Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-16
REALTORS OIL.
MAYORS PLAN
FORAMARKET
Real Estate Board Defers AC-
ton on Proposed New
Auditorium and Public
Library.

Mayor Smiths plan for a mu-
nicipal market, presented by the
city's executive to the Real Estate
board at their meeting in the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday,
received practically unanimous en-
dorsement. The may also intro
duced his plans for tn public IL
brary and the Auditorium as a
memorial to Omaha soldiers and
sailors who lost their lives in the
war.
After the mayor had addressed
the meeting the real estate men en-
tered into q general discussion as
- whether the plan should be en-
dorsed. Some opposed certain de-
tails of the plan, particularly the
abolishing of the present market at
Eleventh and Jackson st It's, while
D1V.I Cole opposed it from the
standpoint of its co-npe IA with
the retail grocer. F. d. Wead,
who put the motion that the plan
be endorsed; Byron R. Hastings,
Ernest Sweet and several others
favo; ! the plan, and .vheI the mo
ton was Tally put to a vote thSre
were no dissc ting votess cast
Want Time to Think.
No final action was taken ~ t..s
real estate men on the ..,rary
proposition at the meet g yester-
day, the mayor telling thsm that
preferred that they take time to
think the proposition over. He said
that he would later submit a more
concrete pla md then y i'd u,
glad + havs EXPIRE
them.
In explaining the proposed city
market Mayor Smith said he had
thoroughly investigated the market
at Des Moines, and while in that
city was surprised at the number Of
people taking advantage Of the OPP
portunity to buy garden produce
direct from the producer in small
quantities. He went into a general
discussion of the plans of the build,
ing, and said the cost would be
about $4,000. The location at
Fifteenth and Davenport streets is
in his opinion accessible to more
people OF moderate means in Omaha
than any other location.
Il think we will all agree that one
Of the greatest problems of the day
is that of foodstuff," he said, "and
we must do something to get the
producer and the consumer face to
face, and cut out the profit Of the
middle men as far as possible. He
explained he did not mean to do any
harm to the retail grocer, but he
did not believe that the people, who
are willing to take their baskets and
60 To market and get their produce
there, should pay the prices that
people do sitting at home and hav-
ing their groceries delivered. He
spoke of the number of poor peo-
pie living in the district tributary to
his proposed market, and said:
That is the class of people Omaha
has got to take care Of, and my
idea is to establish this market
house near them, so they can buy
their produce in small quantities at
right prices. / know we will have
the opposition of the retail grocers
as a protest has been filed with the
city Commission. We will have the
opposition of the peddlers, and we
already have the opposition of the
commission men, but the laboring
people, and several women's clubs
are for the market, as it has been
proposed"
Would Encourage Thrift.
The mayor sail the market would
also encourage the boys to raise
garden produce, giving them a place
To market their eroos bv setting