The sun., 1919-09-03
MEAT PRICES CUT
IN NEW FAIR LIST
Two to -Four Cent Drop in the
Wholesale Quotations
Announced.
BACON DOWN TO SO CENTS
Canned Peas, Beans and Lard
Also Decline, but Butter and
Other Foods Are Higher. +.

Retail meat prices have dropped or
should drop at once IL the man VINO
runs the butcher shop takes seriously
the Official "falr price list" for meats
issued last night BY the Fair Price
Committee, through Arthur Williams.
Federal Food Administrator for this
city.
The decline since Friday. when the
last 'maximum fair prices" were an
nounced. In due to a fall In wholesale
prices. The wholesalers reductions we're /:
Beef chucks, 10 to IL cents last week.
10 to 12 cents this week; hinds ana
ribs. 20 to 81 cents last week. % to 20
cents this week; lamb, % to "a cents
last week, Is to 81 cents this week !;
smoked ham. 81 to 20 cents last week.
II TO ssh cents this week: pork lions
~ cents last week, 50 to 81 cents TINS
week.
bacon, unwrapped, which at whole
sais last week was 40 to ~ cents
pound, was quoted yesterday at 3s cents.
The siackening Of the demand because
New Workers. are getting their MI OF
army bacon at "a cents pound at the
public school stores probably had some
fact folks are eating bacon as they
never ate It before in this metropolis
may have been responsible for the de-
cline In the prices of other kinds of
meat, unless something has gone wrong
with the working or the, old law OF
supply and demand in determining
prices.
Only one item on the entire meat list
smoked shoulders, "picnics
unchanged in price. D
Asked why meat prices had taken a
tumble, Mr.. Williams replied: You
can form your own opinions as wen as
l." Then he added: THE packers say
thsy are taking a loss to-day OF two
cents q pound. I think the people of the
city are responding to the appeal for
economy. When Mr. Hoover made a
request of the people for economy In
the use of any particular food during
the war. within q few hours that par
ticular food piled up in the WAREHOUSES;.
The latest 'fair price list" for >stapl'
groceries, put out by the Fair Price
y Committee and printed In another col
umn, shows slight increases in the
Wholesale prices and therefore in the
retail prices of -four, canned tomatoes
evaporated milk, butter, cheese and sal.
mon Decreases are shown in the prices
OF canned peas, canned beans and lard
There also was a sudden and unex'
planned drop in the wholesalers max
imum price on canned corn from 1S l.;
70 12h centsrper can.
Mr.. williams said that r. p. Will
.iams Of r. C. Williams & Co., explained
to him that the rise In the Wholesale
price Of salmon from IL to l 20 cents
can over last weeks prices Is because
the pack of salmon on the Pacific Coas'
has been disappointingly small and
the packers have been able to deliver
only 35 to SO per cent. OF their con
tracts.
The make up of the subcommittee
on fair prices for Jewish bread, o.
which Louis Marshall is chairman wal
announced as followks: Judge Otto A
Rosalsixy, Morris Rothenberg, Bernard
Semel and the Rev. q. w. Margolies
Tho committee will meet at 2 80 p. NJ
to-day in the assembly room of thu
Merchants Association, WOODWORK
Building.
New York's eighty-eight communit!
councils pledged their support to thu
fair price campaign and to efforts t.
obtain terminal markets last night a
a meeting OF delegates of the various
communities.