New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Slabs of Bacon
Biggest Prizes
AT Food Sales
Babies and Sides of Army
Meat Share Co.Carts, and
Small Boy and Wagon
Reap Harvest at Schools
Limousines Also in Line
Weather Women Struggle
Through Crowds to Cars
Clutching 3O-Lb. Chunks

Liutchlng 3O-Lb. Chunks
The side of bacon was literally king
of the army food market yesterday.
All over the city women could be seen
Juggling around huge sides weighing
anywhere from ten to twenty pounds.
babies and bacon were trundlcd home
together in go-carts. Boys and bacon
travelled promiscuously together from
school to home. Occas ionally, over
bearers deposited their load on the
sidewalks. In fact, the casual pasacr-
by was apt TO meet side of bacon al
most anywhere yesterday,
The crowds on tho second day Of the
army food sale had moro varying Gle
ments than on Thursday. Bacon proved
a drawing card rich and poor, and a
number of wealthy women drove UP in
their cars and had their chautfeurs
stand in line to make extensive pur-
chases. In some instances buyers Of
women who could afford to pay high
prices helped to depleto the supplies Of
bacon, which proved totally inadequate
for the days demands. In one school
or Washington Heights ten crates of
bacon were sold within an hours time.
In another $3.50 worth was disposed Of
as fast as it could be unpacked At
none Of the stations was the supply
equal to the demand.
Eager Crowds Collect
AT some of the schools the bacon
did not arrive until The days sales
We're nearly over, but the news spread
and eager hOuSckeepcrs seemed to
collect from nowhere with a bcwider-
ing paraphernala of net bags, suit
cases, parchment containers, baskets
baby carriages and toy convavances
Numbers of them resorted to the
! simple device of slowing the side OF
bacon il their aprons and carrying it
away like that. Husbands and fathers
Joined IN yesterdays rush.
Everything was in apple pie order
AZ School 1856, 145th Street and
Amsterdam Avenue, on the second day
of the sale. The eager buyers had
got used to keeping IN a regular
queue; there We're plenty Of volunteer
saleswomn from the Hamilton Com
munity Council and 1000 rounds IF
bacon was on hand. II arrived Il. noon
and not single pound was left by
O'Clock. So great was the rush that
the luncheon hour was waived. At
least 500 bought bacon alone, in
J
with canned goods. A good many
women found that it paid to be early
on the job when they strasg,cd in
late in the af.crncon and found moth
ing left. The smallest slab soil cost
$3.50 and the average was IS. Cor
acnscd milk was another Of the hest
sellers at this particular school, and un-
bclievahle stacks Of tins wcre borne
away in baskets, aprons and Ieceptacles
Of all kinds.
Looks Like Bazaar
4 bazaar might have been in progress
at School No. 81, Sixty-eish,h Street
and Amsterdam Avenue, to judge from
the colorod paper decorations Suspend
an hour for four hundred people to
dispose of every pound o; bacon avail
able, and they left $3.50 behind them,
congratu!ating each other on the fine
bargaining they had done.
This was the school where chaufcurs
were much in evidence, and more than
q Few women dressed in the height of
fashion .ust'ed n, took their places
in the queue alongside Of their char
bearing the greasy bundle Of bacon
under thcir silk-clad arms. AS one
os the salcswomen remarked, q great
levelling Of class was apparent when
there was q chance to buy food at
reasonable rates. Upward of S1,500
was made at this school when things
wero totalled up. One Of the volunteer
workers was an actcr who is out on
strike
Lamentations we're loud at Dewitt
Clinton High School, one of tho most
popular of eli the stations, when the
promised bacon did not show up. 1t
was closing time before the consign-
ment finally arrived. but hundreds had
to be turned away during the day and
a roaring business was done in canned
milk, peas and tomatoes. Everything
was sold out before closing time. A
shortage CT clerical help crippled oper
atoms to some extent. a nlne~year-old
youngster living on West Sixty-fourth
Street did lively trucking business
around the school all day. With a toy
express wagon he carted the purchases
Of customers to their homes for small
fec.
Boys Reap a Harvest
There we're plenty more Of this genus
the neighborhood of School 80, First
Avenue and Seventeen Street, came to
a clever solution of the trucking prob
lem under the direction of Mrs. Anna
Waderar and Patrolnlan John Coogan.
/ More than fifty of them fitted up small
makeshift wagons of all sorts, and
We're able to haul practically all the
foodstutfs sold at the school yesterday
to the homes Of purchasers for five or
ten cents load. Enough money was
! saved on the purchase Of the 34-cents-
a-pound bacon to make the small out
lay we'll worth while for the house
keeper.
A strange lack of interest in the
sales appears to prevail on the lower
East Side Only small quantities of
peas, beans and tomatoes have been
disposed Of during the two days of the
sale at School 1871, Ludlow and Delan-
cey streets, and No. 105, East Fourth
Street; Officials in charge are rather
niysttied ut the lack of interest, but
assume that it is due to so many of the
house in the neighborhood being
unable to read English, and therefore
remaining IN ignorance of the sales
In marked contrast was the rush on
the East Side above Fourteenth Street
The crowd III front of School 40
$40 East Twentieth Street, was larger
than on Thursday and more than 81 =.
ooo was taken in. Difficulty was ex-
perlenced in keeping order, for there
was some delay in furnishing supplies
rs result Of the scarcity of delivery
men. Mrs. Elizabeth Brannipan. In
charge OF the saleswomen, made an ap-
peal for more men volunteers, saying
that six strong willing men workers
were needed to make things run