New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-01
TO COLOR HER REDUCING
Suffrage Cheaper Living Store
Gets Appeal from Black Belt.
.OH. FOR WATERMEL0NS !
Sweet Potatoes, However,
There Will Be in Mrs. Flower
tons Cullud Branch.

Mrs Maud Flowerton. who IS selling
suffrage butter ami eggs and cheese and
fruit at bargain counter prices in the
frame building at No. 227 West SD street.
her lower-the-cost -of-living campaign. Ac-
cordingly. she will open a market on Sat
urday morning at No. 81 West Bath street.
right I'm the heart of a thickly populated
negro district
The negroes themselves asked for IT,.
They sent a call for help to the women
of the Interboro Suffrage Club. which is
getting busy on the market proposition,
and which, together with DR.. Madison {.
Peters, is backing the one at No. 221 West
SD street. The call stated that the in
habitants around West Bath street
weren't getting anything Oh to eat. and
were paying all they could earn. and
more. too. for ii. II the lower-the cost
of-living reform wasn't all for the white
folks. wouldn't the suffrage ladies and
DR.. Peters come and start "A store. for
them?
The suffrage ladies and DR.. Peters suit
tenly would. and Mrs. Flowcrton says
she is so sorry watermelons aren't in sea-
son. for she would like the negro market
to start off with real eclat. She was try-
ing to find out yesterday if 'possum was In
season, and If she could get some up from
| the South in time for Saturdays opening.
Anyhow, there will be plenty Of sweet p"
tatoes there. also butter and eggs and
all the ordinary things at bottom rock
prices At the suffrage market i'm S3l
street butter was selling yesterday at %
cents a pound and fancy eggs at 80
cents. Guaranteed cold storage eggs were
26 cents. and they hadn't taken out the
white ones TO sell for fancy leghorns, as
they do at delicatessen stores.
DR.. Peters was there The sign out
side calls him the demonstration" under
the auspices Of the Intcrboro Suffrage
club. but he didn't appear to be demon
strating anything Yesterday except a good
deal of impotence because the express
man hadn't brought the apples. At Mrs
Julian Heaths Housewives League mar
ket under the greensboro Bridge apples
were being sold that identical minute for
five cents a quart. and il was quite mad
dening 10 Dr. Peters To- know that TIE
apples he hal expected to Toe selling were
at that minute wandering about NeS
York goodness only knew where.
Mrs. Flowerton is going 10 he I'm at the
opening Of another market too on Sat-
urday II will be somewhere around
Sixth avenue and 5lst street. but Or.
Peters doesn't want 10 say exactly whore.
Mrs. Flowerton says her little daughter,
Consuelo. was the one who started her in
this market work Mrs. F1owerton cam
! paencd Tor Wilson last fall. and Consuclo
heard good deal about how Wilson
would lower tho cost of living. Evident
| Is. she thought there was too much talk
and too little doing. for she asked her
mother. Immediately after election, why
| Mr. Wilson didn't do what he said he
! would That set Mrs Flowerton think
! ing. and she determined 30 get into the
game right away
! Mrs Flowcrjon says that what heart
ms her Is that 50 many men come IN and
buy eggs and butter. and say. God bless
YOU, You deserve 10 have the vote She
| is colr Z 10 have special sale FOR theif
| benefit or Washngton's Birthday sale
| Of everything that voters wear. The ar
| ticles offered will be shirts. collars. cuffs.
uccktles. underwear. socks. susGcndcr
and carriers. II should have been "N-
/ plaincd that the "evervthing" doesn't in
cludc outside thiugs-just the inside things
| of voters attire.