New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-21
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR GREAT MARKET
Commissioner J. J. Dillon
Explains Terminal N. Y.
Central Will Build.

Plans for a terminal market which
the New York Central d Hudson River
Railroad is TO build at Thirty-fourth
Street and Eleventh Avenue are on
view in the Office of the State Depart
nent of Foods and Markets, IN West
Twenty-third Street.
Ii will be the first link in the chain
of terminal markets which Commits
sioner John J. Dillon, Of the Foods and
Markets Department, believes will cut
80 per cent from the cost Of handling
foodstuffs
The new market will extend from
Eleventh Avenue TO Twelfth Avenue
and from Thirty-iourth to Thirty-ffth
Street. Eighty freight cars can un-
load at once, and at least three hun
dred wagons and trucks can load at
the same time. The greater part of
the eight story building will be de-
voted to dry storage.
At the west end will be a cold stor-
age plant. The top floor will house a
manufacturing plant, where surplus
stock of a perishable character will be
turned into finished products that can
lie preserved indefinitely.
There will be facilities for lighters,
so that produce may be assembled in
the terminal market without wasted ef-
fort, regardless of its method Of trans
Lortation. The second link in the ter
minal market chain, which will be
built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in
Long Island City, will also be aces
sihle by water.
Traffic in the new markets will be un-
der the supervision of the State De-
partment of Foods and Markets. A Co
operative company Is being organized
to operate in the terminal market un-
der the state cooperative law, which
limits the dividends 70 6 per cent on
capital invested. Surplus profits are
applied 10 the reduction OF operating
costs. Sales will be made on commits
sion and no speculation will be per-
mitted. Retailers may buy in any
quantity.
Farmers will be able to find out at
last just what happens to the goods
they ship. The weight and grade OF
goods, the commissions charged, the
price paid and the name of the buyer
will all be matters OF public record.
tn department will issue daily bull
letin giving wholesale prices based on
actual sales and the approximate retail
prices.
uce will enable purchasers TO tell at
glance the quality of goods in any
container. Grades will be shown by
the label on each container. Goods
will be packed at the shipping point
according TO the standards fixed by
the department, and inspection will
take place at that point.
II is believed that charge OF ~
per cent will be sufficient to cover the
rental Of the market building and the
operating cost. That charge Will be
made against the shipper.
Commissioner Dillon believes thai
the new system will cut the cost OF
sale and delivery of foodstuffs from DO
per cent 70 So per cent.
"Tbere are, no doubt, men IN the
nroduce trade who would for a time
cbafe under these regulations" said
the Commissioner in q statement Is
sued last night, "but they will need TO
adjust themselves TO them.
aThe old system is falling down.
When food rots by the ton on the
farms of the state and the city popu-
lations starve, no one can defend the
system of distribution that produces
eIch state Of affairs. The men IN
charge of the distributing Industry
have for years resisted any compre-
bensiye pian for its improvement
MANY of them resist the present plan.
This system will give New YORK
CITY and State the best markets IN
existence and will establish modei
for the markets of the world.