The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-17
MEAT WHOLESALERS
TO EXPLAIN RISES
Fair Price Committeeman Will
Tell Why If Rates Are
Sent Higher.
LIVING COST CUTS SHOWN
limited States Food Admins
traitor Here Gives Figures
TO Reassure DOubters.

The wholesalers meat committee of
,bs Fair Price Committee has agreed to
the appointment of one of its members
Ms a representative of the public to at
tend committee meetings for the purpose
NJ explaining why wholesale meat prices
20 I'D in case they do advance any con-
adorable amount. The idea is to es-
tablish a better public understanding
as to the why's and wherefores of price
fluctuations.
The chairman of the wholesalers meat
committee is w. H. Noyes. vice-presi-
dent Of Swift & Co.
The agreement is the result of sug-
goltlon by Arthur Williams. Federal
Ford Administrator. who refused on
Monday as chairman of the Fair Price
Committee TO put out new fair price"
Ist for meats unless the wholesalers
eyrlained why prices for beef and lamb
Jumped cents or so IL pound over last
weeks prices. Later the wholesalers
committee agreed that wholesale prices
should remain the same as last week,
ane the list was published. J
Mr.. Williams is seeking a prominent
man to accept the place.
cit will be the new members duty
10 sit in at the committees sessions.
weigh all that is said and keep the
puolic posted" Mr.. Williams said. "He
will tell the public what he thinks about
everything"
Figures show Lower Prices.
Mr.. williams gave yesterday figures
ba HE pnntanfinv that
prices Of foodstuffs are coming down.
IF on January / last he said, you
had purchased a unit of every item
which appears to-day on our fair price
list of groceries you would have paid
1856 for the lot Yesterday the total
would have been $4s2, a reduction of
"a cents, or 10 per cent.
IF OH January last you had pur-
chased a pound of every item on the
meat list it would have cost you S7.12.
The total yesterday amounted to 1855.
or a reduction of Sc cents about per
cent Margins we allow retail butchers
are cents higher than during the war"
Mr.. Williams said large groups of re-
tall grocers are underselling the fair
price" list, because they are adding fair
margins to commodities they purchased
In favorable market, instead of adding
the margins to present wholesale prices.
THE numerical average of the items
on our grocery fair price list" the Food
Administrator explained. SIS col cents
We find that $500 grocery stores are
selling at prices the mineral average of
which is 1873. The average of the next
group, about 500, is 1872
Mr. Williams was informed last night
that the armys surplus frozen poultry,
roasting chickens, which A. Sill. Inc, is
1Ns7eN tkVWNs Ill.,
New York City, Is not getting into the
stores as rapidly as was hoped, He inn
mediately got into touch with Louis e.
Beckman, vice-chairman of the master
butchers subcommittee of the Fair
Price Committee, and urged him to get
retail butchers to make it possible for
consumers to take Advantage Of tine Gov
ernments offer of roasting chickens at
81 cents pound. Mr.. Beckman prom
ised to issue call to master butchers to
meet at Mr.. Williams's office tomorrow
afternoon TO talk over plans for getting
supplies from Mr.. Silz.
Mondays and Tuesdays are slow days
generally in the poultry trade, which
explains in part why only 700 cases,
about $4,000 pounds, has been distri-
oated thus far. The city can have
100000 pounds or more, If the people
dealers loaded up with chickens yester-
day
Reductions on Army Meats.
Edwin J, o'Malley, Deputy Commits
soner of Markets, was informed yester-
DAY by Col. Carson, Zone Officer of the
surplus army foods. that the Director
OF Sales at Washington has granted a
reduction asked for by Mr.. O'Malley to
20 cents on pork loins, to IL cents on
mutton and to 22 cents on pork Shout
GERS Retailers can get these meats at
A. Silz's Inc, 422 West Fourteenth
street, later in the week.
The Rev. DR.. Day, Commissioner of
Public Markets. announced the opening
OF Tour new school stores as follows; st,
Lncys. Pa East 104th street, Manhat-
tan; No. ~ Thirteenth street and First
avenue College Point Queens; No. s,
Amooy road NHugenot. Staten Island I;
NO; To- Brighton Heights, Staten ISL
and
Five or six new school stores will he
opened within week in Manhattan and
Brooklyn.
The work of sending to local COM
munity councils and to cooperating or
CARNATIONS the postcards on which
housewives wiz keep tabs on prices in
Ietail grocery stores and butcher shops
was oegun yesterday at the Fair Price
committees 'verifcation" headquarters,
room 4O7, Federal Building Gold Post
omce). The purpose of this campaign
ie 10 observe how dealers are CONFORM
ing with the fair price lists.
conference on the cost Of living will
axe place to-day in the executive cham
r IN Albany. A. Mitchell Palmer,
United Gtatau