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Show CHICAGO SHORT OF COAL; ZERO WEATHER CHICAGO, ' Dec. 18. With zero weather prevailing, Chicago tonight is face to face with a fuel famine. Reports Re-ports from all sections of the city indicated indi-cated that householders and owners ot apartment buildings were obtaining coal only with the greatest difficulty and that the visible supply is rapidly diminishing. dimin-ishing. Dealers, who attributed the shortage to a lack of cars, asserted no relief was in sight. Estimates of Chicago 's coal receipt? and consumption, worked out' today oy George. H. Cushing, editor of the Black Diamond, an organ of the trade, indicated indi-cated that the receipts are between 5000 and "000 tons a day short of the consumption. con-sumption. In an effort to reduce the coal consumption con-sumption the city health commissioner urged Chicagoans to reduce the average of lice and house temperature from 7 (J to GO degrees, asserting that, given fresh air and sufficient clothing, this would he a more healthful temperature than 70 degrees. |