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Show COAL DEALERS BElT Car Service Bureau Keeping Close Tab on Unloading Order Observance. The activities of the ear service bureau, under the direction of ,T. S. Spelman, ln forcing the local retail coal dealers to "keep up to the scr-ateli" in tho matter of unloading vrithtn the forty-eisht hours proscribed by the recent rulinir of the federal fuel administration, was shown yesterday, when several of tho dealers received slip!) from Mr. Ppolman showing bow many cars had1 been received at Ihe yards or the various dealers and .iusl how lonff thoy had been kept there before unloading. ln Borne Instances it. was found that tho dealers were lioldinK tho cars beyond the limit, of time demanded by the fuel recmlatlons. Accompanyinc; the t-llp was a letter, reminding tho dealer of the necessity ne-cessity of operating within the order The question foremost in the minds of the coal dealers at the present tlmo. according ac-cording to opinions expressed yesterdav is whether tho United Slates fuel administration admin-istration .Intends to restrict still further (lie time for unloadins fuel cars at tho ya rds. The question nroso when several dealers deal-ers received a eommunical ion from "Mr Spelman. in which he urced tho dealers to fall In lino as nearly as possible with tho slogan recently adopted by the federal fed-eral fuel administration. "Simrlse-Himsot Unloading." This would Implv. the dealers deal-ers say, the wish of the government to have cits unloaded In the yards within tmolvo hours from the time tbev are re oclved. in order that the cars' mav he put to tho greatest possiblo uso to relieve tile shortage. Tinder the new ruling of the federal fuel administration, the time given for the unloading of earn is forty-eight hours This Is ample, tho dealers sav to dK tribute the coal from the ears' 'direct to their customers without double handllnr If, however, (ho slogan of 'Sunrise' sunset Unloading" is pul i,,tn pr.,rti,; by the dealers, they say It will necessitate necessi-tate the unloading of the coal in!,, the yards beloi e being distributed Io t lie co sinner. This, il: is said, will result In , largo amount of waste. In addition Io the extra cosl for the double handling p., sidnnng the present margin allowed l v the fuel adnilnisli-iition, the coal dealers expressed tho opinion that the loss from waste occasioned by the double Imnriii g of the coal would serlonslv nft'oct lb, .7-business .7-business and they would 'bo unable to operate on tlio present margin It IS II. qll.-.sll,,l. tl)0 ,,.;, I,,,'.; . whether the govel , i n lent, wishes to'wi-Mo tool or suller the loss of (he i,s, of r.'.,t .an. lor the ll,,; which Is mv :,d' by the deal. o-.s U) unload t.,0 ,.,, -p." ti the consumer from the cam. , |