The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
WHY NOT RICHMOND?

! new Ofk, august Under the
| direction of Mayor Hylansa number Of
: line yesterday for cooperation in
the sale Of surplus army food to the
people OF the city at 20 per cent less
than market prices.
The Fairgrounds OF more than 500
school buildings will be used as dis
tributinE centers, to each Of which
two policemen will be detailed. one
to act as receiving clerk and the other
az cashier. Bookkeepers from vari-
Gus departments will keep the ac-
counts, under the direction OF Robert
l.. Coliigan. chief accountant in the
purchasing department of the FIRE de-
partment
inspectors from the health depart
men. will examine the food and pass
upon It's quality, and men from the
, officer of the commissioner of ac-
counts will check up the consignments
as they arrive. Employees OF the street
cleaning department wiz load and un
load the cases, and volunteers from
various organizations will assist In the
actual sale
Delay by the war department in no.
tifyipg the city of the prices to be
charged, according to Deputy Com
missioner OF Markets Edwin j. O'Mal-
ley, will prevent the food being plac-
ed on sale Monday 1t is expected
that by the middle of the week the
public will be enabled to make its
purchases. The first consignment to
the city will include:
Three carloads ham.
Two carloads bacon, canned and
slabs)
Two carloads canned tomatoes
Two carloads baked beans, ttomato
sauce).
Two carloads baked beans tplain).
One carload wax beans.
Two carloads string beans.
One carload lima beans.
One carload pumpkin.
Two carloads canned peas.
Two carloads canned corn.
Half car hominy.
Half car dried white beans
Half car cereals.
The first borough to organize it's
forces to assist in the sale is the
Bronx. President Bruckner has ar
ranged to open forty public schools
and ten parochial schools. the Eighth
Regiment armory at Kingsbridge
road and Jerome avenue and the Sec
ond Field Artillery armory at l6sth
street and Franklin avenue. a meet
ing will be heldsin Borough hall to-
night to perfect plans for a perma-
nent organization.
Taking advantage OF Commissioner
O'Malley's offer to consign food to
!. organizations for distribution among
their members. Nat D. Jacoby. vice
president and general manager Of
the Black and White Taxicab com
pany, which employs more than 1000
men. has pledged the cooperation Of
his company in distributing the food
to it's employees. Franklin Union No
thYnnSuh pNa 80
visor Of The City Record, has offered
its headquarters at West Thirteenth
street as distributing center for its
5000 members.
Asked the cause Of the sugar short
age in this city. Mr. O'Maliey said
1t was his belief that the sugar in
ferests were in combination with the
canning interests to keep UP the price
He said many retail dealers had told
him they could not get enough sugar
for their customers and had had to
limit sales to one and two pounds for
each customer. Mr.. O'Malley pointed
out that both the cane and beet sugar
crops have been large this year He
thought the shortage would become
, as acute as II was two years ago. He
also pointed out that there were bum
per crops OF corn, wheat oats. barley,
| potatoes. and hay, and these prices
also remained high.
Mr.. O'Maliey and Deputy Commits
sioner of Markets William w Smith
will go to Albany today as representa-
tives OF Mayor Hylan to attend the
Conference. of Governor Smith to ar
range for distribution OF the army
food through the state. Mrs Julian
Heath. president of the National
Housewives league. wrote to the gov
ernor yesterday asking him to give
the milk situation special considera-
ton at this conference.
The state has supported numerous
milk commissions for years" she
wrote, but up to this time no de-
finite finding has been returned by
those commissions as to the consumer.
We acknowledge that the producer
must receive a fair profit FOR his
milk, and that the distributors must
be recompensed for their services.
Conflicting testimony leaves the con-
sumer in the dark as to what should
be paid for safe milk in our cities.
According to newspaper reports there
has been collusion between the pro-
ducer. the distributor, and the New
York Central railroad. This informa-
tlon, coupled with the suffering
caused by the high prices Of milk,
Is causing serious unrest among the
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