Show GOTHAM FACES FUEL FAMINE Coal Selling at 1250 and Deliveries s Restricted to toOne toOne One Olle Ton 1011 a Customer New York Oct Od 31 Coincident Coincident with Hh the he unprecedented in lit tho rho prIce ot of f domestic coal cual to 1250 l O a n ton hero today retail merchants notified the pUblic that only conservation of ot the time supply and limitation of ot deliveries lIell to tono toone toone one no ton to a n customer would avert a a. inline famine The soaring prices arc are due duC retailers and and ml wholesalers a agree Ice to the enormous demands of ot manufacturing plants the shortage hortage of ot unskilled labor at tho the mines lines the freight car shortage the I premature consumption of ot the reserve o stock lock and anal the tho utilization of ot domestic coal oal for tor manufacturing purposes There is Js no definite retail price said aid Commissioner loner Alfred Altred G G. Rico Rice of ot tho the Coal oal Merchants Merchants' a association in a R statement state state- ment Retailers who have havo a reserve 8 1 supply I pl ma may be bc able to regulate prices but ut those who are aro forced to buy their stock lock at current prices will have to 10 shift b tt the Increase o to the consumer |