The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
Summer Luxury Will Soon
Cost Consumer Ten
Cents a Glass.
Dispensers Take Action Fol-
lowing Pure Food Law
Regulations.
While Price Will Be Higher,
Quality Will Be
Better.

me last nope OF the lovers or Ice
cream and ice cream soda that the price
OF that summer luxury and beverage
VIII not be advanced in price by reason
of the pure food laws, which require the
raising OF the standard and quantity OF
cream 10 be used in the manufacture Of
ice cream, has vanished like a midsm-
mer night dream-the retail dispensers
have decreed otherwise and, as they are
masters Of the situation and control the
market, the price viii be advanced from
cents for ice cream sodas 10 10 cents,
while the smallest amount of ice cream
that VIII be sold viii be 10 cents worth.
The large plate that viii be dished out
this season will be smaller in quantity
but richer in quality.
Druggists Take Action.
At a recent meeting OF the Washing
ton branch Of the National Association
Of Retail Druggists it was recommend
ed. which means It will be universally
adopted by all retail dealers, that the
price Of ice cream sOdas be raised to 10
cents and not less than 10 cents worth
of ice cream shall be sold. There are
in this city % retail druggists, who sell
4 Ice cream sodas and ice cream, most of
WHOM are members of the Retail Drug
igists' Association. It is a foregone con-
sclUsiOn that every one of them will
raise the price Of ice cream sodas.
There are something Ike 100 retail
cOnfecuOnerS selling the same line Of
summer drinks, while there is q like
number Of ice cream manufacturers on
large or small scale who cater TO the
public.
It seems to be the purpose of all these
Dealers wholesale and retail, 10 raise
the price OF ice cream by reason of
the pure food law and the consuming
public VIII have to pay the bill.
All May FAN Into Line.
Most druggists buy their cream from
the big manufacturing concerns, but
there are probably % per cent of the
total number that make their own
cream This estimate does not take
into consideration the many small dis
pensers of icC cream and ice cream
soda who conduct smell fruit stores and
other similar places. OF vhict1 there IS
no record-it is probable these small
dealers viii push Up the price along
with their more important competitors,
Health officer DR.. W. Q. Woodward
said this morning that while the stand
ard fixed by pure food law as the per
centage of butter fat TO be contained
in ice cream was Is per cent, the reguia-
Jiuns OF the District Health Department
was 20 per cent butter fat. and that his
department would enforce, as far as
il was able with its limited number Of
inspectors, the requirements of the law.
Cream Will Be Richer.
A retail druggist said this morning
that the enforcement of this law would
naturally make the cream richer, but IN
his opinion the cream that would be dis
pensed this season under that law would
be of an inferior quality in SO far as
satisfying the public. He thought ice
cream should have a certain percentage
of corn starch or gelatine in it.
Recently Or. Woodward recommended
70 the Commissioners that a regulation
be promulgated, in connection with the
pure food law inspection of HIS depart-
ment for the betterment Of the sani-
tary conditions Of the markets, food
producing houses, and places where food
supplies Of all kinds are sold, requiring
eu such places TO register the name OF
S9A managers. names of houses, num-
bers. and other information which
would enable the Health Department to
keep a complete record.
VIII BE- Put in Force.
These recommendations of the health
officer have met with the approval OF
the Commissioners. and will be put in
force at an early date. DIT. Woodward
in explaining why the Health Depart
meat asks for this, says that under the
present system the department has no
way TO locate the smaller of the houses
manufacturing and selling food stuffs in
the District except by personal discov-
cry. there being no record of these
places in the department.