The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-23
Nezv Market Commission
to Reduce Cost of Ltvu1g
George W. Perkins Reports to Mayor That Committee Is
Drafting Bill to RevolutiOnize Management Of
Markets and to Regulate Food Supply.


The executive committee Of tho Mayor
food supply committee. OF which George
w. Perkins is chairman. has reported to
Mayor Mitchell that Il Is drafting a bill
to provide for the creation OF market
commission or board with powers SUM-
GENTLY broad TO eradicate existing anti
auated methods and to install up to date
and more economical and efficient methods
in treating all questions OF terminals,
public markets, market conditions, market
regulations. &C.
The proposed centralized bureau re-
sponsibie for food supply conditions In
New York city, the report says. should be
established along the lines suggested In
previous reports OF the Mayors food sup
ply committee and many recommendations
set forth In -he report by the Mayors
Market Commission. of which Cyrus C.
Miller was chairman.
Borough President Marcus NJ. Marks,
chairman OF the BOARD OF Estimate com
mittee on markets, announced yesterday
that the members OF the committee are
opposed to the market commission idea
At meeting OF the committee. he said.
IL was decided 10 prepare a market bill
for rhe next session OF the Legislature
representing the views Of the committee.
the members of which ARE strongly of
the opinion that proper market policy
should be determined for each borough OF
the city and that each Borough President
should be charged with the responsibility
OF developing markets and their admin
istration in his own borough
To Con soltdste Functions.
Mr.. Perkins and his coworkers are In
favor OF placing all the market functions,
now divided among the Borough Presl-
dents. the Comptroller. the Board OF AL
dermen the Dock Commisslon the Super
intendent OF Markets, the Bureau OF
Weights and Measures and the Depart
ment of Health. in the hands of one mar
ket commission. The commission. II Is
understood, would be composed OF FIVE
members.
In the report 10 the Mayor the executive
committee says 1t found that "one cause
of the high cost OF living is lack OF In
formation on the part OF the purchasing
public as TO when certain articles or food
are TO be had in abundance in this mar
ket and when they are scarce"
Vast quantities OF food" continues
are often wasted and thrown away be-
cause they cannot be sold for enough 10
pay transportation charges: ard vet our
great purchasing public is ignorant OF the
fact that the supply has reached the city
Your committee believes that producer
dealer and consumer could all be mate
rally benefited II a market commission
as above sugge sted. were empowered e
issue bulletins. ono for the benefit OF the
retail dealer and the consuming pubiIc In
this city and another for the benefit OF
producers and shippers who consign food
/ supplies 20 this city.
THE bulletin for the oenent OF pro-
ducers and shippers should inform Them
OF the demands In New York and the con
ditons each day of the market In New
York from the standpoint Of scarcity OF
oversupply. Under present conditions
many producers and shippers have ceased
sending supplies to New York because OF
their experience in the past in being tolc
! that their goods reached New York at .
time when the market was glutted with