New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-26
BREAD At LAST COMES DOWN.
THE WHOLESALE BAKERS ASSOCIATION
YIELDS TO THE PUBLIC DEMAND.
BREAD WHICH FORMERLY WAS RETAILED AT
FIVE CENTS WILL NOW BE SOLD GEN

BREAD WHICH fORMfhLI WAC rNTih'b'>D -
FIVE CENTS WILL NOW BE SOLD GEN
ERALLY FOR FOUR.
The Wholesale Bakers Association OF this city
and Brooklyn has at last acceded to the pubic
demand for cheaper bread, and has reduced inc
price Of Its loaves cent each. The former
wholesale price was four cents for the eighteen
ounce loaf. which sold by the retail grocer ana
others who handled bread for five cents The
wholesale price has been reduced to three cents
and the retail price to four.
The price of the large two-pound loaf has also
been reduced q cent The wholesale price was
formerly eight cents 1t is now seven cents ioai'
The retailers now sell 1t for eight' instead vi o
cents formerly.
The VIII Die sale Bakers Association made a strong
fight against the reduction. and for several months
The Tribune batted for the peoples Just dehanu
for cheaper bread. The matter was investigated
thoroughly, and II has shown clearly that the price
of bread demanded by the Wholesale Bakers AS
ISOLATION was entirely out OF proportion TO inc
cost of -four The price of -four had fallen 10 Il
point lower than ever before in the history OF the
country, but the price OF bread had ny no mea"9
kept pace with 1t. The present low price Oh noui
was not reached suddenly. but was brought ABOUT
by a gradual decline In the price OF wheat ne
price of -four was OF course governed by the price
of wheat The price of bread apparently was not
at least so far the Wholesale Bakers Assoc'a-
ton OF this city was concerned. ALTHOUGH INC o'
ness in the -four market reached such point
within the last few months that the western
millers were unable to find a market TOT 'ne"
output and talked of combining TO limit H. inc
Wholesale Bakers Association still insisted on ue-
manding for its bread the same prices as wheh Tue
cost OF -four was double what u Is now.
The wholesale bakers had no reasonable or souhd
arguments advance In defence or their postum
Their claims that everything relating 10 'hei'
business with the exception OF flour. cost as much
uutapable But there was GER
tainly more truth than poetry In the claim wmch
they latterly made that they did not sell as much
bread as when flour was higher. IL they couid not
discover the cause OF this. others could and did.
The price of -four was SO cheap in comparison win
the price Of bread that the retail grocers began
to neglect the sale of the latter, and TO persuade
their customers, especially The poorer class 10
buy -four and do their own baking The wants o.
many poor people who had not the facites OF UNI, me
to bake their bread are looked ai,er ~ ,..r
smaller bakers who sold most of their brehd over
their own counters They reduced tne BUSINESS nJn
oread ana e The Tribune We're open to fair
and impartial discussion Of the ehtfv or of ne
but the eyldemSe fo wa cbesoer bread there was only
AT last the ranks OF the Wholesale Bakers Asso-
citation began to waver and this fact was guy
chroniced in this paper at the time ana no" '"e
WIFI All the retail stores are now selling the oaves
for four cents which were formerly soia TOT ~, Nv.
and there is great rejoicing among the bread-buy-
rs especially among those OF the poorer class. 10
whom a cent saved every loaf; or ~ per cent Oh
it's former cost. means great deal oors,s,s Of
The Wholesale Bakers Association consists oi
some sixteen eighteen of the iarses, stealn
bakeries in this city and Brooklyn engaged ID me
manufacture OF bread of uniform quaii'y; lns Sa
delivery in every street nah!, hiit 49,
supply all nearby cities and towns. The Voiume vi
business done by them Is large 81, ,ha
representative of Rockwells bakery. one OF the
largest in the association told Tribune reporter
Last night that the firm had reduced It's prices on
ali lis varieties of bread. and that ne ,Dene!.u
every other firm in the association had done TIE
same. -, ......, r.,.u dealers
,bat tho cut was general The o. *. bakery, the
largest in the city, Fleischmann SHUTS, Oh brooH-
isn and ALI the big bakers have come down
The meetings OF the Wholesale Bakers Associa,
,,on are always held behind locked doors but tne
, learned from an authoritative source that
ne cut in bread prices agreed on at the last
meeting Of the association held III us roo'i's /"
Fast feminist.