Evening journal., 1914-09-01
NIDDLENAN loses
OUT IN NEW YORK
City Establishes It's Own
Markets to Keep Liv-
ing Cost Down
FARMERS FAVOR
THE NEW MOVE
BY CARLTON TEN EYCK.

(Written for The United Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. New York
has found one way to beat those food
vultures," as they have been apprO-
priately called who have grasped
upon the great European conflict as
treason" for boosting prices above
the reach of New YOrk's poor. Tho
middleman and the jobber are to be
done away with. There will be no
need of a middle profit is the plan
of Borough President Marcus Nj.
Marks, of Manhattan, can be carried
out. The plan put into effect i'm
preliminary way several days ago has
been so successful that there is little
if any doubt that it will be a great
success.
Here's the way Borough President
Marks figures he can beat the need
less middle profit" He sent out
call to all farmers within a radius
of fifty miles of New York city, tell
ing them that he has prepared mar
ket spaces in four of the most con-
gested districts of Manhattan.
To these places the people will go
to deal direct with the farmers. The
city is to boss the whole business
Comptroller Prendergast was so i'm
bued with the idea that this was the
way to solve the "high food price
scare" that he detailed a corps of his
best men TO act as market masters.
President Marks idea was born Of
the wise retrenchment policy Of
Mayor Mitchell adopted when the
! European war first broke out. The
board of estimate had just appropriat-
ed $4,000 for the development Of the
/ city's markets. This $4,000 had to
| be held back as one of the items in
| the retrenchment measures. Borough
President Marks was told he would
ultimately get the money, but that ned
have TO wait for it,"
Borough President Marks Is not OF
the waiting kind He bethought him
self of the many open spaces in his
borough which were lying idle. He
thought they would he the very places
for the temporary city markets he had
in mind. He believed that the grow
ers of foodstuffs and the buyers
could get along pretty we'll at these
places even If they were not "im-
proved" He therefore threw them
open as markets.
/ lhe points now open as city markets
are beneath the Manhattan and Queens.
boro bridges, at Third avenue and East
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
where the people have long wanted such
a center, and at the Fort Lee Ferry
The farmers, from the opening day
have fallen in with the idea in enthus
iastic fashion. The people, too. hav,
shown their approval by hocking il
hundreds and thousands TO buy direct
The arrangements are eminently salts
factory 10 everyone concerned. The far
mer gets better prices from the con
sumner than he would from the middl
man and the consumer pays less for
little more Of the same goods than h
would if he bought from the retailer
The gladdest persons in the worl
are those who are struggling back iron
war-torn Europe. The sume scenes ar
being enacted with the docking of eacl
refugee ship. The marooned ones, man,
bereft of clothing, baggage and force
to pay eXtOrtionate prices for travel ou
of the war zone, are nevertheless happl
to be back. II is worth the price, the,
hold Men and women who heretofor
have never been satisfied in their voy
ages, unless they occupied the pick o
staterooms, are coming in second class
or even steerage never murmur
ing, so glad are they to get back.
Z special committee Of men and wome
appointed by Mayor Mitchell meets eac
refugee ship to render aid wherever nee
4 essary. The thing for which many O
: the returning passengers are particu
larly grateful is that this committe
4 cashes checks.
Speaking of the war and returnin
h travellers recalls that railroads, coas
/, and lake steamship lines and trave
resort boomers in the United States ar
looking forward to their most success
4 full season next year. They figure tina
4 the war viii continue long enough I
make European travel next season i'm
possible or, if the war is ended, tina
4 conditions will not be comfortable. an
\ that American "cures" and resorts, wi
\ get the European voyagers and thei
money. Meanwhile the losses to tn
4 steamship companies continue pilin
up Tying up here of the liner Water
4 land means the Hamburg American lin
is losing interest on that SlO,OOO,OO
every day her earning power is dc
! stroyed.