Show COAL FAMINE EAST 1 Maryland District of Columbia and Virginias Suffering < I Baltimore Aid Jan 1Tha effect of the coal famine on the 1000000 persona of Maryland the District of Columbia Virginia and West Virginia Is told In dispatches to the Herald A few towns are supplied with anthracite but In many there IB a i shurtniro of nil kinds 01 fuel L In the smaller towns the residents substitute sub-stitute wood for coal but in the larger places this hits not been poislbl In some cntlrf counties nothing but wood is used At omf points near the coal fields such as Kounoke coal is higher limn at points more distant from the mines In West Virginia owing to the vIde distribution dis-tribution of coalproducing areas there is not likely to bo much dlsircsa Although the Industries arc suffering Washington find Baltimore aro getting along wJth soft ooal at advanced prices The commerce of both Baltimore and Norfolk Is suf fering becuiiB of the shortage |