New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-12
MARKET SEEMS A BOOM
Stuff Is Cheap and Looks Good
to Consumers.
MANAGER ON HIGH PRICES
Says Most Dealers Get 80 Per
Cent, While 10 Is Enough
Deliveries Well Arranged.

q. H. Haskell, manager for Mccarthy.
the man who opened meat department
at the Consumers Market under the
Greensboro Bridge yesterday. says he
has been working for retail butchers here
In New York for the last thirty years,
and he isn't afraid TO put his name to II
that most Of them are getting Per
centage of the customer that any fair
minded man ought 10 be ashamed to taxa
Thirty per cent some OF them get he
told the Tribune reporter. And there's
hardly a one Of 'em that don't expect his
men to weigh their hands with the meat.
Don't you believe all this holler the
retail dealers make about runnin' bust
ness at loss" ne went on. as he handed
out shilling chuck steak and a-cents-a-
pound sirlo!n and porterhouse steak and
the best rib lamb chops at is cents a
pound, TO the eager women with shawls
over their heads who crowded around
with string bags and yswning baskets
It's a good many months now since this
fuss about high prices began. S'pose the
retailers 'ud keep on selling meat at a
loss all that time? No. they're rakin' In
their q or 30 per cent And IL per cent Is
fair proft-all they ought to get. Mr..
Mccarthy here says he's satisfied with 10
Mrs. Julian Heath and Mrs. Thomas J.
Fulton, the Housewives Leaguers who
set this Greensboro Bridge market going,
were not there yesterday, but MT. Nc
Carthy. big and bashful. stood behind his
counter ard told HIS customers how II
was he could sell meat 80 cheaply. II
really was cheap. and the housewives who
bought seemed 10 think II looked good.
Canada les OF lamb was II cents. and
spring lamb IA to B cents Roasting
chickens were 30 and q cents, and fancy
Philadelphia chickens for frying IS cents.
Most cuts of beef were from TO cents
cheaper than they are at the average
markets. And fore quarters Of lamb were
only cents.
And they're good ones" said NC
Carthy. as he brought out a specimen, req
and Juicy. This meats all good, ne
went on, with a wave Of his hand at the
long counters, where. under glass, the
various cuts were displayed. The way
we sell so cheaply IL that we amt got
many expenses. Most dealers keep de-
livery wagons. II costs SIS month to
keep a horse and the driver. Some have
an many as ten. Multiply ,i3 by ten an
you'll see that's fairly big item"
The dealers under greensboro Bridge
don't pay any rent, efther. They are the
guests Of the city. for the consumers
benefit. Add to their no-rent the fact that
they don't have TO pay for lighting. the
electric lights OF the bridge being enough.
and II will be seen that their expenses are
light
You can get everything IN the food nne
except Erocery staples under this bridge
now. Across from the meat department.
n the fresh from-the- water hsh place, and
beyond that fruit and vegetables.
The green stuff wasn't up 10 the level
OF the meat and FISH; II was rather on the
blink; but. then. IL was swfully cheap. On
the Goth street side were eggs and but
ter, and, after all Mrs. Heath has said
about how no one ought to charge more
than a cents a dozen for eggs. the dealer
there was asking Il cents for his best.
But ne declared that they weren't really
cold storage eggs. In his own words they
were mot so very cold storage" His
7-cent eggs. he declared, were not more
than a week from the hen.
Mrs. Heath has made an arrangement
which shows what an advantage coop
GRAFTON among dealers 10 to the consumer.
Under a corner Of tho bridge Is the ac-
oommodation counter Here q nice boy
takes your purchases and does them
all up in one neat package. and by
paying Is cents you can have II delivered
at your house, provided you live above
South Ferry or bslow 18th street Outside
those limits II costs % cents. OF course
l6 cents is i6 cents. but think how much
you've saved on your meat and eggs
and think OF the Joy Of putting ono over
your greedy home dealeri