New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Councils to Open
New Campaign 10
Cut rices 'Here
Navy to Aid Dri-<e in CITY
With 100000 400 Worth
of Surplus Foodstuffs
Available to- Consumers

A general fight ~, tho hiph cost Of
living will DO optned tonight at a
meeting Of the City Parliament of
the Community Councils, it was an
hounced yesterday. The ACCESSIBILITY Of
renewing the 'shree-day milk boycott
will be discuss ed at the meet;nc which
VIII DC held at City Hall. and tho
erect OF the boycott of week ago will
be conside5 ed. '' wa
Inc PRICE and method of egg cold
H,oLase Uhd the prices of other COM
probably will be taken to organic
oomml.'ees to protest against the up
ward tendency of quotations on cer-
tam foodstufs.
~ vas said that ns a result Of the
enro' lment drive Of last week Commun.
Ivy councils arc now in position to
Trs.'se strong fight against high prices.
cessful. s''' SUI
A public hearing on the cold storaco
egg question will be held next Wednes-
gay evening In the Aldermanic cham
Pc Per or City Hall, the Department Of
rarlhs and Markets announced vestcr
day. DIR. Jonathan C. Dav. Commits
sloner of Public Markets and chair
nan nan OF the Committee on Markets and
storage OF the State Council Of Farms
and Markets, will preside.
~ Professor Earl Benjamin, of Cornell
University, will point out ways in
which consumers can determine tho
grade of the eggs they purchase. Fra r1Io
horne chief of the cold storage divi-
sion Of the United States Food Admin
lstratlon during the war, will discuss
the erect OF cold storage on the quail
NY OF foodstutfs. Representatives Of
wholesale butter and egg firms and as
soclatlons will be present.
Take it from the navy, the stores
the army established recently to get
ria Of its surplus war stocks aren't in
it with the organization the nav ;s
creating. -
binary department stores said Louis
Steinfeld, Of the Bureau Of Survey,
Appraisal and Sale, at the BROOKLYN
Navy Yard yesterday "The army had
only $500, 900 worth Of stuff
1--WE shall give preference to former
SAILORS and soldiers in hiring the sales
staT' FOR the feminine employees,
sucn as saleswomen and cash girls, we
shall hire the wives and sisters of for
mer service men. Yes, the former vco-
women will be eligible, too, for we
shaIl need many stenographers and
clerks"
Navy Has First Big Sale
The first big sale in the navy's cam
paign to get rid of it's war stocks was
made yesterday when the buildings of
the Pelham Bay Training Station we're
sold to the Louis Wrecking COMPANY.
Of 1927 Grand Concourse, for sl55. 900.
This is the largest price evcr received
by the United States Navy for build
ings exclusive of the land on which
they stood. The other bidders were:
3. Seigel and l. Kahn, s142 600; Cleve-
land Wrecking Company. Sl27,1OO. and
Buffalo House Wrecklng Company.
S116,500. There are 500 buildings, Gov
erlng an area of 496 acres, at Pelham
Bay, and the lumber amounts to about
l2.0OO,O00 square feet.
Much of the navy stock has been sold
in France to foreign governments, and
the hospital supplies and some food
stuffs have been sold to charitable in
situations in this country Ten million
dollars worth of food has been sold to
city authorities throughout the United
States in the effort to reach the high
cost Of living.
The sale of the remaining $50, ooo.-
coo in New York will be at both whole
sale and retail