Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-01
EGGS WILL Be
PLACED ON SALE
AT CITY MARKETS
Contracts Closed for Purchase
of 1 500 Crates for Local
Municipal Stations.

A contract under the direction of
Mayor jacob Haussling for the pur-
chase OF 1850 crates of eggs has been
made, and they will be sold
Ut the municipal markets. The eggs
will be sold Saturday at thirty cents
a dozen which is eight and ten cents
/ lower than the present retail price.
The contract was made with the I'M
Outstanding that the eggs are first
/. class candled eggs, and only those
[, which stand the test will be offered
for sale.
The remarkable success of the mu-
nicipal fish markets prompted the
authorities to attempt the egg ven
tnre. An average of ten tons of fish
a week have been disposed Of at the
markets since they were opened
ahOut month ago. The markets
have proved a haven for those who
found meat was too expensive for
daily use, and there was instant re-
Spouse 70 the offer OF fresh fish at
six cents q pound
Expert egg Gamblers have been en-
ployed to test the eggs to be sold by
the city. City Sealer John ii. Suli-
van mace Ii plain that there was no
attempt to offer the eggs as being
the strictly fresh" variety, as these
eggs are retailed at fifty cents
dozen and higher. The candled eggs
are the best class of storage eggs
that can be obtained. Mayor Hauss-
ling has issued Instructions that no
more than two or three dozen eggs
should be sold to a customer at a
time, SO that every person of limited
means will have an opportunity TO
take advantage of the offer.
We will not sell TO proprietors OF
Restaurants or Dealers, said Mr.. Sui
4 liNan, but only to those people who
cannot afford to pay thirty-elght or
! forty cents for dozen of eggs. IL
we did not make this restriction we
would miss the purpose for which the
markets nave been established Peo-
pie would come to the stores with
wagons and automobiles to cart away
tile eggs in crates, while those we
want to help would get little bene-
iit.'
The eggs offered for sale are the
same brand that are bringing thirty
four cents a dozen wholesale. Ex-
pprts who have sampled the eggs de-
clare they are better than most eggs
now being sold at thirty -eight and
forty cents a Dozen The decision to
sell the eggs at thirty cents a dozen
was made after the cost of Gambling,
selling and the price of the boxes in
which they will be retailed was care
fully computed.
There are $4,000 dozen Glendale
Farm eggs included in the contract
which has been made by the city au-
thorities. These eggs have been in
storage a little more than two
months Every precaution will be
taken to make certain that the eggs
are fit for consumption before they
are delivered at the markets. On
Saturday 100 crates will be offered for
sale at the three markets, so Ferry
street, So Belleville avenue and 215
Norfolk street.
The sale of eggs will not interfere
with the fish markets, all of which
did a good business today. Fifty
bushels of crabs and thirty bushels
of CLAIMS were placed on sale today
besides 7,400 pounds of fish The
crabs were sold at twenty-five cents
a dozen and the CLAIMS at six cents
a dozen. There was the usual large
demand for both
Nine turtles which arrived with the
shipment from Belford last night
were sold at the Ferry street market.
Several families had requested Mr..
Sullivan to save turtles for them as
the soup from these shell fish is found
ito be very beneficial to sick persons
or convalescents. They were sold at
less than one-third the price usually
asked at the markets.
Another shipment of fish will ar
rive tomorrow morning. 1t is expect
ed that about 500 crabs will be in
cluded, as well as about thirty
bushels of CLAIMS The fish sold to-
day included weakfish, croakers, por-
gies, bluefish, butterfish and herring.
All fish was sold at the municipal
market price of six cents pound