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October 5, 1918 RECORD AND GUIDE m Increased Production of AU Kinds of Coal Fuel Commissioner Garíîeld Call For Extra Effort to Mak PROSPECTS for sufficient coal to suppl ythe actual needs of the country during the coming winter continue to be good, although it is imperative that every precaution shall be taken to prevent waste. For the week ending September 14 the output in the bituminous fields was 12,692,000 tons, an increase over the previous week of 13,2 per cent., and of the same week last of 15.7 per cent. The anthracite production, which is more important for New York, was 2,088,000 tons, an increase of 29 per cent. over the week before. The average daily production was about 115,000 tons above the usual average at this season of the year, and 1,827,000 tons a day over that of last year. The shortage of coal for this year has now been reduced to 13,624,000 tons, according to the estimated needs of the country on April 1 for the summer and winter. The necessary daiiy production to overcome this shortage is 2,039,000 tons, or 2 per cent. in excess of that of the week ended September 14. Shipments to New England and the district adjacent to New York show a considerable increase over other weeks of the summer. In a formal proclamation to operators and miners alike Fuel Administrator Garfield has called upon all to enlist in a detailed program to produce 12,234,000 tons of bituminous coal and 2,030,000 tons of anthracite every week. This tonnage, he promises, will give the country all the coal needed this winter. It represents a weekly increase of 1,731,000 tons of bituminous and 121,000 tons of anthracite over the weekly averages of the corresponding period of a year ago. The increase in bituminous production called for is approximately sixteen and one-half per cent., and in s Upon Operators and Miners e Supply Equal Demand anthracite six and one-third per cent. Mr, Garfield's call was transmitted to every district production manager, who, in consultation with their mine production committees, will apportion a weekly quota for each mine. Carrying the quota idea to its logical conclusion each miner will be asked to assume personal responsibility for a weekly coal production representing his equitable proportion of the mine's allotment. The conduct of the campaign in the various districts will fall upon the shoulders of the district production managers. Most of these officials are experienced coal men who have given their services to the Government to the exclusion of their personal business interests. They have succeeded in procuring the close co-opera- tion of operators, mine production committees and miners in the efĩort to mine more coal, and in the opinion of the Fuel Administration officials much of the recent success in increasing production has been due to their work. The production of bituminous coal in 1917 was 551,- 790,563 net tons, an increase over 1916 of 49,270,881 tons, or nearly 10 per cent., according to C. E. Lesher, of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. It is interesting to note that the preliminary estimate ûf the production of bituminous coal, published by the Geological Survey in the first week of January, 1918 (544,Cĸ3o,000 net tons), was low because it was based on the number of carloads of coal loaded at the mines, whereas the average loading per car had increased nearly 4 per cent. during the year, a fact not discovered (Continued on page 393) Realty Board's Attitude on Tax Lien Loan EDWARD P. DOYLE, chairman of the Budget Committee of the Real Estate Board, in explain- ing the attitude of the Board toward the tax lien law, said: "A lien for taxes on its own real estate is as good an investment as the city can have. The lien is a first lien and draws 7 per cent. interest and can be fore- closed at any time if the city needs money. The real reason for the passage of the existing law was to en- able certain difficult titles to be cleared by the pur- chase of a tax lien and a foreclosure of the lien. Clouded titles can now be inexpensively cleared by the Torrens law and there is no longer any necessity for the present tax lien law with its dangers and injustice. If the city iieeds more power to enforce the collection of past due taxes, that can be given. "The Board again points out the inequality and in- justice of the State Military law which requires the city to pay the difîerence between the civil and military or Board of Estimate held last week the comptroller esti- mated that this payment would require two and one- half millions during the coming year. For this two and one-half millions, the city would receive no service. Men with dependents are placed in the deferred classes or are exempt, and should they enter the service, pro- vision is made for the care of their dependents. The city should keep open the positions so that when its employes return from the war their old places should be open for them and should hereafter prefer veterans for city positions, but this is all it should do. "It is manifestly unfair to take the money of citizens who have been drafted or who volunteered and who in going to the war sacrificed positions or business and give it as a bonus to city employes who made no greater sacrifice. The whole proposition is a sordid one and is an unjust reflection on the patriotism of city office holders. No one doubts but they, as a class, would have gone to the war and made the financial sacrifices naval salaries paid city employes who enlist or are necessary as cheerfully as any other class of citizens. drafted. At a meeting of the Budget Committee of the The State Military law should be amended or modified." Personal Property Assessments (Continued from page 388.) Marie T. Hadden..... Charles E. Hughes... James E. Mahon...... S. Clifton Mahon..... Ida Macauley ........ Harold L. Mack...... Oliver C. Macy....... David Mahaney ...... Julia A. Mahony...... Robert H. Manzer.... Peter H. Maloney.... Andrew J. Miller..... Ogden Mills .......... Anne T. Morgan..... Ralph Pulitzer ....... A. Blair Thaw........ Stephen Thaw ....... Frank Tilford ........ Edward M. C. Tower. Helen D. H. Astor___ George Ehret, Jr..... Louis J. Ehret........ Emma D. Hart....... 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 Jessie S. MacRoae..... Theodore P. Shonts... William R. Malone___ William Thaw ........ Anne C. Tiffany....... Belmont Tiffany ...... George F. Tiffany...... Louis Tiffany ......... Abraham L. Erlanger.. Charles B. MacDonald. WiIIiam R. Hearst..... Kitty Gordon ......... David Belasco ........ Charles F. Murphy.... 75,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 30,000 25,000 10,000 5,000 Sarah J. Keene................. 200,000 Seth Low ...................... 200,000 Francis T. Lord................ 200,000 Isaac D. Fletcher............... 100,000 Henry Bendheim .............. 100,000 John A. Weser. Annie E. Peckham. James Seligman .. Alma Gallatin .... Joseph H. Choate. Edward Milius .. .. 100,000 50,000 46,000 30,000 13,000 10,000 TENTATIVE PERSONAL ASSESSMENTS ESTATES. Isaac W. Seligman..............$1,000,000 Oliver H, Payne................ .500,000 Francis L. Leland............... 500,000 James B. Brady................ ,300,000 Susan Mount .................. 200,000 Jamcs H. Aldrich............... 200,000 Fannie H. Arnheim............ 200,000 Manhattan The Bronx Brooklyn . Queens ... Richmond . 1919. .$1,101.084,400 ., 45,809,100 .. 191,296,975 51,393,550 6,456,600 1918. $561,882,900 26,110,600 166,187,845 36,458,750 4,901,600 Total .... $1,396,040,625 $795,541,695 Increase . $600,498,930