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Show EFFECT OF GOAL STRIKE High Price of Fuel Caused Jump in Provisions. WASHINGTON WAS HIT HARD Tremendous Advances In Tilces of Maple Articles of rood Eggs Cost Ten Cents lack HestnuranU and Hotels Declared Conl Scarcity the Cause One Thlnj the Lnboi Wor Did Was to Tolut the Way to Ue of Petroleum as Sourco of Heat and Tow ei Washington Oct SS Th certainty that the coal strike has corns to nn end lifts a great load off the mind of Washington people Perhaps no elty not a manufacturing cits In the country coun-try felt sn heavily the loss of coal Tor one thing in the period of n. month during dur-ing which the coal suppls of Ihe cits was prartleally exhausted there came the tremendous gathering of Orand Army veterans The hotels and restaurant res-taurant were suddenlv tequlred 'n pa anywhere from llli In J2K a ton for coal and with HOMO strangers In the cits Ibelr capaelts was crowded from one weeks end to the other Never before In the hlstors or tho elty have Mich advances ad-vances In the prices of staple articles of food been known Not onlv the ex- traordlnars temporarv demand, but the distress caused bs tho want nf coil had a asmpnthetlc effect on all prices loos 10 rr.NTS i5cit. When ou sat down to oir breakfast break-fast sou found that sour t'ggs cost 10 cents because coil was SJ5 ton. The logic was a little bit askew, but the res-taunnt-keeper Insisted on It nevertheless neverthe-less All over the cits conl voids were shut up wlth,nnilte on the doors to tho effect that their supplies were gone The iremitnrles even shut down lulling lull-ing n grim nn I Rhistls J ke to the slt-llitlon slt-llitlon The White House the l npltol an 1 nearly all the public bulldliir skinned along on n vers light supi Is onls sufllrlent to iuii iart of the elevators ele-vators In Ihe larger buildings nn 1 If the strike had continue I a week lower low-er the prospect would bnve been good for seeing H001 clerks eilmb the stairs In most of the public bull lings The big electric elevator In the minument suspended and up ut the Capitol Sir 1 lllott Woods the expert who manages man-ages that Immense building shrewdls eone lu led tint coil was going out of uso an 1 ) ut In n set of bollc ra to use nil In case of another strike and coil famine Mr Wools Is ready to operate tho elevators and heat the hull lliu with oil He suss ho can do so ptollt-abls. ptollt-abls. rT.Tnoi.nujd as tut.l. The strike has bejonl all doubt pointed the way lo the use of ietrolcum ns n source of heat an 1 power The Intro lucllon of oll-burnlng holler In the Capitol seive as on object lesson In the mitler while the extensive experiments ex-periments tint hive been conducted bs Ihi Nuvs department under the direction direc-tion of Lieutenant Comminlcr I d-vvards d-vvards will ultlinalels show Just how oil cm be used ceonomlcalls llieie hnvc been since the strike began over lifts npplleitlons foi patents on oll-burnlns devices Tho Inventor of three such devices have been doing n land ollbe business here In Washington tTsualls these Inventions consist nf asbestos-covered asbestos-covered plates arranged to bo placed Inside In-side or n range or hrntlns stove nnd r.l it HI. n smnll slt-enm of oil from n reservoir l.nn,c ibilms nre made for these nil bin tiers, which are uiidoubt-edlj uiidoubt-edlj not based on practical or sclcn-tlllc sclcn-tlllc experience iiumNo rownn ot oil In the report which Commnnder T. I-wurds I-wurds has Just made on the use of crude petroleum for marine engines he demonstrate that n pound of oil has the dsnuinlc m henllug power of one nn I fout tenths pounds of conl There are eight I o mils In a gallon of oil which would nnko n gallon nf nil equivalent In less than twelve pounds of coil The men who are selling the oil burners claim that they em be tin all dny with n consumption nf fiom two to four gallons nnd at a cost of fiom 13 to 3'i cents n das. This claim how-ever how-ever does not tails with the actual elllclencs of oil as coinpirect with roil cis few kitchen rnnges or heating stoves can be run all day on tw cuts to thirty pounds ot conl Commander I dwirdss teport on the use of oil ns fuel Is prnctlcal as well as scientific and will be of Immense vnlue tn the coiintrs at large All this tends to give more thin ordinary emphnsls to Iho recent discoveries of oil In Utah and Wj inning ItOOMlVPLT" ACTION Through all Ibis conl strike let me sis brlelly the figure of the president stnn Is out In heroic proportions The avernge cltlcn nhniild ponder over the action of the President In this perlo 1 of calnmlts When ha any President nf Ihe I nllel States e,ono outsllo the lines of his olllclnl duty ns Mr Moose, velt has In this crisis It Is a ling-nlllient ling-nlllient luterprctai of his nfllce that has lot hliu to Intercede between 1 1-Icu 1-Icu and capital In a Htnte mil whero no law ot the TedernI (lovernment wa violated to bring about ii jeaco and the lesinratlon nf normal Industrial cnndltloiiH It Is the old pntenml estimate esti-mate nf the rulers responsibility to-ward to-ward hit 1 ople Iho President a frlen 1 Tmperor llhelni nccopts It with his i ns nl nlllio as a matter of course It In iieihai noval and strange to witness wit-ness the role of the paternal Intermedial) Intermedi-al) nn this side of tho Atlantic but It ha been none tho les benelleent and wise Ab the caioer of Theodoie House-vclt House-vclt passes Into history his patient sa. aaclnus anl unremitting cffoit lo bring this strike tn an end consistency with the appeal of tb miner anl the rights nf the mini opetulor will lie rigiinbil us one of tho (.rent and herole facts nt only in his lite but In tho life of the Sailoii It stamps him the wise anl nfe leader The teotle may well fol-inw fol-inw such ft President ion such J A TRUHSDHLL |