The sun., 1918-10-24
CHILDS CUTS OFF
CHARGE FOR BREAD
Big Restaurant Company Gao
cepts Suggestion Of Food
Administration"
CONCERN UNDER SCRUTINY
Twenty-six More Retail Butch
ers Pay Penance Tax to
Red Cross.
CONCERN UNDER SCRUTINY

william Childs, general manager OF
the Childs Company, authorizes the Fed
eral Food Board to announce that acting
upon the suggestion Of the Food Admin
istration he has directed the withdrawal
OF the bread and butter charge from the
Childs menus pending the completion OF
the inquiries which the Food Admins
tration is now making"
With this announcement by the Fed
eral Food Board yesterday the Childs
restaurants stopped making 40 cents on
a pound loaf of bread plus butter which
they had served free with meals prior to
the PRONUNCIATION OF Food AdTinistra-
ton order that no bread be brought TO
the table in a public eating place until
after the first course Is served
The attention OF Arthur williams.
Federal Food Administrator for this city,
was called on Tuesday night to an item
on the Childs menus reading: New
regulations by the United States Food
Administration require bread and but
ter be served only on request. Hence
forth a charge Of cents will be made
for bread and butter service" He got
in touch with the heads OF the Food Ad-
ministration In Washington at once. and
long distance telephone wires began to
hum. 1he withdrawal OF the cent
charge was the result
ChiIds Company Under scrutiny.
Investigators for the Federal Food
the books OF the Childs Company. and
Mr.. Hoover experts are now at work
on the figures.
Twenty-six more retail butchers felt
the ungloved hand OF the Fe'eral Food
Board yesterday and voluntarily gave n
total OF 81 1875 to the Red Cross as PEN
alties for profiteering In sales OF lamb.
Louis Reith, 72S Eighth avenue. one
OF the butchers tried. declined last FRI
day to agree to make war chest dona-
ton or to refund his alleged excess
charges to customers. Samuel A. Berger
OF the boards legal star developed at
yesterdays hearing that Gin addition to
prohteering Reith has also been violat-
ing the rules OF the Food Administration
by selling meat as wholesaler without
a license Reith then turned over to the
board his check for 800 as a voluntary
Red Cross contribution and signed a
pledge agreeing to make refunds.
Butchers who Disxorged.
The names Of the days contributing
butchers. their addresses and amounts
OF their donations were set forth in the
iiicial list Of the Federal Food Board
as follows:
sioo-New York city-Georse GientL
palace Markep. 1903 Amsterdam avenue;
Gihsoourger Bros. tWashingtsn Heights
Market. 5f West it5,h street; Joseph
Treu tMansheld Market. s626 Broadway;
Herman levy Popular Price NJ rk y,
Eighth avenue; Bella Ozvath (Sasinaw
Market, 86s5 Broadway: Emil Fillpsberg
(Edgemere Market. 1915 Amsterdam ave-
nue.: Sigmund Braun. 1870 Amsterdam ave-
nue.: C. Blum, 1875 Amsterdam avenue;
Davis Nirsch 4 Son. 37ss Broadway: 8.
Nusachin Il Son, liel Second averue;
Simon Schwartz lsterling Market, 5ls5
Broadway; A. Rudolph Binder. 1870? Am
sterdam avenue: Max Brown. s25 Amster-
dam avenue.
The Bronx-Herman Apmsnn. 2s5 wills
avenue; J. Julick. S5 Brook avenue:
Peter Doersan, 52l Brook avenue.
Brookiyn-Adolph Buttner. ss4 Flatbush
avenue.
i5O-char!es Kaminsbl. sI2 FlatSush
Ninth avenue. New York city: Nor Is
Fischel, 1850 Amsterdam avenue. New
York city; Adolph Felt, 5sl wcstchester
avenue, The Bronx: Violence Market, Inc,
1874 Amsterdam avenue. New York city.
ts5-Solomon Meier, l25th street and
Broadway, New York city.
t25-Morris Schild, 20S7 Amsterdam ave
nue., New York city; A. c. Kahn. 2094 Am
sterdam avenue, New York city