The sun., 1919-08-27
NEW SCHOOL STORES
MAY OPEN IN WEEK
Day Likely to Heed Pleas for
More Army Food
Stations.

Letters and telephone messages are
pouring into the office of the Depart
ment Of Public Markets urging the Rev.
DR.. Jonathan c. Day, the Commissioner
OF Markets, to open additional schools
stores In various sections OF the city
for the sale of army foodstuffs. DR..
Day said last night that with the trans
fer Of the goods from the Government
warehouses by lighters instead of trucks
he believes 1t will be possible to estab-
lish new stores within a week He
wouldn't make any definite promises,
however. because. he said, he didn't want
TO disappoint anybody.
Sales were not conducted in the
schools yesterday. They were suspended
to permit the STATS to check up. One
hundred trucks were in commission dur
ing the day transporting new stocks
from the distributing stations to the
schools and when business is resumed
at 10 o'clock this morning there will
be enough on hand to go round. or at
least as much as can be handled.
Members of the community councils,
who volunteered for service at the school
stores, are working in three shifts. One
reports In the morning and the second
in the afternoon. The third or reserve
SHIFT gets around in the morning to fill
vacancies.
These Community Council folks are
SO doggone good and are helping us so
much and 30 cheerfully that l wish you
newspapermen would give them a good
boost" was the way DR.. Day expressed
his appreciation of their efforts In help
ing New York consumers get good food
at cheap prices.
Up to Monday night, DR.. Day said.
the total receipts from the sales amount
ed to $225.000. The Bronx still leads
all the other boroughs in appreciating a
good thing when II see It. On Monday
the Bronx folks toted home army food
stuffs which cost them s1s.1o7bs. as
ii5.sS for Brooklyn, $6.117S8 FOR
Queens and s2.35s.57 for Richmond. The
total for the day was t60,3l5.s0.
DR.. Day said several groups Of work
ingmen have dubbed to buy foodstuffs
at the piers, thus saving the city the ex-
pense OF hauling the stun to the school
houses. They will be obliged to give
guarantees that the food is for their own
use and is not going to be resold in re-
tall stores. Persons wishing to buy in
bulk in this fashion should notify the
ONCE OF the Commissioner before going
to the piers.
Audubon Community Council is ar
ranging for a sale at 16Sth street and
Audubon avenue of forty barrels OF
pears which are to be shipped from
Cornwallville, N. Y. They will be
brought down on motor trucks some time
| this week Just to demonstrate the pos
| sibility Of motor truck transportation
The Department OF Markets has nothing
| to do officially with this sale. although
1t is giving its moral support to the en-
terprise The pears will be sold in
small quantities.
The sale of 1000 tons of Government
| foodstuffs will start to-day In ITO stores
| in Jersey City The City Commissioners
| authorized the expenditure of 100000
! for the purchase of army surplus stocks
| The city bought at 20 to 90 per cent. be-
low the market price and will retail at
] Ar advance of 10 per cent. to cover all
| expenses.
| The Employees Association of the
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company
OF Brooklyn has bought $4,000 worth
| of army food. 1t is the first Industrial
organization of its kind to take advan.
tage of the army food sale in New York
| The resale OF the food to more thar
J 5000 employees of the concern will be-
| gin on Tuesday at the company's store
! room, Second avenue and Fifty-sixtt
street, Brooklyn.
The sale is under the supervision of q
committee consisting OF William Smith
| chairman; Miss Margaret Shea, Joseph
McGuirk, Homer g. Hoover and A "
Miller, auditor of the company.