The Washington times., 1914-05-12

ests and that sort Of municipal
market Is bound to succeed.
Likewise, here. we should profit
by others mistakes. We can avoid
the pitfalls into which other cities
have fallen and save ourselves much
costly experimentation by going
slowly"
St. Louis. Mr.. Brand stated. Is
planning reorganization of It's
jobbing business. There the jobbers'
market Is put on basis of an all
year round business. As soon as
the truck growers products begin
to fall off, fruits and similar
products are handled
Capitalization Is another factor
which must be considered in WASH
ington." Mr.. Brand said. House
wives will not go to one place to
vegetables. and to another for
poultry. Some arrangement must
be effected by which the wholesale
district and the market are within
easy reach of each other.
Providence has a wholesale ard
retaih municipal market in which
farmers features are specially.
The truck farmers have constructed
a SIS, 900 plant and thus put their
own produce upon sale.
philadelphia has its city-owned
markets, some of them more thaE
Century old, but there the markets
are conducted on a half business.
half philanthropic basis, Wnicn
should be avoided by any city which
goes into the marketing field
Should Be Sanitary Model
A principal consideration n mu-
nicipaI market should be its sanitary
features, Mr. Brand stated. Not
only will protection be afforded its
own customers, but grocery stores
and private markets will be COM
pelied to provide Ike sanitary pre-
cautions to meet the competition. He
cited as a model in this regard the
new private market in Detroit, Mich,
where meats. fish, and produce 1re
half covered BY glass cases. Cold
air from the refrigersting plants Is
kept in circulation under these cases
and the minute flies or other insects
strike this air current they turn
back. Thus customers are permitted
to inspect the articles offered for
sale, but fly contamination Is avoided.
Each CITY has its peculiar prob
lens Mr.. Brand continued II just
had a group of gentlemen from Bos-
ton who called here to consult me
about the milk situation there They
stated that il prices continue to rise
milk will be entirely beyond the
means of poor families of that city.
I'm that2case You cannot plame the
contractors. They drive a good busi-
ness bargain. The same holds good
with the produce middlernen- We
are apt to blame them for taking
advantage of conditions which We
tacitly permit II a city does not
take hand in its food distribution.
private individuals will take advan-
tage of the situation, in a perfectly
legitimate business way. but the
public will suffer
Could Be Pattern for City.
washington could be made pat
tern in its control OF food supplies
The only interest Of the bureau in
the situation here is to Cooperate
with the Commissioners in every ef-
fort to improve conditions here, and.
II possible, to work out a municipal
market scheme which shall stand as
model
One central market would De enough
for Washington to start with, Mr..
Brand believes. But that market
should be located so that car facili-
ties could make it accessible from
all parts of the city.
He pointed to the municipal fish
wharves. successful despite their
poor facilities and out-of-the-way
location. as a portent Of the sue
cess that would attend a municipal
market.