The sun., 1915-02-15
500 FOOD TERMINAL
FOES TO FIGHT BILL
will Storm Albany, Saying
Measure Would Cost $780,
600. 900 in Values.
CALL SCHEME VISIONARY

ALBANY, Feb. l4-George A. Siege
representative OF the Advisory Council
o, ne Wholesale Market District OF
New York City. has furnished leeis-
a.ors with some interesting facts con-
cerning the proposed establishment OF
food terminals IN New York city. He
SAYS the advisory council has 10000
members and will have delegation OF
500 on hand 20 oppose tho bill provid-
Ing for mo establishment OF food ter
m,nals at the coming legislative hear
ing
The bulk Of the food supply OF Man
ha-an. sa!d Mr. Siege. 'Hs now han.
died in tho district lying between Dey
street and Fourteenth street and ex-
tending back four or five blocks In
this territory are immense refrigerat-
ing warehouses and several hundred
blocks of buildings. many OF which
nave been especially built for the pur-
pose OF handling food products Miles
o, cold storage pipes have been in.
stalled in the streets and enormous
sums OF money expended In order to
properly receive and distribute the
enormous food supply needed for
Greater New York
TO illustrate the extent and char
scssr OF this business need only say
sAat the Erie Railroad handles on Pier
10 800 carloads daily and ths
New York Central Terminal which Hes
in this section, distributes 1875 carloads
daily: that there will arrive on one
sh!p 10000 bushels OF bananas and
thAt one concern In this territory sells
$4,000, 900 worth OF fruit annually and
another 81 100000 worth OF poultry and
eggs
without consulting these people.
without any Knowledge except what
hey may have gathered by casual OBJ
servation. but without any practical
knowledge. the authorities Of the city
Of New York desire to transfer this
business to various parts OF the city
by establishing different terminals.
In doing this they pay no attention
whatever TO the fact that the money
invested in the present terminal will
he lost that real estate values will be
almost destroyed and that II Is the
unanimous opinion OF men who have
been in business all their hvevs that the
entire scheme is impracticable and i'm
possible.
"The city authorities prepared bill
which would make the city produce
dealer. allow shipments to be made on
consignment 10 the city, 10 be sold by
the city's auctioneers and then authorize
the new department OF markets when
they propose to create TO build and es
,abl.sh terminals, for which moneys
should he appropriated by the Board of
Estimate
That IL 20 say, they first would de-
s,roy $500. 600, 600 worth OF rea! estate
values. three or four hundred millions
Of dollars Of property invested IN re
frgerating warehouses and private ware
houses, in street piping and docks and
railroad terminals. and then would prac-
tically bring the wholesale market man
under new conditions and in strange
Surroundings and with impaired capital
n competition with the city OF Now
York
"On our executive committee" con
cudei Mr.. Stege. "is the general traihc
agent of the Erie road. the general
fregh. agent of the New York Central,
the general traffic manager Of the Balti-
more and Ohio, the president of the Old
Dominion Steamship Company and other
men equally well informed as TO trans
poration problems. and yet their sug-
restiona were treated with contempt"