The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1920, Page 8

“HUD DECLINES _ 0n Flat 200 Per Cent. Profit on Certain Articles. Compiaints to The Evening World _ ig hich perk prices although market Prices have fallen heavily and tunch- ) Fi re0m keepers in various cities have ¥ Bnhounced a 20 per cent. out, brought from an officinl of the company the | Geolaration that Childs will make no ¥ #%eh cut unless market prices fall }) Tally 50 per cent. Letters from F. B. Van Dorn, As- by #istant General Manager, have gone ‘out to managers of the branch restau- fonte directing thet to minke a 200/ * per cent. profit on such items as they - © ore obliged to buy outside of the com- pilmmary which the orghiization matin- tains to sel! wholenale to thy various {i reataurants, =, Potatoes are one item on which it ts| jevolaimed the Childw restaurants are © keeping up prices established when _ & potatoes were selling im the market =. Piter four times the present selling 4 het April a general order went out Girecting managers to abolish tho “a ‘eustom of serving potatoes with meat jorders for 6 cents extra, and to ce- Pi sconah a straight charge of 10 cents. 4 At that time potatoes had been sell- © we for 12 cents a pound, retail. #) Potatoes long agd passed the. peak tee prices and now are being nold e , i ” * “ ae on in lowest Scere ba ae ee Te RE OE ARTES in the H New t TO LOWER PRICES Manager of j Restaurants Insists ‘hat Childe restaurants are maintain. | be Renna De hee 44 conte, to conta on the of 20 p erent, In our menu pri tatoon still are kep Childs mena cards An order of pn y in one of ept price, 1 in’ wholenate | FARIA piu i Yet whe ped to aro 19 ent pr vontinued, making he arow profit four timon as geent Deartng on point, Mr, Vari Dorn scat ont the following letter fept. # } | SPECIAL LETTER. | the Childs restau i prices. “6 of potutoen drop Subject: PRICES. Manager! Dear Sir. Our prices as printed on the menu are right; ey are just and fair ie patrons and are neeeeery to the com 5 oper standards. maintain Cg eo The covet of raw food materials may fluctuate, even go down; but there are other things entering inte the final cost, and reasons for our charges, co that we can- not and do not change ‘our prices when th wrarmet tA falls on certain ire very truly, CHILDS COMPANY, By F. B. VAN DORN, Assistant General Manager. Approved by WM. CHILDS, Bpeaking for the company in the absence of William Childs, who in out of the olty, Secretary Wimple sald: be changes effec hiMs restaurante weighed xix oy At thin rete, hound of pote we for f oN proht of 120 per cent, at the 12) e thet when buying ents wholesale, the ‘DRY LAW VIOLATORS ‘in Toe es ‘antes reprosents « cdat between 45 and Refore we cin nnke @ cut morket prices must decline 60 por © other items entering tnto no signe the 1 Coal, gan and el . ie all over the country. ‘The raw food is any chance to cut prices. “Phe overhead charge fn any o restaurant or any given group of res- taurants does not dictate our charges. Wherever we establish a restaurant | we must have # piace in a cent and rents genernily are about the ‘name in one city as another for | such locations. | parts of @ city may vary, but we | maintain the same prices in all ren- Kents in different taurants throughout our entire syatern without regard fo local market changes,” WILL BE JAILED Those Arrested at Night Will Be Locked Up Until the Next Morning, Persons charged with violation of the Volstead act, and arrested, an is often the case, at night, will be held fm jail until thetr arraignment in the morning. The privilege of giving ball police station will be taken away, beginning Oct. 1. Such was the ruling yesterday of United States Commissioner Hitch- cock, who explained that leniengy comt i# the only item in which thore | iw wid tae vO TAX CLER JAILED ON CHARGE ° mF \Bail Fixed at $30,000 Each in Case of Kearney, N. J., Collector and Assistant. Accused with Town Collector Harry B. Caithness of embezzlement of funds of Kearny, N. J. and of Hud- ron County/ totalling $66,000, Mra. Thomas Scott Marshall, clerk in the Collector's office, is lovked up to-day in the Hudson County Jatl, Jersey City | Mrs. Marshall war unable to pro- duce the $30,000 ball demanded. County Judge Doherty announced the amount would be rained to §60,000 if real estate is offered and said he would fix the same rate for Calth- neas, now out under $10,000 bail, Bvidence against both is to be pre- sented to the Grand Jury, A thefts centred around tax receipts. He said that books had been “doo- tored” with false entries #o that pay- prevalent hitherto in the treatment Of offenders was due to the novelty | of the law, and the fact that ite con- treasuries of the county or of Kearny appeared in the tax records to have Use Fire OF S50 TT === charge of viointing the Harrison law by having narcotics in thelr poasesston, tn ‘The detectives, who had nad the apart- ment onthe fourth floor under ob: | oh: ad arged from the army two years servation for several weeks, went in by | =——— - oat @ fire esonpeg Arion showed a letter purporting to be signed by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, which he said was thanking him for an invention he gave the Government during the war. He only showed the signature. ‘The detectives #aid they found in the pajamas of the prisoners some white powders and crystals they be- lieved to be narcotics, a two-pound Jer of similar powder, and in the rooms ten 10-ounce bottles of powder Also, they reported, they Ingenious set of delicate wealen concealed in @ wooden spoon the middie. Arfon was the West 100th Street . and his wife was t 47th Btreet, where there is ments which never went into the * been accounted for’ properly. _——— pri aye) stitutionailty was still in question, on our menus. We aim to standardise | "nie Vointend act no longer can be| ‘Three Children’s Gardens Yield ;) treated as a joke," Commissioner Crepe Werth $0,208, re change oe vo ys sald. Re nga =e re. Three, Children’ & Municipal Gardens, nals.’ schoo! ‘game article, | 4fded just as other ci Tet wees arth g2-288 ihe yaar nnounced to-da: Based upon operating results during the first seven months of 1920 we would earn this year less than 2% upon the most conservative valuation of our property ra, duce the identioal item m two y gr Mprt im Leap at Fire. director, thirty six hundred separated places. change tn price ne Golden No. 1000 Fint- Suerer” bad each a tiny pt to nat in the local market ta not netiscted | pase renee. Brooklyn, is in pee vate, fertilize, plant and harvest tn in our prices until it becomes general | County Sos ih toms eifering te j= reat Chat a id brok H and stabilized. a thirds ty window | vat sna eich Bireet aid 1th Avenue, and Corlears “We estimate a gross profit of amo |b, thiedeatony per cent. is necessary on the mealr | ¢, in th halle we perve, but in tact each dollar of Moke suttine off tosape me Hook Park, Cherry and Jackson Streets. ‘Two crops were grown in each Iittle te \- it U before: mi mide arte. ‘|| The Telephone Crisis ‘Our net revenue for the month of January 1920 in New York City amounted to $751,000. That figure indicated an annual return of about. 8% upon the conservative estimate of the value of the property in public use in the City. . February net revenue dsopped $213,000 below January March net revenue dropped 362,000 below January April net revenue dropped 456,000 below January. 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