New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
OPPOSES MARKET
DEPARTMENT PLAN
George H, Siege Says the
Project Would Increase
Taxpayers Burdens.
MARKETING DE LUXE
IS ORDER OF DAY
No City SO Well Provided with
Warehouse and Terminal
Facilities as New York.


.oo-rc 81. siege. a large property
..,,,cr Of Brooklyn. is much opposed to
,,. hin recently introduced in the Lesis-
,.,,rc al Albany for the establishment
nj DEPARTMENT OF markets IN tins city.
uo makes the claim that it will mean
,..o-o burdens for the taxpayers II the
,.eoe,-c becomes a law. lie has many
..o,,tioos TO make against recent ar
,iJa cmbodyiug the views Of cyrus c.
vmor. cx-president Of the Borough OF
Tho P-onx Mr. Miller is chairman Of the
MAYORS Food commission.
NJ Stcco declares that this country
unlike Great Britain and other European
,opntrios. produces enough OF its own
toodsfufs 10 supply ITS own needs. re-
c,rdloss or q blockade, so that nothing
ma, he feared from a war siege such as
A. Miller suggested i'm his article.
s,oal,irc 10 "a Tribune reporter yester-
day. he said.
&C., terminal market system in each bor-
o,,,b of the city. as suggested by Mr..
Miller. would nc a failure
..Tbcrc IS no city in the world So well
.,.rovided with warehouse and terminal
,,cnitios as Ncw York city. There arc
looted I'm the BorouShs Of Manhattan and
Tho Bronx and lu Jersey city and New
.-r cold storage and other warehouses
,or,sininc millions az cubic feet Of space.
many having direct railroad connection
NOT 70 mention the large public cold stor-
age warehouses without direct ral'road
connections but close to railroad stations
located principally I'M the Borough OF
Manhattan. iu addition To these. much
cold storage space operated privately by
individuals firms and corporations
abound i'm the city
Resides this. we have the best railroad
system I'm the world. and our trade con-
rections by water both interstate and
coast line. are many times greater tnah
those Of Paris
THE truth is that the Pennsylvania
Railroad alone handles more fruit ana
produco than is handled in the whole oil
Paris. so that iu the event of naval
siege ANY other siege being out of the
question: If Paris could lay up suppheS
for six months We can lay mp supplies
enough 20 last New York city for much
longer period OF time.
"In case Of "a blizzard or earthquake the
results would only be temporary 1t Is
not terminal markets in each borough
that We want. what We want are greater
docking facilities.
a further reason for opposing an eN-
Densive market terminal system. with its
numerous loadings and unloadings. may
10 illustrated as follows The Wallabout
Market and the merchants Of Brooklyn
daily order fifty cars OF berries, peaches
etc. unloaded i'm Jersey city. why? Be
cause with such highly perishable food
stuns time OF delivery is an important
element. and trucks from Wallahout
Market frequently arrive there from New
Jersey Al the same time as or sooner than
the berries destined FOR piers %, Is and
%. North River. can he loaded ON the
floats. Hehtered 10 Manhattan and un-
loaded there This being true. how would
New York fare with such terminal mar
ket plans a. those proposed by the Tor
mer incumbent Of the Dock Department;
that is TO say. the floats 10 be lghtered
20 SD street. then tho merchandise 10 he
transshipped by elevator or undersl ound
railroad 70 the terminal markets Of the
various boroughso I'm such case the
peaches. berries and ali other perishdble
end sem'-porshable foodstuffs would
decay before delivery. The same reason
E ir- would apply TO any terminal market
system i0aueuratcd in this city
Comparatively few people so 10 mar
ket nowadays TO buy foodstuffs and carry
them home. marketing de luxe being the
order Of The day: that IS TO say. 10y tele-
phone delivery by motor car and other
wise ~ ths were not so. why arc our
markets not patronized? Washington
Market is kept mp by people from New
Jersey. and while one might say that
Washington Market Is too far from the
point OF population. it is hard to account
Tor the lack OF patronage AZ jefferson
Market. al the former old Tompkns Mar
ket. or even Fulton Market. which mar
kcts are uot well patronized, though Full
'or Market can easily Ice reached from
brooklyn
The terminal market scheme is a
dream, and all this agitation about ter
mnal markets is 10 prepare the already
o'erb1rdcued taxpayer FOR a further
Widening OF his purscstrines am told
thai in some countries Of Europe the
50 ial uplifters are, either by ethics or
positive law. decarred from holding
saiaricd public Office in any institution
Or hctterment which they have been di-
reet'y or indirectly interested in bringing
about Would that We had such law
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