The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-28
$4,000 HERE BUY
ARMY FOODSTUFRS
City as Shopkeeper Has Sold
S1,627,909 Worth Since
August II.
CHICKEN TRADE BRISK
Public Learns to Look With
Favor Upon Cold Stor-
age Eggs.

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store grocer on August II. running his
school stores only 1--WE days week for
about four hours a day, Father Knicker-
1 booker has taken in approximately
S1,627,sos in cash from his delighted
customers on $4,000 Individual sales OF
army foodstuffs. And best of all, while
consumers are. able to buy at rates much
below the prevailing market prices the
city is making enough op tts operations
to pay all The expenses OF transporting
foodstuffs from the army storehouses to
the schools and other overhead charges.
The total'receipts Of Friday--$7O.617H3
for seventy eight stores and a whole
sale department at the greensboro Bridge
| market, where consumers. can buy in
quantities providing they do not resell.
Indicate the success of the undertaking.
About $4,000 worth of stuff Is being sold
daily at the Wholesale market" to
groups representing employees of city
departments, associations societies and
individuals. who have storing space at
home for large quantities of supplies.
Outside the so-called army dry sub
sistence" and bacon, which is being sold
for the Government by the city through
the organization built up by the Depart
ment of Markets, the officials OF the de-
partment are taking pride. in the dis
tribhtion' of army roasting chickens by
August Silz, acting as agent for the city.
Up to last night about 10000 pounds
out of the city's first order of 100000
pounds OF frozen chickens had been de-
livered at retail butcher shops. These
chickens cost consumers 3S cents
pound, and the retailers are allowed a
profit of cents a pound for handling
RoIIing stores Help Out.
Another feature of the programme for
feeding New Workers., out of which the
Rev. DR.. Jonathan c. Day. Commits
sioner OF Markets, is getting heap of
satisfaction, is the sale of cold storage
eggs from rolling stores"-wanderinG
ltrucks-which 10 being conducted by
concern with the sanction of the depart
ment. ..ts.
1t is pointed out that not only do
frozen chickens and cold storage eggs,
distributed in this fashion, contribute
10 the plan of giving consumers supplies
of desirable food at below the regular
market prices. but they also help along
the campaign to educate people up TO
the virtues OF cold storage products.
Everybody has known for a long time
that cold storage eggs have been sold
in this city as strictly fresh eggs. Many
dealers have engaged in this deception
for the reason that consumers turned
up their noses at eggs labelled cold
storage" 1t Is an open secret also
that there are larger profits to be taken
on storage eggs II they can be palmed
off as fresh ones.
1t Is argued now that IL folks can be
shown that storage egg, when it is I'm
the best of condition, Is an egg worth
WHILE there will be a bigger demand
for storage eggs. and the business Of
the dealers will be helped. This is one
reason, 1t is said, why dealers should
support the distribution OF storage eggs
and poultry instead of opposing it.
O'MaIiey Wins Praise.
The work of building up the organi-
cation by means OF which the army food
stuffs are distributed among and sold
in the schools and an elaborate check
ing system to keep tab on goods, sold
and unsold. fell upon Edwin ]. o'Maliey,
Deputy Market Commissioners, who
army officers and others declare has
made a bowling success Of his Job.
The organization was created inside
Of four days of the hardest kind of
work. 1t consists of separate machinery
for the operation of each store, with Il
policeman. cashier and clerks and
headquarters stan of fourteen head
y
ilers. SC, drawn from the employees OF
various, city departments.
The store forces include many Volun-
teers. men and women in all walks or
life, who have pitched in with a will TO
help New Workers. get army foodstuns
at the lowest possible prices.
Some idea Of the magnitude Of the task
to keep up a steady flow of stuffs from
the army warehouses to the schools is
. he fapf hat nrar hAN
of days as high as 144 six ton trucks
have been engaged in hauling things
from harges and railroad yards
ON other days the number has fallen
as low as six trucks Six barges. each
carrying from 5000 to 1900 cases OF
goods Weighing 400 tons. are being used
in bringing the food to the city.
Strikes of freight handlers have han
dicapped the work. Policemen who
were needed at the schools were with
drawn during the PETERBOROUGH strike.
The Pershlng parade made 1t necessary
to shut UP the stores for a day. Labor
Day, too. caused a cessation OF sales.
The Jewish holidays resulted in big
reduction of cashiers and other helpers,
Notwithstanding all these setbacks, the
work has gone on merrily.
William w. Smith. Deputy Market
Commissioner who has charge of the
loading apd unloading, has to work far
into the night TO keep things running
smoothly, and Deputy Commissioner
o Mallsy. in charge of the buying. dis
tribution and organization in the
schools, is on duty six days a week. be-
ginning at 7:45 A. NJ. and ending at