The Detroit times., 1910-12-01
BREAD TRUST HAS
NO EXCUSE FOR
SMALL L0AvES
Flour Much Cheaper Than When
Bakers Whining Caused Amend
ment Of Ordinance To Permit
Cut To 13 and 26 Ounces.
Some Smaller Dealers Stick To tho
Old Size and Say They're Max
ing Money.

While members Of the so-caIled
'bread trust" composed of the largest
four and some of the smaller bakeries.
protest their inability to increase the
size of loaves from Is and rs ounces,
and selling at Ave and nine cents. re-
spectively, many Of the smaller bak'
cries are doing thriving business In
the sale Of loaves OF pound weight
for Eve cents. the same as before the
tale Of financial ruin was told before
the common council three years ago,
which resulted in the bakers being al
lowed to make smaller loaves.
I'VE have never changed the weight
Of our loaves," said Paul Bader, the
prosperous looking young proprietor
of the Palace bakery, No. 166 Michi-
gan-ave. Three years ago when the
bakers went before the common coun-
ell and told what a hard time they
we're having, We didn't make SO very
much money. Flour was up to about
$3.50 barrel then. and 1t was hard
to make both ends meet. but we knew
the situation wouldn't last long, and
SO we kept giving our customers the
16 and 32-oun>e loaves. We have two
grades of bread, but We use the same
grade Of -four In both. One sells for
five and nine cents, and the other for
four and eight. The difference Is In
the amount of sugar and lard that
goes into the lOaves.
II don't think anyone Will question
that our five-cent 16-ounce loaf Is as
good as the Bounce loaf sold by the
big baker for the same price. Our
customers have the chance to buy the
other at the grocery If they wish, but
they don't do It. We do all our work
by hand. and any one who knows any
thing about bread.making, knows that
II takes a better grade OF nour to
make good bread with matchmaking
than with Misunderstanding. The big
bakeries can buy their nour several
carloads at time, and 60 get = lower
price, than we can. We are using
nour which costs $40 a barrel. IL
we did not have our contract made,
we could buy the same four now Tor
S."
The Bader bakery does not deal
through groceries, and thus saves the
retallcrS pTOul, Uut thoio "'S
bakeries in the city which serve the
retail traIe. and still make the OLD
sized loaves.
Henry Crow, No. 1913 Sycamore-st.,
sells to the retail dealers, who sell his
14-ounce loaves for four cents and Ills
2s.ounce loaves at eight, or IA tickets
for 81. Crow says that the spring
wheat -four which cost him $6.26 three
years ago, Is selling for $50 now.
Proprietors of the large bakeries
are said TO be preparing a statement
as to the comparative cost OF produc'
ing good bread. No increase In the
size of loaves Is expected.
Aldermen now In the council seem
ayerse to being quoted as to restor'
ing the old bread ordinance. They
saw that 1t would probably result In
an increase Of the price per loaf.
which would be a greater hardship on
the consumer than the decrease In
the size, as the variation Is more grad
nal where one or two ounces are
taken of the size than when fuil
cent Ia added to the price.
There are plenty OF small bakeries
however. which are glad to supply
their customers at approximately the
old rates.