Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-18
Vast Rise in Pnces
During Years Of War
Neighs France Do1un

sugar. coal and tho cheapest articles
81 wearing apparel.
BEFORE the war butter fetched n 30
cents pound in The city OF Paris Now
al the market places butter WHOLESALERS
Tor % cents Il pound. The retail price
is IL cents. That is the maximum
price fixed by the police department.
but the housewife who attempts 4.
purchase at that figure will either be
told that there is no butter to be had
or that the supply Tor the day has
been sold out
The figures for the imports of but
ter into the city OF Paris Will explain
why. These show that in 1914 the
average amount OF butter received
daily at the great market place ex-
cccded 100000 pounds one year OF
warfare had reduced this figure Ivy 40
per cent. 1915 showing an average
daily Importation "f o,ly $4,000 pounds
The present year shows a still further
reduction Of % per cent over 1915 or
daily arrival of only 10000 pounds
with the figures falling off weekly
Even at it's increased price butter
is hard 10 obtain The fixing OF max
imum prices by the city OF Paris has
cut both ways. When n police law
permits farmer or manufacturer to
obtain only 81 cents a pound for his
product in the municipality Of Paris.
il Is sold in another community, where
the price is either higher or not re-
stricted. Maximum prices have also
had the effect of enabling some pro-
duccrs to sell their cheapest wares at
the best figures
What is true of butter applies also
to cheese. staple to he found on
nearly every French table. Maximum
prices have just come into force on
two particular brands of cheese. Cam
embcrt and pont rEvcquc
The result was immediately notice
able. While other cheescs continued
comparatively abundant. the importn-
ton Of Camcmbcrt and Font rE.ve.ue
dropped down to next to nothing
Cheese that sold at Is cents before
more, or 20 cents apiece. Milk in 1914
cost cents quart. It's present price
is 10 cents II quart. or IL cents Il quart
IL delivered 10 ones home Eggs that
sold for IS cents dozen in urc-war
times (bcst quality) now cost an even
100 per cent more. cents apiece or
90 cents Il dozen
Those guaranteed new laid for
use by invalids or very particular peo-
pie, fetch from 10 cents to IL cents
each. The price in the markets jumped
only week ago, wholesale rate. to
$50 per l.o0". or q cents apiece The
cheapest eggs obtainnblc. those shipped
in from Morocco we're quoted ut SO
per l.ono. or ! cents apiece.
CHEAPEST EGGS QUOTED
NJ $40 = THOUSAND
The ordinary table wine that cost
II cents 4 quart in 1914 now brings
% cents quart. coffee hat was 33
cents pound now costs a. cents
Sugar has more than doubled in price
and Is hard 20 &c; at any figure. From
the cents q pound of before the war
IL has advanced 70 lG cents Il pound
with the quantity limited by law to "a
tribe less than Il pound and three
quarters for each person per month
\ BUNCH Of carrots or SOUP greens
that the American housewife might
hesitate to pay cents for costs 6
cents in Paris. Dried beans. peas, tur-
nips, lceks. even lcntils. have all
doubled i'm price, while no caulinower
Is found except In the first-class res
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