New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-07
TAFT PIE SOME PUMPKINS
Or Rather, Some Squash; In
Fact, 81 Pounds of 1t.
TEDDY'S has A STREAK
Three Big Vegetables To Be
Feature of Washington
Market Centennial.

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| These are the latest market quotations
on the Presidential candidates, as en-
| bodied In three huge. round squashes
which will be the chief attraction to be
seen at Washington Markets centennial
Celebration this week. AS surely as the
MONDAY campaign orators in Park Row
fill the hungry multitudes with promises
of prosperity and full market baskets,
so do these three fat squashes promise
pies and plenty for all.
There are many more pies to be ex-
pected from Taft That is plain to even
the most prejudiced Democrat, for Taft
weighs eighty-seven pounds, Wilson
thirty-fve pounds and Roosevelt sixty
pounds.
The quality varies slightly, too. Taft
squash Is worth almost six cents pound,
| Wilson more than four cents, while
Teddy" squash brings only three cents
pound, a quotation which is accounted
for by the big yellow streak in It.
| While these Presidential squashes are
drawing huge crowds to the modest vege-
table stand, no better known than Sea
Girt before fame was thus politically
thrust upon it, there is a rival attrac
ton in a far corner of the market in the
form Of a large red sandstone tablet
draped with flags.
! This is no less than the original corner
stone placed in the old Washington Mar
ket 100 years ago. Ii was lent the mar
ket by the New York Historical Society
for the centennial celebration, which be-
gins next week Tuesday. The tablet reads
as follows:
WASHINGTON MARKET.
Erected by the Corporation Of the City
! OF New York on the sth day OF October.
! \. ID, 1912, under the superintendent OF
] Peter Mesier,
. John Pel,
Mich1 NJ. Titus, Market
Josiah Hedden, Committee.
Augustus II. Lawrence.
John Morss,
Richard Furman, ihspeCNo'e'
The whole marketplace, from chickens
down to ham hooks. has been receiving
such a scrubbing and painting and primp-
ing as 1t has probably never had before
IN all it's one hundred years 1t had a
sample treatment last spring in honor
of the Housewives League. so II is in a
measure prepared for the present drastic
treatment Bandstands are being hoisted
up over the fee boxes, stuffed eagles and
owls produced from cold storage, and
around every other corner one bumps into
a boy running with bundle of flags. 10
be tackled up over come fancy cheeses or
! extra shiny apples.
Mayor Gaynor has promised TO be pres
ent on the opening day, along with other
city officials.
Thursday will be housewives day-not
Housewives League day, please notice.
This occasion is for all the housewives
OF the city and surrounding towns, not
for the mere fifty thousand or so who
belong 10 the league. II Is not that the
marketmen love the league less, but that
they love more women more. The league
is not jealous-not at all. 1t is most
anxious to cooperate to the end that
the market may be doomed and the city
see the necessity OF other markets up
town.
As Mrs Charles H. Griffin said yester-
dav-and Mrs. Griffin Is chairman OF the
Housewives League committee for the
celebration-"Washin Market is all
right, but It IS absurd to expect woman
who lives uptown 10 spend whole morn
ing marketing down here. The women
demand markets nearer their homes"
Mrs. Griffin will be in charge OF a
booth during the celebration. at which
Housewives League buttons and litera-
ture will be dispensed to all corners. Mrs.
TulIan Heath will be one OF the speakers
on housewives day.
TIE booth will be womaned by Mrs.
Griffin's committee, among whom are
Mrs. Egbert Carraway Mrs. s. S. Slader.
Mrs. T. s. Frost, Mrs. II. r. Fell. Mrs.
W. s. Parrish Mrs. b. F. O'Connor, Mrs.
John Fulton and Mrs. l.. Skidmore.