St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14
The Little Fry Must Come to Linn
erick.
ONLY SIXTEEN OUNCES GO.
The Bakers Believe Good Will Come Of
the 0rdinance---New
Scale.

Vanced to seven big, round copper
cents per loaf, it will be at once seen
that man with big family to care fol-
would have to do considerable lively
hustling were he to attempt to live on
bread alone, and never branch off on to
meat, potatoes and other cheap articles
of food.
The 'bread ordinance" recently
passed by the city council, is hailed
with delight by the big bakers and the
housekeeperS all over Minneapolis. The
ordinance provides that each loaf of
bread shall weigh full sixteen ounces
or more; that no injurious ingredients,
such as ammonia or alum, shall be used
in the making of the bread, and pro-
vides for the appointment of bakery
inspector, whose duties shall be to in
spect the various bakeries in MinneapO-
lis and see that such places are neat
and clean, and provides for the
punishment of all bakers who shall
violate the ordinance. In fact, the ordi-
nance sets forth certain rules which
bakers must follow, and in following
them produce good, wholesome bread.
Heretofore it has been a lamentable
fact that much of the bread sold in this
city has been far below the regular
weight, but each loaf was of the regular
size. The methods employed in baking
this bread were not the best, ana cOnse-
quently the bakers who made bread
that way could far underSell the bakers
who made their bread full weight and
of wholesome materials.
AN OPINION BY REGAIN:
1.-THE Minneapolis bakers, as a rule,
are in favor of this new advance" said
Mr.. Regain, of Regain Bros bakery,
yesterday. 1T is certainly very good
thing, inasmuch as it fixes the weight of
each loaf of bread, and will do much
toward preventing underhand cOmpeti-
ton on the part of some bakers. Before
the ordinance was passed there was no
standard weight for loaf of bread, and
many of the bakers, while making their
loayes. as large as loaf weighing a full
pound, made them so light that they
weighed scarcely half a pound. AS
it is now. every baker is compelled
by this ordinance to use the
same amount of material in his
bread as does his neighbOr, and thus
make a loaf weigh pound. Until
quite recently, when flour went up so
high, nearly all the bakers were making
their loaveS weigh pound, but when
the rise in flour came we were com
PEELED to cut down the size of the loaves
in order to sell bread at the old price
and come out even. Now that the
ordinance has been passed fixing the
weight of loaf of bread at one pound,
we are obliged to increase the price i'm
order TO come out even. We expect that
this ordinance will eventually aid the
big bakers here materially, inasmuch as
it will compel every baker in the city to
put honest bread on the market. Then
when people realize that the bread the
bakers and grOcers sell is as good as can
be made at home, our trade will increase.
The rise in the price of bread has not
affected our firm either one way or the
other. We sell just about as much as
we did before, but do not make any
more money out of it, for the reason
that the leaves are larger than formerly.
Not many of our customers find fault
because they have to pay cents for
loaf OF bread, and if they do we simply
snow them that while flour was only
S4.20 on Feb. IL last, it is now S7.9Oa
barrel. Then we further show them
that ii the price of bread was increased
in proportion they would have to pay 9
cents per loaf. Now, it Is the claim of
some of the small bakers that the big
bakers are trying to freeze them out.
This is simply absurd, as you can see
when tell you that for four years past
neither Lilllbridge nor we have sold
bread by the wholesale to the grOcers.
We had to stop when the quality of
the bread was reduced. We would not
make poor bread, and while making
good bread we could not compete with
the men who made light bread and cut
on the price. The bread then cost from
2 to 21a cents per loaf as it was taken
from the oven, and when the small deal
ers got to selling thirty loaveS for 81 to
the retailers we dropped it, and devoted
our time to the retail trade"
LILLIBRIDGE CONCURs.
Mr.. Work, of the Lillibridge bakers.
also expressed himself strongly in favor
of the ordinance. 1T is a very good
thing" said he, land will no doubt do
much to correct the evils that have ex-
listed in the bread trade. Now, YOU can
rest assured that no more alum or am
monia will be used in bread to make it
highland puff-like. That is the way
some OF the dealers made their loayes
as large as our and yet, at the same
time. twice as light as ours. This ordi-
nance will compel all the bakers to use
the same amount of ficurin their bread,
and make each loaf weigh pound. Of
course, that brings the price of that ar
ticle up considerably, but do not think
that dozen people in the whole city
will object to paying z cents for bread
when they become convinced that thew
are getting good, pure bread and full
pound. The ordinance will create a
healthier feeling in the bread market.
and will prevent cutting to any extent.
Then the idea of having bakery in
spectDr is good one. There are num-
Der OF bakeries in this city which are
not as clean as they might be. l fancy
that some of the people who have been
buying bread made in such places would
feel rather sick if they could but pay
visit to the bakeries. The ordinance is
a good one, and the only trouble is that
it was not passed long BEFORE
The price of bread, cakes, etc., is now
as follows, the bakers association hay-
ing adopted them at a recent meeting:
t Wholesale Retail
Per Loaf. Per Loaf
Common white bread. ...... size &c
Rollsi doughnuts, and all
small cakes and cookies,
not less imam. ......... lOc 12c
Plain cookies, not less than. 1Oc l2c
Per Lib. Per Lib
less tnan... ...... $500. .lOc 80.
Toast ..-......... .....1 Toe 12c
This is raise of from ~ to 8 cents
all around. The bread ordinance does
not affect to any great extent cookies
and the like, and the rise in the price of
such things is caused mainly by the adj
vance in -four, fuel, butter, eggs, etc.
And He Is Right.
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