Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 3 | Railways Ordered to Move More Coal

RAILWAYS " ORDERED to mmi coal Director General McAdoo Desires to Take Full Advantage Ad-vantage of Shutdown. - WASHIXGTOX, Feb.' 2. Bail ways today receivod instructions from the railroad administration to take even-advantage even-advantage of the usual Sunday industrial indus-trial shutdown and the enforced suspension sus-pension Monday under the fuel economy order, to move coal to the bi consuming consum-ing centers in order to accumulate small reserves against possible emergencies. emer-gencies. If the railroad situation then improves the Monday closing order probably will be revoked. Railroad administration officials had under consideration the imposition of other embargoes than those now iu effect ef-fect officially on three eastern trunk lines as substitute measures for the fuel economy order. Some further restrictions restric-tions on acceptance of general freight may be made, it was intimated, although al-though the principal determining factor will be the weather iu the next few days. Little hope was pathered from today's weather. In northern New York state it was so cold that engines stopping to take water froze to the tracks and it took five other locomotives to pull them loose. In West Virginia the overflowing of streams hampered the hauling of empty cars to the mines and the withdrawal of loads. The delivery of coal today was reported re-ported at about the same low average of the past week. More foodstuffs went forward, and the movement of t empty cars to the west and south for shipment of corn, meat products and cotton was reported considerably better. bet-ter. Four special trains of fifty cars each, filled with animal and poultry feci were on their way to New England today to-day from the middle west to relieve what had been reported as a critical shortage of these commodities. President Hale Holden of the Burlington Burling-ton railroad has resigned from the advisory ad-visory committee of railroad men assisting as-sisting Director General McAdoo to devote de-vote nis whole time to the Burlington. He was succeeded by Carl R. Grav, formerly president of the Great Northern.