The evening world., 1917-06-15
Two and Three Gents Differ
ence in Stores a Few
Blocks Apart.
THAT "LEGHORN" FAKE.
White Shell Eggs, Sold at 50
Cents Uptown, Bring Only
IS Gents Downtown.

We're coming down another two
certs on butter and eggs tomorrow"
Tbs Is the statement made yester-
day 10 a reporter for The Evening
N,rld by half a dozen managers OF
a group OF the best known dairy
st,res, operating throughout tho
Crater City. These managers"
at that time we're so far above the
Wholesale market decreases in but
ter and esss as TO make 1t very plain
tat the only way they could ] =
hiDly bring about a unification OF
pices in their corporation stores was
10 summon "A convention OF the
managers in the headquarters OF the
corporation and make a statement
Substantially as follows:
BOSS. It can't be done. They're on
&c US. They know that all the butter
AID eggs for these stores are bought
at wholesa,S rates for all the stores
and distributed in lots 10 us accord
iu TO our necessities"
the chains OF dairy stores have
beh out OF sympathy with the
chlnges In the wholesale market.
tbs Is so true that a customer can
wax into one store OF a corpora
ton and buy butter or eggs from 2
!. 70 4 cents cheaper than 1t is sold
In another store hardly half a mile
remsved from the first one. And It
II tlese stores, getting all the bene-
at o the graduation in the wholesale
uiariets. that help to keep UP Tho
artaecial prices OF butter and eggs
Thisis so obvious that a mere study
Of tie table accompanying this story
does not tell all OF the truth.
Bu housewives, nevertheless, ar'
advied TO read this table carefully
and compare itwith the wholesale
rates given.
LeKhorn eggs are no longer egg,
sat 3 serve a king at king's prices.
A They are Just plain, everyday, white
.gta.b Hennsry eggs" neatly assem-
z bled IN an ordinary paper container
Theu are not worth 30 or 81 cents
dozen. Even II they ara spotles
Whits as to she'll they are not a whi
better for their whiteness tban th'
fancy brown. meaty eggs.
THE sTUPENDoUs PROFITS oI
THE CHAIN STORE.
The corporation selling them at 5
and 81 cents, and sometimes more,
dozaa can buy them at spot cas-
prices for as low as 33 cents dozer
and N they are bought by the hun
dreds Of cases their value decrease
40 much per 100 cases. As for tn
fine Did table eggs, neither the chai
stores nor any other stores abov
Forty second Street, east or ives
have as yet come near the wholesal
drops in ten days.
OF course, the store owners ma
not know that butter and eggs haN
gone down and are going down dali,
= but that is a fact that cannot be dis
putee. All the buyers for chain an
other stores have to do is TO loo
over the market situation. As a maj
ter ef fact, everybody knows thI
they rarely have their eyes off u
market reports excepting when the
are studiously devsing ways an
meaIs OF promoting discomfort
demanding from to 13 cents aboN
the wholesale prices. without eve
the excuse of the poor side sire
vendor who must cart his produt
from the market places or pay SOM
one Else to cart 1t for him.
In order to test the retail charg
IN stsres, a reporter for The EveniT
world selected a choice list of dali
and ether stores yesterday as an e,
pertinent. This special class of cha
Z, dairy stores showed the most remarl
able lack OF uniformity OF price
stores were found four and fl