was vefore ountains that quantities at alo used and w into m 38069 W price BIGCROWD CHEERS DRAFT DRAWING — WILSON, IN CITY TO SET BY CROWDER ~ BULGARS ASK 48-HOUR TRUCE WITH THE CONSENT OF KING; DELEGATES TO SEEK PEACE OPEN LOA DRIVE FORNEXT MONDAY s.ssension at Operations Denied by French Commander; but He Consents to Receive the Envoys—Berlin to Protest. Sept. Numbers W WNBec Be Given Out by District Boards as Quickl an Be Mailed President Receives Great Ova- tion at cart lea 4 List C PARIS, 27.—Gen. Franchet d’Esperey, commanding the Al Metropolitan To-Night. as List { armies in Macedonia, has telegraphed to the French Government that President Wilson received one of| WASHINGTON, Sep 27,—-Mon gh Bulgarian ofticer has presented himself in behalf of Gen, Toro.tow the ns of his entire | day, Sept. 30, was set by Provost) c mmanding the ian Army, asking the suspension of arms fo! career when rived New York | Marshal General Crowder to-day as! ¢,,9 1oOuW iit the arrival of two authorized di from at 1.21 o'clock this afternoon for the N Draft Lot ; officia npa " i Line Jer, in the ‘ nen ad iberba Loar reuaa tac aiiae a The Minister of Finance, Liaptcheff, and Gen. Oukoff, commanJing The President went from the | of the 90,000 men m 18 4 Bulgarian Second Army, are on their way to the French He: Jennsylvania Station to the Waldorf- | who ed fo ely Penn ral: : : ers with the assent of King F nand to arrange the ria Hotel, thene home Sept ‘ ‘i 1, B, M. House at No. 115 Bast The drawing w b ice and eventual peace Stree II later back 1 to }licly a Henate off D'Esperey says jola the women of the nd and the numbers will be gi «KAISER RAN TO CELLAR then to the House residence again, | the and ntry . It was said that AS MANNHEIM WAS BOMBED remain duly qualified f “Circulation Books Open to All. iJ WEATHER—Fair to-night; warmer Saturday. GES PRICE Two oo, —— SS ee BRITISH IN NEW ADVANCE - PIERCE THE HINDENBURG LINE ALONG THE CAMBRAI FRONT ———__4o-— | American Troops Cut Off a German Division in the Argonne Forest i| —Allies Take More Towns in Bulgaria — Hard Blows Struck Everywhere. with the consent of ALLE W the King, is asking for an armistice with a view to eventual peace, the Allied armies on every point arc keeping up hard blows the Bulgarian Government, and pressing baci the enemy In the Champagne new advances have been scored by the Americans and French. Vershing’s troops overcame machine gun resistunce. The French pressed forward again to-day, and Paris reports taking of German positions to a depth of more than three miles Despatches from Paris and London say the prisoners taken hy the Americans and French now total 16,000 Berlin admits advance of the French and Americans, but claims the effort to break through failed On t ambrai front Haig began a new offensive this morn- thirteen-mile line and penetrated the enemy lines more direction of Douai, The Hindenbarg line and a strip of five miles of the Canal du Nord were cr: In Macedonia the Allies are still British acro. miles in the than three making notable and Greek forces have captured Strumnitza, ten miles Bulgar border. Serbian cavalry is within fourteen miles of the Bulgarian frontier, northeast of Ishtib. Meanwhile the French Commander-in-Chief in, Macedonia has refused the Bulgar request for suspension of operations but lr of the Government, who are on the way to his headquarters. consented to receive qu rlives Bulgarian AMERICANS DRIVING AHEAD; CAPTURE CHARPENTRY AND OVERCOME MACHINE GUNNERS Patrols Keep in Contact With Retreating Foe — Germans Had Begun Withdrawal of Heavy Guns When Offensive Opened. LONDON, Sept. 27.—The Americans have captured Charpentty ‘.wo miles north of Varennes), according to battlefront despatches re- ceived here this afternoon, The total number of prisoners taken by the Franco-Americans is ed at 16,000. img, put on board cars and sent to the market at enormous profits to the | areat eve : i ra les, With Staff, i Min company. politan Opera Hou « r atly . tin = " ites Unde When “COAL POLICE” TRY TO STOP TAKING OF PICTURE, 8:30 nin 8 Briti That the companies know that The Evening World is investigating In sp ft nb w ‘ ' x-| Gen am } ‘ . iB this subject, and that this newspaper would not stop until the matter was|jjce anda s ons | w xh " | I f al Duke A} entirely brought before the public, was shown by the effort of the Phila iirane pinnaviva ee be A 1 f Ww ] J i «| delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company keep me from taking | i ; Me ( | ‘ WAS | re < ae _ pictures of these protitad! iim banks—these great mountains of coal | ‘ 1 Y me When The Evening World sent a photographe th me to take a |‘ Lg | 8 ’ a | picture of this very operation of removing the culm coal from the banks | 4°? a m Ja fie i: f rmar wu ‘ 4 into the railroad cars we drove wn the mountain and stopped on a@ high- ' fw ’ } Drote 4 th way to view the culm banks at a place called Mount Taffley, several mile dst 1 | 1 f é mailnay : trom Pottsville, Pa flow wave | 4 ws asoraine. ta | The photographer drew out his tripod and was preparing his camera sie ua face eahen te take the picture h | ead ’ climta a Pstrehily al w As be was doing this I noticed the men who were loading the cars| '%d* oan J order , ha n . Rerlle rope ' stop to look at us, and on the very top of the mountain one man, as 8000 | mo aienit vi F 7 alngla: Kind as be saw us, durried across the top and down the mountain as fast as he . 4 thou onsent of Ki could. Pretty soon we realized he was coming toward us, So swiftly did Al Y \ , wapar be come that he could hardly breathe when he came upon us an tad \ Y be dismiss "You can't take a picture of that culm bank!” he called as soon as ho| "4 ret Wile , : came within earshot. “Don't you dare to take a picture of It!” he shouted. y All about us were coal fields, and as there » only a few miners’ Ny 4 tha I huts on the distant hills, it seemed to make one feel that this man was! 3 pla ms ids master of all he surveyed © wit ¢ 1 ! y aurmeley m One realized at once that he feared we were going to do something|as the President camo us , rene ei . 133 with the picture. ¢ inly we couldn't take it to the Kaiser, for he the throng 6 1 forward and M Pest road cannot shoot at our coal ficlds, and, besides, we had accompanying us one| Wilson and her guards wer 00) RAR and —-——_ ack, They formed » anc | A Cc | N G (Co: liought forward just in time to mee # _ Continued op Twelfth Page, Dk Sia gs ye e President, who took his daughte? | ESULTS, Page 2 peti ni dst aie pede NTARINE. aap RIES ’ rem ie amd parcele open day one G8" pen vaiurday jigiit uit el Sia atascsate-* [oat is i ave vane" Se) RSs Peas ay {Continues on Sixth Pagay “Clothiers, Biway, cor, Bmadre AMERICAN ARMY ON THE iated Press),—The front of the offer VERDUN FRONT, 1 advance Sept. 27 (Asso- during last night on the American patrols pushed Americ ontinued erda The ve launched for maintaining contac with the enemy Stout machine gun re- e met during the late night at one pg vas quickly overcome vith tanks and artillery chine gun opposition met by the Americans was in the Bois may be the Cierges Wood, three miles northwest of Mont n, Pershing reported yesterday.} mtirm the belief that the German heavy of withdrawal and ’ rot kno 4 apture o mation tend: which ¢ Was unable to operate wn at this hour whether any of the The wea 5 thick, light rains having begun in the early morning in the field of the American operations, obscuring observation, Reports from the battlefront between the Suippe and Meuse Rivers the most favorable conditions, _ Geng“ ouraud's | Fourth Army in the: ung" 4 | | SS CA TIT I cium