New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-31

THAN EVER BEFORE BUT THE PRICE Or
BREAD Is MAINTAINED AT THE OLD
RATE BY THE 'BARoNs."
The leaders of the Wholesale Bakers Association
have congratulated each other on the great victory
which they have achieved in keeping up the eN-
tortionate price of bread the figure settled upon
when -four was worth s. a barrel until nov" WIZ"
II does not bring half that sum, ana the "es'er"
farmers are feeding their wheat TO cattle ana pigs
TO save the trouble of carting it to the mills
The bread barons also resolved at the meet
ing mentioned continue keeping up prei" pr -
despite of all public clamor for more JUST equ"i-
ization of things.
There IS nothing new in the resolutions passed at
,ha last meeting Despite their contradictions at
the time they came to this resolution couple OF
months AGO and il was stated in the columns
of The Tribune.
The latest representative of the coinohd''oh 70
fo.stfulIy herald to the world the claim that the
Bread Trust has the inglorious battle IL mas
r.a0el against the bread consumers Is Sipcrln-
,eolcnt Fredericks of Rockwelrs bakery, in East
seventy hfth-st. Fredericks. according TO state
n,ois made yesterday to a Tribune reporter ia
certainly reckoning without his host lh' Sn'h'
bakers sturdily affirm that they have certainly not
given up their shops to Fredericks and his cohorts
ana until they 10 he can achieve no substantial
or lasting victory despite the fact that he is now
hurrahing and letting off fireworks
A leading member of the anti-3read Trust bakers
said Yesterday; The bread barons. with all their
boasts 10 the contrary. were never further from
victory than now Their hope that flour would go
up in price this winter and the small bakers ne
either compelled to raise the price Of bread to the
trusts standard or. better still be compelled To -
out of the business altogether. has been dashea
10 the ground The hest -four was offered Nestef-
day at 50 80 a barrel; -four made from winter
wheat could be bought for 81 10 barrel. Never
before was -four cheap-the last quoted beihg
but little over a cent pound"
The reporter.was told by a member of one OF
the largest flour compassion houses in the city
that the aforementioned -four was as so"i as
could be bought used by any of the Bread
now 10 the rour rostng e q barrel ii was only
because it absorbed more water. and consequently
turned out II the scent loaves to the barre
The high grades OF winter wheat -four VIII make
over 200 loaves 20 the barrel c0nsequ nty al ~
a barrel. the loaves of the Bread Trust which
are retailed for cents. cost about Ia cents Inc
bread barons have all along set up a doorous
howl over the fact that thu public ala not know
the many other valuable ingredients In a loaf OF
Trust" bread. or their cost They nave also
claimed tina, these wonderful and rich things
which they put in their light-waisted iOaNcS 'ost
as much as ever and that all H. operating ex-
penses OF their vast establishments were as great
1t is probable tina, not in the annas Of ma,u-
inc committed Certainly. arguments were never
times" of such paramount interest to the masses
this winter. ,.,
such arguments IL amusing. and only shows thr:
untenabie position The fact is that not only
-four but everything used N their business mas
fallen in price since they last adjusted the price
of bread This he proved but the question
Of the cost Of the other important ingredients
which the big bakers claim used in ihe!r bread
should be taken up. The reporter was informed
yesterday that they hgure in cost a. hnitesna J..
The articles are yeast potatoes. ana m the i.hhi
and French bread. possibly it'll" milk ana lar =
The cost of the whole Of them would not rcach
one-quarter Of II cent a loaf Of bread. In fart.
money is saved in the Of potatoes. The potatoes
seen by the reporter IN one OF the trust bakeries
are known as 'seconds' end can b. bought Tor
about - cents a barrel As for the yeast every
housewife knows that a cents worth OF II WI
raise a batch OF bread large enough 70 IaSt :.
family a week. As FOR the alleged use OF lard ana
milk they figure only in slight way In the
Vienna and French-tWist lOaVes
The big bread factories can now turn out double
the quantity Of bread with half the labor they
could a Few years ago. owing 10 the inir0ductlon
of improved machinery. The wages OF IN" dfiNers
and bakers have also fallen. and bakers VINO got
t9i a week a few years ago now working io9 vi
| or SIS Hundreds Of them are ont Of employment az
| that The drivers work from lively 70 hiteen
/ hours per day and the bakers and bread makers
who work virtually in great ovens, have Il certain
amount Of work 10 do. and The allotment u can De
! depended on is by means small one Inc
| cost OF everything else has also rropcruonatcly
come down including rents. interest on capital; IN
surarcc gas, horses. wagons, horsefecd. hay. mar
| ness blankets and in fact. even the cot or m
| lard and milk-the wonderful things which the biz
| bakers claim they. and they only, u.s. IN bTea'.
AS The Tribune has stated. after thorough IN
vestigation the big bakers simply Imposing
| on the people by their outrageous demands that
| the public shall pay the same price for bread no"
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