New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-02
Messages from All Over
Country Tell of Recruits
in Struggle
PLAN BOYCOTT
OVER WHOLE NATION
Women to Urge Use OF
Substitutes to Help Re
duCe Prices

n. boveott on eggs continued 20
80 distinct effect on the market IN
- York Yesterday. Wholesale prices
s..,-e5 half a cent dozen on various
s-,6es Of cold storage eggs, and two
s,,ts 4 dozen on extra fine eggs. The
Litter grade. however forms such a
,rall part Of The supply normally used
4, tbe city that its price fluctuations
,,s hardly 20 be considered, except as
indicating the general trend OF the
muket.
put,cr. which will be the next com
modify TO be attacked by the house
-;ves also showed the effect Of the
-aored boycott. and had q decided
1owrwsrd trend. On both the New
Work Mercantile Exchange and the
New York Butter and Egg Exchange
the wholesale price was cut pa cents
,ound. large quantities being sold
=. sei. and 40 cents. with every indi-
cation Of A still greater decrease to-
dsy. ,
y, the same exchanges second and
tbird grades Of cold storage eggs sold
81 So. and 80 cents, 6 decrease OF
ons.bslf cent from the prevailing
,rises Of Thursday. One sale of 100
css.s o. cold storage seconds at 81
cents vas recorded on the New YORK
Butter and Lgg Exchange.
Trains Guns on Butter
wr, Julian Heath, president Of the
National Housewives League, which is
vortin- with Commissioner Joseph
Hsrtigan. OF the Bureau OF W elghts
and Measures, in the campaign against
eggs. divided her attention yesterday
beteeen plans for the extension or
he egg boycott all over the United
states and plans for the launching OF
ne cts and nationwide boycott
Seyeral letters and kilograms were
received late yesterday by Mrs. heath
a. the leagues headquarters 20 west
Fort s-ffth Street, all OF them statlng
tha. Women's clubs, other orgahlla-
tons and city authorities would coop
crate in extending the egg ooycot1
from the Atlantic 10 the Pacinc coast
Commissioner Hartigan said yesteI-
day afternoon that his part OF the egg
boycott movement is progressing laV0I-
sbiv. and that he is receiving tele-
grams and letters from cities IN VAR
Gus parts Of the country stating that
they have Joined in the campaign 70
reduce the price Of eggs. Among the
member of the Board Of Aldermen OF
Kansas CITY. who said he intends 70 in
troduce an ordinance in the board at
its next meeting. and asking Mr.. Harti-
gan for information as 20 the proper
method OF conducting a boycott.
The use Of movie" slides 70 aid IN
the boycott movement was also begun
Thanksgiving night, half dozen slides
urging housewives not 70 purchase eggs
being shown in each Of the 700 the
stres whose owners are members of the
Moving Picture Exhibitors League.
Urge Use OF Substitutes
So FAR as the campaign 10 reduce the
price OF butter is concerned, the House
wives League expects TO have a much
easier time than IL has been having
With the egg spectators. This is due
10 the existence Of substitute. in the
form Of butterine. or oleomargarlne.
Butterine is now selling at p cents
pound. while butter sells at nearly
twice that price.
The first move on the part Of the
Housewives League will be to declare
boycott on butter. Then letters and
tel.grams and circulars will be scat
tered broadcast throughout the coun-
try urging them to purchase and use
butterIne. The league also plans
campaign 70 cause the removal Of the
license Of $3.50 and $40 which the
wholesale and retail dealers, respec-
lively, must now pay TO handle but
tsrine.