Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-17
P. 0. Distributes
ORDERS FOR FOOD
Surplus Army Commodities
Will Be Sold Householders
This Week.

of order blanks on which household
ers of Washington may place their
orders for surplus Army food to be
sold this week began yesterday. Dis
tribution of the blanks will be COM
plsted tomorrow.
The full list of commodities to be
sold. together with the parcel post
price," which includes full postage
and delivery to ones door. is given
on the order blanks, together with
instruction to purchasers.
Dry beans, -four, macaroni and rice
will be sold in original packages only.
The other Commodities will be sold by
the case or by the tin or bag con-
tanned in the case. Purchasers are
urged by Assistant City Postmaster
Kerlin. in charge of the food dis
of Postmaster Chance, to club to-
gether as much as possible and there
by save the city post Office force as
much as possible.
Order blanks. besides being dis
tributed by letter carriers. wiz be
substations throughout the city. Or
ders will be numbered as they are re-
eeived at the post office and filled ac-
cordingly.
Instructions to Purchasers.
Purchasers are instructed as fol-
lows:
Checks will not be accepted.
Orders may be placed at the main
post office. classified postal stations.
or with letter carriers.
Where one purchaser does not de-
sire an entire case. the club plan is
urged whereby several persons may
combine their orders. which will be
delivered in case lots only at the one ad-
dress.
Certain articles indicated on the
list will be sold only in whole cases
or bags.
mo orders will be filled for more
than two cases of any one commodity.
Material which is damaged or
spoiled will be replaced upon q state
ment sworn to before a duly author
ORDERS must be placed prior to
August 80. 1919. Delivery will be
made as promptly as possible upon
receipt of goods from Army depot"
be used in the distribution of the
food. Orders from patrons living on the
Anacostia and Chevy Chase and
Georgetown rural routes can be de-
1ivered only to the classified sta
tons out of which the routes emanate.
1t was announced.
Price List of Foods.
The list of foodstuffs for sale. to-
gether with their cost. including
postage. follows: Bacon. six twelve
pound cans to case. $24.49 a case.
$4.25 can; corned beef. $14.31. $13.59
and $2149 per case. and 80 cents. 81
cents and $1.79h per can; roast beef.
1883 and s23.2s per case. and IS
beef hash, $3.50 case. and SO cents a
can: baked beans. 1929. $1.s5 and
$2.57 a case, and 5, and IL cents a
can: stringless beans. $2.47 and S5.22
case. and 10 and 43 cents a can:
sweet corn. $3.50 a case. and 10h
cents a can; dry beans. 1907 per 100
pound bags.
y Canned cherries, $5.41 case and
% cents a can: cinnamon. 1884
case. and ~. cents a can: cloves.
-four. 1888 per 10O-pound bag: bulk
Macaroni. s2.27 per twenty-five
pounds, condensed milk, $3.50 a case.
And H cents can; ground mus
tard, S4.23 a case. and Is cents
81 Cents e a e aspDs Rice. ss.sa per ioo-
pound bag; green peas. $3.50 a case.
and 101a cents a can; clam chowder
soup, $4.14 a case. and 8 cents
can and IL tomatoes in case 10 lots Sal
1th cents, IL, 10 and SO cents.
Parcel Post Plan Explained.
Goods will be delivered to the same
point at which parcel post usually is
delivered. the city post office an
nounced last night. In apartment
houses the articles will be intrusted
to the care of the janitor, it was
stated.
Announcement also was made that
the postage rate on the surplus Army
food, sale of which begins tomorrow,
would be the same to persons living
beyond the first parcel post zone from
the supply centers as to those living
in the first zone.
Postmasters will collect only post
age for the first zone. no matter what
the distance the foodstuffs would have
to be shipped. The difference will be
made up by the War Department, which
on shipments to the third and fourth
zones will deduct from the price charged
for orders a sum sufficient to make up
the postage.
Request to Postmasters.
Postmasters were requested by the
Post Office Department to accept
newspaper dispatches as authorization
for suspension Of the zone rates in re-
authorization would follow
The order came after complaints had
been received from all parts of the
country that postage from distribution
centers into third and fourth zones
would in many instances result in an
actual price to many consumers in ex-
cess Of that charged in local stores.
TEcTIIRES nm TIV1NG CnST