Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-21
KING STREET FOOD
STILL AWAITING
Eggs Continue the Upward Trend
and Even Humble Potato
Salad Rises

Count that day Millennium, Mrs House
wife. when the curb marketeers of King
and Madison streets with the accent ON
King street abate one jot or little their
demand for the highest price they think
they can get iou found II 90 today, did
you nut2
Now there : eggs. for instance, although
there's been enough talk about eggs to
hll ten Libraries Last week they were 65
and 20 cents. with the latter price charged
here and there Today II was 10 cents
almost generally, although there were u
few blost he those still conscientious
few asking 65 tnd bv Inc same token,
there were, likewise "A few who wanted 20
They were the ones who counted to the
obscrvant asket carrier or the person
who keeps an eye ON the curb market
They are the skirmishers for the general
line and their presence means that the
boost will be kept up always, OF course,
II the housewives and buyers will con
tlnue to stand for it because eggs arc
cheaper elsewhere than in King and
Madison streets. and nearer 10 the proper
seasonahlc price But il all goes 10 show
what the general situation IS like
Md here's another instance.
You'd imagine, wouldn't yon, that
very humble, but very delectable dish,
potato salad which lots OF you buy IN
the market because we'll. because you
don't make II al home, although II docsn I
take very much culinary skill and Ism
Il hlt messy when its done right You d
imagine potato salad had no right to show
a sudden rise OF 80 per cent
Seems 1t has. because that ) what i :
done on the stands OF several curb market
King street sellers of it, \ customer for
il ono OF long standing was told this
morning that potato salad WAS up from
10 cents a carton TO Is. Now II : ten
dollars to ten doughnuts that tins pre-
sa ges something doing later on IN potatoes
Somebody ought 70 page Mr. II
Ridgelv Harrington, Of Dover, at once
and wholcsalely. because he's long on
knowledge of potatoes, and what he did
10 King street last wear in the matter oi
potatoes. he may feel genlally and finan'
cially inclined to do IN l. ID. 1918 ANY
how. put mpmo Of this potato salad
business V here Won can see II later OF
when you're inclined 10 think oye- kine
street methods
Corn was acting someH hat oddly. Il
ranged from 30 10 10 cents a dozen ano
very sharply ranged too. because there
/ seemed 10 be lots of II and all about the
| same general grade and not sufficiently
| different 10 warrant the extent IN price
| Maybe we'll sce more OF Tins Wednesday
Tomatoes seemed stili 10 be plentiful
| bnt is cents a basket for very average
I specimens mp to so cents Yellow to
! Inatocs- the small sort we're fetching
! 10 20 - cents a quart and 81 20 to s 3t
a basket
Lima beans were plentiful a. IS cent;
! a pint My, my, gone are the good old
| days of succotash, when corn was cheaI
! and so " ere beans Nowadays II s a diSt
/ Tor plutocrats and pluto certainly moi
| for poor kings and queens.
OF the lima s more humble brother, the
| string variety, there was a fine supply
| apparently at 10 cents u quart and u
! cents a quarter Few, very few farmers
| showed signs OF sweet potatoes. but they
were gettable elsewhere at l5 cents {
quarter for rather lminvitipg ones to u
| cents for better The hucksters and truck
sellers showed also good deal OF very
! average lettuce at 10 cents a head anc
| celery at IL cents.
/ Peaches were decidedly not plentiful il
| the curb market among the farmers
| What there were were not Impressive IL
| appearance and were placed al from 81 K
| 81 50 a basket The general Fourth stree
! fruit market showed much better grade
| OF SD OK