New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-25
FIGHT FOR CITY MARKETS
Housewives League Demands
Establishment of Retail Stalls.
WILL ATTEND FIRST HEARING
Proposal for Wholesale Munich
pal Market Comes Up
Next Tuesday.

| Mrs Julian Heath, president Of the
Housewives League. cut short her tour OF
irsnection of the retail markets of Penn
svIvania and hurried back to New YORK 10
be nresent AZ a hearing before the Board
~ Estimate next Tuesday on the proposal
Of the committee on markets TO spend
q ooo Oo on a municipal wholesale market
When seen yesterday upon her arrival al
ber home. No. West 9lst street, Mrs.
! Heath said:
| A new wholesale market may be needed'
but why can il not be built by private
company OF those interested? what we
| housewives want and what We need is re-
tail markets And II the city begins oy
| snerding 100000 now on a wholesale mar
ket goodness only knows when we snah
! get the retail ones.
THE housewife cannot buy things by
wholesale. and cooperative buying, while
all very good In its way, Is not always
practica bic and. besides. 1t affects only a
small group Of people The league Is work
ING along broader lines TO benefit every
hodv. and we believe our ends can pest
he served by municipal retail markets
Il have written all my group leaders In
the city 10 be present AT the nearing OH
/ Tuesday. and We shall try 10 put our case
as strongly as possible. The chairman OF
/ the committee on markets, Borough Presl-
don't Miller Of The Bronx, is not in favor OF
/ retail markets. and announced this before
| he was amounted. So did Lawrence briggs.
another member OF the committee. com
n,ittee TO report upon such a subject ought
/ in nv mind, TO he thoroughly nom
| partisan
| When asked if she had any suggestions
about the proposed markets. Mrs Heath
/ said.
/ "r would have them Just like the ne"
market I have come from inspecting "
! Cleveland. II is all white thing inside, and
the walls and floors and ceilings nave
| rounded edges. so that they can De more
easily cleaned The only change / woula
suggest is that We have glass cases 10 pro
tert the food instead Of unprotected marole
counters"
/ Mrs. Heath's trip through Pittsburgh ami
Cleveland was a veritable triumphal march
/ In Pittsburgh the Federated Marketing
) clubs. with A membership OF seven thou-
sand Joined the Housewives League IN a
body. and their president. Mrs. john ).
/ Flannerv. was made state chairman or the
league for Pennsylvania
! In Cleveland, where Mrs Heath went 20
/ inspect The retail markets with party
from Pittsburgh. including Mayor McGae
and six Of his councilmen. the league also
gained hundreds OF new members.
The women everywhere" said Mrs.
Heath. are realizing more and more what
NAV be gained through concerted action.
/ il. nil mi "a q
old until next October we can already
,oun, upon I'VE hundred thousand women.
While in Ohio Mrs. Heath was invited 10
Mount Vernon, near Columbus, town ~
about twelve thousand inhabitants. 10 or
canize branch OF the league. The invita-
ton came through a woman who was IN
! New York on the first housewives market
Ing dav. and became Immediately inter
esred in the league
/ on her way home Mrs Heath stopped N
AZ Buffalo where 4 fourishing house
keepers league numbering about thirty-hTe
| hundred held a mass meeting. and decided
TO change its name and become a branch %
the Housewives League.
! Mrs Leonard Dodge us president. will
/ probably become state chairman for New
| York
| Unlike most other clubs that suspend
| action in the summer time. the House
wives League will remain active" said
/ Mrs Heath. and the members who go
away in the summer will do everything IN
their power 10 organize branches in the
vicinity OF their summer homes
Mrs Heath said that the news OF the rise
| in the price OF coal had appalled, many OF
the out Of town members. but that she had
/ not had time to think how the league might
| protest effectively.