New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-14
GOOD BREAD AT Low PRICES.
BAKERS WHO HAVE NET THE POPULAR
DEMAND FOR A REDUCTION.
INSTANCES OF MORE WEIGHT FOR LESS MONEY
THE TRUST LOSING TRADE-FIOCR
BEING USED AT HOME.

THE TRUST LOSING TRADE-FIOUR
BEING USED AT HOME.
The great combination Of bakers which controls
tho BREAD Trust In this city and Brooklyn has
fought hard to prevent the public from reaplhB
any benefit from the cheapness OF -four but II
has oversepped the mark and is now almost In
despair.
The smaller bakers. who are competitors Oh the
Trust have grasped the opportunity and are hust-
ling to make the most of It, SO active have Deeh
their endeavors. that in dozens OF store WINDOWS
can be seen notices OF a reduction in the price OF
bread Bread &c a loaf" Two loaves for &C.
Some of the largest wholesale bakers who are
not members of the Trust have also lowered 'he'
prices Among them is friedman, Of brooklyn
and Ellis of Third-ave.. this city, who nave re-
duced the wholesale price Of their bread 10 'hree
cents a reduction OF one cent.
Among the storekeepers selling their bread ~
William Mckay OF No. @S Seconu-aVe' Io'l
OF Fredmann's bread yesterday. when Wesheu
by a Tribune reporter. tipped the scales al one
pound and six ounces or about four ounces heavier
than the hve-cent loaves OF the trust aithous"
its retail price one cent less
s four-cent loaf of Elliss bread weighed one
pound. nine ounces and a four-cent ioai oi fr'eu-
mann's Vienna bread, one pound. one ounce.
Lewis Ehrhardt Of No. $50 Second-ave., Is another
storekeeper who is helping TO give the gfe"'S
Bread Trust a black eye He is selling as good an
article as can be bought for four loaf or two
loaves for seven cents 1T is made by Hamburger AT
No 1075 Second-ave Ehrhardt also Keeps trust
bread but his trade in it is about dead ne toId
the reporter that his customers preferred ram
hurrer's bread to the Trust bread: even before
tho former had reduced the price 10 -FOUR cents: anu
NOW he sells six times as much of it of all the
kinds OF Trust which he keeps put together
Talk about this cheap bread not being as COCA
as that made by the bakers of the wholesale l}ak
ers Northumberland is rank nonsense. sald M
Ehrhardt why. l used this bread myself IN pref
erence to the other even when 1t was no cheape'
and do now. ~. .r,,ooo,,r
st and the American Baking Company, are SUP
plving their trade with bread at three cents anu are
rushed w+H1 orders. 49,, =. o.hor
The fight for cheaper bread has extended to 9tner
cities and the firms which have been supihHlnS
The n,lbic institutions of Newark. y: j.: win preaa
have given notice to the Board OF freehSde a can n
they Will reduce the price two-fifths or 40 per cent
Frederick Bykeeper. of Brooklyn and isaac Z;
Rates of Jersey City. are among those VINO nave
met the popular demand for cheaper Drtad -
See Kampt e. Graef. Schroeder u 'rvip' -
WulT Brothers and many other grocerS 'oid = iaip
nne reporter yesterday that their bread uaue WI
being rapidly reduced to cipher by me IN
ness OF the Trust in keeping up the pI,,Ce an
tho other hand, they said, their nonf SAFES VI.
much Increased The poor people are tnr X 49,
huvers of bread but they are now as lar a. r.,
HE buying their bread at those stores seIIilE t
Trust bread for four cents loaf, or thty are
their own 50-cent bag of flour VIII MAKE my
lOayes.