The Washington herald., 1913-06-05

man Avenue and Park Road. ''It Ger.
| tainly saves US great deal OF trouble
| haven't heard much comment yet con.
| corning the wrapped bread. but 1t must
| be remembered that the bread has been
on the market only two days. am sell.
ing as much wrapped as unwrapped
| bread. On the first day the bread was
placed on the market sold thirty-five
loaves of the wrapped article"
Customer Demand II.
"Most of my customers demand
wrapped bread" said the proprietor of
Landy's Market, located at 1885
Georgia Avenue. On Tuesday sold
every loaf 1 had and stilI the people
called for u. One hundred loaves were
disposed of. I think that all OF the
bread sold In the city ought to he
wrapped. The people In this section
are enthusiastic over the plan"
Marshall Carter, a grocer at Second
and ID Streets Northeast, said that there
was practically no demand for the
wrapped product in his community. but
that he would handle the new article
as soon as the customers asked for IL.
Joseph ]. Caylor, who conducts a
grocery at Sixth and l. Streets North
east. stated that there was not much
demand in his neighborhood, and that
only a limited number of loaves had
been sold. He added that he people
were not entirely familiar with the new
idea
C. D. Alley. a grocer. located at 1ol
Fourth Street Southeast, was enthusiast
tic over the project.
wrapped bread is the only thing In
this section he said. I'VE sell about
200 loaves of bread daily and one
fourth of this amount is wrapped. We
are handling six different brands of
the wrapped article. II is certainly
excellent thing"
F.. G. Yonker manager of the Sanitary
Grocery Company. said that his firm
did not handle wrapped bread. but
added that personally he considered
the movement a most commendabIe
ONE
About one-fourth of the bread we
are selling is wrapped" said the man
ager Of Birch & Co.. located at 1414
Fourteenth Street Northwest. 1--WE
are offering three brands of wrapped
bread and many of our customers are
delighted with the innovation. IL
seems TO he n sort OF fad and the fad
L. becoming popular
w. 4. Proctor. proprietor of a grocery
at 140i-l4oS Park Road. is handling three
brands OF the wrapped product, and he
said yesterday that, although so far the
demand had been heavy. 1t was not rea-
sonable to Judge the situation until the
product had been given a more substan-
tial test.
The manager of the Weinberg bakery
refused last night to announce the
amount of wrapped bread the firm was
turning out. He said he preferred not to
make any statement concerning the
proposition until ii had been given a
thorough test
The Corby Company is placing on the
market it's Mothers" bread in scent
sealed wrappers. The Weinberg bakery
is turning out Pride of Washington in
scent sealed packages. The Havenner
Company is wrapping its ''Takoma"
bread. and the General Baking Company
is putting out Butter Krust'' bread in
) and 10 cent sealed wrappers. The 10
cent packages are double loaves.
Bakery snIesmen Meet.
Protection Of the consumer from the
delivery of insanitary bread of the I'M
wrapped class by freeing bakery sales
men from the duty OF hitching delivery
wagon horses and handling the harness.
was discussed at length last night at a
meeting of the Bakery Salesmens Union
action was taken.
At present the statesmen employed by
some OF the bakeries are required TO at
tend to the Harvesting of the horses at
taChed to their delivery wagons. Some
time ago the union requested these bakers
to make provisions for the discontinue
anCe OF the practice. but the demand
was UNDECIDED. II the practice is con-
tinued much longer the union will pub |
lish a list OF the bakerieS where il exists. |
An appropriation of 81 toward the 1900 !
no fund for the erection Of a new Emer- |
genCy Hospital was ordered by the or
ganization before adjournment.