Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-29
TINE BREAD OF PoYsnrr.
ON which Peuper Labor snstninl
Life in New York.

On WnlCn FHNptN tAADef HhhtNhMu
Life Ina New York.
In Now York letter TO the Philadei.
phia Herald, William q. 3. Fa.es writer
Before the September desl' stale
bread was cheap, ranging from 81 cents
to cent for small loaf. The stuff sold
Mt the latter price is more easily imagined
and described. II Is more than stale--it
IL moaidy, decayed or full OF insect life,
In front Of Nos. 35 and 81 Mulberry
street AFRO three old women, bread pod
oilers, who employ scrubbing brush,
sand and water TO remove the mould
from their goods. At No 80 IL another
staud where the same business ia DON.
Quoted. Here the bread Ia contained In
old gunny bugs, which have been dis
carded In other trades and reeking with
filth. They are placed directly on the
sidewalk, or worse still, upon the damp
and noisome steps which descend from
street to the vaults and oellaIs beIUw.
This variety OF the staff OF life is found
In the Ilaiian, Hungarian and Bohemian
quarters; something tIifie superior OBJ.
taina on the stands in the Russian, Polish
and Roumanian districts. The best
stale bread is sold by the great bakeries
| from the stock which is left on the
The rise In the prioe Of bread increased
| the demand for that which Ia stale. The
| hotels and restaurants which supply food
peddlera ralsed their rates, the bahsis
| Followed example and tue stale bread
dealer was compelled TO do likewise.
Hardly week had elapsed after
the action of the bakers trades unions
before every psddler and stand.
keeper, as II by n preconcerted move.
ment, raised the price OF stale bread Just
q trifle more In proportion TO the value
than was the increase in rate OF fresh
bread.
| AT stand on Baxter near Leonard
street the dealer had made a speciality Of
| two cent loayes and built mp large trade
| smong the poor OF that neighborhood.
| When he increased his price, storm
indignation was aroused. At one time
| looked rs If his would be mobbod, bu
| either gu eter coun5sls or else the polio
prevailed and riotous spirit subsided One
1 Of the women who was loud in Der
| denunciaticn said: my husband Ia a
laborer who earns dollar day. We've
got five children and have got 10 pay our
rent. I've got only SO much money 10
spend, and u you make me pay there
cents loaf l can't buy six loaves, but
| only four, and then me aud the old man
must suffer- Then came burst OF
curses ct the "Amerioan devils" who
speculated In wheat, aour and human
lives. * 5.. -.sf, t.5. XXI.
On the east sids dinilar soenss were
WITNESSED. The DEAFNESS OF wheat bread
had an effect which no one mad appre-
bonded. Il oanaed q vastly increaset
demand for the cheap rye, oat and cor,
breads OF the Russians, Habrews and
Hupgariana. These ugly and unpalatabls
loRyes arc nevertheless cheap and whole.
some. They retail az two and three
cents a pound aud probably conthin
more nutFiment to their weight than any
other known article of diet. They are
stale bread per excellence, seldom being
ussd by the peoples who makes them un.
til they ara az hard and dry as wood.
On street stand in Essex street was
pile of bread which Tesenbled vanished
black walnut. Though very upsightIy,
1t seemed worry popular. In D half bonf
no less than 40 losves were sold to the
poor Rnssians and SloYaks who populate
that district. The proprietor OF She little
establishment, Rh1tt, wiry, black,
bearded son of Wailachia, said SIT
doesnt look very good, but its very
,.leoG tnAning il Ia mace out 81 SsiinW
corr. itsi, rya, salt uclgsses aud yeast.
The two meals ahould be cheap, coarse
aud little sour or spoiled. When they
are sour they make better bread, and they
are much cheaper. The bread ia very
solid, being more than twice Rs heavy Rs
the white bread you Americans make from
wheat -four Its price is 2 p and CENTS
q pound. One pound Bnd malt day iti
what nottingham will eat, and ii Eeeps
him in good health and strength Most
OF my cuatomers use two kinds 10 theis
daily diet the one plain and the othek
favored with anise seed or osraway seed.
Generally they use skim milk cheese with
It. The people around here arc too poor
to use anything else. Formerly they
bought good deal OF stale white bread,
but since that has grown dear and hard
to get thsy have changed to this"
To appreciate the poverty and suffer-
ing Of life in the great cities one should
visit large bakery on the east aide. AT
an appointed hour the place is devoted
exclusively to the sale OF stale bread.
Tho regular stock is moved out OF the
way and the counters aud shelves pilsd
high with the bread which has not been
sold within "a or A8 hours from baking.
Long before the honr urowd collects In
front Of the place. Mon and women,
| girls and boys, even little children mass
before the window or, on tfose rare 90.
easions when the police Interfere, form a
line that reaches beyond the next street.
At the hour there is mad rush into the
store, more the movement OF famishing
] wolves than Of human beings. There II
confused flow OF lOeves in one direction
, and Of cents and nickels in another, and
byforetha onlooker can realize the fact thG
saie is over. The snlesmen arc mopping
their brows and little crowd who have
failed to obtain their days food ore stand
ing here aud there mutteripg imprecationl
| upon luck, fato or providence. To him
who thinks, the scene brings up the mohs
, who behaved in similar wise before the
hakeshop of Paris just previous to the
| Reign OF Terror.
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