Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FOOD SALE BY MAIL
TO OPEN AUGUST IS
Surplus Army Viands to Be Dis
posed of at Prices Lower
Than Market Figures
EMERGENCY AID TO HELP

Surplus army food will be sold to
householders through the parcel post
system, beginning August Is. This was
announced today by the War Depart
ment. which issued schedule of prices
for the foodstuffs. The list shows ma
terial reductions compared with pre-
vailing market prices.
Two carloads of the food will be
bought by the city market commission.
and will be put on sale at the same
time at various police stations through
out the city.
Hours From 10 to 3
The hours of sale at the police sta
tions will be from 10 a. m. until 3 p.
m. daily until the food supplies have
been sold. Women of the Emergency
Aid have volunteered their services and
will act as saleswomen. Details of the
sale of surplus army food are in charge
of George 7. Sales, chairman of the
sites committee of the new market com
mission.
The station houses, where the food
will be sold. are located in residential
sections of the city, the majority of
them in West Philadelphia and Ken
sington.
Government prices on some of the
seventy two commodities to be sold by
parcel post follows:
Bacon, $415 can of seventeen
pounds.
Corncd beef. fifty five cents for can
of 1876 pounds.
Baked beans, five cents for can Of one
and a quarter pounds.
Saltcd corn. ten cents two and a
quarter pound can.
Dry beans. S64 100 pounds.
Crackers, five and six cents a pound
Army flour, SO 100 pounds.
Macaroni, seven cents for one and
half pounds.
Rolled oats, twelve cents for two
pounds.
Seeded raisins, ten cents a pound.
Rice, $6.74 100 pounds.
Tomatoes, nine cents for two pound
can.
White cornmcal, $3.50 for 100
pounds.
Costs to U. s. Disregarded
Costs of the commodities to the gov
ernment, the department said. had been
disrcgardcd entirely in fixing the prices.
The prices quoted are free ON board
cars and from storage points in each
of the thirteen districts into which the
country is divided for War Department
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now is redistributing the food supplies
in the thirteen areas so that each may
have its proportion per population of
the articles offered for public sale.
The price tables include the price {.
can or individual units in each case and
also the price case or larger con-
tainer. 1t also shows the gross weight
can and a case so that the public
NAV arrive 1T the price it will have to
pay by adding parcel post rates from
the nearest distributing point to the
home of the consumer to the prices
quoted.
Municipal selling agencies will com
pute freight charges on these shipments
/ to be added to the price quoted by
the War Department.
/ Sales of municipalities at the new
prices will begin as soon as the surplus
property officers at the various zone
supply offices and depots have received
| the quotations made public today.
It is probable that all loose groceries
including rice and dried fruits, will be
wrapped in standard packages contain :
ing two or five pounds to facilitate
handling at the station houses. AS the
food comes from the government it is
hacked in wooden boxes, similar to those
received by grocers, and to weigh out
an order and wrap it at the station, the
committee thinks, would entail too much
delay.
Bacon will come in strips, and
whether this will be cut into standard
size pieces before being delivered to the
stations or cut and weighed at the time
of sale has not been determined
Following inquiries from the BudG
Manufacturing Company, which ex.
pressed desire to buy ham and bacor
for its employees, and a request from
the Jefferson Hospital that it be allow
ed to buy a quantity of food for hos
pital use. Director Mclaughlin ex
pressed his willingness to put an order
through for any plant or hospital thai
might wish to make up bulk order
for government food. The two cars
which have already been ordered, Mr.
MacLaughlin promises, will be distrib
uted only to those who attend the
sales, ready to carry their purchase!
away.
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