The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11
MOTOR BOAT SOLVES
MARKET FREIGHTS
One Farmer Brings "Truck- by
Water From Red Bank
and Enjoys Trip.
BIG DAY AT FREE MART

Railroad freight charges and miar.
men no longer interfere with tho pcac.
of mind Of o. r. Gerllnger IL Freehold
Monmouth county. n j.. farmer, VINO 4,
doing a profitable daily business AZ IN.
cty's open market which has grown I'm
about the Fort Lee feery He totes hl.
produce from his farm across the Jer.
sey clay roads to Red Bank. on tho
Shrewsbury River. and then conveys IL
by motor boat twenty-five miles To- l3ls,
street, where he unloads within Juggling
distance OF his stand. He says he Ia,
brought In as high as 400 barrels Of po.
tatoes and apples n day at a thrilling ev.
pense for gasolen.. as he owns the boat
He also enjoys the trip.
Albert L. McMulkin. a poultry and egg
broker at 27s Washington street. be.
came q retailer at the greensboro Bridge
market yesterday and said the experiment
was worth while. He opened stand
with 1000 fresh killed poultry and within
an hour sold 200. McMulkn told Frad
u. Appleget. Borough President Mnrtss
personal representative In the markets
that instead OF being opposed Ia no
action many poultry receivers had con.
graduated him.
Borough President Marks took 900 n
vited guests on trip through the
markets yesterday. The market men
knew that the party was coming and flags
and bunting we're much In evidence.
In the party were large number ot
domestic science teachers from the Tcacn-
ers' College and other schools. some Of
whom have made arrangements to make
sa.1o ~ ~ xnith their nupllg a a
free markets.
George w. Perkins. chairman OF tho
Mayors Committee on Food supply was
among the most Interested OF the sight
seers
Others In the party were Suporin'end.
ent of Schools Maxwell, Miss Grace
Strachan, DR.. Stimson. DR.. Balduan, lr
Parkhurst, Mrs. Julian Heath, national
president OF the Housewives League. aud
Commissloner of Weights and Measures
Joseph Hartigan.
W c. Baldwin, owner of a Park ave
nue. fish and oyster market. examined the
fish in ell the markets and told l'resi-
dent Marks that everything he had seen
was fresh.
Mrs. Maude S. Jewett OF 100 East Sixty
first street has written the following letter
to Mr. Marks:
For ten days nave been doing all
my marketing at the greensboro Bridge
market and l calculate that | have cut
down my living expenses over 30 per cent
should like to give you. for example
my supper last night There were four
OF US at the table and everything WAS
bountiful:
"Seven pan fish, l2 cents; 4 baked po-
tatoes. . cents: green peas bought already
shelled. 10 cents apple sauce. . cents
romaine salad. cents grapes, cents;
butter. 8 cents. Total, 40 cents
hot
only an economy. but liberal education
to all OF us in learning how TO marke,
and scientifically spend our house allow
ances"
The following retail prices prevailed
in the open markets yesterday:
Fruits-Apples. 1oc. three quart oas-
ket grapes 10c a basket fancy pears
for 30, &c. each; fancy peaches. &C.
each muslIiaelons. &c. each oranges. "a
each Vegetables--Beets, punches 'or
&c carrots 2 punches for SC. celery,
Sc bunch; cabbages, Sc. to &c. a head;
caulihowers. &c, and l0c head egg
plants. &c. and Zoe. each; lettuce. &C. -
&C. a head onions, DC. a basket peppers
3 for &c potatoes, 10c. 3l3 quarts 500
bushel sweet potatoes. 7 pounds for loc
tomatoes. l0c. quart; turnips. Whi'e'
&c up: turnips, yellow, &c up. Meats
Lamb chops 12c pound forequarters
loo. a pound; shoulder, IL ana l2i2c
pound spring lamb, lac. pound ForH
-Loins zoe a pound; sausages. l2Hc
pound pork kidneys, loc pound
Bacon-Smoked shoulder, zoe. n pound.
Beef-Porterhouse steak. 1910. a pound
rib roast, Ice. a pound stew beef, l2i9r.
pound milk veal. 1910. a pound Do'
roast. 1890. a pound Poultry-etor'
sge), Broilers. 1870. pound fowls l'r
a pound Long Island ducks 16c. pound.
Fish--Bluensh, &c. and SC. pound bu'-
arNa oh e. and To n mound carp. l't
and 12c. a pound cells. i0c. and l2c,
pound founders. Sc. n pound fresh her
ring Sc. n pound; cod. 1oc. pound
mackerel, l0c. and lie. pound perh.
100. a pound pike. 1oc and l2c. pound
porgles, &c. a pound seahass, Sc, pound
wealthsh, Sc. n pound; wh'tehsh' loc
pound.