The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1919, Page 6

pas 3 22 East 34th Street Paul BeRNarp The Women’s Shop for Values » PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED | ‘ainsi i sa Retiring Partner Necessitates the Immediate | Sacrifice of Our Entire Stock THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FOOD WS CHEAPER tame IEW YORK THAN INNAY IES x Across the Street from ALTMAN'S | lions to People. ream cor By P. Q. Foy. ‘s (Special Food Expert of The visa oreanisal World.) While the consumers in the metro- lower prices on thelr meats on ac- JULY 28, 1919. NEWARK MAYOR FINDS oF suppues FoR NEWARK WAY TD GET BACON FOR CIT AFLOW RATE (Continued From Third Page.) | fer with members eation and Director William J. f+ the blo which will be used for the food sates. xeoutive head of the selling COMMISSION FINDS A WAY TO PROVIDE FUNDS. Mayor Gillen has a “working capi- tal” of $100,000, Newark City Comm! taneous. Lightning Kills a Boy Flying Kite ino ° m. , July 28.—While flying & kite during a thunderstorm late Sater day, Andrew Loyak of this city was killed when lightning followed the wet ‘Loyak was his hair burned off. Death was instan- po Sees NEED HOSPITAL ROOM. Col. Guinshurg Tells Reason for Raising $10,000,000 Fand. ‘Thousands of the city’s poor are be- ing annually turned away from the local hospitals and other institutions because of the Inck of room, according to a ment made yesterday by Col. H. . Guineburg, Chairman of the United Building Fund Campaign of the Fed- erated Jewish Institutions, “to raise 0,000,000" for institutional bulldings in jew York City. Sixteen thousand children were re- ropriated by. the |Jected from the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children at Far Rockaway during 1918 of the Board of Edu- commissary officer has by the Newark Mayor ti ion a week ago, A Ration Of GrapeNuts should be on 150 Odd Frocks of Taffeta Silk Formerly to $25.00 ~ Choice of Any. Summer Cotton Dress PAT EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTIONS | 2225255 Reserved. Every Garment Must Be Disposed of at. Once. count of the large Government sur- ble, J. last Baturday to:stock up their lard- ers with excellent bacon at 36 to sfc, per pound, as against 48 to 50c, @ pound, the general price charged by the leading markets in New York City and Brooklyn, The Evening World has saved tho consunicrs millions of dollars by giv- ing them, almost dally, an insight into the wholesale cost and the retail Prices to the consumer that would return a fair margin of profit to the dealer. According to a recent Gov- ernment report, when New York con- sumers were paying 43 to 600, a pound for sirloin steak, March 1, Bos- ton wap paying 76c, and Philadelphia and Washington were paying 5c, & pound; while on July 1 the same cuts of fresh meat were sold at fic. in New York, while Boston was paying 6bc, and same cuts gost % to bc, a the consumers in , had an opportunity on) for the purpose of and oeung the arm; urples toot. tie had first ‘ledened of the surplus sup- plies July 6, and promptly made in- C By ere ee Tecelv- | 6) Ly re several days 5 or Gen, on July 17, introduced a = lution before his colleague#.on the buy and resell. so on the following Mr, Gillen 4 made a flying trip to Washington lo ba how the sales were golng there. : When he returned he called a spe- cial meeting of the commission, which was held Monday. Mr. Gillen told his associates that the people ut the capital bought up the food rapidly and thought well of it. ‘To the ques- Uon raised that the overhead charges might be too great for the economic succesa of the project, Mr. Gillen stated that quite the contrary was the case at Washington. Clerks had to be engaged, of course, he said, but}, The only for a short time. He said that Meyor CHARLES P. GILLEN.: 1914, estimating at 600 pounds to the carcass (which n underestimate). This would give us 4,560,000,000 pounds of dressed heet more than we had in 1914, which ‘is in advance of the in- crease in population. If these figures mean anything they mean that the present juggling of the laws of sup- ply and demand by the large packers will be reflected so strongly on tho se of insufficient accommodations, sanitarium has children and received 20, . The way, i cares ren im ital, City Commission authorizing him to|Joipt, PD! No action was taken, g Paar any LL FLY TO NEW ORLEANS. Longest Civilian Pleasure Craft Since 1914. 8. EB. Parker and G. Talbot Willcox, two former Majors of the Royal Air Force, will leave early in August on an over-water fight f New York to New (ye posed the: toes tempted since 1914 b; ; 'y osiee flyers in every table daily. - - Its a builder! room for 4,000 \ 000 appiica- Hidren's Haven at Far ts, a Hd “a et ee ital for Deformiti an has but it y elinieat attendance Is 600." Site ‘187, ‘Trip in m1 at flight at- pi Mal 5 trip will be made Ina Curtis production of beef cattle as to dis- courage that industry and thereby shorten the future supply, ‘The present prices of milk and butter are entirely out of line with by selling the food at a 2-cent vance the overhead could easily be So Be ee voted him met. $1 Th Our Entire Stock 3.95 7.75 12.75 Values Up to $26.00: Silk and Cloth Dresses » Beaded Geor- Figured Georgette, , Satin and Taffeta Six 'Vatoce vo $35, 14.50 Silk and Cloth Dresses —! Seagull passenger flying bo equlpr With wircloss telephonic. an elographic instruments. Stops will: be mado at all the larger cities and Sum- mer resorts alony ludson, Bt. Ohio and lssippi Rivers. thorized the is: the existing conditions; speculators bought up and stored creamery but- ter at from 64 to 60 cents a pound, expecting some echimerical demand from Europe. England, our best customer, is taking the entire pro- duction of butter in Argentina, New Zealand and Australia at about two- thirds of the price that the same grade of butter costggin the United States. Our million# of consumers are thus compelied to pay fantastic prices for their butter that these speculators may profit on thelr mis- directed judgment of values and demand, “There {s an increase of 2,600,000 Waity cows in the United States since the commencement of the war, and with these cows giving an average of eight quarts of milk a day for forty weeks in the year, the surplus of milk would be nearly six billion quarts, or enough more milk produced in 1918 to allow every one of our one hundred million conaumers an avert of ‘ty quarts @ year, #0 Rouses did not sell out close, while the|tne present method of maintaining leading retail markets complained of} q:tificial’ prices on milk and butter ght purchases of meats by the co-' cannot be sustained, It is a fallacy sumers generally. | to base the prices of milk to the con- mer on the pfices paid by specu- rs to gamble in butter und cheese Placed in storage and held for a future market, if the products were consumed then the basis of cost might be equitable. It may happen that the butter cheese may be sold next {winter for less than the present cost, yet the prices paid by speculators determined the cost to the consumers. PEOPLE NOT EATING AS MUCH pound more in Philadelphia and Washington. Nothing can IMlustrat more clearly ined by Consumers in the metro: politan district from the conatruc. tive-work done by The Evening World to, ite campaign for fair food prices, as the wholesale cost of beef to the retailers was about the same in the various cities. parity in retail prices to the mers has caused several of the States to investigat tion, while Massachussets is work! same end. eduled advance in the whole- sale meat prices last week by the Lg peers was abandoned, and while they curtalled the available sup- ply the continued rainy weather upset their plans and it now looks as if they would be compelled to lower their prices this weék, as the wholesal ploring o mi lamb and veal,” while the packers, their red tape system of operation, are maintaining the cost to consumers and discouraging the consumption. gt i \ ~ now being offered on the SIXTH FLOOR in Boys’ Summer Clothing Bs fee include €) Washable Suits (sizes 3 to 7) in several | smart models . . . $2.15 & 4.25 ae | Middy Blouses (separate; sizes 4 to 10), 1.95 £ Blouses and Shirts ; of fine-quality, woven-stripe Madras; with | meckband or attached collar (button-down ‘ sports style): : puses (sizes 7 to 14 years) . (neckband sizes 12 to 14 ins.), s $1.35 1.55 Worsted Bathing Suits (navy blue) piece style (sizes 10 to 18) - $3.55 3 lor Catalogue and Folder ORLD WANTS. WORK MONDAY MORNING WONDERS. |. Altman & Co. MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK The Department of Agriculture re- ports the increase in beef cattle in 1918 at 7,600,000 head more than in MEAT AS THEY WERE WONT TO. The release of some of the surplus army ham and bacon held by the War Department will give millions of con- sumers the opportunity to gét their *. favorite breakfast of ham and eggs or bacon and eggs, and this will have @ tendency to level off some of the prices now obtaining on other meats, A survey of the leading retail meat markets jast Saturday did not reveal much difference im thé retail prices. Prime rib roast generally at 48c to 44c, While som ops charged 45¢ for the first cut of prime rib roast, the second and third cuts of rib roast sold at 3ic to 38c, while chucks were sold generally at 30¢ to $2c and some retailers sold ordinary ehuck roas' at 28¢ to 30c. Round steakg sold 42c to 45c, while’ the whole top sir- loin went at 36a 38c, but cuts rom 420 to 460. Retailers were complaining that the demand for mutton and lamb was confined to the chops, while even legs tf lamb and mutton were not sell- One dealer in the upper west near 125th Street said: “We don't worry over what the custom buy. We sell them whatever they for. It is natural that they wi want something that could be cooked quick on a boiler these hot days, and tha y the housekeepers are buy- ing smal! broiling chickens, lamb and mutton chops. Leg of lambs selling at 34 86c, while loin and rib lamb chops were charged at 48 a 52c, according to (he neignborhoud int which the shop is located, The delivery system is bei discouraged rapidly by most dealers, to operate on a cash and Thirty-fifth Street Very Exceptional Values are now obtainable on the SIXTH FLOOR in Boys’ and Youths’ Oxfords (genuine leather throughout) made on prac- tically modeled lasts designed to insure well- fitting, presentable footwear combining the essential elements of comfort and style. Specially featured are RAIN LOWERS QUALITY OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, Fruit and vegetables of all kinds Were not of the best quality this week om account of the heavy rains, nearly everything offered be! watersoaked and wilted. Farmers in Jersey and 4 could not dig their pota- rain and we had a supply and prices went up to $7. a barrel, but will come down this week. Dealers sold potatoes at 4 a bc Every-day and Dress Oxfords of genuine calfskin, in cordovan brown or black gunmetal: Sizes 11 to 1314 + « » per pair $5.50 Sizes lto5% . . . per pair 6.50 sold at 1 be, while 8: 120 a head weie the general prices as to size, Lettuce sold at ¥ @ 8c. head. Small berries were watersoaked and leaking; very Mttle real sound could be had. Cantaloupes were also cheap- er, the finest North Carolina retailing at 10 a 126 each, while small ones went lower, und prices will be down again _ Sports Oxfords (sizes 11 to 514) Of brown canvas, trimmed: with dark brown leather; with soles of red rubber, perpen 6 kg te gee es OBITS Of white leather, with soles and heels of white rubber . , . per pair $6.85 r and eggs remain high; best ry sold at 60 a 620, but print was retailed \at 64 a 6c a Western esas retailed at 56 a 60¢ a dozen, accord- » but really fancy new lald honunery eggs were scarce and re- tailed at 70 a T2c a dozen, he Hebrew housewives can look lower prices -on both broiling ckens and fricassee fowls, while will also be lower. This is due to the larger quantities of fresh fish coming this week. Onions are getting cheeper,and finest aad should not more than 6 a ® pound ti (Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes are sold in the P 34th Street—New York Will Close Out Tuesday 600 Women’s Slip-On Sweaters Reduced to 1.35 2.95 3.95 1800 Women’s Lingerie Blouses Values up to 5.00 2.95 — ths 3.95 800 Women’s Sport Skirts Values up to 7.90 2.75 3.95 4.75 225 Women’s Bathing Suits - Reduced to 9.75 3.95 15.00 800 Misses’ Cotton Dresses Values 7.90 to 22.50 4.90 7.90 11.75 475 Girls’ Wash Dresses Values 2.95 to 5.90 3.95