New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-26
LONG ISLAND ROAD MAY
TAKE UP MARKET PLAN
Ready to Go Ahead with
Scheme if Any Organization
Will Take Hold.


THE Long Island Railroad is ready 70
nut up ID terminal market building as soon
as any organisation comes around and
shows us 10 means business.
This statement was made Yesterday by
=. II Woodward. secretary 20 Ralph
Peters president OF the Long Island Rail
road. .u reference 20 the article IN
Wednesday, Tribune which said that
such a market was being dreamed Of by
Long Island folk
Mr. Peters was the first business man
In the East 10 become interested In the
modern farming problem" said MI.
Woodward. and be knows that "a great
market e. the natural outgrowth OF
great farming community Years ago ne
started the experiment stations az Med
ford Go show what could be done with the
wild acres OF Long Island II b Fuller
ton. secretary OF the Agricultural DeNel-
opmert Department. proved that com,
beans artichokcs. tomatoes. grapes.
peaches and everything else that IS good
can boz grown Oh the pine barrens ana
waste lands
"a great market for these products. 20
he located at Long Island City. has been
Nj Teters.s hobby for years The plans
have been drawn. The buildings OF which
there are ttc. would cost 10000 or
y5.puOp, The railroad isn't la 90. market
business and hasn't tho money 20 erect
such % building. but ~ any co-operatiy"
market organization can show as results
that look Ike business. Wen put up the
uu.ld.u4 and rent 10 90 them.
Long island CITY Is the proper place
Tor such % building as ~ rs the centre OF
population of greater Sew York. and is
easy of access both by land and oy
water our plans locate the buildings
between Hunters Point avenue and 3d
street with d waterfront ou Newtown
Greek
Here. fsh. oysters and HOLSTERS from
the whole Atlantic seaboard could Doe
brought directly 10 the great storage
chambers. The tuune. under the East
River would bring goods from the West.
and rrles from Sew York would brine
foreign fruits from the steamship docks.
In the great cold storage vaults which
occupy the upper stories % the plans
there o. room % store food for the entire
CITY OF Sew York This would be- one
OF th, greatest advantages OF tho estab-
llshmcut Food is high to-day because we
hav, no adequate means OF keeping o.
Acres u peaches rol ON the trees because
tho market rs 50 glutt.d with them ~
does not pay a., farmer 10 gather his
crop Next month b. could get almost
any price he asked Tor those peaches
Nov n there were adequate cold storage
space those peaches could be- preser' ed
against the winter season. and prices
would not vary so from month 20 month
THE plans provide for the entrance OF
the delivery tracks upon an elevated
structure. opening on the second noor OF
the building From here goods are
hoisted 10 the cold storage chambers. or
sent down to the retail stores on the first
floor There Is a space. too. FOR farm
ers' trucks 10 stand in an open market
such an institution would do much 10
lower the cost OF living by lowering the
cost OF handling food Some OF the fruit
We get from upstate IN New York to-day
is handled eight times from train to truck
10 boat 10 the retailer. Each handling
means Increased cost. OF course In
central market food need be handled only
tNiCe-tfOm tram 10 u'4lFftg Ndlb y"
retail shop.
1t would be a fine thing for the com
munity If we had fewer colleges ana
Libraries and more attention paid 10 the
science Of living II Carnegie and Rocke-
Teller would only give some OF their mill
ions 10 finance a cooperative association
such as the Housewives League store
started by Robert Bruce No great bust
ness corporation will undertake scheme
Of that sort until IT makes good.
Somebody must supply the where
withai 10 start II and steady Il until IL
can keep itself going. Then any corpora
ton will back II as good investment
The troubl, with these cooperative
schemes Is they are so seldom practical
People talk lot about the English CO.
operative associations We are ready 10
be shown. but the last organizer from
England who approached W. Tor support
is in Jail now