Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — LITTLE GAS SAVED IN BERLIN [ARTICLE]

LITTLE GAS SAVED IN BERLIN

German Housewives Face Year In Jail for Wasting Supply in Stoves. - ■ / Berlin.—Berlin’s reduced gas schedule has just become effective, but the saving promised by it is so small that the Berlin Coal association is conferring with the authorities on other steps to meet the shortage. Housewives violating Uie new rules restricting the use of kitchen gas ranges will be liable to a year in prison and a fine of .$2,000. Supplies drawn on coal cards are regulated according to the size of a family, the municipality issuing minute instructions to landlords and tenants regulating the supplies.