New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-03
MARKET PROVES SUCCESS
Housewives League Organizes
New Branch as a Result.
FISH DEALERS SELL OUT
Prices Of Vegetables Much Be-
low Average at the Queens
boro Bridge.

Another tradition gone by the board.
The day of the market basket Is over.
or the hundreds OF East Side housewives
who thronged the market yesterday UNI
der the Greensboro Bridge TO buy up the
fresh vegetables that came In from Long
Island the night before only two carried
the regulation basket. The rest were
provided with string bags or leather bags
that slipped over the arm.
These bags, however, seemed to be OF
elastic dimensions. and many of the East
Siders got as much into them as Mrs
Julian Heath. president of the House
wives League. got into her famous mar
ket basket.
Yesterday morning marked the second
attempt OF the Housewives League 10
bring the producer and the consumer into
direct relation, and It was much more
successful than the first attempt, which
was opposed by the retail dealers OF the
neighborhood.
Yesterday more than four thousand ears
OF corn were sold at . cents an ear just
half the price charged by the shops OF
the neighborhood Beets and carrots sold
at three punches for cents and two
punches for cents. Cabbages were 8
cents a head and new Long Island po-
tatoes were pounds for 10 cents
Mrs Heath bought vegetables enough
to last her four days. she said, for 30
cents. The contents of her tasket were:
dozen ears OF corn, four punches or
carrots, three punches OF beets, four GU
cumbers and a small basket of potatoes.
by the time those are gone said Mrs.
Heath, we shall probably have another
market day here We are planning now
TO make every Tuesday and Friday
vegetable market days. and II they oil
prove as successful as to-days market
has been We shall probably be able to
arrange a daily vegetable market that
will do as rushing a business as does the
daily fish market that has been estab-
nshed here for over month"
Yesterday being Friday, the fish mar
ket did booming trade. BY 10 o'clock
the days supply had been sold and an
emergency telephone message was sent
to Fulton Market for fish to supply the
two hundred or more housewives who did
not come to market early enough to get
part Of the regular consignment.
II may be regarded as an indication OF
the success of the market that these two
hundred women all waited around the fish
counters for one hour, until the fish ar
rived. There We're twenty-five men TO
handle the fish market crowd. 80 that a
careless observer would scarcely have no.
ticed that there was crowd at all.
The women who had come To buy fish
were surprised and pleased to find vege-
tables, and when they learned from one
OF their own number who became a mem-
Der OF the Housewives League at the
spring mass meeting at Cooper Union
that Il was due TO the efforts of the league
that the market had been started they oil
announced their intentions OF Joining, and
when Mrs Heath arrived on the scene at
i0.30 she WAS pressed to form a branch OF
the league right on the spot
Mrs. Wiener. Of First avenue and oSh
street, was made leader of the new group,
and In few moments HoWewives'
League buttons were being disps.yed on
a dozen or more calico oosoms