The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1917, Page 5

Soe POTATO GAMBLERS mise, in ig Mise Daisy Ward, Tired, Burning Feet}| ° Face of Heavy Sup- plies Fail, Relief for Sore, Aching, ita Pieced aot or oh te a Barrel. 2} SEEPLANS GO AWRY; =| $5 SPUDSIN SIGHT EVENING WORLD WINS. Total Wholesale Slump Since easy and comfortable it a on Campaign Began is £6 ble that you! The potato men throughout the strangers Go the friends ot | country are atill living in the indica- tive mood and the present tense. They are hoping against hope that they may not have to come down to the $5 flat per barrel for the very, For the New The wholesale price of potatoes 1 | barret rate trifle over 2% to 3% cents a pound, Carolina and Florida, $6 a barrel. WHOLESALE. bbl; No. 2, $2.00-$8.50, North Carolina—No. 1, $4,00-$6.00 Dbl; No. 2, $2.00-$8.00. wol.; No. 2, $2.00-$3.00. Norfolk—$4.00-$6.50 bbl. Florida—$4.00-$6.00 bbl. & clean, creamy, mow-white mut beat grade, which The Evening World fs ample proof of the effort being bstance medicinal Fate come the people suggested a week ago to-day. But made and the hope expressed that Sees aan eed tn Reotke | exposures and an embargo plus mar-|{M0, market may, be Kept upward Sate Kuve boon diseppoisted, you wil | Kets filled up to overflowing in East- | creases of supplies. tea ‘cooling, 8001 ‘comfort that|ern States plus increasing train-| Second, efforts made to oe weaehe it ins bri loads of potatoes on the way here to, piles to adjoining towns and States in to-day for yall { pS Rar Dacag tore today for gemma] oes fil up Meadows Yard, Jersey the hope of maintaining 4 firm mar. Youtl like Ie is ae | City, will force them to change goon got in the same condition New ‘ou'll Hike it Immensely.Advt. to boost the market and hold it there, | Nowark is the but the sales were so few at even a) present time one large buyer over 60-cent boost that the effort to hold|there has 11,000 barrels on his hands up even $7 @ barrel as the maximum outside figure has been abandoned. | the town on Saturday, making @ total Good potatoes are now selling whole-| of close to 66,000 bushels for @ small their mind, For two days after) York found itself in a week ago last the lifting of the embargo last) Thursday when The Evening World week a heroio effort was made ? ublished the number of cars in freight yards, that is, glutted with potatoes, , Seat example. At the and this condition was accentuated by the receipt of fifty more cars for Going up on aalo at $4.60 and $6.60 the barrel, town. bee The Fi al hnaacetitn Astlbrcaataere nad eid const | yeni (a dvecks ago; it, nas to dd Neches proof that only those who kept down! with the Pennsylvania Railroad), day i 1 tte holesalers and commission This refers to the to this level were able to make big after day w sales, while those who held out for|™men how! about the railroads. They i | ‘oads for nearly everything white flannel trousers | Meher prices had to content them-| nthe calendar. But it 4 a matter selves with diminished sales over the | of public record that the roads, by in- at $3.75. record of the previous days of last | creased though still inadequate facili i h ba Hes See eee rod eae. meh WRT They re worth more The Evening World can announce eands upon thousands of dollars and and will still be to-day that the maximum of $5 a| the consumer has rarely benafited one i : Darrel will be the outside quotation | cent by this saving. a big bargain defore the end of this week, and the|A RAILROAD THREAT THAT . indications are that increasing pub- NEVER MATERIALIZED. at the new price, Mctty of the actual receipts at this| ‘Two years ago the Pennsylvania Port, as based on receipts of train-| Railroad threatened td make Jersey which will advance —|icads by the Pennsylvania Ratinosa| City @ freight terminal permanently In fact, the experiment was tried. This on July 5 to $4.50, [at tte tretent yards in Jersey City,| meant’ that the produce men would will shortly bring potatoes down to have to haul thelr stuff over to this thecal. & proximately $3.50 @ barrel. The, Seine were the potato men, Then the at the o gure. wholesale slump last week, due tothe road restored permanently the sys- Breadway, sear S84 St. Cooper Square at Sth St. Manbsttea Felten St. at De Kalb Av. opening of the new season. Breekive SHOULD BE LOWER, publicity campaign of this paer, was loading It, espectall $3.75, The total drop since the cam-| on floats and unloading It, os iy paign begun is $6, 44 one-half of the potatoes, at Piers 28 and 29, These tem of bringing the produce over here piers are used, not only for the re- wholesale prices per barrel at the| ception of the product but practically as a potato exchange. Big and small MORE REASONS WHY POTATOES | “eslers carry om gales on these piers nd nearby, They have every facility for a falr consideration, one that is —_—ao = reaso! t would bd the cost of S tear ma pile UD every | ae eee to tila side. with Jersey City LITTLE CONCERTS FOR YOUR HOME TO-NIGHT, 8.30 CoA cree Tee asetes — OAS mE ACH e nie From Mhtlcens? Piet a forced to come down to, "Phone Vanderbilt 3001, Four hits on sale to-day from » June List, Immediate delivery by spectal KNABE aust. Perfect Victor Service. United Service Reduction in Rates The maximum rate for electric light and power has been re duced from 7% to 7 cents per kilowatt hour, effective July ret, Pi makes olectriciey, with its many rsaving appliances, a greater economy than ever, in both the home and place of business. Gmemat Rats ror Exscraio Licnt anp Powza 1000 kilowsst hours monthly at . 4e0 kilowatt hours monthly , ‘fg Boo, excess over 1400. 6 6 3200, excess over 2200 . « . 4564 over 3300 kilowatt hours woo fe 8 8 8 ek Oe Let us solve your light and power problems, * THE UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY General Offices > Branch Officest wgo B isth Street Soth Se. at B'way Sesyvesant 4980 Bway at 146th St, TATE day to leave the potato men without the semblance of an excuse to main-| this consideration did not stop the tain even the prices they have been | potato crowd from starting the new | First, in spite of the embargo, they |have never been able to clear up the| ‘The same ts practically true of the receipts at this side on any one day.|New York Central docks, which are There are now twenty-four cars at Pennsylvania Railroad piers, left over | kinds of foodstuffs. The public has recelpta of forty-one | not benefited by this saving. In fact, cars, Even @ large part of the un-| the effort of the potato men to main- from Saturda: b—Oh, Roy!—Fox Trot—JO- serie, UTIs ORCHBSTRA, Total, $4.50 loadings have been sent to secret as aq permanent terminal. But even season at the outrageous price of $12 a barrel for potatoes against $3.50 last year. also used by dealers as a sort of exchange or branch office for all tain extortionate prices in the face of 49 unvsual supply and those evi- storehouses throughout. the city. On#] Gent facilities is proof enough that jot thesé storehouses in Fletcher | they have never wanted to play fair Street was practically filled up Bat-| With the consumer. Inadequate as |urday morning. Army and Navy of- ficlals deny that the storing ts being | against extreme prices. done for them, The storing up of new| Up in Harlem job | potatoes that have been lying in a|tack on two and [railroad yard for nearly two weeks are these railroad dock facilities, even now they are the strongest argument rs of all kinds ree cents to the ost of foodstuffs lower Manhatta in spite of the fact that there are receiving depots in that section, and the wholesale cost up there 1s not far short of the highest level downtown at any time, This practice makes it impossible for retailers in uptown sections to sell the necessities of life at practically the same prices obtain- ing downtown. It explains largely why potatoes now selling downtown for 5 cents and in certain sections of | Brooklyn at 4 cents the pound, are commanding 6, sometimes 7 cents fur- ther uptown. TRADE PAPERS CONFESS UN- FAIRNESS OF MARKET, But under the further wholesale re- ductions, since The Evening World | published its last food facts, there =| should be @ general 5 conts @ pound rate all over the city. In regard to | wholesale conditions at tho close of Saturday's business day, the follow- |ing comment from the Producers’ Price-Current ts timely “e @ © but bulk of sales have | deen in range from $1.50 and $6.60 for Eastern shore, $4.5° and $6.60 and’ $4 and % for for South Caroling If “the bulk should not be the rea at wholesale sis for whole- = | sale quotations and not a meagre bar- | rel or even a car or two sold at an extreme pric uld be interesting | to know what, in th =| potato men, is the e igment of the st system by the adoption of which the public can | know the real state of the wholesale market, And this from the same source “The embargo has turned increased shipments to other markets which are in many cases ov Ph n 1, especially aN } , N nd ark, usually a large | market, was badly up with an accumulation of Mt barrels there last ht day of fifty carl receipts to- = OBITUARY NOTES. Jeorge Henry Parks, eixty, prestdent r Paper Company, 4s 1 Drive. ent of the Bal- 4, and one time . aged sixty, for ¢ Monmouth |many years the owne: Park, 1s dead tn Long Branc Charles T. Dodd, se’ old, son of Moses W. | Dodd, Mead & Co. pu at No, 604 East Fitt Charlos Van Pelt, knowr cal per ner unc h Van, 1s dead at way, Brooklyn, i, founder of s. 1n dead No, 982 Kastern Park- ited by The Hvening World last week as a fair price. At the present quotations, based on actual sales, the wholesale price of the very best potatoes, exclusive of the Bermuda brand, ranges from a the opening of the market to-day, with twenty-four cars left over from ie réceipts of forty-one cars on Saturday by the Pennsylvania Ralflroad. Ice-Mint Fine For {All Efforts to Keep Prices Up | he total receipts Saturday from all sources, by rail and water, were approximately 62,000 bushels, Since it began its publicity campaign, besides forcing an embargo to prove how plentiful potatoes were, The Evening World has cut down the wholesale price to one-half of what it ‘was at the opening of the new season—$12 a barrel. The present maxi- mum price for Hastern Shore is $6.60, and for North Carolina, South Here is a table of wholesale and scattering retail prices: Eastern Shore-—No. %, $4.50-$6.50 South Carolina—No. 1, $4.00-$6.00 er on this| ~: dames McCreery & Cs. ne a thoatrt. | ame of Charles! - THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 2 Evening World Wins Big Victory Director of Hmployment Clearing House Finds Little Demand. Replacement of men by women fn trades in this olty is more flotion than Meats, Faas es A ane York Housewives is down to within $1.50 of the flat $5 These were the rates prevailing at to-day. the only appreciable de- mand for women 1s one which Is never satiafied—that for skilled clerical work ers in the downtow! jot.” WAR GETS WOMEN FEW (From the Baltimore American.) Tt ts all v to talk about those plodding fellows, but I want some were risin~ in the world quick.” “That's casy, gon; just smoke over soins i. ooo RETAIL. Below Fifty-ninth Street, east and west, 5 cents pound. Columbus Avenue section, 6 cents pound, Harlem, 6 and 7 cents Brooklyn, 4, 6 and 6 cents pound. Eyeglass ‘wearers that —| entrust their — TRY TO RUN DOWN POLICE. | to us are comared cf sai awe hand factory service —depend- ia ttelen Machines (~able quality — careful A police motor patrol in chase of a ‘kmanshi \- speeding ar, both yeblclos keoping| WOM nship and mod: their horns going ike mad, had the| erate prices. area enclosed by One Hundred an a rl Twenty-second and One Hundred and od Twenty-elghth — Streets, Park and Eighth Avenues | thopoughty | aroused early this ‘morning, The c ended ° at One Hundred and Twenty-soventh : Street and Seventh Avenue when the 5 pursued car turned on the. police ma: | Oeuists and chine and tried to run it gown. | The icemen, under Lieut, Edwards o hief Inspector Schmittherger's staff, i vost Revol drew their revolvers and threatened to shoot and the charging car stopped. 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