Nine Carloads Of Coal Stolen From Ann Arbor

NINE CARLOADS OF COAL STOLEN FROM ANN ARBOR

Bellevue Not the Only Town Stealing Ann Arbor's Coal

No Antracite or Pocahantas Coal to Be Had in the City Today Ann Arbor Would be Supplied Were it Not for Ohio

Ann Arbor has lost seven more carloads of coal, stolen in Ohio by people who are taking the Iaw in their own hands and supplying themselves at Ann Arbor's expense. This makes nine carloads of coal or 270 tons stolen in Ohio last week belonging to Ann Arbor and en route for the city. If it had reached here the coal famine would have been temporarily broken. All the nine cars of anthracite were consigned to Mr. E. B. Hall. He received word Friday morning from the mine that seven more carloads of coal en route for him had been confiscated in addition to the two mentioned yesterday. One more car was taken at Bellvue, Ohio, and six carloads between Buffalo and Bellvue. The mine promised to do the best they could for him about shipping coal, but did not say when it would be shipped. Mr. Hall telegraphed them to ship it by some other road.

Of course Mr. Hall can recover what he paid for the coal from the railroad, but that does not relieve Ann Arbor and does not help him. He is not selling any coal at all, hard or soft, today.

The Sunday Creek Coal Co., one of the largest of the soft coal operators, has issued a circular to their customers in this as well as other cities stating that in view of the accumulation of orders and the scarcity of cars they would accept no more orders until further notice. They state that they can mine enough coal to supply orders, but they cannot get cars to transport it.

The coal scarcity is as hard on the dealers as the customers. For instance, Mr. Hiscock was forced to buy a carload of coal for which he paid $11.40 a ton to supply customers to whom he had sold the coal at $6.75 a ton. When he pays for delivering he is out $5 a ton on that carload.

Many people with plenty of coal in their cellars have been purchasing more. They have got stage fright over a condition that cannot last many weeks and by their selfishness have depriving others of coal and probably also have been paying out more money than they can get the coal for later.

There is no Pocahontas ooal in the city.