The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1917, Page 3

AILERS KEEP PRICES UP N FOODS DESPITE SLUMP N THE WHOLESALE MARKET ’ Evening World’s Figures Show How Worried New York Housewives Are Being Overcharged — Re- duced Consumption of Butter and Eggs Has Telling Effect. Table of Food Prices Proves Retailers Are Not Coming Down Wholesale, Average Retail. +8 39% to 43c., 45c,, 47¢, pound, Butter, pound ..... Pees, dozen 38% to fle, 43¢., 450. dozen, Potatoes, barrel . - 9.60 to 8c, and 10¢, pound, Cabbage, crate . 1.25 to 6c. pound, Lettuce, basket oe 2c. to 10¢, pound. Celery, crate .. + 1,00 to 12¢. bunch, Beets, bag + 2.25 to 8c, bunch. Asparagus, dozen tveres DEG to 10c. bunch, Carrots (per 100 bunches) + 1,50 to 3,00 be. bunch, | Ontons, crate . 1.00 to 1,5 Te, pound. ' | Tomatoes, carrier 1.00 to 2.00 pound, | Cucumbers, basket . 1.75 to 3.00 8c. to 6c. each. Spinach, barre! . - 80 to 50 Se. for two bunches. Scallions, crate + 1,00 to 2.00 2c, bunch. | Strawberries, quart 06 to 12 15c, quart, | wtill is, to show that there never had There was another drop to-day of been any just reason for the tre- mendous price jumps in the necessi- tles of lite, Similarly, when {t urges economy on housewives {t does not mean the —_— one-half a cent a dozen on the whole- sale price of eggs and a drop to the same amount on b iggs broke to “firsts,” the | Kind of economy that 1s going to #31-3 cents a dozen for “firsts,” the! bring the food business of the coun- grade of oggs to be found in most} try to a standstill. When all con- é ; cerned, producer, wholesaler, ii retail stores. P. Q. Foy, food expert, |/triputor and consumer, understand announces to-day that the of “firsts” should not % and 36 cents a dozen. There has deen a total wholesale drop of 5 cents on the dozen since last Monday, The wholesale butter market declined to- day to 391-2 cents a pound on extra est grade. quotations ull price be more than thoroughly this point of view there should be a chain of helping hands |extending from the farm to the hum- | blest homes—and this will mean (if | An earnest effort is made to restore | reasonable prices based on the re- larger and freer consumption of not | jonly the necessities of life, but of those table luxuries which may hap- pen to be plentiful—it will mean that housewives, Evening World Assocla- The are those published in to-day’s New wholesale given “ Hes f tion and non-associattion members, York Daily Market Report. The re- will not hold thelr purse atrings tail prices represent only a few scat-| tighter than they ought and those tering stores, here and there, from| from whom they buy will be content the Battery to One Hundred and|With a fair profit over and above ‘ running expenses, Twenty-fifth Street But gencrally most retail stores] SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEWIVES) throughout the five boroughs are AND CONSUMERS, | charging more than they ought rea-] With this explanation, The Evening a “i % see World suggests that it 1s time now senably to expect in the fuce of “Tor the retailers to do their “bit,” as| declining market. This \s true of] follows Nearby and distant stor i applies First, pare down the price of po-| in particular to nearly every one of | tatoes.” This commodity {s not bring- ing more than from 6 to 6 cents a pound on the wholesale markets at the present time. Six cents is really the commodities in the price tab! at Follow! the publi 1 of stories in The Evening Wor'd last Iriday|a maximum for a grade that 1s not) the wholesalers and retailers might |*ussestion of our leading fashion be done to, alleviate all the horrible and Saturday most ‘ekeepers in y plentiful at retail stores. well ponder over the report on egg-| magazine and that the genius of re- reat Pe oe roomy me re ne waye lower Manhattan dropped tne price ORG BOR OF 2 Cente AL ie iesued by the Associated Warehouses. | nearch who developed the fatherless| crying need, and some day, in the dim of eggs 2 cents a dozen. But even| 2hy ‘Re, price of eges. The Ane pron it ene GOCURHODI EES AN may undertake the task outlined) Utopian future, there will be porn a and meatiest eggs are not bringing a| there has been a decrease by Dorothy Rothehild mighty genius, a benefactor to allghu- this is not a big enough drop to meet| mill more than 85% cents a dozen | 400,000 cases, or 12,000,000 dozen, in a! by Doroth +. Aut RABE REC eete tae: the corresponding slump in whole- | Wholesal On Saturday there were| few months and the rep is by no We have heard a great deal about groomiess wadalhe sale prices. ales of ® grade below this 36-cent| means complete. It sho hat there) the superfluous woman, but this ts) , 6 Even botelkeepers hav stirrea | Bade as low as 33 cents, and these| were on June | exactly OH) more lie girat time that anybody han had OW, the only practical way to by the articles in The Byening Word 8 are the kind of table eggs bought | cases in fifty-six—and mostly eastern |'0e first Kime |lu Bayly fe te eliminate the bridegroom from to protest ue aeuebit } at least 85 per cent. of the com-|—warehouses, possib! little more| the nerve te ‘mate tha the marriage ceremony would be ie that ee One or that Whole; | munity. The published quotations of| than one-quarter of the known we any hour in any man’s existence when E y sale charges. 10n of the biggest | Orice-currents of F. Q. Foy and the| houses through the country nly In the way. to put some sort of social taboo on| caterers to hotels informed a reporter | PFl¢ ents of ». Fo; e | houses mughout the co! he is only in th si ns 4 for The. Hvening, Word cae peorter | Urner-Barry Company fix this grade | total receipts at this port since March | "\'* yersonal opiuion is that men,|?l# &PPearance there, A generation tired of answering complaints, that |#t 33% and 34 and 32% and 33 centa|1 of this year were 2,078,065 cases. | | seeing Mise Rothohild's, 49 tt Was considered extremely ie publication of | ® dozen Last year, for une period, tae ar from ¢ their elimination from |@¢lcate” for engaged girls to be seen ice {eretofore, |. TMtd, take the edge of butiec| receipts were W119 cases ne | SUR 1 n a Auch in eoolety kets (ha wedding Ine vhe vening World publis prices, ‘If it canno tken off a housewife can figure f rsclf what | weddings, will hail her as their er f wren ning World published | 5+ t | satan a vitations were out, and it was posi- a list of prices on the menus at a | Sether, tt should + ered Bie the egg patriots had to do with theit | omancipator. I never saw a man at|, ” Mmited class of hotels and restaur.|S¢Mts @ pound neighborRood | high cost-of-living ¢ when she ra | id who did not look as if he| ¥ely expected that the last few days ants alongside of the current whole. | Stores ae cuarging 4, 49 and 47 cente | fused to buy them in as great quan. | wed Paes before the wedding must be devoted) sale prices, the proprietors went “up!# bound, tho price fixed nearly a] tities as she would if they were down | wished himself elsowhere by the prospective bride to fusting, in the Some restaurants were Mh ago, Mt has no relation wh to a normal level, Receipts of | “In all this sad world there is no | solitude and prayer, 5 s 20 cents air [Ever to & wholesale butter market | last week at this port adder sight than that of the groom!| Why can't we agree to regard the chargir 20 cents a pair sadder sig & of boll others 15, and quoting butter at 38% and 39% cents| cases, as compared with 1 \vtanding at the altar, more married P'idegroom's prosenco at. his own qaciay Clase aS WUCH ie ne bound for the grade known as|the week before standing 8 a Bate wedding as “bad form’? He would be| whether boiled, fried or nl ed, | frate The Government report on butter! against than marrying, says the | distinctly gratetul, Apart from the| it ae Vourth, you'll never get rid of your| shows 8,9 pounds reported rel) witty writer in Vogue. “Hoe is merci-! actual embarrassment of the proceed- | NO CRUSADE AGAINST REPU-| vegetables or fruits by trying to|in 292 storages on June 1. ‘Thereport| fi) . 4 self-con-|!24% he has seldom had time to get Hi as | fully allowed to turn his’ self-con « TABLE BUSINLSS. bluff the American housewife. If she | of 263 firms shows that thelr holdings Kk to the wedding guests, |OVe! the effects of his farewell baohe- | In order that no! nay misun-|!8 shrewd enough to scare the whole. |of butter were 6,222,965 pounds, as|Sclous back to thy s eu '}lor dinner. And now that we are on| atand the intent tone stand | ae after serious perusal of Eve-| compared with 7,016,731 pounds | who regard him with the same glitter'the subject of wedding reform, why stories, The Evening World repeats | 9198 World stories about the receipts | June, 1, 1916, an increase of 20.2 per|in their eyes with which the spec-|not abolish another torture connected t has been stated from time to ee foodstuffs, she is not going to let] cent y ,|tators at a bullfight look on the bull win getting married? ise | Biais the last ten onthe vi |her corner grocer fool her. A reps The Evening World AUROMIVEN |ieetiny er Deana ee sone : ov. Whitman has pointed the way {eis nok attacking business: | tl for The ing World has seen fruits | Association held a big rally at Public | He a not see them as he stands yy ordering that State executions take nor seeking to discredit reputable {24 vegetables rot during last wesk| School No. 4, Rivington and Pirt| there awaiting the cue for his dra-| piace at 11 o'clock at night instead of | wholes: merchant, of whom there |” the stands of retailers, and all be- ts, Saturday night. Assemb matic ‘I ¢ snd dreading that he/5 in the morning. f have always are thousands and thousands in this|¢4¥8® the renter of a stand or the|man Nathan B. Perlman’ preside®.| aay go n his lines, but to his{thought that getting up at 5 should city, and-the samo applies grocer is still obsessed with the old. | Commissioner Hartigan of We I Bieta Niahtie sea trad ihaieien punishment enough for any crime tadlers. object has been, fashioned idea that it's better to let|and Measures was of the sp | blushing are lightly wa |without adding to its horrors the food rot than sell it a cent or two leas |ers. The Commissioner was not spar- | delightful little whispered comments: | milder detail of electrocution, On than he paid for {t—and this in the|ing in b f the work bein ‘What on earth did she see in/#uch mornings as I have been com s seece ® e of a daily slump in the whole- | done by ng World. He made | him verse pelled to rise to catch or meet an sac market : Ja plea idininistrator for | [ can't understand Ethel-—with}early train, a little thing like the : 4 The retailer who tries to get 15. nts|New York all the beaux she had too,’ switching on of an electric current Gaining Ground [FE | a wart tor strawberries that are sell. | Deputy Attorney General Oberm'er | ‘t'1t must be his money , | gould not have added to my discom ng at 6 and 10 cents a quart is in-| assured the hundreds of women prea. |. ‘I suppose she thought that she'd | fort, 's EASY SB viting disaster Whslaesiate’ thont, |ant thai ba wel » all he could tu | better marry young, She's the type] | It waa cruel and inhuman to infict ‘ 4 lves frankly state that this kind o! e prosecution of food gar. | that fades early these two tortures for the same crime, in Sport or Business De nean TA closehne eek Elid Ds po ee eee ee eaten Gane you'll see. This will last|and really illegal, since the law says WHEN BODY AND BRAIN jf nu quantities of cabk : 1 the womer Join the as- | Ju aix months.” Jone cannot be punished twice for the 4 , antities of cabbage, toma-| man urge: wom! i 1 months sin Li shed twi ARE WELL FED ie beans, peas, cauliflower, beets, | sociation, Up to the present About| Th haven't the sligi respe saine offense, Being executed at 11 at} H vr and several kinds of berries. | 1,000 names h heen added to the | for a uniform; they won't even have|night, when one is naturally up and 4 retailer who tries to worm out an | membership 1 | merey war groom, He van hear|wide awake and ready for almost any Grape-Nuts fg | Zhe retailer who tries to worm out an | membershis their refresning fittle whispers about, thing, twa different proposition, and i| 4 1 . suppose y'll let anything | a fully glad that the worst of a luxuries that have slumped ppose they'll let anything | am aw: M FOOD FF wholesale is simply driving a nail in | BRIDE FREED IN $7,000 CASE, | into the army these days, just to en- crimes against the criminal—making | There’: R “ a. ate oan soma | Sunita age recruiting.’ After he has him get up early to be killed~has | ere’s a Reason ey - tina; Skee nnie| lived through the slege of a wedding| been abolished by our humane Gov- | S |THE TELLING EFFECT OF A] Sobbing her gratitude. Mrs. ainnic| lived through the slege of a wedding | been 4 4 REDUCED CONSUMPTION, | Baltes, the twenty-y { bride of 4) urmurs to himself, ‘War was never, But why should homicides be shown | As an example of what reduced | month who confessed to having falsified | tike this,’ more consideration than bridegrooms? | the books of her ployer ard | 7 ‘a 0 of a Bou jeep | ne books of fi \ nerd) (ory iin in one good thing about | WAY drag & man out of a sound sleep | <leinschmidt of No. East Sixty- n time to dress for a 10 o'clock cere Klein’ ninth Str to the ext of $7,000, was being married, though: the |mony? It's brutal, and if we can't tn day. released (On 1 sentence | #FOom fan never be bored during the arrange to have the ceremony take ¥ " | ceremor "There c u without him, as Miss Rothchild by Judge Wadh. purt of ¢ cerem There are ao many littic ests, we could at any rate mit eral Ses: 4 to her n for him to do. € can wonder Pre talon hor atelian , oR 35¢ 9 fer her husl thi h to, He can gate his misery by abolishing the ie Se be hi faleati wi ever started all this,! morning ding. CahMeny BARE = mt rh unyway, He can reflect on a = bs : sites his tao ve LIONISTS PLAN JEWISH In utters his ‘1 do rald CLOAK Dut i MOTH PROOF GARMENT Bac Two Sizes 264% 55 “Protection” more. PROOF GARMENT BAGS 35% Each 3 For 12° Your Druggist kly at most Dep We 8 Bag pAId to auto and dealer's the 4 A end cht ame. tlyely Moth SoM FRom tw PEM. © He’s Only in the Way, Anyhow, and His Presence Compels Him to Suffer Unnecessary Torture—Marriages, Like Ex- ecutions, Should Take Place at 11 o’Clock at Night, Sav- ing the Getting Up at Un- comfortable Hours for an Un- comfortable Morning Cere- mony. By Nixola G “Behold, the bridegroom cometh. The month of bridals is at hand, |ceipts of foodstuffs at this port) a|from joining their regiments by the fact that they have arranged to be married first. groom, the only i acute anguish of m as well be held wi A bridegroom luggage is carried body has to tip th fore that? This suggestion, which some prompted by an article in the mid-Jun Rothchild suggests that the future m to all humanity, who will invent a bridegroomless wedding. consumption of any product means. Rossian 1s More y in Galtetn VIENNA, June 11 Austrian official communicati ssued toda says At severa nt Galleia there has an in th fighting activity of the Kussians," ~ > Noted German Flyer ts Killed in| Battle. AMSTERDAM, June A Berl despatch reports t a action yi Flanders of Baron I Plene one of Germany's mos cvlvbrated avia- we THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUN Bridegroomless Wedding Is Suggested As An Act of Mercy in These Martial Days ego trast ~~ In time of wor It effective as soon as possible. compelled to go through a ceremony which causes him people may consider revolutionary, is HAVE A WEDDING BRIDE GROOMLESS reeley-Smith. and a great many young men are kept is essential that a natlon become Why should the bride- neffective thing about a wedding, be he didn’t mind tt in the least, Or he can spend the time Just in dreading the reception, “From beginning to end, the proc- ss of getting married is'@ sad one for the groom,” Miss Rothehild con- cludes, ‘The bride plays the stellar role; she is always in the Mmelis! Every one admires her and is inter- ested only in her. The groom is just a sort of stage property. It takes two to make a wedding—that's the only reason he happens to be there at all He is lost in a fog of oblivion which envelops him from the first strains of the wedding march to the begin- nind when the proceedings might just thout him? is not really needed until the bridal aboard a train or a steamer and some- ne porter. Why have him appear be- ne number of Vogue, in which Dorothy ust hold a mighty genius, a benefactor lJ TRUST that the eye of Prof| ting of the nanennnny }4 Jacques Loeb may fall upon this) “Perhaps some day something will Fon THE AND TIPPING LON DO Seam Socialists Pr trip in Russian If they'd 4 REPUBLIC IN. PALESTINE with the whol r f 8 80 painfully perm Meeting Declare: Hebrew M possible char the ring's be Have Place at Pe Ta rear ont ante vappen iH Closing the Great War acle that will wulekly and pai PETROGRAD, June 11.—Dectar aA Oe anaes t the Jews of the world must b wa hough lace at the peace table which will 1 nt, he can the ut war, a Z% reservations that are ere 4 C ng on under le's veil t yw ler n ane fi aly promises to obey h Jewish republic in Palest He can ! w ever ¢ Dr, Usishin, leading t 6, de |to get that interminable a clared a referendum was — being with the eyes of all her relatives and planned to the 16,000,000 Juws im the 04 lavere upon bimm—and look ga i world, N and Ohairman sailing for are pacifists lit Cartoonist Evening Mail The prevented Frede ident of the In James AWE ONLY “TIME THE GRoom ($s NEEDED 15 AT The “TRaw WwaGasg June 11.-"The ck W. Jow Pres ndent Labor Party, Ramsay MacDonald, the Labor Party, from rograd to meet Rusvian | the ground that has asked the Amer were «ranted onal effort Is AMERICAN UNIONS ASKED TO HOLD. PAGIFISTS HERE British Labor Men Ask Means Be Taken Here as Were Employed in England. Phat Same Natl n'a and Firemen's Union, which} whip In the House of Commons Passports ikhurst to-day She will not t overnment mission, but makes the pere ald jonal unions to vent th depart pacifists who may attempt to leave American p 8 union offers no opposition to the departure for Ituasia o trs., en meline Pankhurst, the Suffrage a er, and George ‘H. Robert, Labor | Mra. on} the rate measure for conservation 4 Brains and thus prohibit the manus facture of foodstuffs into beer and malt Uquors as well as distilled ita, The Benate Agricultu toe reached this decision. The Senate Judiciary Co: favorably reported with amendment resolution by Senator Sheppard Texas for a prohibition constitut! amendment. A similar resolution falled last session, The Judiciary Committee Bill, «© Joint resolution proposing an amead- ment to the Constitution, follows: The manufacture, sale or trans. portation of intoxicating Hauorw within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and «ll territory sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby pro« hibited “The Congress to enforce thin article legislation.” The committer vote was eleven to three, Reed, Cluberson and Mrandogea voting against the bil! S$ %, Tuesday’s Big Special Se Newest Tafteta Silk Dresses June’s Very Latest § Pets of Fashion Revelations models mid-Su the best thought of Paris at New York i y feta Silks. Radium, Chiffon and Pussy Willow Taffeta Georgette Crepe PRORIBITION BILLS ARE NOW GROUPED INTC ONE MEASURE eieasscliicieaes Senate Agricultural Committee Agrees Against Manufacture of Beer or Malt Liquors. 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