The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-03
CITY TO SELL ARMY
BACON AT 50 CENTS
One Million Pounds Will Be
Disposed Of at District
Club Houses.
SCHOOL SALES TO END
Rabbit Diet Is Urged as Mar
kets Are Glutted at 10
to 20 Cents.

One million pounds Of army bacon has
been purchased at bargain and will be
sold to residents Of the greater city at
35 cents a pound, II was announced
yesterday by the Rev. Jonathan C. Day,
Commissioner of Markets. Letters were
sent out from Commissioner Days office
to the leaders of Republican, Democratic
and Socialist clubs in each of the sixty
two Assembly districts In town asking
them to cooperate with the city in the
distribution Of the bacon. It Is his idea
to use the club houses as centres for the
sales.
The bacon is OF the best quality and
is packed in twelve pound tins. 1t IS the
same product that the Government re-
Gently offered to sell the city for SAN
cents a pound and which would have cost
the ultimate consumer approximately 81
cents a pound. 1t was bought by BUSH
ness man through Swift & Co., the pur-
chase having been negotiated through
Commissioner Day.
Schoolhouse sales of army foodstuffs
are expected to be discontinued within
a week or two, DIR. Day said yesterday,
as no more goods are to be sold the city
by the Quartermaster's Department The
school commissaries have received 10000
cases of pork and beans and canned to-
niatoes, which will be offered to the pub
lie during the remainder of the week
1t was announced yesterday that the
total sales in the schoolhouses have
amounted to 1900. In Manhattan they
totalled $4,000; in Brooklyn, 1900 ;
in The Bronx, $4,000; in Queens, $12.-
600, and IN Richmond, $4,000.
Base for Chicken Sales.
A wholesale base In Brooklyn to ia
cilltate the distribution of chickens pur-
chased from the Quartermaster's De-
partment has been arranged for in that
borough after consultation with the
Brooklyn butchers.
Pork loins and shoulders totalling
about 100000 pounds were placed on
sale yesterday and the demand was brisk
/ at rs cents a pound for the loins and FL
cents for the shoulders. Mutton totalling
about 1000, 900 pounds also is available.
but as the Government price is about
cents a pound higher than the local
market 1t will be held until conditions
, change
Complaints that fayoritism was being
| shown certain residents in Queens who
were allowed to taxa places In the lines
at the food sales ahead Of others who
had been waiting were received yes
terday by Borough President Connolly,
who is chairman Of the committee In
charge of the sales IN that borough. He
cent word to the policemen on duty al
the schoolhouses that the utmost impair
| TALLY must be shown and care taken
1 that no goods are cold to dealers for
resale at profit
At the Quartefma ster's Department
sales store. at 20 W.,t Nineteenth street
Capt. Jaffry Peterson. who Is In charge
announced yesterday that the sales fol-
the first six days were approximately
$125, 900, with a daily average OF some
what over $4,000. About 5000 sales
are made each day He said that after
careful checking It had been found that
comparatively few customers visited the
store evenings, and that beginning next
Monday the sales hours would be from
10 A NJ to P. M. the doors closing al
8 80 P. NJ. New shipments are coming
| in every day and the variety of goods
continues TO increase.
Rabbit Diet Is Urged.
H. H. Jones, director of the New Yorl
office of the State Division of Foods anc
Markets, yesterday issued a statement
urging the public to aid in reducing the
cost Of living by eating more rabbits
He said that the Gansevoort market wa;
glutted with them and that they wert
selling for from 10 to 20 cents pounu
Mr.. Jones thinks rabbit meat Is quite a,
good as chicken meat, and points ou
that 1t Is considered a great delicacy II
many parts OF Europe.
'iOf course" says Mr. Jones, "th'
retail butcher would have to charg'
more than the 20 cents a pound whole
sale price for rabbits IL he goes to thu
trouble of handling them in his shop
but when chickens are selling wholesal,
at from 80 to 80 cents, and even ole
roosters at Il cents, rabbits ought TO b'
cheap to the consumer at fair margin
above 20 cents pound"
An increase during the last week o
approximately s cents a pound in th'
wholesale price OF both butter and egg
has puzzled housewives and retailers
Fresh eggs are now wholesaling fol
from 81 to So cents a dozen and buttel
from 65 to &c cents a pound. Peter II
Atnor, president of the Retail Grocers
Association, explained the rise yesterda,
by saying there was a shortage Of thu
better grades, while the demand had no
dropped on.
Members OF the Retail Grocers' Asso
citation are to meet Mayor Hylan at moor
next Wednesday, when he will listen t
their protest regarding the operation o.
rolling stores" instituted by Commits
sioner Day as an aid in reducing th'
cost of foodstuffs to consumers.