The sun., 1919-08-24
ARMY FOOD STILL
DRAWS Big CROWDS
Count Of Receipts Shows Sales
of 100000 on Last
Friday.
SIXTY CASHIERS NEEDED
Three Big Lighters to Facili-
tate Transportation of Sup
plies Tomorrow.

Saturday marketers with and without
market baskets had the benefit yesterday
Of the city's third days offerings of
surplus army foodstuffs. and the canned
vegetables, bacon, condensed milk. &C..
helped to piece out the necessary week
end purchases for the family larder.
The same big crowds of the preceding
days were out There was the same
standing In line until legs got tired.
There was the same hustling Of offici9l
city clerks and cashiers and voluntary
statesmen and saleswomen to take care
Of the wants of the multitude out for
cheap food. The Rev. DR.. Jonathan c.
Day. Commissioner OF Public Markets,
and his deputies, Edwin ]. O'Malley.
william p. Mulry william w. Smith and
Laura ]. Cable, hustled perhaps harder
and TO make sure that the supply at
least equalled the demand wherever pos
sible.
Bacon still Popular.
There was the same old cry for bacon
and more bacon and the same old won
Ger of the discharged soldier as to the
reason why housewives were so anxious
to buy IL, even though II does cost only
thirty-four cents a pound. When a fell
low has been fed up on bacon for months
and months II isn't remarkable, a city
school store clerk said, why he should
feel that way about 1t.
When the school stores ceased compel
ing with the neighborhood stores at
o'clock In the afternoon, DR.. Day issued
the same old call for more cashiers n
handle the money that Is fast flowing
IN. He said that sixty additional cash
iers are an actual necessity II the ma.
chinery of the city stores Is to come Ut
to expectations.
The Market Commissioner announced
that Fridays total sales in the schools
aggregated s60.552.os, which brought the
total for the first two days UP to around
100000, which, he thought was doing
pretty WELL, The Bronx led the pro-
cession of the boroushs on Friday In
buying the greatest quantities OF food
stuffs. Her receipts were S13. 1853, nj
against $10,9s1.05 for Manhattan. $14,
S00.09 for Brooklyn, $S,637.76 fol
Queens and S2,777.55 for Richmond.
Dr. Day said the transportation o.
army supplies from the warehouses e
the schools will be expedited by the ad
dition Of three big lighters which will
be in commission tomorrow. Each will
carry 400 tons at a time. They will
ferry supplies from Port Newark, Busf
Terminal and the army warehouse al
South Brooklyn. One will land her car.
go at the East Twenty-fourth street piel
for Manhattan and Staten Island. The
second will unload at the Barge Cana.
in The Bronx, and the third will tie VI
at Wallabout Market
Dealers Send Agents to buy.
A warning was sent out yesterday &c
those In charge OF the sales at the vari.
Gus schools to prevent II possible large
quantities OF foodstuffs from falling into
the hands OF storekeepers. restaurants
and boarding houses More than one
dealer In foodstunfs, It was said, had
sent employees out with wagons with
instructions to load up as much as they
could SO that the stuff could be sold
back to the public at prevailing market
prices after the school supplies run out
There has been such jam of bushes,
that DR.. Day and Deputy Commissioner
OMally have decided to close the schoo
stores next Tuesday to enable the store
stats to take account of stock. Each
week thereafter the stores will be shut
down on Mondays for this purpose.
Up in The Bronx there was the usual
big call for bacon, but the women folk.
didn't banker very hard for the canned
soups. The falling or In the demand
FOR soups Is said to be due to the fact
That storekeepers are meeting the citys
price.
DR.. Day said last evening there hat
been the finest sort Of cooperation shown
by the volunteer groups of women. Some