New-York tribune., 1909-04-17
LOAVES NOW SMALLER
THEIR COST TO GO UP.
Higher Price of Wheat 4lready Felt,
Especially in the Tenements.

Leaves of bread on the East Side of rye and
wheat have been reduced in weight two ounces
within the last two days. 1t is expected that on
Monday the price will be raised one cent loaf
The great increase of the cost OF flour, due 10
the high price of wheat, is responsible for the ac-
ton of the bakers who furnish bread to the dWel'-
in tenements.
There was 10 have been n meeting OF the Hebrew
Bakers Association last night at No. 2S2 Broome
street. II called off ard a conference OF the
officers held instead. They said that the con-
tinued high price of -four had brought ABOUT
critical situation. They felt that they would have
to increase the price Of bread addition to reduc-
ing the weight. and feared the result on the trace
They discussed the situation and decided 10 can
association meeting tonight
Max Strasser, president OF the New York state
Master Bakers Association said yesterday that
bakers throughout the city and the state had De
gun to reduce weight of the loaf when the price
of -four began to go above the normal.
representative of Fleischmann's Vienna Model
Bakery said that there would be no further reduc-
ton in weight nor would the price be increased
but that the public would get the fun advantage
OF whatever flour the bakery had purchased DeIore
the biggest increase in price occurred
At the Cushman Baking Company, Egler & sons
and other representative bakers the same an
nouncement made
1t pointed out that the reduction IN "eisn''
which was in most instances only an ounce vas
not so much as 1t should be if the consumer were
to stand his share Of the increased cost OF flour
at from s. 90 to s. a barrel. Representatives OF
the great flour manufacturing companies SAID yes
terday that they could not figure out now pIed'
bakers could make living at this time.
on the East Side there have been twenty failures
bakers in the last two days, and there are ABOUT
eight hundred iourneymen bakers out of work.
Max CiinteI, an officer of the Hebrew Bakers AS
socfation, said night that year ago tney were
wing about s. 10 for -four that now costs more
than s. They got on the average &5 one-pound
loaves out Of a barrel These were sold for cents
wholesale. There waste and the cost OF sait
and Yeast to be reckoned together with rent. fuel.
labor and distribution The margin Of profit was
so small that It required big trade TO make the
business worth while. And he said that as the re-
suit Of the increase in the cost OF -four To the
housewife the latter buying bread now instead
of baking which increased the demand among the
bakers He was fesYul of the result Of an in
crease in the cost of bread. but said that II would
have
At the offices OF the Hecker-J -Joues-Jewell Milling
Company and the PiIlsbury- -Washburn Flour Com
rany in the Produce Exchange Building, the man
ayers said Yesterday that there a large demand
All over the country for wheat and -four, and that
this caused some Of the price increase, and that
claimed speculatinR in wheat. that is buying ahead
TO anv great extent. They bought their supplies
at thev needed them. Their consumption of wheat
amounts o 100000 bushels year They declared
that the millers the countrr over were making
little more than cents a barrel on wheat -four