New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-19
Germany Sees No Signs
of Run1ored Food Panic
Man Can Eat More Than Is Good tor HIM iof d WAN
and Half ($.3712) and Beer Is otlll
Five Cents a Large Glass
Bv JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.

Rutter Is usually 80 Genus 20.
at this time Of the year. NOW ~ 49,
37i5 cents in large lots and asa GEMS
in small quantities.
No Rise In Beef Prices.
Eogs-No material increase IN price
Tor tho hest quality, but the cheapel
brards for which the less prosperous
neonle used TO pay 2 cents apiece nov
rost tbreo cents apiece. Germany usea
10 import great quantities % ~.
cboaper cooking eggs from ltaly' pu|
Italv. with food problems OF her own
on her mind, is ceasing 10 export esB''
Reef-No increase in price.
poultrv-No increase IN price
pork Including the pork produets
- bacop and sausage shows an IN
croaee Of at least one-sixth in price.
The quality Of bacon that used 70 cost
70 cents hound now costs iive cents
more pound. l. orico
Peas-One-third increase In price
Roans-One-third increase in price
CoLbaqe-Cheap. No increase IN
price. A,. -, ,,sua1
carving n little from day TO day. as IN
ordinorv times. and on some days run
Ming perhaps 4 few pfennigs hIghel
Coffee When showed Bonitace
Noool Of the Kaiserhof, the American
newspaper's dispatch about coffee run
ming short he said:
Nonsense! We have plenty OF col
fee. nav two marks a pound or on
cents in YOUR money, now for the pest
coffee. where ! used 10 pay one marx
eighty as cents).'
oIs it true that hulled peas are not
10 be had?' A.
I'VE have sufficient, but none to
snare The price, as you see, has gone
up one-third."
Cheose-No increase in price.
Nik-Ualf a cent more litre than
before the war.
former price. Were Az TO 5 cents a
Mound in small purchases. Now sF4
cents a pound. Table apples, no IN
crease in price.
which is 3& cents less than the same
brand costs in America.
Sugar-Increas Of a few pfennigs
a pound.
Salt lDCEthSt III ~
Oranges-No increase in price
Lemons-No increase in price.
Lady fingers cakes Were 80 cents
a pound; now 90 cents or less q pound
And a Niagara of Beer.
As for fuel and illuminants:
Coal Same price as in usual times;
also coke.
Gas-No increase in price.
EIectricity-No increase in price.
Candles Expensive, as always, and
cost a cent and quarter pound more.
Petroleum is short, and the
dealers are permitted to sell only half
as much rs in peace times. Some days
It is impossible to get petroleum.
Sale in small quantities is the rule.
There are some curious contradictions
I'm the prices Of the luxury foods. A
whole lobster served in a hotel restau-
rant costs $3.50, and yet in the same
restaurant one order of delicious lob
ster mayonnaise quite enough for two
persons costs only 37i3 cents, and
you get a bigger order Of it than you
do of chicken salad in Fields tearoom
for So or 70 cents. The wines of the
country continue to be cheap, plentiful
and good.
There is an undiminished Niagara Of
beer
"Why don't they eat cake. then 30
said Marie Antoinette when they told
her that the Paris populace could get
no bread.
The remark that carried the queen
one stare nearer the puillOtinp has an
application more humorous than trag-
zeal, however to the present bread sit
uation in Germany Along late in the
afternoon you may see in a shop win
dow a piacard reading:
hElS EROD MEHR
IIEl TIE