The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 3

THE EVENING WORDD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1918, U. S. TO FIX FOOD PRICES RETAILERS MAY CHARGE CONSUMERS. ~ FOOD PROFITS TO BE LIMITED; HOOVER ADOPTS PLAN LONG URGED BY EVENING WORLD ® Government Will Fix Maxi-| Uleyto the present method of dia- tribution, which through whole- —_— es sa d retall channels is mum Prices for Meats and | the’ Hood“ ‘Admintatration. warm npecitiac ) @nd patriotic support, we would Other Necessities. | suggest that any additional dis- ee | tribution mediums that may be "ne " > | established be ted to the most TO PUNISH VIOLATORS.) indigent section of thw popula: - tion, and then only after very that y the Cards Giving Wholesale and best yumity to Retail Rates to Be Issued could be rendered through work | ing Jointly w deral Food to All Dealers. | Board, oxtabl | ers, and th cards to That The Evening World campaign) the consumer the prices whi h for eliminating the profitecr by limit.) {hf retalle nes to pay. for same; ing the profits at which necessities of! pay. ‘The press coud help out life shall be sold will at last bring re-| this by giving a range of pric sults ts evidenced by an arrangement) Which’ would depend on the lo- made to-day with Food Administrator Sorond, re iit. hela Hoover, the Federal Food Board and) goure: of supply, & Dr, Jonathan Day, City Commissioner! = Any complaint of consumer be- of Foods and Markets, pirat ua di repays ie monly This new plan is generally conceded | jspderal Mood TE STORED ty hy the food authorities in Washin tem of careful policing by inspe ton to be the most important yet| tors, over which you would have formulated, as it directly concerns the pha ; Ri a a uatspted in beets . additio careful survey It came as a result of a conferenc it Is di essary to exis? fn Washington with Mr. Hoover, at tae oe ees and main which Sophie Irena Loeb of The| ¢ Ranicineiic, Evening World staft was present z ofte went aan She explained th efforts made ty h fixing the maximum prices of meat huh know you can ¢ punt upon and other necessities, in which this “i i hic Newspaper co-operated with city and State authorities, tacked the official pow retail prices consistent with of common odities. She urged the adoption of means advocated in this newspaper for the past eighteen months whereby she authorities shall set the maxi- mum price for cor mon nece: ties or limit the margin of profit at which they shall be sold, then LESS COAL IS Ol DUMPED AT TIDEWATER, BUT MORE | 200,000 EXEMPIS New York Chefs and Butlers Unite SthN| 000 MUSIC HOTEL MEN BALKED AT WORK T0- DAYON To Regulate Food of the Wealthy USS ON LINER LADIES GARMENTS Dr. Garfieli’s Late Latest Monday Ruling Fails to Save Any More Coal. | The weather and Dr. Garfield, Na- | tlonal Fue! Administrator in Wash ington, failed once again to get to-| gether In perfect team work tay | —the fourth “Garfield Mondo n| the series decreed by the nationa!| arbiter of coal destinies On the three previaus heatiess M | days, Dr mong the loc Ga leld and 1 Fuel Ar Sp pinistrat | blamed the severe weather for ‘t | failure of their highest hopes for coa | conservation. To-day, with s nt | soft skies and almost blossoms in the air, sands of industries under Garfield's sp exe that the saving of precious not bid fair to top that of a hint of « so many are operat tlor other 1éft-handed holiday The oficial dropping of the bars |to the International Ladies’ Garm: | | Workers’ Unton and ten allied trade organizations under that affiliated branch of the American Federation of Labor produced a situation in jthe city to-day which had not exis 1 during any of the thre previous proscribed Mondays. One ong gore in t heart of Manhattan Island w of feverish labe while of the ' « ed up tight From Fo: y &F second, bet and Fifth Avenue dl along the lower reaches ft Madison and Lexington Avenues every manufactur be construed by which adest str 1 the bre teh imagination as a maker of garmenta went right ahead and mado ‘em. Upon Reeve Schley, Manhattan Fuel Admisistrat fell to t thoroughly police the job, and task of construing what @ finally punish profitesrs by legal WAITS TO BE UNLOADED > ssa" sien’ ve, tore was on methods. the score that the ladies’ garment Mr. Hoover agreed to the im- Workers worked at such a trade that Anthracite Hours With 40,050 Yester ures for 33,150 Tons, C Last ompared 24 portance of the issue, and the new 4 plan was formulated as a direct drive at the retail merchant who | charges more than reasonable | . peices fon Ahateclec efit | ya DAY'S report of coal move- Every locality will, under the new wohl . cane eee Pulling) HmuKe tha sare ouee a erminals, issued from the common staples to conisuiner of) CHG Of AH. Smith, Ennector of ine fecal Eastern Railroads, show a falling The wholes: te setauitanea of in the amounts of fuet dumped the authorities will be printed on a in the past twenty-four hours, but card together with the retail price) an arriving that should be paid by consumer) from the mines and yet unloaded. and the margin of profit that should| ‘phe report fellows increased tonnage ade pon Cac aple. baer At: 4 Saad fAeal to every Dumped at Jersey terminal dealer, and will be placed in his store To-day. Yesterday. #0 the consumer will know What 18) p itnracite as pes t te ec he authorities as ae if Selestchignes : a8 Bituminous 16,250 24'200 These prices will bo adjusted by tha In vessels waiting to be moved: Federal authorities and it will be up Qrenners aaaes, 21,800 to the city to enforce them. J Eaersnld - r 50 000 An effective scheme of inspection), IQ,0are at tidewater: | and poli ng will be mapped out by| Brihresne 4e280 ave edad 1 Sew Gayeula every: iolicg In transit within’ twenty-four fi ia Committen o men| hours: an Mays re f ommi Lie f Wom } Anthracite 55,650 67,350 Feaented at the conteren ie by a com-| Bituminous 30,850 55,100 mittee headed by Mrs. Willi Run-| I transit’ within forty-eight dolph Hearst, Chairman, will Attheaste 18,450 21,250 prominent part in carrying ‘i ah, Rew plan in co-operation with Con. Bituminous... 33,950 49,600 miston Day nd th Board, and will see that "8 U H ES Wi LSON erence aoe am ORIZES WI ing by the active interest of w ome m| TO FIX ALL PRICES, in every locality Others of the conference who will help formulate detatls of the adjusting the prices are the w- | Would Purmit President to Name SAL PER An NCR BELG OF Mr ie | Terms of Sale Whenever He ars saehaie | Deems It Necessary erick W and J. du BG a en ie ’ Mr. Hoover at the same t al WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Though cussed Ways and means for |details of the proposed President's uting a sufficient supply of n|Price-Fixing Bill have been strictly necessities to “the most Ind guarded, enough ts known of them to tions of the popu mn," to ® h he | indicate that the power conferred by | is giving considerable study, in order {tt aa orlginalily drawn, ts far broader to alleviate shorta aa much 48 jp a jeanne of Congress had ex. sible. i It is most likely that plans will be | e first section confers upon the devised in this connection by which | President power to fix prices on any. provisions for the needy { con he may deem necessary fn t = t ‘ le interest. The en neasure, ‘The new card system of arnt it of authority actually to deter. naturally se ure. a 2] -" otion the prices that may be charged, of the requirements of these sections | Presuming that reasonable profits wiil be allowed. Dr granted his exemption After numerous protests had been 1e- ived from manufa complained that intervention abor ot an Fed polit muel ration ad or ed in favoritisa jes’ Karment make M ded the exemption to illinera and ir sub dinate trades—many of which had gone ahead working anyway. Amalgamated Clothing Wo Unt which recent split fro the Ame an Federation of nd whose d. es with the rival r mm ed with the A. FLU. wes one ¢ “opr ems of the National Comn in letting con | tracts for soldiers’ unite was for- bidden to work to-day, even thoueh the Raincoat Makers’ Unioa mot bers Ww nitted to toil the whole day through Max Danish, Secretary of the In- ternation Ladies arment Work- Jers’ Union, v offices of tha Fuel Administration early in the day, He said the exemption permitted 14,000 shop n the five be ughs to remain ha that, aside |from the 94,000 workers of the unton number of workers in) affiliated trades and other unions not recog ni Wederation of Labor w total employed to the ne 1,000. nt making district mnmed, Downtown Manhattan. pr t the order week. I ft f the weather steam was cut n all the wera n City Hall Exe 1 all other xee duce Ex # on the two in order to secure a proper p or oneal fiom of mupply, Bo. that considerable VONKERS NOW | HUNTS DEER, | the local authorities to ke such supply as nearly normal as practi-| With Bear Stl) Uneanght It Getn cable with war conditior In truth, Mr. I expressed himself as looking con bly ahead. Yonkers neoplo are ing in this connection. i want Last week it was a wild bear or suffering in the ao-ralied n sad Iteved to be one of aitous sections of the city aniir en out of the nor Also, meth: will be adopted by! by want 04, which, in case of shortage, such #¢ Dr. G Bond, whose santtarjum tions ‘will first be supplied with tho gaysing the prety Me santtaxium common necessities. Meyer, says he met the deer in the road The following letter sets forth in| this morning. Several good folks ax @ general way the new arran t|they saw one yesterday while on their affecting the retailer and cor way to church. A which will be put into oper cating Fae Re oe, PORKOTS, ato. atil quickly as possible as seen by several persona, WASHINGTON, D.C, Fe 7,19 -_ Thirty Years a Fi Dr. Jonathan ©. Day, Commission ; " of Public Markets, Now Capt. George Fox of Eng mpany City No. 49, on Blackwell's Island, began hia! Dear Sir—With regard to a bet- | thirty-first year of Fire Departinent ser- ter distribution of food and cor vie o-day At morning rolicall he was trol of prices of same inthe city | presented with a dlamontt-studded badge t by his me 9 Prementatios ‘ of New York, made necessary bY [py "Acting Lieut David rien ene @ condition of shortage brought |iox was commended for bravery af the About primarily by the distur- {Windsor Hotel fire ta 1498 ——>——____ Silver Service for Flynn, William J, Flynn, former chief of the | bance in transportat t seoms | to us that your co-operation with | the Federal Food Board of New York is of great necessity and | 4, caer could help bring about a condition | United States Secret Service, wae pre- much to be desired need ihe lver gery foe at a dinner In order, however, that thero (Served under him at Mosca ge ‘Avenue and 26th Btreet oe “) Be as little disturbance as po | B r were on Gunnison of lay order was ally ae las r downtown sixty places r between th fe r le. United Sta M Pow nd the police were notified i places wers hut i A There have utions yet, but Mr uid uld resu its of Hrookly rywhere in the f , aro rapidly settling to normal under favorable weather ions prevailing every where, according to the dally report Issued by A. H, Smith, 1 aes Eastern Ratlroads The ¢ w rostill New England v fro Th nort " one Ivanla coal flelds Middle West as M ppl thawing > Fire in Sehool for Bling, Detective Insulation started a fire in the boys’ play: t the New York Institution for the cation of th, blind, at Ninth Ave and 84th § lay, Tha blaze Was put our fore tt could endanger the dozen children then in the building MRe J.D. ROCKEFELLER Servants Will Say “Sorry, «— You Can’t Sir, Have Any More of That Until Next Week,’’ When Sec- OUnderwe d &f Underw rs CORNELIUS VANDERBILT thur the. meeting. ond Helping Is Asked ; TCT RRB ESLGT Influence Behinda Bank ‘ a or Munitions Plant |} Mein tanh Will Not Extend to the o Kitchen, : ut ety, eho W war has been New Yo! ealthy are going to | 1) si Peat . i Le conserve until war a ove ; Ber whether they want to or not Moat ye them want to, of course, but the rea h was Juncholds—the but! domestic ¢ yi and assurance now 4 f « net want it 1 the democ © waa driven home with . lay afternoon to alterna Raft aA A.) crowd ) that packed t ry eed an amalgamation of the heatre from or estra to r f Be pint f Tand sacr fou: Jeral hundred were turned away atter) fr the wite can t RIOHAT ITeRteH ont the house wag filled. Patriotic fervor Our bo in uniform on the ran high, The crowd was lite ure calling for these things swept off its feet with enthusiasm ht have we to he comfort t t sdaker ur brothers are dying on MRE RL a a tl ON fivid? Anybody who wan ie the vital necessity of emp Y forts ¢hat nom bread as we b as we We mu against the aE Rain It was made quite plain tha eon mueh, tir, but you can't any tt m both de that until neat week will Murtin. Directo respectful but firm r t RS Ul rae head of the house asks Heari fort ays forces, cam than his ration of any food th are nid the sending to the boys in the Wie Y nay own a bank ur two or 4 pat OB Ag ae do extend to the n. bolo thal of ffer thet Ph tars | 7 ‘ jae THE BUTLERS AND THE CHEFS Patriotte: Woe ; TAKE LEADING PART. ized yeste 5 me 1G Fata Incidentally, some know fas neti" clubmen are go t hi wan 1 Prive while losing the bay window ‘ t they have st in rearing, a would | 1 he t , 1 number eae . Harry i ‘ H ' diets w than Y. Mot A Ws iat nt hea con t f in Flanders for f Ke will 1 4 \ P Mot ) Pr rl Man 1 Lou war, W i oa Of | fi and rations mor ncive to ha Hd this ut been heart and yenuine enjoyime w erved to the gourmat ‘ ; PATRIOTIC SOCIETY CHEERS PA ; ml TRIOTISM OF ITS SERVANTS Main 1 folk we : ; cuales wn Chitin esa : Mr. I t at y n't a " 1 Movin : ann od ' mud - ; eetin sary ttt ner _ peran BANK CLERK FOUND DEAD. wel 5 ‘ his Nae RRO Vietim ot ‘etn Tre ton, entth Several Months The bu on sotriad) nit for ¥ Laotian bread ration is three pou ad, J per parson. It must be war t Ir. Ka accord » Be trans { 7 th rags. i 4 ude a id th H 1 haw vi at 4 aft 1 FP F Avintors bb ed Night Piha Audey , fr well an folle ut so} Ideas, though aste of ¢ mes i} FERS AND HIGH PRAISE F ~ HOOVER Swift & Company's f Heer New This same Mr, Ii ‘ a the way, brought one the } ef. AGUS . ‘ ‘ MRS.DAN NiEL GUGGENHEIM: + = RAY GRISWOLD. CUPID AND GITY TESTIFY | sympathet Marriage License Bureau Has. Its siest, Day on Fourth Heatless Monda Taking advantage of jarfield Day," applied to-day for marriage leenses and | the Muntelpal by was busy all Exception large alao, * the | wint i lie Island mn of the } RIEGELMANN DROPS 100 Itfons, FROM BROOKLYN PAYROLL It Will ve City $150,000 1 Year—I fed I m than . will w ni Pr 1 ed to-day He Pit would am ity $160,000 0 A ' will an ¢ Fri Ht remmbe 1 and T I 1 medi ASK $35,000 FOR INJURIES. Yan and wire, ir ty Tram in tHeLE is nO tea to compare with OT LOVELESS WAS MONDAY, | « INMEATLESS PLAN; _ FORSPY EVIDENCE SUPPERISNO MEAL Uae Seonis Hunt tart ‘ode on Falking Machine Records on Nieuw Amsterdam. One thousand phonograph records rought to an Atlar port Inst week i) i Holand-America liner N w vim are to be tested, oe NinR lay y United States Ne Serv itives, who be. ! the @ my de mes. r w oe posmed Une read ‘back. ds nldewlae, vustcal note and forwards a op aor ts and examined microscopt marks (hat mucht be mes- Many * have been cleverly ee } among th words and the apparently meaningless “tra-la-las of song records, And frequently mess sages have been hidden under ¢he labels of discs. This mor ek eight motor truck toads of papers, books and magazines from th ship taken to the Public yres at Christopher and enwle Streets for exarmination intelligence officers and postal censors. ‘This work may require two ontha, ® trucks transit were guarded” by armed marines and Se- cret Service men Of the forty-nine first and second pawiengers on the Nieuw Amsterdam who Were detained last week, It was L this morning that all but four or had been “RESTLESS NIGHT” LEAVES GOL, ROOSEVELT “THE SAME” rding of Official Hospital Bulle- ny He cause for C Anxiety Roosevelt W wever, ( iderable Col, The whose {ll- of great anxlety wrted this morning ‘a rather restless ness was the unt week, to hi nigh The wording of tin given to the pr eau was r the first Dbulle. ws to-day by the| tolonel's Secretary, Miss Striker, o¢- casioned some perplexity. The bulle- tin follows | “Col. Roosevelt's condition this morning ia practically the same as yesterday, He had a rather restless | ht, Just now his pulse and tem ture are normal.” bulletins th In lant few days the previous during messa saw the Colonel Last night Mra, Roosavelt received follow cablegram from King U Queon and T regret tho iness of Col. Loosevelt and hope for a dy recovery," —_»—___ covu 105 PNEUMONIA DEATHS IN 48 HOURS BIG INCREASE Health Department Reports 42 More Fatalities Than for Same Period Last Week. olght During the forty hours from ina died from pneumonia in the greater city, according to the Department of Health. ‘This is an Increase of 42 deaths the d r the same pertod in previous week. when there we cathe ‘The deaths from a turday noon to noon t Tho deaths by boroughs Manhatt 221 from all causes, 43 pneumonia; Bronx —47 deaths, 1 4 monia; Hrook 136 deaths, 41 pneu nonin * deathy, 8 pne nia Kichmond—@ deaths, none from pneu monta a lole Wosn't Bla & of Tom When Vollcernan George W aaqed the playing card facts f Louls ~ For Flavour pulse and tempera-| ture were reported as “continuing normal.” The words “just now" tn jto-day's bulletin, coupled with the gtiess aight,” occasioned eome | worry among the Colonel's friends, Who are wondering just how much he did auffer jast night | Many friends ¢ | to-day to make inqu | | Must Make Either Breakfast, Luncheon or Dinner the “Less” Repast. The food-s'acker who has been able to evade the wheatless and meatless meals each day by patronizing no- tela observirg sup as t wheat- leas and meatiess contribution te the War will hereafter have to arrange with some private source in order to ee his thre full pre-war meals. This week the hotel men of New York and tho Wood 1 will dee cide upon the wheatless and meatless meal to be observed in public eating places—and jt won suppert At will be cho:en from a standpoint af rational « The Evening World to-day brought to the attention of the Food Board this fact, that the majority of New York hotel« regular Ing to carey spirit or the letter of the Government's regu~ lation, Thy» Foot Board tous, veritied t ed irregularity and called a meetin of the hotef inen to adjust the menus fo 4s to be in keeping with the food conserving rules w In making an ir- ie meal t estricted one, out either th was increcu- but avickly » report. Arthur Williams, Federal Food Ad- ministrator, declared Vv do not consider supper a meal, and as a war measure we a » trying to eliminate it aurant mony * fittlng for as thelr wheat It is spaying » letter of the what the in ordor- ter down and re ai th from the he This make hotels sand it y obse mentions neither the spirit nor t it accomplish Adininistration set out to do ing the regulation—out the on his meat and wheat It should be a further stimulus for Americans to save when they know that steps have been taken whoreby conservation will be introduced tn eur camps In France in order to have more food for our all If our soldiers at the front can saye, surely we at home law, nor doer The Secretary of War has ‘ust sent the following cable to’Gen. Pershing: “Phe Importance of the consers vation of food and the desirapility of avolding wast ong Our mille tary forces, and the ever inc ing dim of supplyin product to our alle to our military forces population, suggest bility of propas: forces In the mat sity of food conse tion Jooking to sir us been taken cantonments and prison »¢ in the United States The idea suggests itself of ts- sulng instructions to your com- mand looking not only to the avoidance of Waste in messes but also to a possible regulation of the sale of foodstuffs in post ex- changes, Y. M . Knights of Columbus, &e.; also the advisabil of attempting to regulate the by American soldiers of Istufts from the French peo- A civulan the advisa- among your npa, war iplaint has been made that the Fren ople in selling toed products to can svldiers are charging exorbitant prices and thereby Increasing the cost of living for the French pe This causes the unnecessary con sumption by Ar an soldiers of considerable quantities of food This, it in belloved, adds unneces- sarily to the burden of the Freneh food problem. Your recommen dations in this matter are re- uested.” Said of the Food Administra. tlon chiefs to-d The Food Board Is making arrangements with the Po- lice Department to help in bringing he hotels and restaurants in line with the board's conservation rules, In co-operation with Jolin Mok, Bow- man, head of the hotel division of the Food Administration, and Thomas D. President of the Hotel Men's lon, web inted in bearing the This restaurant is obse Ad atrat eulat Our plan is for the police to make 4 systematic delivery and secure the owners tt tons asures “wa OBYLON THA Fresh from the Gardens of Sunny Ceylon. felicious!—Salada Te we ry packet ali ‘ any '0.,100 Hudson St., Now York,