New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-28
s.rsisan System of Parcel
CARRYING May Cut the
price of Food.
n. OPERATIVE IDEA
m "a REDUCE EXPENSE
...sisqton Market Undersell.
ne open Booths, Mrs.
Heath Asserts.

..-...oeiations 'retaiiers--buteh-
tnS .,..rs and bakers-are consider
~ .o.operative delivery scheme OF
hs usrt;gan, Commissioner OF
l,'.g and Measures. Committees
go bv the organizations are
...,,rring with Commissioner HAr'i-
!. tho subject, and the plan soon
- given a tryout on limited
-, c..,ris,ioner Hartigan's plan, which
thst his proposed department OF
S~.ns will take up. If 1t is author
~ the Mayor, contemplates
-, =. 70 which all packages from the
-. ~. .wbraced in the system will be
~, bourly. From the depot, house
s.,,s deliveries will be made after
y .s,ksges hsve been assembled and
49,. as mail is in the pOstOfhee'
Il. cooperative system would lower
: :. .vn y of the Storckeepers, Com"
Y. ersT Hartigau believes, and en-
- tIsm TO sell at lower prices. a
$50 borse and wagon with its driver
49, tbe storekeeper at least 500
~. "a il &c ierally idle at least four
- 4 day, while during It's active
80 many Of its trips are duplicated.
6..isrs 10 whom the plan has 0ecn
,Tsshed are willing TO try It, lhsy
crest that If an attempt were nlAue
build up an entirely new delivery
.r,ssrn either = great amount OF eapl-
N would be required or the system
aid have to cater especially 70 the
100 al the larger stores. Therefore
~ would have one Of the big eX-
s,.ss companies which would be under
q obligatious to any store be the me-
aum Of delivery.
ne make I'D the circular attacking the
IA cost Of living which will be de-
iysrsd 70 the public and parochial
schools to-day by the Mayors commit
,ee on food supply, of which George
n. Perkins is chairman.
On marketing" says Mr.. Perkins IN
he circular, "the pennies count up
wry fast.
he scales and not 10 pay for the weight
d the wrapping paper or eontainer;
The trimming of meat bought should
ba carried away by the customer, Mr..
Perkins says, sud either used for soup
sioek or rendered for cooking TAT.
IN buying meat" he continues,
siont ask for IS cents worth and
ave Il 70 the butcher TO decide how
uush meat you should have for a quar-
9E'
Nrs. Julian Heath said yesterday
Dat she had received complaints from
Settlement workers and others on the
fsst Side that the Department OF
Hsslsh was not enforcing the regula-
aoas compelling the covering Of all
lto3 offered for sale. DR.. S. S. Gold
vIlsr, Commissioner of Health, she as
srted, had promised to order an in
gEtion of the open markets and push
Az neighborhoods to remedy the evil.
Avisit to Washington Market on Sat-
uhy showed. Mrs. Heath said, that
prlesS there were the same. or in some
instances even lower, than those
,AtIged in the open markets. Brothers,
which we're 20 cents a pound in the
open markets, were selling for the
ane price in Washington Market,
VhtFe stand rentals were exacted, she
asserted She complained Of the slow
less Of the building operations at
Washington Market, which bids fair
. rob the dealers there Of good part
Of their holiday trade.
Borough President Marks made pub
he yesterday letter written by 5.
Walter Kaufman, member of his
opsh market committee, who made a
rudy Of the European open markets.
w Kaufman wrote that he was not
surprised at the criticism of the open
markets which mad developed here, as
ne same thing happened when tho
open markets were established in Ham
eug and Berlin. The criticism was
Inspired in both instances, Mr.. Kauf-
nam said, by commission men, whole.
iaisD and retailers, and he is sure that
ne open markets will triumph here, az
hey did IN Germany.