Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-16
more CUT PRICES
IN SOME MARKETS
Cheaper Vegetables on Sale
Today at Center Market and
Louisiana Avenue.
DEALERS FALL INTO LINE

Price cutting in staple vegetables
on stands in Center market and the
Louisiana avenue market today was
more general than yesterday, several
stands in addition to those that re-
duced prices yesterday displaying
signs pricing fresh vegetables at
noticeable reductions.
By no means all of the stands in
these two markets had joined the
price cutting brigade today, but
enough had fallen in line to make
material differences in prices. The
price signs calculated to make the
average careful housekeeper dizzy.
Difference in Potato Prices.
For example, some stands showed,
on the little paper bag or wooden
signs, potatoes at 20 to 25 cents a
peck. This. wholesalers said, was
less than potatoes could be bought
for on the wholesale market. At two
or three stands away from the low
priced ones. potatoes not noticeably
better in size or appearance were
marked SO cents q peck.
Sugar corn was selling all the way
from 20 cents a dozen to As cents,
some stands in Center market asking
as high as SO cents a dozen for fine
big ears.
Tomatoes retailed on some stands
at 10 to Is cents a half peck, other
stands asking 20 to 25 cents for to-
matoes apparently no better.
Green peppers sold at Wholesale to-
day at 81 crate and retailed at all
the way down from 5 cents each to
three for cents.
Elephants retai1ed at 10 to Is cents
each, the latter being the price of
fancy ones.
Low Record for Watermelons.
Small cantaloupes were sold on sew
eral stands at cents each Other
stands quoted canta1oupes a trifle
larger at two for Is cents. Fine
Watermelons retailed on a number of
stands at Is to IS cents each. which,
1t was stated, was the lowest price
asked for similar melons in local mar
kets In the last two years
String beans, both the wax and
green varieties, retafled on a number
OF stands at ~ to Is cents a quarter
peck. two or three stands displaying
signs pricing the beans at 10 cents a
quarter peck.
Lima beans also showed a drop on
several stands, where they were
priced at IS to 40 cents a quart box.
Cymlings and yellow crookneck
summer squash retailed on many
stands at two to three for cents.
/ On the commission market receipts
OF vegetables and fruits again were
heavy. Peaches, as fine as any that
ever come to Washington, sold a,
wholesale today at SO to $3.50 a
crate. others not SO choice being
priced at $3.50 upward California
pears. however, made another upward
jump today, the price per box BEING
advanced to IS. Yesterdays price was
s. q box for this fruit other Cali
fornfa fruits showed similar advances
Wholesale Market Receipts.
Receipts on the farmers wholesale
market today. it was stated, were
heavier in all lines than on any previ.
Gus day this summer. Officials stated
that the market was glutted in ali
lines. and that the quantities Of vege.
tables brought in this morning could no,
he sold out today.
Late today, it was stated, vegetable
prices in the wholesale market would
be reduced. and produce undoubtedly
would have to be retailed at whole
sale prices to dispose of the large
quantities received. No general scale
OF prices could be obtained TODAY
wholesalers apparently fixing their
own prices for their goods at what
ever figure seemed to them most like
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