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Show it GHISlS IS MOT YET PASSED ON EAST CDAST Hope Raised by Warmer Weather in New York Crushed by Warning From Administrators. SITUATION MAY EVEN GROW WORSE Mayor Hylan Gives Coal From His Own Bin to VyBrooklyn Poor ; Much Suffering Reported. NEW YORK. Jan. C. Warmer weather today gave New York City its first real respite in more than a week from intense in-tense suffering caused by severe cold, . coupled with a critical fuel shortage. Hope that the coal crisis had been passed, based on reports that ample supplies sup-plies wero being brought to the city on barges from tidewater points, were dampened damp-ened tonight by statements from fuel administrators ad-ministrators warning against too optimistic opti-mistic a view of the situation. Thousands o( tons of coal which were brought through the Schuylkill last night after the ice packs had been broken by ocean-going tugs, were not for this city, as was first reported, according to Heeve Schley, county fuel administrator, but a great part of It was for New England Eng-land points. Mr. Schley stated ' that 14,330 tons had been loaded oh barges at tidewater today. How much of this had reached the city could not be learned. Part of this supply went to the bunkers of steamships lying idle in the harbor for lack of fuel, according to Harry T. Peters, chairman of the fuel conservation committee. com-mittee. May Bring Snow. 'The higher temperature Is expected to continue tomorrow but it may bring snow with it, further clogging transportation facilities. The thermometer rose to 25 degrees tonight. (t was reported tonight that the Schuylkill was frozen over again, shutting shut-ting off water communication with the i principal tidewater points in New Jersey. ! Along the shores of the harbor the ice pack was said to extend into the bay in tome places as much as a mile, fc. Mayor Hylan wrote to Mr. Schley today jUEing him to seize 10,000 tons of coal in 'ards or tho Consolidated Gas company ;,t 10,000 tons more at the plant of the i Washburn Wire company, recently destroyed de-stroyed by tire, for distribution to the poor. The mayor made a personal in-sperrtion in-sperrtion of the upper east side, where he said he saw hundreds of men, women a.nd children lined up in the street waiting wait-ing for coal, "while this tremendous quantity of coal was lying idle." Hylan Gives Coal. ."Mayor Hylan gave away two tons of cuul from his own bin to the poor in Brooklyn today. "Coiulklons are desperately bad." said A rl hur y. Rice, commissioner for the ronl merchants' association, "and they ure going to continue so for some timo to nunc, It ia unfair to the public to give I lion I he impression that the situation is casv and tiff airs are such as to call :or .still more economy In the use of fuel for a long way ahead." Kit; i ires supplied by Fuel Administrator Schley showed that for the week ending r-xhiy the city received 1.13,000 tons, while the veok previous the amount van 226,000 tons. The normal supply is about 210,000 tons. A. H. Smith, assistant director general oi' railroads, stated today that in the twenty-four hours ending at noon. 62.250 inns of mixed coal had been loaded on l:ir,cs at tidewater and that o2.00u tons were on the way to the city, of which t:"i per cent is hunker coal for ships. Poor Are Supplied. The poliic, acting on orders from Mayor Myian, today .listrihnted free tS'Z tons of oal among X0S2 needy families. It was .t n pounced. Merchants lent 115 carts it ml trucks to tho police to carry tho fuel in the homes of the poor. The fuel was p iven by persons who had mure than enough for t heir Immediate needs, in Humilities running from a few pounds to .several tons. It w;is collected hy the poli co on a systematic house-(o -house l RltV'ISS. i Uends of master plumbers' associations tn all boroughs wero urged hy Frank l:ii;n, tenement house commissioner, to ..... V"esL mem hers of their orun nlzations ft' "to ivc preference and immediate aid to tone men t house owners, to tln.w out the . water supply, drainage and gas pint's and W repair them as promptly as possible." Investigation showed. Commissioner (M.'inn stated, that about "one-fourth of the families In the tenement house districts dis-tricts aro suffering in various ways." |