New-York tribune., 1912-02-15
CP|T|CISES CITY MARKETS
Mayor Shank Says Indianapolis
Grocery Stores Beat Them.
TALKS AT A DINNER HERE
naurhters of Indiana Hear of
food Price Crusade in Their
States Capital.

Seu York's markets are q disgrace tc
"a. ,,sat big city" said Mayor Lew
sSo,k OF Indianapolis last night My
- and I spent the whole day yesterday
80 m find them. We made two round
-, of the city looking for them. Finally
o'clock this afternoon, a newspaper
',o.ter carried us down 10 the Washing
Market and then took us over to the
l1ersrson Street Market. Why We nave
f.-ooS,v stores in Indianapolis that beat
iyoaF markets ,----,
aeror Shank was talking TO tho Daugh-
L,ry.of Indiana at their annual dinner at
s,bs Hotel Astor last night.
81 am fun of this subject" he said. II
, ,or,,d only tell this story as ! know IT
.o,,,5 make the greatest speech in the
uoyld. but cant talk to you about II very
inch tonight. anyway. We want 10 elect
.,RgI'. Taft President again this year. and l
have got TO spend most of my time on that.
put your markets are an outrage he
continued do you know they tell me
a,hose fellows down there at Washington
Market pay $4,000 q year for something
7 son't know what or why. but they call
Al, ysnt. and It costs S9,COO a year to keen
n,bs market clean. Why. our market in
Indianapolis costs less than 5000 year
tor lis upkeep. Those men in Washington
market ought not 10 have TO pay cent
ATb4 market was donated to the city and
,hs taxpayers pay for the upkeep. They
ought to get the benefit Of 1t. or course
those fellows have 10 charge high prices
~ nav their rent There ought not TO be
suy rent, and the taxpayers ought 20 get
,bs benefit of that $4,000 a year rent In
lower prices for their food
Another thing you have got TO fight Is
ths apple trust We have tried to bust
the ample trust in Indianapolis and we
made the commission men come through
Sr talked 10 a Brooklyn Senator about the
i,spple trust in this city and asked him
rbv he didn't vote for the bill tho far
Il.r,.rs wanted 10 force the commission
men 70 make their returns on sales Oh
srpIes In the name of the farmer VINO
.hipped the apples to the city. He SAID
he was representing his constituents in
This CITY and not the farmers upstate.
Well he was frank. anyway, and it sounds
good 10 hear a politician tell the truth.
But the truth is that the commission
men buy their apples in the northern part
Of the state at 81 and 81 so barrel and
then put them in cold storage in the fan
and keep them until this time Of the year,
when they sell them for Sc and So and 50
barrel A farmer in the northern part OF
sthe state told me he would be glad 10 seq
his apples for 50 and 81 % barrel, but he
could not get the commission men to take
sthera, because they had the cold storage
shouses full of last years apples that they
were selling for &c and s. a barrel.
They were doing the same thing IN
Indianapolis, and We went out 10 the farm
ers and bought apples by the carload and
showed them in at sS a barrel until the COM
mission men sent pedlers out around the
streets. selling apples at % cents peck.
We made the commi ssion men come through
-snd that was what We were after
He told how in indianapolis he had
forced the price OF turkeys down TO Il
cents pound and Christmas trees to %
cents each More than $500 had been
saved 70 the people OF Indianapolis In
week by bringing the price Of potatoes
down 10 20 cents peck by the simple
means of having the farmers bring their
own produce TO market instead of selling
It through commission men, and at the
same time the farmers had got from 90 TO
81 ner cent more for their products.
1T isn't tho old jayhawker with chin
wbiskers who is making money on the
farm these DAYS" hsAsaid. ut is the up-to-
date farmer who succeeds. What We need
Is education on the farm"