New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
All Departments of Government at Work ON Food Problem

rrning sales board, but that no details
for the disposal of the goods were
worked out.
The city will act as consignee of the
foodstnffs. Captain Stewart said. 1t
will be given, thirty days in which to
turn over the money or return the
supplies to the governmcnt. The fire
houses and police stations, baby health
stations and possibly public schools
VII be used as sales dcpots Mr..
osMaiaey announced yesterday that he
is considering offers made by depart
ment stores to act as distribution
centres, disposing of the foodstuffs at
the government sales price, plus a
small amount for overhead expenses.
Confers With Mayor
. The deputy commi soncr conferred
with Mayor Hylan yesterday and an
nounced later that the Mayor favored
the use of department stores. The
ilrSs consignment of goods to the city
has been tentatively fixed at twenty
flve carloads, or approximately 750, 900
pounds" Of food.
At Macy's it was said that hearty CO.
operation would be given to any plan
whereby the cost of living might be
reduced A similar statement was made
at Bloomingdale's, where cooperation
L.
yesterday that A. I. Namm's, a large
brooklyn department. store, is also in
terested.
Officials of womcn's clubs and COM
munlty organizations are understood
TO have volunteered to supply the tenn
porary points of distribution with sales
forces.
To loosen the flow of army food into
the chapnels of distribution the sur
plus SUPPLY department has discarded
the carload as the sales minimum, Cap
tam Stewart announced. He declared
that packages and crates will be sold
separately if necessary, but that none
of these would be broken up.
Circulars to Other Cities
Other cities in this zone, which in
Guides the states of New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, will be afford
ed an opportunity of purchasing the
goods on nsignmcnt, captain Stewart
said. Hundreds of circulars were
mailed TO city heads Yesterday To
handle the expected influx Of orders
the Offices of the zone surplus sunpiv
officer, at Eighth Avenue and Thirty
fourth Street, have been enlarged.
Captain G. c. Hebble Waithe, in charge
OF finance and transportation, will be
placed at the head of greatly aug
liculcu 1OICc.
1t is expected that municipal, Federal
and state employees will be among the
best customers purchasing the arniy's
excess food. Mr. O'Malcy said that
the 10000 city employees hayc been
working up an appetite for some good
food at a reasons price. Byron +.
Newton, collector of customs, tele-
graphed K. c. Morse, director Of sales
of The War Department at Washington.
requesting that some of the food stores
be available to the $500 employees in
the custom office here
BY Parcel Post Also
New York City consumers will not
only be able to buy government sup
plies at sales stations here, bua viii
be able to order food from their post
man. Captain Stewart announced yes
terday that this plan has been officially
approved. Housewives, he said, will
give their orders to the postmen, who,
in turn, will hand them over to the
postmaster.
The sale of the army food has not
caused tremor in the retail price
market here, although Mr.. ,OMalley
said that in Washington prices are
sagging slightly.
Packers agents here believe that the
army food sale swill scarcely create
hutter on the market.