New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-03
Manipulators Are Over
supplied and Cutthroat
Competition Is Due.
DECREASE EXPECTED
TO BEGIN THIS WEEK
Farmers Are Accused by
Market Men of EXtOr-
tionate Methods.

Tho pricc Of foodstufs. which aver
zoos from FIVE 20 seven per cent more
.ton before the general price boosting
.-orramue Of the railroad strike Crisis
=. due 20 tumble this week, and the
msnipulators who calculated on eN-
,,syagant profits in case OF railroad
,e.up. viii stand the loss.
Tho New York market is being glut-
"a with shipments of poultry and
o,ber rcrishables. which dealers be
r.yed would command fancy prices II
-, railroad men quit. Now the sur
.,,s must be disposed of for what the
.nbr. wil offer. with the possibility
:, lively competition In the selling
r,,irIoads of poultry bought when
..Hr,s5 strike seemed certain were
',,los5od Yesterday. and more are com
nc today and tomorrow. according 70
iobr Dillon. Commissioner OF the
SEC Department Of Foods and Mar
lefs who says dealers have wrought
their own undong
Vegetable Prices Soar.
Although nearly all railroads have
lifted their embargoes on perlShaDie
foods. vegetable prices continued 70
soer Yesterday. Commissioner Joseph
Usrtigan. secretary of the Mayors COM
r,ittee ON food supply, after an lnVes-
Igation asserted the farmers are inc
offenders Il is said he has ootalheu
evidence of price boosting against lheui'
which he win place before District Al
torncy Swami and District Attorney
Henry Lewis. Of Kings County Com'
missioner Hartigan expects commiSSlon
merchants. who say they were torced
D, the farmers 10 pay higher prices TO
testify before grand Juues, II neces-
sary. ,...o- e.
Police Commissioner Woods recon-
rnendinc that unless prices dropped
soon the city use the plan deve loped by
the police for bringing food into New
York iu case of emergency TO break up
the price boosting combination.
A. the Wallab0ut. Harlem and Ganse-
WORT markets famine prices prevailed
and the farmer was blamed on all sides.
81 the Gansevoort market the growers
nut the price of potatoes up TO So.oO
barrel. & week ago potatoes sold Tor
S3 10 $3.50 n barrel. Carrots. which
sold Friday for s. a barrel. went TO -
Yesterday Cabbagcs were increased
from ST. Il hundred 20 s..
Staples. such as -four. sugar and rice,
Of which there are almost LIMITED
quantities within easy access OF Man
haitian. also wen, up IN price.
Housewives Are Warned.
There is no excuse for these ad-
vanees." said Commissioner Hartigan,
and business men who are making
them are acting dishonesty. Any house
wife who encounters these eXtortonIsts
should notify my Office al once"
While large dealers and chain stores
have not raised their prices on dry
groceries. Mr. Hartigan's Investigators
found the following increases at small
or concerns: 3iz pounds Of -four, from
Is 10 20 cents; butter, from 80 TO 40
cents a pound; coffee, from % 70 %
cents a pound; pepper, from SO to IS a
pound.
Mr. Swami. who is keeping a close
watch on the food price situation, has
sent letter 70 members of the Live
Poultry Mems Association asking them
10 apDear Al his Office Tuesday and eX-
plair 20 the grand jury why the price
OF kosher chickens was raised from %
10 85 cents a pound from Tuesday TO
FRIDAY