The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-23

day show that chiczgo's poor are
factn1 one OF the most critical ZOO
1 fa-nInes in the city,s history. Tns
food scarcity In Itself. - not 20 ess
1 dent. put exorbstant prices MAKE
practically prohibitiye.
II visited eight families. ono ~
nort reads. They are living on CAT
meal alone. This forms oreaxtsL
dinner and supper. Sugar and miiA
Mother OF family Of three. lives on
two bananas per day" reads anolnef
report -.
chief articles Of diet of the poor.
Many families hare not tasted susar
or milk for weeks. Scores OF casey
ns ..ssnstrssioo haze been reported 70
hospitals. A tour Of the market 70
day revealed the following soHar
tons: They will be accentuAted %
potatoes Retaiied yesterday at 80
cents 30 81 per peck Today they are
Al 10 3105. WIN go higher before
night
Sussr-Refasied yesterday At eigEl
cents per pound. the DAY before at n
cents. Today at s1z TO 3 cents
Cabbage - detailed yesterday a.
1s TO Is cents: today at IL cents
c-Reoresentatives Of producers
association with membership Of
Il. $50 at conference here last niga1
rafsed price OF summer milk from
siss to so.l2 per hundred 10 begin
April i. Means 12 cent milk
Sweet potatoes, apples. onions, car
ro.s. citrus fruits and all vegetables
stronger and firm
Egxs-Wholesale price yesterday
reached Az cents. Retail 50 10 ~
cents. Dealers predict higher quota
lions today.
Cheese-Increase from TO cents
per pound wholesale.
Beef, pork, poultry-An slightly
higher on Wholesale meat Retailers
shifting burden 10 housewives
TODAY the Chicago grain market
the greatest in the world. was prae-
ticaily suspended, owing TO the raii-
ways' inability to more grain Gran
operators and elevator men at cen
ference urged government seizure OF
trunk lines until the present Crisis
is broken.
Three Of ch,cago'E largest grain
users. among them the Corn PRODUCES
Refining company. threaten 10 close
their doors for lack OF raw material.
Two large mills at Gary, Indiana.
are running on two day suppiv-
Elevators have padlocked Their
doors.
Several conferences OF officials,
government investigators, manufac-
turers and board OF trade members
are scheduled for today. Thus far
=.
the situation.
Forty Cars Of Flour.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 23.-
Forty cars compactly loaded with
flour were being rushed In Arehef
special, over the Chicago, Grea.
cities today, as a measure to avert
flour famine. Minneapolis mills, the
larges. In the country again today
worked T5 per cent capacity In pre-
pairing for another special to be de-
spatched tonight
Through an unseen influence, re.
ported to be federal agent, Mime.
apolis millers today were assured
that four hundred cars would be sent
them with the express understanding
that the cars be 'oaded for New Eng,
land points.
That 100 cars OF flour would be In
Chicago yards at a. m. tomorrow
was the prediction of uillers today
Sixty more cars OF flour, they were
confident, would leave before night.
This flour travels with right Of track
and on passenger train schedule.
There were over 200 cars in Mir
neapolis yards today ready for load.
ing. This would make total OF four
hundred loaded with flour which viii
be enroute east az special ship
ments' before Saturday night.
While II is presumed that the mys-
FERROUS federal agent that inspired
the shipment was overseeing ship
rnenfs TO New England points 10 pre-
vent q flocr famine there, some held
that the government was buying this
flour.
Vacant Lot Gardens.
ST. louis, Mo, Feb. 23.-St.
Louis in the heart of a rich farm
produce center, but hard hit by TIE
high prices OF food products. Is
going to take II. G. l." around the
corner and try 70 slip over the
knockout punch in battle on the
vacant lot
Real estate owners and agents to-
day promised to let school children
turn vacant lots into truck gardens
and II. G. Irish, supervisor OF public
school gardens, announced the young
stera would be encouraged to work
or these gardens and to cultivate
products IN their bac'- --rds. II is
planned TO use the truck grown on
the lot farms" for distribution in
the tenement districts. 1t IL also
expected the park department will
throw open TO the public, use of lar