Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-14
FOOD TO GO ON SALE
is FRESH BY TEST
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"odity is sold out, the committee
VIII secure additional supplies from
other firehouses. On the success of
mis- sale will depend another order
for goods. There is n big supply on
ut Baltimore and Philadelphia
and the local committee will get in
communication and endeavor to get
another big supply.
1t is probable that the next ship
ment VIII include cocoa, at IL cents
pound; oatmeal. soup beans, vege-
table soup, chicken soup, clam
Chowder tomato soup. assorted
soups, rice, macaroni, tea, coffee,
sugar, cucumber pickles. sweet po-
tatoes, pumpkin, squash, tapioca,
lemon extract, flour, jam, pepper,
toilet soap and pineapple.
A second supply will depend
largely on the success of the sale
that starts tomorrow. If the peo-
pie of Harrisburg want goods at a
low cost ard will support the efforts
of the local committee, Mayor DAN
iel L. Keister will do everything IN
his power to get any commodity the
Government has to offer.
There will be other things offered.
Bids are now acceptable for bitum-
hammers, keyhole saws, drilling
machines, motors, boring machines,
laboratory outfits, cord wood, meat
hooks, long-handled coal shovels,
steel cots, bench hatchets, curry
combs. escort wagons. Other cities
are making bids for these articles.
Buffalo and several cities are ask
ing for prices on shoes, socks, shirts,
blankets, towels, underwear, overalls
and other household necessities.
These will have to be purchased by
bids, but, it is understood, may be
had If a price has been fixed. II
the first sale of food is satisfactory,
and q second order IS filled, Mayor
Keister will take up plans to get
ANYTHING else. In the meantime,
anv firm interested in articles for
which bids are being received can Sc
cure information from Lieutenant j.
r, BOYLE at the Reserve Depot.
There has been some criticism of
Mayor Keisters food committee Tor
alleged failure to act promptly In
the purchase of government food
stuffs. A member of the committee
stated to-day that no criticism or
this sort was justified, inasmuch as
the prices first quoted on the gov
tifv handling in competition with
the local dealers. Indeed, he said,
there would have been no advantage
whatever and no saving. Now we
can offer the food in first class
shape" he concluded, "at bargain
prices. We shall be ready for the
public at o'clock tomorrow
morning at the several firehousos
and are prepared for the big rush"
Chaplain Harry Bassler has sub
stantial evidence of the fact that
the canned food which is about to
be sold is first class and Will meet
the requirements of every good
housewife. He brought back from
the fighting front in France two
cans of cornbeef which were among
supplies captured from the German
army. These cans had been pull
chased in America as early asN1907
and 1908 and are in themselves
proof of the preparedness of the
Prussian government for the great
war which did not start until tho
summer of 1914.
Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Schell,
who is one of the active spirits oil
Mayor Keister's committee ana
whose large experience as a quar-
termaster in the Army admirably
fits him for the work he is under
taking in behalf of the community,
declared at the Hope Fire Engine
house to-day where preparations
are being made for the first sale
tomorrow, that the people could
absolutely depend upon the quality
of the goods which will be Sold
Cases of canned tomatoes, corn and
other vegetables are all stamped
October, 1918" and as the canned
goods sold in the best groceries must
necessarily have been prepared for
the trade last year there is no rea-
son to doubt the quality of the gov.
| ernment food now being resold to
| the people, especially as this is the
| same food which would have been
served to our fighting forces in
France had not the war ceased.