New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
EGG PLOT MATCHED :
TO REDUCE PRICES
Housewives League Fixes Price
of Cold Storage Product at
35 Cents a Dozen.
THE DEALERS WANT FIFTY
All You Have to Do Is to
Decline to Give Up the
Difference, and There
You Are.

Mrs Julian Heath, head of the House
.i,es' League, fired the first gun in the
campaign against double prices on eggs
Yesterday morning.
The league doesn't mean to boycott
eges. as some folks have supposed The
league doesn't see why hubby should be
deprived Of his boiled egg at breakfast
,ust because some dishonest dealers
charge too much, and so ii has set out to
hiring those dealers to time.
Mrs. Heath brought down her game
first shot. II was in store on upper
BROADWAY. Give me q dozen of your best
cold storage eggs, please" she said to the
white aproned dealer. Cold storage eggs
are really the only ones in market now.
owing 10 a habit hens have OF laying OF
IN the laying business at this season
Fancy eggs, supposed TO be fresh lald' are
listed, but they are as scarce, Mrs. Heath
saws, as strawberries in January.
Fifty cents" said the dealer. as ne
gave her her dozen of the best cold stor-
age eggs.
Not at ALL" the head OF the House
wives League informed him. THE best
cOQ SlOIdEt te6 NeaAA bt HNAN AS- ~ ~~<@NN
dozen. and that is all shall pay"
The dealer measured her with his eye.
Seeing you know the price" he said.
uvou can have em for 35 cents" Then
he edged closer. Say" he whispered.
are you wholesale dealer?"
Egg Plot Is Hstehed.
meeting Of the executive commit
zee OF the league at Mrs. Heath's home,
No West Slst street, yesterday after
roon. plans were laid to have all the
rosrhsrs OF the league adopt Mrs. Heath's
tactics the very next time they bought
dozen Of eggs.
: gut what we want" Mrs. Heath told
The Tribune reporter last night, is TO
enlist all the women Of New York In this
war. We want women 10 understand that
the Housewives League isn't club; It's
A movement, and TO make II winning
movement We want all the women Of the
East Side and all the women Of the West
Side We send out the slogan. Eggs for
Is cents" and if any woman pays more
and for the very best cold storage eggs
Its her foolishness. and we can't help
It. We have warned her.
why" said Mrs. Heath, in her ex-
element taking up a sample egg that lay
on her desk and trying to do the Column
bus act Of making II stand on end and
proving less clever than Columbus. be-
cause she broke II at the wrong place,
why the government report, just out,
saws that there are fifty-four-odd millions
Of eggs in cold storage now. Think, with
all those eggs in reserve, Of dealers haY-
ing the nerve to charge 30 cents dozen
for cold storage eggs! The prices they
charge Just seem 10 vary according 10
locality-or the gullibnity Of the woman
VINO IS buying. Last Saturday our mem
bers found the very same quality Of eggs
selling at So 81. 40 45 and 80 cents
dozen. Now. we've got" said Mrs. Heath,
TO put stop to that. And we don't
mean TO do without omelettes and Gus
tards and boiled eggs, either"
Fancy Eggs Different.
But Nine Housewife. IL your family
demands fancy eggs" you needn't con-
tradict the dealer when he charges %
cents dozen. lie has hight to charge
that Only, scrutinize your fancy eggs
carefully, because there are so few IN
the market-not enough to supply 10 per
cent OF the trade-that It's a gamble
whether your fancy fresh laid" aren't
Just plain cold storage.
Lamb and mutton were touched upon. as
well az eggs, in the notices which went
out TO the members Of the Housewives
League from the executive committee last
night. Eighteen cents the maximum
price for leg Of lamb" is the watchword'
Mrs. Heath says that inasmuch as lamb
and mutton are cheap at wholesale now
dealers can really afford 10 sell leg OF
lamb at 16 cents pound and other cuts
IN proportion. And some Of, them are
charging Is cents. Don't you let them
fool you. housewives! Make stand.
and the Housewives League will back