The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-11-12

Now you will find n barrel OF flour in raw
dough will weigh 33!Islbs. With the cost of
material 5000 please figure n good bakers
wages on that $3.50 and fuel (50c.) you VIII get
S9.66. | will not figure in the peddler's paw,
your horse. gas, rent and repairs 10 wagons
and usual running expenses.
Now, you take the baker who Is giving the
smallest loaf today, which is one pound OF
raw dough that will weigh Is ounces when
baked. and IL he has no losses from
burned loaves and loaves getting tipped over
in the oven he can wholesale them for &c. n
loaf. which will bring Sl3.30. Now,
please note one very important thing:
Every loaf OF that bread that the grocer does
not sell the same day IL is left, comes back.
This Is an enormous loss to the baker. Take
a rainy day for instance and see the enormous
returns OF bread the next day. See the
barrels Of swill carried away from the bake
shop every DAY, almost at a total loss, from
returned bread.
Aud still you cry give US more bread
Furthermore, IL yon are Interested, go TO the
Wholesale gfocer today and consult him and
he will tell you that the baker Is just keeping
his head above water. Also consult the
man who travels over the country
and he will tell you that a frst-class
baker in Providence makes better bread
than is to be had in any place In the United
states. Every 3 cent loaf OF bread that goes
out ofmy shop weighs rs ounces raw dough,
and - cent loaves 81 ounces. We could make
the old style bakers bread and give sou most
any weight, and still make profit. And the
man today in any city who Is giving so much
fer cents, with -four cheap. you can
readily see Is not making frst-classs
article. There are interruptions men In
every business who cry out for gain. we are
giving this or we are giving that But a. the
old sons goes you will hnd someone has got TO
settle for the chrome TIRE BAKER,
PROVIDENCE, November 10. 1894.
The News Scent Loaves.
THE NEWS will be very glad to hear
from anybody further on this subject.
The News has no deposition to join the
socinlistic mob, who want to compel the
butcher, the baker and CANDLE
stick maker to keep them sup
piled free OF charge. THE NEWS
has little practical knowledge of the bread
business and Is glad to learn the facts and
figures. II the baker man hasn't been
making decent living all these years,
The NEWS is glad now that -four
10 so cheap that he will
be able to make both ends
meet. Lord knows nobody wants 10 90
back to those great big, light, watery,
cottony, loaves that before the "home
made" era began, used to be turned out
by the bskers. To chew them was like
eating wads of interining. The NEWS Is
glad that the baker makes no more of that
stuff even il he doesn't make money.
Still IL appears that the baker has been
a fairly well to do fellow-citlzen OF late
years. He has seemed to live comfortably
and occasionally even became an owner of
real estate and personal property OF an
amount not to be sneezed at--at least by
editors. THE NEWS trusts he has not
really suffered too great hsrdships before
the price of -four was cut In two and gave
him chance to finish even.
Last spring, during the hard times, THE
NEWS conducted a bread fund for the
benefit of the poor. Upward of twenty
thousand loaves of bread were distributed
in this short time-twenty thousand five
cent loaves; each weig hing n full pound.
This bread was furnished TO THE NEWS
at the rate Of 3 cents loaf. The bakery
that supplied it undoubtedly msde no
profit on the transaction, but there was
no loss, and in fact there was probably a
bare margin of safety in favor of the
liberal firm that supplied THE NEWS with
bread at that price. OF course there was
no old bread returned.
Now, suppose The News were TO start
a bread fund today and some liberal baker
was TO offer to furnish the bread at cost
as the firm above referred TO did last
spring--the question is could or could
not the bread be furnished at
less than 3 cents for full pound loaf-say
at cents, without loss?
The columns OF THE News are wide
open IL anybody wants to debate this.