The sun., 1916-12-02
Cold Storage COnsignments
Drop 3 Cts. a Dozen Since
Boycott Began.
NEW ATTACK ON HIGH
COST OF PROVISIONS
Dealers and Women Confer
With Commissioner
Hartigan.

Cold storage eggs tool n drop yester-
CAV Of another half cent a dozen at
wholesale and the wholesale price Of
butter tumbled 2E cents "a pound. re
frlgerator eggs have receded three cents
a dozen in price since Tuesday morning,
the day Commissioner Joseph Hartigan
Of the Mayor bureau of weights and
measures urged housewives TO join In a
boycott on the edible ovatc sphcroids.
Meanwhile a butter boycott Is being
iomented.
There was no let up in the popular
discussions concerning the high cost of
Twins. The heads of practically all the
important retail associations In the
grocery. butcher. bakery and dclicatessen
trade In Greater New York talked the
situation over with Commissioner Harti-
San and agreed to do everything In their
power to- bring home to their fellow
tradesmen the necessity OF agreeing
upon a concrete programme for relief.
The tradesfoM had hardly finished
their conference when a lot OF promi-
nent women Interested in the subject OF
domestic economy took their places III
Mr.. Hartigan's office and formed n tenn
porary organization Of the American
Womcn's Movement to Conserve the Food
supply. with Mrs. Eugene j. Grant,
president Of the New York state Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs. as temporary
chairman.
Nationwide Campaign Planned.
These very earnest women purpose TO
carry OIL what they hope will prove to b.
. Constructive campaign in every State
In the Union designed to make pcssio!e
q reduction in the cost of living.
Just before the retailers and the
women. rs r,spraaGntink c0nslrunarS
launched their movements. Commissioners
John j. Dillon OF the State Department
of Foods and Markets issued an order
that beginning Monday next the holders
OF cold storage eggs will be given
seventy hours M no longer In which to
mark every Individual egg In their pos
session with the words cold strage.'
II each egg is not 80 marked, the COM
missioner said he will prosecute each Of.
fender.
Mr.. Dillon said he expected the help
OF the Department Of Health and the
DIstricc Attorneys Office in carrying out
his programme. His announcement
threw a scare into the men In the egg
trade, who do not welcome the idea OF
Branding all the eggs that are now re-
pos in the cold storage plants. Fur
hermoie. " 10 said. many men who ave
been selling the finest Of refrigerated eggs
at the price OF fresh egEs-this applies
largely TO a certain class Of retailers
believe that some Of the exorbitant
prohts In the egg business are going to
be lost with the telltale words stamped
on the outside Of eggshells.
state Law Must he OheyeA.
Lucius y. Brown. director Of the bu-
redu of foods and drugs of the Depart
ment of Health. called his inspectors
together last evening when he heard Of
Commissioned Dillon's ultimatum and
OLD them To see to IL in their work of
Inspection that the law regarding the
marking of eggs Is obeyed. The health
authorities have pending now 40 cases
IN which the allegation Is made that cold
storage eggs have been sold as strictly
fresh eggs"
Commissioner Dillon will further push
along the boycott designed to bring down
the price OF cold storage eggs to 80 cents
q dozen retail by placing on the market
a. oncetwo carloads Of cold storage egg
owned by Grant Bros. of Marion, Ind,
az rs cents a dozen.
II" said yesterday that these 500 cases.
or 1900 dozen Of eggs. Will he disposed
or 10 Consumers only. and he advised
women to band together In little clubs
so mat they ear take a case. OF thirty
o"zelI, the lowest number he will dis
pose OF at an individual sale. He doesn't
'sar thai retailers or wholesalers will try
10 get hold OF these eggs.
D~iscriminat . Was Charged.
The order that COMMISSIONS Dillon
'aS issued regarding the stamping of
''cn and every refrigerator egg 10 ca
'rtly the same ms tine rule he promui-
-a'ed on July -. which was to have
7'ne into effect OF September !. HI
''oeated the rule at the behest of men
the egg business, who told him that
tHe order should not be enforced because
| Would be discriminatory against them
n mat eggs In storage in New Jersey
ana connecticut did not have 10 have in
diWdual markings.
! suspended that order" Commits
''oner Dillon said. because they prom
ID 10 cooperate with me in cleaning
up Inc market and in the enforcement OF
me cold storage laws. Blu they haven't
'"oe what they agreed to do. Cold stor.
axe eggs are still being sold OH the mar
,.t az fresh eggs. and IL has got 10 stop.
VI enforce the order now and enforce II
70 the limit.
The hrst thing I am going to do will
ne TO issue an order to the railroads to
report 10 me each day all eggs that come
N over their lines. Health inspectors
49, '''N u my men anu every tIHlc
a Violation ii reported I'll ask the Dis
'''et Attorney for a summons to briag
IN" offender into court for u tine or "a
Jhll sentence. We are in earnest abou
'h!s, This thing has got to stop"
Text of COLnmissi0ner's order.
The Commissioners order, as issued.
leads as follows:
rVery person or persons cO'pora-
Won or corporations, engaged In the
business OF %tobbing. whoiesaling or
i''alling eggs. shall. before Offering
r exposing for sale any eggs which
nave at any time been stored In a
Ola storage warehouse, or any other
P'ace maintained for cold storage pur-
roses. brand. stamp or mark on the
NNel OF a egg. the words cold
t'orase' or their equivalent. In plain
i'lt-rs AZ least onc-eighth OF an inch
ugh: provided, such eggs do not al
lady bear such brand. stamp. or
mark and provided further that eggs
may b, sold in the original packages
= which they have been received from
'Nch cold storage without being ~
funded. stamped or marked.
Cold storage egg quotations yesterday
- compared with the wholesale prices
on Wednesday Thursday was a holi-
day) were as follows:
wsdnes.
hsfrizef ator -p~ciala s5 n.