The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 12

sayy 3 "1b eel eA 0ST FOOD PRICES SRO? TO CONSUMER DWEST SINE 1914 il Dealers Seil Closer to " Wholesale Costs—Big Decline in Eggs. By P. Q. Foy. | Food Expert of The Evening World.) at which most ‘of the foods Wo retailed tust Friday and Satur- iy Were generally lower than at any me eince 1914, while consumers pur- the various items closer to the cost than any week since ow times. \ ume ‘ Q informed of q cost. } : member of the New York Exchange said: Rewspaper not only saved at least 10 cents a dozen 8,000,000 dozen of eggs pur- them last week, but it also receivers to sell our ees @ consumptive demand ing members of the whole~ ‘trade were equally apprecia- wholesale mark on eggs was 5c. a dozen, but as were charging from 67c. to the prompt publicity in these columns enabled house- to demand their eggs from re- at a fair profit over wholesale et, and by Thursday signs were dis- thousands of retail stores esh eggs at 40 to 46c., while store retailed fresh 6558 up ‘& dozen, night at 39c. a dozen, ters from readers of The Evening inquire “if rétailers are not with the fresh storage ges 4) lake of the Dey ah a a> See a a [ ie Tsar vA . i iw © ae tic 5 te Many Smart Hi aa B drop in fresh eggs last ‘& depressing effect on most Of food. Keocipts of fresh low York City tast week were Of 100,000 cases of thirty ch, totalling 4,600,000 pounds food after the shells are re- Tyike promptness with which the { 8 in the wholesale market ed in these columns from day last week was recognized Wholesale egg dealers as he! constructive while the house- the actual Frisky Waves Frisk Dog Off Ship and Back Sure, and the Pup Was Taking a Kitten for an Airing at the Time. Capt. T, Marshall of the st |Old North State, whose ve should be guaranteed by the fact he is a United States Naval Reserve officer, brought his ship and a dog story into port to-day “This dog,”. said the skipper, intro- ducing him As Sandy, “wagged bis tail at me on the Tikbury docks and applied for passage. He was so darn nice about it I took him on, and he earned his passage by playing nurse- maid to two pet kittens. “He adopted the kittens and would carry them all over the ship in his mo ‘The kittens liked it, Well, on Thursday we ran into a gale and when Sandy was strutting along the deck with a kitten in his mouth a wave washed him overboard. “We all mourned him as lost for a few seconds, but another wave threw him back on the ship with such violence his front right leg was hurt. The kitten, however, was still in his mouth and not hurt a bit, ‘The ship's surgeon, Dr. L, C. Bannerman, put Sandy’s bad leg in splints as you see, and he is getting along nicely.” Passengers corroborated the story and said they had taken up a purse to buy Sandy a fine collar with an inscription telling of his feat. One of the passengers on board was Major O. Westendarp, a British ace with fourteen decorations and a bride, She used to be Sybil de Bray, an actress, and she told reporters she and her husband were going to Poer- terville, Cal, "to raise cows, chickens and children. Another pasenger was Dr. Jans Zuluska, a momber of the Polish con- ference at Pittsburgh. He said typhus in Poland has decreased 60 per cent. in six months and soon will be wiped out—thanks in great part to the help of American doctors. He said there was practically no fear of the Bolsheviki in Poland now. —— Ship Surgeon De: aiiiott T. Bri Fruit liner Dr. nf gpon of th United Santa Marta, was found dead on tke floor of his ‘state room at 7.o'clock this morning. Dr, Harrison of the Broad Street Hoapitai said that death was caused by heart failure. ‘The surgeon waa fifty-four years old and had been with the com- pany for about a year. His home was in New Orleans. heavy pork chops at 22, for middle cuts, Legs of excellent spring lamb were retailed at 26c to 28c, while the rib and loin lamb chops sold in most retail stores at 28 to 30c. There is very little call for frozen New Zeal- and lamb at the moment, as native fresh, selis very close to the price of 15 B. R. T. LINES FAILING TO MAKE COST OF OPERATION the Three-Rides-for-a-Nickel Cars Over Williamsburg Bridge Are Paying. Lindley M. Garrison, receiver for the okiyn Rapid Transit Company, point in his petition for instructions ral Judge Julius M. Mayer tates Distret Court to-day Only he United that there are fifteen lines failing at the present time to earn even their op- erating expenses, while the suburban re- ceiver has suspended in whole or part three lines, and seven lines have totally suspended operation by order of the Nassau receiver. ‘The only operations which ehow on the credit side of the ledges, Mr. Garrison sald, were the cars whigh travel only over the Williams- burg Bridge, charging five cents for three rides. During the month of No- vember, he sald, there was a profit of $5,074.57 accruing from these cars, General Manager Menden of transit company develop: y point in Mr. Garrison's report on,a large wall map, while small individual maps were passed out in the courtroom, Judge Ma approved the sugges- Taylor that it hight be possible to operate the one-man “safety” cars on the Church Avenue line, as well as the practicability of investigating the operation of cars on the Ocean “Avenue line Bergen Street to Sheepshead Bay, er tion of Franklin from > William F. McCombs Dying. William F, McCombs, former Chalr- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee, is lying at the point of death in the home of one of his sisters near this city. Mr. McCombs is suffering from chronic heart failure and has been confined to his bed for six weeks, His physicians say that death may occur at any moment, and that there is no chnce for his recovery. 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