Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 11 | Don't Let Weather Fool You; Buy Coal

DON'T lifWEATHER POOL MM COAL Change in Conditions May Otherwise Cause Great Inconvenience. "Whilo the winter winds arc whistling down X?w York's white, but lihtU'sy, way, aid thousands of the city's poor are in a deatli struggle for just enough fuel to keep their liitle unes from terrible ter-rible suffering, Salt Lakers are sitting by their open windows, gazing at the spring-like sunshine and giving not enough thought to the morrow, nor to the slate of the family coal bin. Because the weather gods have turned a benign countenance upon this seetoin is no sign that one will not awaken in another day or so to the tunc of a howling, old-time blizzard, aud (lie rattle of the coal going into the furnace fur-nace wil be an alarm Jlne to a largo number of people, who will not feel coin- 1 fortable to turn, their deaf ears ami go to sleep again. The state fueJ hdniinistrator sends out an urgent warning, not only to the resi-, dents of Sait Lake, but to those of i Utah, Nevada and the southern part of i .Idaho, to take a hasty trip to llie coal i cellars and east a calculating eye over i the stock of fuel there. - If the weather i changes shortly, as it is certain to do i before long, there will be a scurrying aud a hurrying to the telephones audi to the fuel ofJiees, and a repetition nj i the old refrain for ''just a ton or two; i we are completely out. M - i The situation in I'tah for the coal i supply has, of course, improved greatly, owing in part to the remark a ble i weather, but chiefly to the efficiency etf l the railroads and the co:il mini's, ' but I the unusual weather should not lull peo-i pie into a false sense of security. i If .the householder knows what he1 is about he will order the rest of his winter supply at once, while it is avail- able and while it is enily t rnnportei.