Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
PEACHES AWAY Up"
ALONG KING STREET
Wide Range in Vegetable Line
and Eggs Generally 90
Cents a Dozen.

Peaches are mighty high-too high
lots of housewives think, considering the
fruit is in the nearby class.
MANY vision of canning ana pre-
serving and doing up" went GUNNER
ing this morning when the usual Saturday
visit was paid to the Hing and Madison
streets curb markets. Mrs. Housewife
found fruit onlv in fair grade ut 81 90
q basket Fine choice fruit was quoted at
s. and there WASH { very much OF the type
AT that. Some was gattable at 81 80 and
Some as low as SIS, but these examples
were mostly of the Scrubby sort. In
smaller lots it was going at 20, % and
30 cents a quarter-peck.
Lots and lots of women who had start
ed forth TO purchase for preserving very
promptly abandoned the ldca-tcmpor-
arilv AT least, when they saw the situa-
ton. Said one:
Il simply wont pay Sl.5O basket
for such stuff as that. My conscience
wouldn't let me What | wonder Is what
they do with all the real good peaches
Mavbe they send them elsewhere; Any
how. they don't seem to be around here
And cornl Forty cents a cozen was
the general price. but II was poor-look-
ing. Some were selling better grade at
A.. Wednesday, one man was selling
al 5 cents the ear-buy few or as many
as YOU like.
You didn't have to pay 10 cents II
YOU didn't want to. There was a Sooc
deal at 30. about the same rs the 4O-cent
grade. and lot at 80, OF nm inferior
oualitv, and some ol an exceedingly low
grade ut 20.
viewing this range in prices, one
wonders where on earth the f-lder States
men are.
Tomatoes. likewise, seemed on the
Dan to-l}cersheba price route Some OF
the markctecrs were displaying extra
large specimens and wanting Sl.3O a
basket for them. ON the other there were
plenty Of Others Smaller-and III lots OF
cases really better because not quite 50
far advanced in rippncss and liable 10
keep longer. going at - cents basket.
Indeed, that figure seemed pretty nearly
q standard, although Il few Of the mar
keteerS were selling at as low as 90 cents
lima beans were scarce and very high.
For shelIed beans the general price was
50 cents pint What few unshelled
onc~ there were went home al 40 cents
q quarter peck which is about even
Stephen with The shellcd beans
Bo sweet potatoes were to he seen on
farmers stands but they were gettahle
from huckSters and storeS-fOrty cents
a quarter for tirst-class grade and so for
seconds.
Eggs were generally so among the
farmers. Some few were selling NJ 10
and 5S. On Fifth street. in the mlscel-
lancous market, one man was doing a
land-offIcc business at 4S-very good
locking eggs too.
incidentally. this Fifth street market,
between Market and Hing streets. un-
varlahlv undersells the nelghbor. Stuff
has been tried by wise housewives and
pronounced quite as goodas hing street $
And it's trade has been gradually In
creasing which, in turn, has brought an
increase of the farmers standing IN II
A word TO the wise ought to be suf-
ficlent.
Grapes and pears were fairly thick
this morning. both OF the nearby variety
Twelve cents a quart was the usual price
and 81. so to 81 TO ass basket. Some OF the
better grades Of pears were l5 cents
Quart. Inferior grades were down tC
s - a basket.
Philadelphia now has curb market
up in the northwestern section Of The
CITY around Girard College wall AnC
j. 5 decidedly lower than Wilmington :
although the haul to the farmers anC
truckers is longer than that OF the farmer:
here In still ANOTHER way II Is diff
ferent, being lower than other markets
while Wilmington's euro markets are
higher than others. Here are compared
prices in It; compare them, please witt
our own.
Tomatoes. curb market price, 80 anC
6Oc; other markets, 75c and 81.
Peppers, 60c; 81.
Peaches, 75c and 81 25; 81 80 and 81
Cantaloupes, for 25c; each, ) and 10c
Cooking apples. 80 and 6Oc: 75c and 81
Eating apples, 20 and soc: 81 and 81 .25
All prices are for basket quantitle:
except in the case Of cantaloupes.