Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-02-18
NEW Y0RK'S BREAD BILL
An Increase of One Cent a Loaf
Would Cause Jump of SIG, 900
Ten Cent Lonves Would Cost ss2, 800, 900
More-Thirty Year Old Case Trkd
Twenty Four Times Comes TO an
End-Record Catch of 10000
Cats in Fifteen Years.

While the increase of a single cent
In the price Of a loaf Of bread may APP
pear In itself an insignificant matter,
New York has just awakened to the
fact, that such an increase in its bread
bill FOR the year means the expenditure
Of an additional SIG, $4,000, for this food
Item alone. Should the price ever rse
to 10 cents 1t would mean that this|
city would pay $50, 10000 more for this
staple than 1t does now Odd as II may
seem should such prices arrive the bak.
ers and not the consuming public will
probably be the greatest sufferers, Fig
ures have already been collected to
show that the housewife who purchases
q 24M-pound sack of flour and does|
her own breadmaking at home, can save|
nearly 500 as compared to the cost
Of the same amount of bread bought in
the finished state. High as the price of
wheat seems now, the rise to which this|
is due is by no means unprecedented forI
war times.
During the American Revolution wheat
which was selling at 90 at the begin1I
ming of hostilities. went to $500 a bushellI
During the Crimean wal 1t went fror}
IS a bushel in 1854 to s1.8 in 1856. In the
Civil war wheat which was 81 In 1864
climbed to s2S5 in 1867. With the bread
lines In this city now longer than they.
ever have been. and growing every dayI
New York does not relish the idea d
paying SIC, 10000 more for its breadstuffV
But If the price OF wheat continues I'd
rise. experts insist this is what the city
will have TO do.
A legal battle which had been fair ID
rival Dickens famous case Of J~arndycy
VS.. Jarndyce, has just come to an end
here. after 30 years of litigation IN tn
courts. AS n result the defendant ha
been ordered to pay to the plaintiff
s9,GS3 for which sum the latter sued, td
gether with interest Of nearly $1,000
The case has been tried no less thai
q times previous to this and @ judge
have ordered defendant to make TIL
payment. Nevertheless. until the pres
ent he has evaded oheying these orders
Apparently he will be able to do so n
longer however, for the counsel for tn
plaintiff has stated that unless settle
ment is made Immediately an order 70
arrest which will keep the defendant
Jail until he settles. will be applied fo}
AS a result, 1t seems likely that tn
now famous case has run It's course an
will no longer cucumber the records
the courts with details of the hearing
Just what It has cost can only be ed
timated. but 1t is certain that tn
amount is far in excess of the Sui
sued for. During the "a times that III
case has been tried more than s,00D,0
words Of testimony have been taken.
enough to fill L. 100 typewriter pages.
Through the settlement of an estate
the s~urrogate's courts here there haJ
come to light the surprising facts in
story OF the manner in which two En-
fish spinsters during a period Of IL yea
spent in the city of London brought
from the streets no less than 4p,0
stray cats which they had picked Il
Their small means were devoted 81
tirely to this undertaking and eve
day given TO riding through the Loj
don streets collecting the cats, The te
timony given before the surrogate shoY
ed that the woman who originated IN
feline charity, often going without fo(
in order to be able TO buy chlorofor
for use in the cat refuge, died a paup
in an English hospital. Her compani}
in the work of collecting nearly a hid
million cats testified that when tn
started out in 1895. one OF them we
on a bicycle and the other on a [
cycle, each with a basket strapped h
hind into which they put all the cd
they could catch. Just what became
the $4,000 cats was not revealed. TT
fact remains. however. that these (
women are undoubtedly entitled to
down in history as the worlds create
cat collectors, even though the III
may he one for which no competih
is likely to arise.
A remarkable lease has just bel
closed here, involving the renting Of
building in the heart Of New York's RI
taurant and automobile section. Will
since It's erection 10 years ago. has STD
%idle-not because there were no apr
cants for tenancy but because Of 4
prejudice OF the owner against taking
a tenant either a restaurant man or
automobile concern. Naturally It "
assumed that from these two clas4
tenants would originally have been
pected to come and many applicable
were received by the owner but turn
down because of the same pretudt
Real estate men in the city estim}
. that the loss to the owner through ke
ing the building vacant for 10 years
not less than s7o,np. However. the
though large. is part Of the great w
dell estate estimated at somewhere
tween s5n.mo.Tn and $50, 1000 o. Inde
next TO the Astors the Wendells are s
posed TO he the largest and oldest pr
erty holders ir New York.