The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 7

| examinations of their books will be started to-morrow at the offices of |the Federal Food Board, No. 6 West ith eet MEAT PROFITEERS ss." the Price of Lamb as uncovered vy an |Evenfng World reporter who visited many sections of the city to learn the methods and note the prices and ar- —_—_+— — Colds Lead to 7 Spanish Influenza A coughing, sneezing person is a danger to all he meets. He spreads the germs and infects others. He owes it to himself and to his community to kill a cold as soon as it appears. Neglected colds pull down the system. The vic- tim is in danger of pneumonia and Spanish Influ- ences he has no power of resistance. ‘cise and fresh air, with plenty of rest and good |guments of the local butchers of the | various sections. City dressed lamb, prime, is quoted y by the slaughter house to the rat 26 cents per pound; seconds cents, |Food Board Begins Investiga-| | tion of Alleged Overcharg- | | ing by 234 Butchers, | quoted at 28 and 24 cents for the H food, are the best protection. | 8 YY rs prime grade and as low as 19 cents City De But if you do catch cold, for your own sake and | aa for the seconds \ y for the sake of public health kill it at once. Take f! ‘The Federal Food Board began to-| ot in any of a dozen shops from |day an investigation of the methods |o# the 234 butchers of Greater New | York who are charged with profitecr- | ing. | It Js alleged some of them have ox- |ceeded the Food Administration's | suggested prices by 10 to 13 cents a pound, The movement against them is the first of a campaign intended to lower the prices of foodstuffs, which the Food Board believes too high. If the Food Board actually finds that dealers have made overcharges they will be compelled to refund the amount to customers, sald John Mitchell, President of the Board, and Arthur Williams, New York Admin- listrator. Hearings for the 234 bu Bloomingdale§ 59TH TO 60TH STREET—LEXINGTON TO 3D AVENUE a BGs CASCARA fey? QUININE g { Pom 4 ‘This old fashioned household remedy has been used im ; American homes for twenty years. 4 It breaks up a Cold in twenty-four hourse—relieves Grip in | three days—tones auc regulates the system. 3% cut of prime city quoted at 8 cents, from the leg, ribs and shoulder. in various shops the price ft ribs, Mntirely harmless and has no unpleasant after effects, saith You can get it ny drug store—24 tablets in the old familiar red top box for 26 cents, Get a box for emergency use, ‘W. H. HILL COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH. 60 cents. ‘ Low a large patronage from dwe! he: - Semi-Annual Clearance Sale Savings Range From $75 to $275 From Original Prices You Can Select From Hundreds of Well-Known Makes—Every One a Bargain Each Instrument Has Been Thoroughly Overhauled at Our Factory This clearance sale of used pianos and player pianos offers greater bargains and a wider selec- tion than any other used piano sale in the city. If you have no piano or player piano, don’t fail to v You will find hundreds of pianos of all styles, woods and makes here. A large number of slightly used Walters pianos and players are also included in this sale at specially low prices. In many cases there is only one each of certain makes—probably just the one you would like to own—we therefore .urge you to be here early and make your selec- tion. We are so sure that every instrument in this sale is a bargain that we offer A SPECIAL EXCHANGE PRIVILEGE which means that you can use any piano purchased during this sale for one whole year, and then, if you want a new Walters piano or player, we will take back the used instrument and allow you every dollar paid for it. Upright Pianos Price Includes Stool and Free Delivery it our salesrooms during this great sale. Every piano is a bargain. We have taken a large number of well known makes in exchange for the celebrated Walters pianos and player pianos. Every one of these instruments has been thoroughly overhauled at our factory and is guarantced to be in good condition. Upright Pianos Price Includes Stool and Free Delivery g |Were| NOW Now | ¥ Martins & Sons. Mahogany| $225| $25 Estey Piano Co... $135 1a G, Wigring..... Ebony 225 50 Doranz & Wigan 135 Bt F. Marryat 225| 65 Richardson 145 4 Bellman 65 $ se deo. Si 155 ia Ouvrier Bros. 65 ONLY *9) A WEEK Haynes. .... 155 Haines Bro: 75 01 Pl Pi puree Bro faho, i 165 Hawrie & Hayne: 5 Carlisle 165 Lighte & Co. 75 nm ayer £tanos Neilson 165 Bailey Plano % 165 Lawrie & Hay 5 Pienee 165 3. H, Stone & 5 A Few of the Many Bargains in Lenox 165 esant.... Milton Pian iteroth Francis Bacon... ‘ 85 C4 i i) New England Piano Go 85 a er anos C, Barr & Son . Anderson & Co. 85 Mullins & Sons. . CG. F. Thompson % Wissner Weser Bros i 12 i . C, Campbel Biddle Piano Co. “Makotany % Price Includes--12 Rolls of Music, Dunham & Sons, Weser Bros... H Richardson Schubert... - Ebony Rs a Bench and Free Delivery Wright Piano Co. Hall & Son... ... » Ebony 00 ; halle Needham. ... Weber ; * Ebony 110 Name Wood Were) NOW Edw. Meyers. Anderson & Co. . Ebony 110 1W. F. Tway. + Mahogany} $425) $195 Jacob Bros... k Lurch Piano Co Mahogany 110 1 Caldwell... Mahogany} 400] 225 Anderson « Mahogany) 300} : neis Bacon teen Ebony 110 Pwalters....., Masel oil 468 J. T. Brook + Mahogany} 275| + chubert Piano Go......Ebony 115 a wal Mele , Harmony. ... 1 Mehogery| 400) nse & Son Walnut 115 Valtere + Mahogany) 395] 225 Lawrence. Mabhogary| 0 4 Schubert vee Ebony 115 5 Walters, Mahogary| 395) 245 Sterling. Mahogary| 326 { Frnest Gabler & Bros, ... Etony 115 . Mahogany] 425| 285 Bellman. . +. Mahogany} 3 A hiddle Piano Go...... 115 Melero] 4a1| 288 1 Walters Mahotany| 2 Victoria +++-Mahogary| 250) 115 Mahe, “| 2 Waltere Mahogany! 2 3 Huntington Piano Go. . , Oak 275| 115 + Mahogany, 425) 325 & Walters. . Mahogany| 2 | Sherwood & Sons........Mahogany] 250] 115 . Mahogany) 425| 325 9 Walters. dnuee| 4 | Rollerman & Son. :< Maton] 375] 128 : Mahogany} 450] 325 | 1 Walters Meherors| 3 4 Arion Mahogany) 250 125 a 1 Walters Maho 3 ; Marshail & Wendeil.....Rosewood| 325] 125 fp UBFERRRY 15 19 peice 435) 345 1 Walters eal 3 | Wissner Mahogany} 450) 135 eliman & Co......Maregeny) 425) 345 2 Walters. +. Mahogary| 3 Cc. W. Wuertz Mahogary| 250| 135 5 Walters... Mahogany} 425} 345 2 Walters... »»Mehogany! 3 1 Richardson, Mahogany} 425| 345 “ rie 3 Walters. » Mahogary| soo] 375 want ra Driv 5 Exchange Privilege 1 Walters, ipod pall pe Open Evenings Palen yp ca pe 1 Walters. . Mahogany! 500] 425 For the convenience of those who cannot call during the day our Piano Department will remain open every i 30, Kindly use en- 60th Street, be. tween Lexington and Third Avenues. Direct elevator to Piano Department, Third Floor. Player Piano purchased during this sale. You may ute it for a whole year and we will allow the entire amount paid to apply toward the purchase of anew Walters Piano or Player Piano. Bloomingdales’ Piano Dept. ___ 59th to 60th St., 3rd to Lex. Ave. Western dressed lamb is the lower east side to far up in the Seventies on the west the cheapest dressed lamb is This is for cuts} And the same cut varies as much as 15 cents a pound, the divergence being particu- larly noticeable in the selling price which some shops in Man- hattan sell for 35 cents and others for prices are not most in evi- dence on the east side elther, for in one shop on Third Avenue, near 14th Street, ribs bring 40 cents, and in a shop on Columbus Avenue, which nas |] let, which will ° bring % cents. | Columbus Avenue, which serves a similar trade, asks 50 cents for ribs, which command the same price from ® butcher in Fourth Avenue, | poasts that iis patronage in muue 2p exclusively of Gramercy Park million. | aires, who demand the best and get it. | This table shows how the prices of the various cuts vary in Manhattan, | the Bronx and Brooklyn, It metudes | the prices charged at every class of shop in each borough and gives the range from the lowest to the highest. Manhattan city v who dreawend ‘dre ity ‘ Western Hrooklyh 8248 90-88, 6 tee oes You look at the figures again and ‘then grasp at your guiding thread of | Cost. | “Ah!” you exclaim to your butcher: | | Weaterh | “Now I've caught you! Here you pay | twenty-six cents for prime city dressed lamb and sell mo ribs for |forty-five cents, Profiteer! Explain| | how you can do it!” Your butcher is an affable gentlo- man. He smiles and raises a hand in- voking patience. “Come with me,” he says, “and I'l) show you something.” You follow hi “Here I have a whole lamb,” the affable butcher speaks. “I bought it jlast week: af “Then you bought it at a cheaper price,” you interrupt, for you have read that lamb increased in price this week. “Yes,” the butcher admits, “I pald 23% cents for it. See, it weighs thir- ty-flve pounds and consists of the two hindquarters, the rack, from which you get your choice ribs at 45 cents; the stew ribs, which include the breast, neck and shoulder; the haslet, which is the liver and heart, and the shanks. “The shanks are pure waste. They'll weigh three pounds. The has- also welgh three pounds, is nearly all waste. I'll take 15 cents for it. There is six pounds which cost me 23% cents each for which I get but 15 cents. “Now the stew ribs will weigh ten! pounds, Since my trade won't buy! shoulder chops I don't make extra cuts of that but Include it in stew rite, which we call ‘rough stuff’ be- cause there {s little demand for It We get 25 cents a pound for stew ribs “The rack weighs six pounds and sells at 45 cents a pound, The hind quarters, from which you get loin chops at 45 cents a pound and leg at 15 cents for it. There are six pounds 36 cents @ pound, will weigh sixtee: pounds, Of this only four pounds wiii Rib, Shout’, | = a. ‘ i THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 19 Another shop on|make loin chops, Now add up what |we et for the whole lamb," You have been following him with pencil and Finally y “You get $10. costs you $4.98 same ‘tim metic wo “Why,' 80 per « The affable butcher again raises hie| tually, man to man, I've lost 67 cen | hand, on “1 ‘forgot “that dui lamb In the refrigerator to season it; it lost about three pounds in shrink- Who are they? age. My overhead and operating ex- pense is 20 per cent. My capital ie worth $ per cent. So, while my gross margin appears to be 30 per cent., fit is but 2 per t paper. ou hay You r sum. this lamb which calculate, jo rde: ™ 100,000 Francs, i joing some mental arith-|think of It, I've actually | rk. on this whole lamb. Look, * you gasp, “you're making|cents { lost In shrinkage is 9 per nt, protitt” cent. of the value of the lamb, Ac- at the mouth of the Garonne Riv: co more invoking patience. |in the handling of this lamb, Would to tell you," he adds, |you believe it?” ring the week I've kept this] You don’t, but you rush out. He ed" to. has too many figures for you to com. | six-year-ol 01 bat. ing *. The child perished. ® BONWIT TELLER & CO. j FIFTH ivantn tf aa STREET Will Offer Friday A Collection of Early Season Modes About a Hundred Odd Styles in All WOMEN'S FALL FROCKS At Greatly Reduced Prices 19.50 Some of these models were as high as 69.59 THE RANGE OF SIZES IS INCOMPLETE, AS THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FROCKS OF A KIND Included are frocks of navy blue serge in various simple tailored styles, also frocks of Georgette crepe and frocks of satin. Who makes the dentifrice you use in your mouth? Your dentifrice is so full of possibilities for both good and evil that you cannot be too sure aboutit. Is it made by a firm with a reputation gained in a business life of over 100 years? Are its makers and their product known and ap- proved by the dental profession? Are its claims confirmed by such evidence as is int this chest? Evidence that Colgate's is preferred by dentists is contained in the affidavits and other documents in this Evidence Chest—deposited with the Title Guar- antee and Trust Co. of New York. ‘They may be examined by accredited com- mittees on application to Colgate & Co. COLGATE & CO. AIDS U. S. MEMORIAL FUND. cipal Council sa BORDEAUX, Oct. 17.— Muntetpat Sh 3 e 000 francs toward @ fund being raleedt to erect a memorial in honor of America ron, eighty years old, was fatally ay while try! id Irene Willard from a burn=