New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-05
Purity of Food at Free
Markets Insisted Upon
by Authorities.
MORE FARMERS AGREE
TO TRY NEW MARTS
Commissioner Finds Truckman
Who Will Deliver Packages in
Manhattan and Bronx.

Nine farmers brought produce to the
new city markets yesterday aho
through the efforts of Jesse Wine
burph of the Market Committee, there
is promise of greatly increased num-
bers next week. a,r,ruIous
The problem of the u nseLSI!pdb NV
dealer is being seriously sSuS
Borough President Marks ana VI. -
Goldwater, Health CommiSsIoh9eIi, -
the Office of the Borough FreslG I han
was said that DR.. Goldwater hau ro.t
asked to suppress certain JoseTt
the public become alarmed anu ~ss
the markets. Everything posslu,e tho
being done, it was sald' 10 ih'u
purity of the food on saIe' oocord-
Although DR.. GoidWater' M Marks
ance with the wishes OIL ~, from
and in obedience to instruciL0nS nrh-
Acting Mayor McAneny, mace ara ia tsie-
lie report Of his findings, ne J,u
phone to George W. Perkins' e n Food
of the Mayors Commlttee I'D been
Supply, that two fish dealers hSt 'For
thrown out of the new m ma ot GOV
bon, Il came about that the men were
merely expelled instead Oh Oe"5
Mr. Perkins did not appear 10 agteSS
nth the policy of secrecy aaoPeu
~, tbe Borough President and the un-
official report Of commissioner
water became kno,
The Fort Lee Ferry Market man
tains a good lead over the rest IN the
voIume Of business done. The quail
~ of farm produce sold there IS gem
orally good and the prices consider
ablv lower than in retail stores near
nv The market at the Manhattan
Bridge is largely a pushcart Market,
the East Slider having given colu
welcome to farmers. ~
Through the efforts of Mr.. Wine-
burgh, who has been sitting the coun-
trysidc, three Long Island farmers
have agreed to take their produce
there this morning. Alderman Louis
= Jacobson will meet them and ad-
wise them as to the disposition oil
their wares.
Comm ssioner Hartigan of the Blu
reau of Weights and Measures, IN
troduced to the Borough President
Yesterday truckman who will have
a wagon at each Of the three uptown
markets to-day to make deliveries.
He will cover Manhattan and The
Bronx at ten cents package.
Borough President Marks has no IN.
tention of driving retailers out OF
business, and announced yesterday
that arrangements could be made Tor
grocers to buy produce in large guam
titles at the open markets at low
nrices. A New Jersey farmer told
The Borough President yesterday that
he had 1000 barrels of potatoes, 6,OOO
heads of cabbage and large quantities
of neaches which he would bring TO
the open market and sell at reason
able prices if he were assured that
purchasers would be on hand.
The executive commit ee OF the May
or's Committee on Food Supply met
yesterday and discussed transporta-
ton and substitute foods. A state
ment authorized by George W. Fer-
kins, chairman, says that the com
mittee feels that the interest OF the
citv in the food problem is shown by
the success of the new markets.
"These open markets" the state
ment continues, "also show that tnere
is an enormous waste in every direction
under the system now IN vogue IN the
citv. and the committee feels that' WIN
This public interest aroused, now Is
the time for the city to make Roadway
with plans of a practical nature that
will at least help solve the great
question of transportation, for herein
lies a large part of the high cost OF
living" ,out
The refners' prices on sugar went t
nm slightly yesterday. They asked
S725 and $3.50 a hundredweight'
Thursday the prices were 81 and $72o;;
Wheat went up five cents bushel and
iobbers raised the price of -four about
fftv cents a barrel. Thursdays prices
for Hecker's -four were S7.55 and S776;
Yesterday they were SS.05 and $3.50.
Thursday Pillsbury's -four was $685.
and $720; yesterday it was S7.lO and
s7.45. Prices on Gold Medal -four did
not cbanpp Yesterday.