The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1914, Page 3

Ret eae SS > GN HN Officials Find Consumers Gouged on Fictitious War ' Excuse, ‘WARRANTS FOR BAKERS. ‘All Who Sell Short Weight to Be Arrested—City to Pub- lish Daily Price List. Alibough the day is usually a holl- Gay at the District-Attorney’s office, Assistant District-Attorney DeFord, @vaducting the inquiry into the high @eet of food products, had before him (@-day representatives of Cudahy & and Bulsberger & Sons Company, packers who did not attend tBe general examination yesterday. Mv, DeFord said he was getting much veliable information, but that it would not be made public until Tuss- Gey, when District-Attorney Whit- man begins his public examination before Chief. Magistrate McAdoo. So far his investigation has shown that much of the increase in prices of ‘ll food products has been due to the wapacity of retail dealers who have sent prices soaring above the point which wholesale advances would make legitimate. Thirty flour merchants will be be- fore Bim Monday and thirty butchers on Tuesday, prior to the opening of the pubile inquiry. Representatives of the Pillsbury Flowr Company and the Hecker- Tones-Jewell Milling Company called @@ Mr. De Ford to-day and offered to @abmit their books for the last few years to show that prices had not Been increased without reason. They ‘Will produce the books at the hearing om Tuesday. ‘There.was little activity in the vari- us markets to-day and prices showed ¢,@ tanéency to hold steady, pending “ome definite action by the authorities. Gal A. Koslech, President of the Weshington Market Association and a _ Bomber of Mayor Mitchel’s food com- ities, sald he thought meat prices ‘would decrease slightly next week, Beth ‘because of decreased demand and because of the arrival here of 14,000 quarters of beef and 1,000 dressed Sheep on their way from Argentina. MEAT PRICES BY THE WHOLE- @ALE ARE STILL HIGH. ‘Hore are the wholesale prices quoted e-day: eM Sugar went up 4 quarter of a cent day, following the report that ‘@rtat Britain had ordered 10,000 tona, @né g further advance of half e cent ‘ea predicted for Monday. Coffee @ cent after the Exchange committee put a stop to curb trading. “Wioer came down 26 centa a barrel, ut dhe arrival here of 18,500 cases of last night did not affect the ‘gries. “Raising and limes climbed 15 " Grate. There were slight de- *eBnes in vegetables, « JMgures complied at the Customs House and given out to-day show that ‘Watle the importation of foodstuffs from the Buropean war zone has only Gecreased slightly, and In some cases has increased, since the declarations @ wer eet Europe aflame, the impor- tation of tin and sugar has suffered @Peatest from the cessation of ship- ping. ‘These figures show that the increase fm the cost of foodstuffs ordered by tie food pirates has been unwarrant- ed, For instance, there was only $16,- 9% worth of macaroni imported dur- fag the week ending July 2 while @uring the week ending Aug. 8 there ‘wes $63,468 worth brought in, And yet macaroni at the grocery store has increased datiy. The same applies to cheese. IMPORTATIONS COME, PRICES GO UP. Champagne has suffered an awful UT STILL Gownfall and the importation of to-| rea ‘bacco has increased in the two weeks. ‘The importation of toys has grown weekly, but is as nothing compared ‘with the ehipments of toys from Ger- many this time last year. The ments of August and September are ‘Roth “blnner import months for toys and champagne—the toys for Christ- mas and the wine for New Year's ve. Beer, too, has taken a slump. ., W. J, Youngs, United States Dis- ‘elet-Attorney at Brooklyn, haa issued poenas for a food Grand Jury baat will meet next Wednesday. Other District-Attorneys asked tor WIDESPREAD P Sh Special agents to supplement their own efforts, ROPACIOUS ETAL DEALERS FORGE FOOD PRES HIGHER: | DOL’ INQUIRY ———, HOW FOOD PRICES HAVE BEEN RAISED HERE IN 16 DAYS, This official table shows how food- stuff prices have gone up since the 78 6.00- -7.20-11 Hoge, live, 100 Ibe. 9.00- Sheep, live, 100 ibs. .6.90-6.1 New York City ts facing the prod- Jem of feeding itself with renewod courage to-day, Though declines in Prices of foodetuffs bave been almost neglible in comparieon with the in- creases which immediately followed the outbreak of the Buropean war, there is manifested among small tradesmen and there customers thi feeling to-day that the city can defeat the specwators who have combined to force up prices on the fictitious ex- cuse that the war is causing the situation. In part this feeling is due te the activity of Mayor Mitchel in appoint- ing his food committee of one bun- dred and thirty-seven, in part to the commeneement of District-Attorney Whitman's investigation, ich is frankly aimed at fixing criminal re- Spansibility for the juggling of prices, and in part to the work of Commis- sioner Joseph Hartigan of the Mayor's Bureau of Weights and Measures, who laid before Mr, Whit- man to-day information on which twenty-two bakers will be arrested on Monday charged with vielation of the Brooks law, which requires them to label accurately each loaf of bread with its exact weight. Mr. Hartigan's inspeetore -found bakers all over the city selling loaves of twelve and thirteen ounces under labels guarantesing them to weigh sixteen, Chiefly, however, the renewed con- fidence results from the discovery of the people, in Commissioner Harti- Gan’s opinion, that with the situation as it now stands they can get along very well without the products on which the price has been raised with the possible exception of flour. And any attempt to increase other prices beyond the legitimate point to which an actual shortave might put the price, Mr. Hartigan believes, can be nipped in the bud by the simple expedient of publicity. PUBLICITY A® CHECK ON Dis. HONGST DEALERS. “Let the would-be dishonest dealer know ‘'... you are going to expose him to his trade an: it will be a hardy rascal who will risk the anger of bis customers,” declared Mr. Hartigan. Borough President Mark's Market Committee will be.’ to-day to publish @ price iist of all food commodities so that the housewife may know conditions in the retail market. Mr. Hartigan will supple- ment this with @ list giving both wholesale and retah prices of July 33, the day war was declared, Aug. 5 and to-day. Hereafter i. similar bul- letin will be published each day so that no other retallers, euch as were ‘alled to Commissi-ser Hartigan's attention yesterday py the Evening World, may increase their prices on the false plea of an increase on the part of their jobbers. Both prices will be given and the housewife can check the truth of Her tradesman’s statements. Sugar, which hae been the spectac- ular performer of the entire group of foodstuffs, has now become a@ reality at 10 cents a pound to the consumer, Austin, Nichols @ Co, wholesale grocers, have announced to thetr trade that they are paying eight cents a pound for it. This makes the 10-cent price over retail counters inevitable. Refiners sold at $7.50 a hundred- weight, an advance of 1 cont: pound for the week, while raw sugar sold up to $6.52 a hundredweight, an advance of 2.26 cents a pound. All grades of meats, save prime ribs held firm yesterday at Thu! ibs went up one- cont ut ‘ownolesal prices on meats that come from ere were lowered yesterday, live calves going down 60 conts a hundredweight, 1! sheep, 26 cents, and live lamba, 35 cents. Butter and eggs remained un- changed. Storage eggs will rule the market from now on, the annual fall- being due to start at any tim Prices may be expected to rise steadily. went up one and @ half cents a pound, other poultry remaining unchanged. Long Island feeees made another jump of 25 cents a barrel, to $2.25 as the top price. Coffee remained un- ‘There bas been 68d should be no in- acl Broillers| PUBLI sdb tve CIT ag i Y CHECKS GREED. OF FOOD Ax, ‘ite ST 6, i ate el tons British Commander-in-Chief Now in Belgium; “¥ Regiment of Kilted Scots on Way to the Front ae aie i BRITISH FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN FRENCH ine 4. S¢c0T RESINS i re 2 Mews stave the city, ping cation w! Mr. prices. | countries. an thought Eng! and use ables. The Hit ar of. y warehou: 4. the Int street railway the operation of freight cars over their rails in the night hou: also sought advice o: the possibility of using foreign ves- sels, now moored here, to carry car- Usd from Long lersey points, always of course, re- maining within the three mile limit. There are many vessels which could thus be utilized to supplement our own inadequate shipping. With the Commissioner, Mr. Per- Kina discussed also Mr. Hartigan s Plan to establish express company delivery routes, to be paid for by tradeamen who thus could do away with their own expensive delivery services and so be enabled further tu | reduce prices. The co-operation the tradesmen is assured, tor In other tour of the city last night Com- missioner Hartigan found that gro- | cers were complaining universally of long lines, Island “My investigation has re |is not generally known—that agents Hf| of the German Gover. ment were in {this country contracting for wheat Cy before war In this they beat ih, but buyers from Great Brit- ain followed them quickly and a great! supply of wheat and sugar Is prob- | abl satiation rehants in crease in the cost of green veget- arket is glutted with the produce of farms within fifty miles of and George W. Chairman of the Mayor’s committee discussed with Mr. Hartigan yeste day plans for bringing this produ into the city to a municipal mark dn the event the excuse of poor ship- was offered for higher ‘erkins was in communi- borough and the arranging for Perkins, He shippers as to and New @ falling off-of 40 per cent. of their any suggestions likely to nasist in the | houses of the port are giutted with | Perle lowering of prices. having express companies inuke do- liveries two or three times a day at fixed hours has been tested success- fully in Topeka and Independence, ‘ansas. M. iCHANTS TAKING ADVAN- TAGE OF THE SITUATION. Hartigan’s inv closed conclusively y large percentage of flelds were taking advantage of present situation illegally to Increasn He discovered eld, which 1s mad and not affected by reduced importa tion, had increased from #3 cents a pound last week to $125 y acid is used in the preparation ¢ |cltrate of magnesta, and chere ts not the shadow of an exvuss for the in- creased price. ‘There {s no longer any doubt that syndicates of speculator ar_and flour in their ‘The increased prices cannot be [accounted for otherwine except in part. I refer to the buying by foreign dis- day that a ali the that citric tn this country y. Th have got * said led what was the now against orders ge in not instance, fashioned brown sugar, just a8 whole- | some In every way as the fancy white land loaf sugar, is for sale to-day at the same price it grandmother's day. this difference, that It is of better uality than before, an? now quite @ equal of the white. Wh: it? Fen is for Irremediable, brought in There Is Ps your only Rot buy at the old-time prices. tables aro no dearer. selection of the menu would enable a housewife to set her table at scarcely Increased expense, that would happen to the spec Only a demand enables them to keep up prices, mand and you'll lower the price.” Borough President Marka's commit- tee is just as active in enabling the housewife to keep expenses down. The committee invites housewives in all parts of the borough to either write or telephone to the%oifice of Borough Secretary Ralph Folks com- plaints concerning exorbitant prices bakers and butchers, “I think the plan of inducing com- plainants against exorbitant prices to communicate with this office, citing hope that for the Polish People should the specific cases, giving the names and addresses of retail business men | imposing on the poor, will accomplish | wonderful results in the reduction of | food pricen, | experts will meet every day and keap ¢@ffaces the frontiers in touch with honest wholesalers and heople, | the food market in being exposed by arrest on in the bonded and free storehouses in and about New York $100,000,000 worth of commodities in daily use, the prices | of which have been sent skyrocketing because of the war j principal articles being with- »klyn, and th este with the products of a and Central Ameri tobaceo from Hawati, hemp braid Part of the Bush stoves are bondes warehouses und the majority are fr ‘4p bond and in free warehouses th now five more Fruits and vere! RUSSIA PROMISES POLES A UNITED FREE COUNTRY and think u- LONDON, Aug. 15.—A Reuter's de- spatch from St. Petersburg eays that Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in- chief of the Russian army, has ad- dressed a manifesto to Poland, appeal- jing for the loyalty of the Polea and | promising them autonomy in return. The manifesto # ‘he hour jounded when th among grocers, |dream of your fathers may be r Mr. Folks said: | A hundred and fifty years ago the Hv- ing body of Poland was torn to pleces but her soul survived and she lived in Cut off the de- officer. weights come an hour ot Keneration and re- conciliation with Ruesle. “The Russian hrmy brings you the The committee of food Selemn news of thia reconciliation, which ring the Polish conjointly under of Russia, U whom it unit he sceptre of the Czar charges free weneral. in her religion, her langua, In round figures there are | VON EMMICH’S DEATH, WHO COMMANDED AT LIEGE, IS CONFIRMED. “Nobody begin discharging 6,000 tons more of ring a cargo of cann and fish and in ougar way with « similas NT. ON and recognized. “He ts a sympathetic figure in his plain blue uniform without any 1a-| | algna whatever to denote the exalted bother ‘Late yeaterday ruler of Helgi FOR LOYALTY IN CRISIS, "ary, of the wearer. He ts no t sterd “He passed the night in bivouac, St the station at Amaterdam during ae, ami” SOLDERS WELD - ARE COMRADES OF TE BELGAN KING Unassuming Monarch Spends Entire Day With Troops Like Ordinary Officer. Crore, He eee ne (Special Cable Despatch to The Kventing World.) LONDON, Aug. 15.~—The Chronicl gorresponden: at Belgian: headquar- etfu telegraphs via Friday's date: {russ:ls under “The King of the Bel- gians has been amcng his coldie. 5 throughout the day comforting and encouraging all ranks by his pres- ence. The ° ing h:tes display and os- jtentation and likes to move «, and unobtrusively in ‘things without If posst! tly order to seo being seen athered amongst his gallant soldiers who are #0 bravely defending the Fatherland against Germany He usually travels The King, ed in a motor car driven by a soldier | chauffeur and attended by a single “Yesterday and the previous day| during the fighting at Diest and Hus. ten he passed along the army's front, where the proximity of the enemy made it advisable for him to aban- don his car. equally plainly clad alde-de-camp, in- sisted on making his way to a piace where things were happening. “I encountered him several times during the course of the day, and in the bustle and confusion of the war it is not, perhaps, to be wortlered at with rin ; , “dt confront them if they remained in re af] ef conspiracy will bring, dishonest tee Minus. ton the shores of the Pacific the Sipe cf tha, Belgians walking | Germany. Tt ts carecied thes about he soe . <j down the main stroet of « certain 26.000 Americans will leave that around the BONDED WAREHOUSES GLUTTED Ocean to the North Sea, marches in arms. The dawn of a life com-|iown rubbed shoulders with officers Country. email pimples thes warp WITH THINGS TO EAT. mences for you. In thi rlous dawn | and men of the national | _ PARIS, Aug. 15.~—-Ambassador Her- filled with weter and While the prices of the necessaries ie teen, the a len of the cros the symbol ei in viele tonal army without | rick han arranged for the pansage of would itch end ween r , of life have been aoaring, the ware, (of suffgring and tho resurrection of a | ty reco f | 1,600 Americans from France within opened woud form Rey Car eentine Tiel ae pmteners $0 “The tall, fair man, in his duat-|the next two weeks. Tha liner Pe mg = Tha system of | things that we want to eat and drink covered uniform and wearing a | Rechambeau waa chartered by the prince nez, moved unconcernedly in the inidst of his Aghting men, about him be cause the very simplicity of his at- tire attracted no attention 1@ wcrone the seated by the ride mat sugar. And sugar has advanced wundwie They hold fear ede’ cane in price within Reinke waeae teat Sronrtndeor the last wee 4 simplicity is one and curlos from the Far Kast, The — Discharging at one end of the piers erluticn He raveln without shipa which come to the docks bring 1m the steamer Ingranl, from the Far enue such, whey faye wienoue Sumatra and | sugar Bast, and more tea, rice, curion, #king| a weigh Shy! cut genase peas. skins from Rus#’a and —calf and sheep—are being plied up lants, acting aw police, hus produc ob silks in the big warehouses, Hefore the end | hin war office puss, countoraigaed be per fiun ‘ and of the month the first steamer of the!the General of Staff, un which was rything which the Amenca-Hawat! Company will arrive!ert out hia naine place of birth and markets of the warld have to offer trom San Francisco through the Pan- | his profeasion, “Klas of the Beleianns Altogether, Albert, King of the Bel- | gians, is a jovable figure, and full of and a second steamer will be on herenthusiaem and patriotiam, deter- rs ined te the last.” bg Pe PIRA 5 500 AMERICANS, ON FIVE NERS LEAVE FOR HOME St. Louis, Campania, Minne- are at Anwnes ta08 | waska and Megantic Sail | Retersburs, and. others are i the Russian capital Russia daily, the American Despite the War. State Department to-day. | |OTHER. SHIPS FREED. | ‘sts Ja, America tourt #5 second-class No pe a MAY Laav nib iOlympic, Mauretania, Lusi- tania and Saxonia Will Bring Refugees. LONDON, England, Aug. 15.—The ealling from Liverpool to-day of the St. Louis, the Campania and the Min- |newaska for New York and the Me- gantic for Montreal reduced the num- ber of Americans who had been stranded {:. Lugland by 4,600. The American line steamer St. Paul | from New York arrived here yester- day. The departure of 4,600 Americans from Liverpool was followed by that of another thousand from Glasgow. | The carrying capacity of the vessels | sailing for transatlantic ports during | the next twenty-five days is estimated At 60,000 or three times ti umber of Americut.s in the British Isles. While the number on the Continent of Ku- rope is not known, it is believed not | to exceed 30,000, of whom a large num. | ber are returning by Dutch, Danish and Jtalian lines. Many American tourists in London who had booked passage on small vessels or had taken steerage berths | Are offering to sell their tlokets to t | American Citizens’ Committee, as they preefr to make a later and more com- |fortable passage. The members of the committee say they fall to see the necessity for the at ti Chi Consulate having used almost the last to get here from mien? Gates ousan Snable to obtain any service of kind from Canadian banks, MINNETONKA SAILS, Fighting Belgian, With E Sons at the Front, Going Home to Join Army. The Minnetonka of the Afiemtie- Transport Line sailed for Londem at noon to-day carrying « lead of peevie sions which put her water line Y Part of it wae sugar, 10,000 begpels and 23,000 bags: pickles, 66,000 5 | despate| of transports to take| syrup, 6,200 barrels; giueces, strand Americans back to the| pounds; flour, United States in view of the new/| 1,600 bags; 5 lubricating oils, 6,000 barrele, had but twelve passengers, The Kroonland, under the Ameri- can flag, sailed for Liverpool inetesd of Antwerp, the regular Red Star port, with her hold full ef auger. Among her passengere were 3. Brieaak and Emil Phillipart of Liegn, sailings which have been announced. OTHER BIG LINERS PREPARE TO | SAIL FOR AMERICA. | The Grampain sails to-morrow, the Arcadian, the Andania and the An- conia Aug. 18, the Olympic Aug. 19 jand the Adriatic Aug. 20. | The British steamer Buffalo, which vi 1 4 rived at| going to fig! ee! York July 26, has arrived al hen 4 Briceak 2 already at the front. | Four of the Creat English trans- atlantic ners .ave been released by the British Government and will re- sume their reguiar sailings, Th / are the Olympic, the Lusitania, the | Mauretania and the Saxonia of the Cunard line. A enpatch to Reuters Telegram Company from Amsterdam says that |700 Americans from Berlin arrived hurried trip east. .The Kroonland. thirty-one passengers altogether. patents sstedlshe s BANK DEFICIT $47,992,260, - Cash Reserve Shows Decrease of 94,876,250 Dering Week, tion of Clearing House banks and trust companies for the week bar ete =t cash reserve decreased $4,076,280, ing deficit of $47,999,250. the night. Some hundreds were sheltered at the hoteis here, while lothers proceeded to The Hague and Rotterdam, where arrangements are | being made for ships to take them home. Many of the Americans warmly | prained the treatment they received ve in Berlin, When they were leaving . ‘ the German capital the American : Consulate, the railway station and se the carriages which carried them to the railway were decorated with| Terrible Itching at Times, f The dint f th [rareeerhs ce, cert hat “Wore Flad ith Wat, ticura Soap and Ointment. B. F. D. No. 3, Johnstown, BW. Yaa" | had terrible trouble with my head then my heir , Tears agg: |food. Many of the refugees had lived in Germany for yi and are now returning to the United Stai because serious diMeulties would American envoy to-day and will aail Aug. 2% with 1,200 parson, Are rangements have also heen mada ter {h@ passage of 400 Americans on the Espagne, which sails on the 19th, Franctaco dela Rara and the Argen. tine, Brazilian and (Chilean Ministers drawn from the Government or bond- 1 3.20PM. Aug. Ih A de Yesterday, during his peregrina.) hore have co-operated in sending 1,000 cure. botinared ‘ed warehouses are drygoods, wines patch from Brussela to the xchange! tions, he made his way to « military Spanish-Americans to Spain, where ebout three months then I mete liquors. crockery, nuts, | 4 Telegraph Coinpany says the death hospital, where there were many He stay If they desire to do so, until! of Cuticure Soap and woud dies an early | tien. von F | eeestanias Selmi A . e war is over. Senor de | Ta. | apply quarters of the withdrawals are | mander at Liew: wounded Belgians As well as Gers as President of the eepitone a . hag tm] one mi Including linens, woollen He Int - mans. The King wished to enter it, 2%, in freely, leave it all night and im the . Inclue % ollens, ein to be #uc + arranged carh cheeks and letters | laces and other women's wear, ‘Tia | Marwitz but tho sentry, with a puzzled look, of credit In order to relieve the haces | (98 1 would hetke my freaty with nis that buyers throuxi. | There was a report that von kimmich| was unable tu decide what his rani | sites of Latin-Americans here. eat and the Middle Weat | Killed himself | oamnnie t Of the) wax and asked if be had special per- 17,000 STRANDED IN 8WITZER- and taking chances on a “AMP mission to enter the hospital, | | ‘ Gone Gite yon Aimmaleh, was sixty.nix | tena? gait the rovel vleliee qulethy, LAND AND ITALY, Year ago there, Volunteer in 1868 and Wan momaed two | E NAVE No pars, but then ft ame the! ROME (via London) Aug. 15.—-Thel Fehouses alone years later to a Heutenancy. He took | King. Perhaps you will permit me to| American Amb rr Nel- goods valued at ¢ ximately $38 | part in tho Fra war in| enters json Page, has issue that Up to last night it was esti. | 1470-7! Afterward promoted “The sentry amiled incredulously | the American Go: ding ed that there were $57,000,000 or | all the era h e}and it required energetic interven. | to Kurope transp pablo of tak. wining under bond and i, | tlon of an alde-de-camp before the! ing home 8,00 Americans ° an-| that there had been withdrawn since ai O {soldier would be conyir and n ament has great re of the month, #abee. 00 or Would alow the King of the Relgians | joicing among tourists. and. othere In the past few doys with t | anxious to leave the country, It awals were especially heave, but nv | ever wax stored in the history of the| "Now word phaa got around of the | thought possible that further mea |Reavior by comparison than at the; Hush ‘Terniinal = Company. The! King sharing the dangers and priva- | ot transportation will be provides same time last year To the lay miod steamer Satauma from Io Ilo, Ha | Bene OF She ermy, it form tate ee |. There are about nix thousand it would appear that thera js no anxi. wail, reached the docks to-day und | will i ‘ ye out for ® tail, fair! Americana in Italy alone, while there! to sell the ds on which the will add 3,000 tons of mat sugar to | Man with helgh onplexion and are probably 11,000 in witrerland. | 7 prices have been advanced, the store aiready laid away in the | wearing, a pi jor easy ttt | Some of the Americans sought to Bush A) Company bi houses.” The Denby Hall wilt go | form of no ar rank, much | charter an Italian steamer, but. the| SSS Sacre, 1 ware! 8 in South! alongside to-night or to-morrow and| te, Worse for we: company ked a guarantee for the trip of $40,090. This world m Host expensive cabins $1,400 the ordinary cabins $200 coved that the re-establishinent of! the service of the British liners will relieve the situati Dr. John Kd: Jones, Geno the steamsh' Ro ‘Halla, a sister ship of the 3 falda, for the transportation uf Am feans back to the United Sta ROTTERDAM (via London), Aug. 15.—The Ry te for New York at, "cloe! afternoon car- vying 146 class passengers and wa The statement of the average conde