The sun., 1919-08-26
SALE OF ARMY FOOD
SUSPENDED TO-DAY
Staff of School Stores Will
Take Inventory and Re-
plenish Stocks.

There will be no sales OF army food
stuffs by the city to-day. The school
stores will be closed to give the over
worked STATS a chance to make an in
ventory and find out just where the city
"is at"
Yesterday was the fourth day Father
Knickerbocker has been in the retail
grocery business on a big scale. and like
the preceding days he did rushing
business. His receipts for the day
amounted to $60,815.s0.
The sales have become so popular and
the demand for more and more food at
reduced rates is so insistent that the
Department of Public Markets has put
in anothersbig order for stun that here
tofore hasn't been included among the
city's offerings. The surplus property
zone officer of the War Department has
accepted the order and the Rev. DR.
Jonathan C. Day and his deputies are
waiting impatiently for Uncle Sam to
make deliveries The Federal officials
will do 1t as soon as the goods can be
released for distribution.
Dried Fruit IncIuded.
The makeup of the order will cause
thousands of housewives to smack their
lips. 1t includes 10000 cases of evap-
GRATED apples, SO pounds to the box
10000 cases of asparagus, "a cans to
the case; 80. 900 cases Of assdrted jams
No. 2, "a cans to the case: $4,000 cases
canned pineapple. No. 2, "a cans to the
case; $4,000 cases of evaporaed peaches
80 pounds to the box; $1,000 boxes OF
Queen prunes. so pounds to the box
$4,000 boxes of cocoa. in one-half pound
ipa 10 he. no.
Edwin ]. O'Atalley, DIR. Days hus-
Ting deputy who put the order through
said the city will sell the evaporated
apples at Is cents a pound. asparagus al
"a cents can. jams at "a a can eva D.
GRATED peaches at 16 cents, a pound
pIneapples at IS cents a can, prunes al
Is cents a pound and cocoa at is cents
one-half pound can. These prices, Mr.
O'Malley said, are far below the pre-
Willing retail prices.
William II. Smith, Deputy Marke
Commissioner, said last night the Wal
Department has issued orders that al
shipments at Pork Newark, from which
point foodstuffs designed for New Yorl
are being forwarded, must stop, except
ing those of cannon and other thlngs
needed In the proposed demonstration tC
welcome Gen. Pershlng on his return tC
this country. The army officers Their,
were so anxious to get all the foodstuff.
they could to New York before the or
ders had to go into effect, that they pu
big gang OF negroes at work yankins
the stun out of the warehouse anC
starting 1t toward this city.
Deputy Commissioner Smith said Id
wished the public to know how deeplS
the Department of Markets appreciates
all that is being done by Capt. A. A
Stewart, zone surplus property officer
here; Capt. Hebblethwaite, Major Gold
STEIN and all the other army officers In
pushing the operations. They are doing
everything humanity possible that can be
done. he said.
One hundred trucks will be used to.
day to transport foodstuns from the
army warehouses to the schools, and by
tomorrow the stores" will be wei
stocked up particularly with bacon.
East Side SHES mt "Pork and
So much pork and beans were placed
on the shelves Of East Side school storets
that rabbis In that section telephoned
the Department of Markets to call a halt
s 1.-The folks over there didn't have any
use for 1t.
Other folks are getting well stocked
up on army foodstuffs, but unlike Father
KnickerboclSer apparently they are hav.
ing more or less trouble getting rio
of It, An offer has been made to the
city OF 100000 pounds OF Government
bacon at 81 cents a pound I. o. b. al
Baltimore, and also 100000 pounds OF
fine oleomargarine at 80 cents a pound
(. o. b.
The city was able to get its bacor
at 81 f. o. b. New York and OF cours,
1t isn't going to accept the OFFER.
Another person, who wanted to un
load 100000 pounds of army bacor
said the city could have every pounC
of It at "a cents a pound This offei
caused a smile in view of the fact tn,
city is retailing its Government bacoI
at 81 cents a pound.
Business was brisk in most of tn,
schools yesterday and several. includin,
the Morris High School and the Flush
ing High School. reported they didn'
have a thing left, adding, For heaven
sake send us some more quick"