The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1917, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, feat carrying parts of machinery to be used 1n the construc- tion and repair of locomotives and the automatic brakes con- necting the cars of the trains at Buffalo, N. Y. ~ POTATOES ARE SO PLENTIFUL ROAD REFUSES SHIPMENTS; VICTORY FOR EVENING WORLD USKY young women road repairers and members of clearing-up Evening World’s Market Guide For New York Housewives Housewives, this is The Evening World's day for extraordinary specials on potatoes. The triumph of an embargo, showing, us it does, that foodstuffs have been and still are so plentiful that the Pennsyl- vania Railroad has had to ery out to the South, “Stop, this market 1s suffocated!" is a triumph for the economy of the housewives as well as the unerring publicity given by this paper. The triumph will be complete when the potato patriots are forced to the level of last year's prices. Keep these facts in mind: When The Evening World began specializing on potatoes the crowd was exacting $12 a barrel wholesale. You were 1 10, and 13 cents a pound. These prices were treble the prices that prevailed last year, By persistent publicity the wholesale prices were hammered down until the climax was reached in a railroad embargo The receipts at this port from June 1 until now have been more than 1,094,026 bushels. There never was a day when potatoes were not plentiful since the season opened, and old potatoes are still coming in. This day a year ago the recelpts were only 63,900 bushels. The fiverage receipts this season have been from 150,000 to 200,000 bushels daily. Yet last year, at this time, with smaller receipts, potatoes were selling wholesale ¢ und $3 a barrel, Here are the revised prices to date, compared with last year's: WHOLESALE POTATOES (Barrel), (From the Producers’ Price-Current.) To-Day Que Year Ago Last Priday, Lawt Saturday. Zastern Shore Eastern Shore No, 1, .$7.00 to $9.50 $6.50 to $8.60 No, 1..$6.00 to $8.00 te No, 2.. 2.60to 4.00 1.60to 200] No. 2.. 4.00to 6.00 38.00to 5.00 Virginia— Virginie No. 1 7.50 2,50 to No. 1.. 7.00to 9.00 6.00 to 8,00 No, 2.. 2.50to 4.00 1.75 to No. to 5.00 2.50to 4.50 ‘orth Carolina North Carolina " 5.00 to 7.00 2.50to 2.76 1 6.50 to 8.50 5.50to 7.60 + 2.60to 3.50 1,50to 1.76 2.. 3,00to 5.00 2.60 to 4,00 S. Car, and Ga, 6.00 to 225to 8.00] No. 1.. 7.00to 9.50 6.00to 8.50 2.. 2.60to 4,00 1.75to 2.60] No, 2.. 4.00to 6.00 3.00 to 5.00 Bermudas— Bermudas— No. 1.. — 10,00 5.00to 550] No. 1.. — 1000 — 10,00 No. 2.. — 9.00 3.00to 4.00] No. 2.. — 9.00 9.00 re of recent exposures, Under press nd a demand in earlier | tM upon tons of all kinds of food- stuffs that have been coming into this port for ten months, The embargo is the most damaging 60| testimony ever s an embargo editions that they be brought down to the level of last year's pric po tatoes dropped to-day «noth set up against cents on the t 1. This makes a| Class of speculators tn foodstuffs, 1 total wholesale slump of $1.75 in| Evening World, in fact, has done the n Shores| Work the State, through its proper d ir-| partment, should have done—expc i in| the actual receipts of foodstuffs from day to day and demanded action of three days. At noon East were selling for and $ rel against $6.00 and $8.00. qu rier editions of The ening earlier edition ft pone Sea oh World, Ri prices In Manhattan B 1] Now that potatoes are sh t below Twenty-third Street, | are shown to be Trapped to'4 conte '» pound so abnormally plentiful that an em 7 1-2 cents the pound yesterday morn- |?" t lared to ke po. tatoes from coming into New York ee port until the present supply is cor By to-morrow morning there should |? eg ply is ¢ be a ur 4 retail drop over New | 2" icials have ample opporta York and New Jers cents t ity to turn their guns on the butte pound straight to conform with euaition 60 te big wholesale slump. b tl tee ak - Lipa No retailer has any excuse now for) 4) : y pen, cone dawn of selling potatoes at exorbitant prices.|sonahie wholenule prices? Auythaa All he to do is back Up @ W48ON| wanting plain facts about the butte at Plera 26 or 2 of tho Pennsylvania! ang ogy business Im referred to wee Railroad and cart off all he needs at) terday's Evening World Phe t reduced wholesale prices. Tho P0-laro there, and they are certified te tato patriots are still far se Government official their products at the level of last year’s prices. With the product not| CONSUMPTION OF BUTTER AND nearly so plentiful and fewer outlets | EGGS NOT INCREASED. Eastern Shores were ing one year There never was such a dull day a ago to-day at §: 1 a barre}, | Yesterday on the Butter and Eg ‘| ‘There was a great deal of secrecy | the Mercantile Eachangy n spite of about the embargo, It is for no e bluff ope ors are trying to definite period, but the railroad’s| force on the c—namely, th statement says that it may be lifted In| Consumption of these products has “a few days.” It is important to| increased. by yaleh (On both ax note that The Evening World's! changes yesterday © best proof, exposure was published last ‘Thurs- | st for one day, that consump day. At midnight on the follow- | Hon has not increased ing day the embargo was in| In support of the contenth tatoes oug operation. While some food ex-|P to be brought perts were trying to feed the town on| to the level of last year's pr gome kind of fish, others thundering| Evening World once more pres out statements about what must be| facts, thi done for producers and farmers; | Pennsylvania while the State was appropriating| statement, as follows huge sums for future development] First—This ratlroad understand and not a cent to expose present con-| that the shipments to this port, after ditions of the wholesale markets, The|the embargo is lifted, will be eve Evening World kept blazing away at|greater than in the last few weeks tlme ite definite campaign of exposing the | This is so true that it offers additional ¢ head here to ——— men employees in keeping the roadbed and tracks in good trim is ae ' than now prevail.” J . 9 x . So far they have shown as The statement adds: “Next au- gang with their flat car and tools. No labor yet performed by much energy and productive results as the men whose places they - tumn and winter, if complaints are hard enough to make the women quit. have been filling for several weeks. A 9 dededgedd painting freight cars. They do more and better work on this line than the men whose places they fill. They get the same rate of wages as male workers, 1 goods now being sold at theye prices is Inst year's pack,” says the Commission's > statement, “and was sold by the cans ners at considerably lower prices made fn any locality that unrease . Stations throughout Man overboard, seem to have a better nd Brooklyn, the receipt chance for surviving the Prohibition Ds, typhoon. The railroad suggests that | Practically the whole fight | markets be established at these sta centre around the beer and | tions for the distribution of the prod wine propositions and to prevent the | uc using plers 2 commandecring of the 250,000,000 gat lons of “red liquor” now stored POTATOES STILL HERE. Third—There lying in Meadows Y | of he Evening World adds to this an- jet r, , Jersey City, pproximately 110,000 bar- \re ave v 43,000 bushels. heres approximately this side yesterday, besides 15 Old a total of steamers, making is. And then they normally plentiful that merchants are in six-pound ont of piers 28 r proof be asked? © potato crowd, in| Bill were undertaken to-day in the Mey ald they [Senate sub-committee on Agriculture, Fven yesterda POTATOES COME IN FAR FASTER THAN THEY ARE SOLD. | Jay an embargo has} ulate their mea r ato ship- Action on tne prohibition sections) MUST MAKE UP GREAT SUM uso there | vay deferred, but It is assured tha NATION GOES DRY. accumu! Aton in Mead and potatos being shippe rnees were able | @nt is a modified form of prohibition them upon their delivery | that would rigidly prevent fut rate at which|o¢ any foodstuff in manufacture : reduced it mbargo may be At the present | gallons of booze now on ha hand in the| used for the sake of th near futu extend its re- FIGHT GFF 10 GERMANS." n Flames Dam.) tle * belt. 8 VS i ittee— a yet made itself felt is proje by Sub-Committee—More |?) Contest, Supplies Included. The surface indications De say figures ure 80 ab. lent of The Sweeping put before the Senate. to extend Government control to eoal, | reasonm steel and thelr products, pe prices, to hg centres. | ments and sisal, Jute and hemp pro troleum, and its products, farm im tives is to insure to th satisfy m labor ral public products raised upon their own land and shall not give two from al the food administration power to the fellef of the ee ivania impose individual rations or reg- ie. drys” eweep the “wate ect. » than ‘ ‘ there will be a bitter fight over this| Chairman Simmons of the aie mare| The most likely proposition at pres did not appear to be timistic after cany part whiskey, permitting the 250.000,000 1 to b revenue to be derived from {t, and temporartly allowing manufacture of beers and| VP )'N0 084 OF light wines, This would cut out fu-| jjouse bill In it heavler po-| ture manufacture of hard stuff, letting} The extreme the topers have something to drink| Senate favor tnereasi excess profits from ld happen, the North itor began to cons means for ¢ taining revenue ating For this| Until the present supply is exhausted w provided in the t ng made nis does suit the highly elate t ia tations, | prohibitionists and the Senate will| Treasury Depa rook Y" | be a battle ground like the trenches] f to t eve : of France for weeks to come. pe at Saas w SENATE IS LIKELY TO REWRITE| A 1 whe THE HOUSE FOOD BILL. it at ther bill will be dissected and prob-| ar uae rewritten in several respe As to the “dry amendment. put fied form to provide stuffs in the manufactur ver yield about $500,000,000 in mu: mans in| Reeded revenue, shall not be seized | Details of ulers, sho by th n | and pr " ntaln U Boat—T Admiraity ng yhol shall 1 Fired continue tured ur cele wit quent) iders t n : tight Drastic as « new contro} Sad , features proposed by the Senate com BOR | on none will be sht as bitterly ; : n as the “dry” amendment. , ¥ BREWERS DESERT DISTILLERS| - ng, ‘Thre IN FIGHT IN CONGRESS. ere tt The Mquor interests, split into two crew ha yme dim , to-day to he son of wreck aa 4 at| possible. The outlook for the “hard af initted | stuff’ men appears to be a gloomy The Cede sailed ¢ std ree /one, The beer and light wine people, |! : may oe who bave thrown thelr old allipa off t cance 157 CIVILIANS PERISHED Trade Commission Appe IN LONDON AIR RAID] Public to Help Expose and | peink navies the commission wil be His Airmen. June 26.—Offielal figures casualtios in the London air] by wholesalers for ‘this season's out- 13 were announced to-| put, the F Subsequent » bodies in debris have nught the number of dead to 91 men, bond or displayed on tho shelves of ‘The rabld Prohibitionists, encour- still 490 carloads aged by their success in the House, | are absolutely confident that they al- nough ta win un- There ere Sweeping Che es j en nity 2! ere dre | Sweeping Changes in Measure} ess some influence which wonten and 100 children tmobile truck at. ndenty he this confidence, as there 1s very lttle Seren deny ore te room to doubt the adoption of Na tion-wide Prohibition if it ts s The only changes in the House Food Control hope of modifying the Food Bill so as to permit the disposal of spirituous liquors on hand and the continuance ot beer and wine manufacture abnormal stock | It voted to amend the measure 80 a8! found in economic rather than moral abnormal de- more money , when asked why | {ron and ond uewarded the Order Pour le Aferite The fight will start to-day the Senate takes up the Food The programme of the conserva ducts. nent the revenue it needs and, The sub-committee also agreed stopping the manufacture of distilled to amendments which provide | spirits, to leave beers and wines un- or if they | that the bill shall not apply to disturbed, Before the fight is over it J gardeners and stock may be necessary for the Govern- ment, which is chiefly concerned over the matter of revenues, to come to feature of the bill Committee, while hopeful that majority of the Senate will he economic features of the cout asing the In preparing for the worst that row »s4 of the $470,000,000 that able prices are being charged for the canned peas, corn, tomatoes, salmon r similar products which are now is to —_—_ End Extortion, yen ae : ' oar , Reports he peew rec ron 42 Children and 24 Women Were i Sere aannlune cxctesres tn Bis Killed and Kaiser Decorates WASHINGTON, June 26.—Current| the commission's inauirle m= mission will investigate quantities sed by various dealers in an ent speculative holding. > ail prices on canned vegetables are arly twice the prices pald canners Injured When Motorcycle deral Trade Commiasion A Teack, reported to-day in connection with ts} William Uhrig, of No, 119 Wyckoft investigation into food prices, The nue, and Arthur Pieard deaths and the dis- and 42 ohildren, inquiry into canned goods, the con- e which crashed Into uto= number 220° men, 110) mission explained, 1s “to forestall peactbvbppeeplibestspsripeerg Soke ee Street anit speculative prices.” ivi : sy early. tae man who| Wholesalers are paying about 7 1-2|day. 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