New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Receipts at So Stations
Reach Double Record of
Previous Day; Still Big.
ger Business Is Expected
Vegetable Trade Halted
Purchases of Low Priced
Canned Goods Kill Mar
ket for Fresh Product

housewives did the greater portion Of
their week end shopping yesterday at
the ffty-eight public schools where
surplus army foodstuffs are being sold.
New sales records were established
everywhere. DR.. Jonathan c. Day.
Commissioner of Public Markets, an
nounced that during the two hours of
the morning sales session more food
was sold than during the entire five
hours on Friday. He estimated that
the sales total was double that of Fri
day, or $4,000, purchased by more
than 100000 customers. No fair esti-
mate on the number of pounds of food
stuffs disposed of could be made, DR..
Day said.
City officials are amazed and graft
fed by the unexpected demand for the
supplies. During the three days of the
sale, more than 100000 worth of army
toodstutfs have been sold to 100000
customers, representing approximately
100000 consumers.
Lighters To Be Used Tomorrow
DR.. Day declared the sales to-mor-
row and succeeding days will average
we'll over 100000, due to the provis-
ion of more adequate distribution
facilities. Three lighters will be used
tomorrow. One will carry supplits
from the army bases to Brooklyn,
landing at the Wallabout Market, an
other will supply Manhattan, unload
ing at the recreation pier at East
Twenty-fourth Street. and the third
will deposit foodstufFs at the Barge
Canal terminal in The Bronx.
The lighters have carrying capacity
of 400 tons, compared to the five or six
ton maximum OF the trucks. This will
facilitate transportation and probably
increase the sales by 25 per cent at
each station, DR.. Day said. He added
that it will increase the varieties of
foodstuffs at each depot and promote
larger sales in this way.
The consumers appetite for canned
goods, for sale at 25 per cent below
market prices, has caused falling off
in the demand for fresh vegetables if
was learned yesterday. Dealers report
ed the market glutted with vegetables
because Of the heavy receipts and the
slackened demand
Potatoes and Beans Drop
The wholesale price of potatoes tum-
bled from So l65-pound bag to $3.50
during yesterdays trading, while the
price Of Long Island wax beans dropped
onion market slumped splendidly, from
the consumers standpoint, during the
week. Long Island yellow onions were
quoted at s4.25 to $3.50 barrel last
Saturday and 1925 to $3.50 yesterday a
Do per cent decrease The quotations
on peas were lowered slightly.
canvass of grocers, however, re-
vealed that their prices have not been
altered because of the army sale, except
IN few instances. Most of the dealers
were discounted by the prospect Of
Inc sale oil army food being continued
for thirty days.
Edwin J. OMalley and William H.
smith, deputy market commissioners,
communicated with Captain A. A.
stewart, zone surplus property officer,
Yesterday. and asked for shipments of
prunes, ralslns, canned pineapple, evap-
Grated peaches and evaporated apples.
Iaptaln Stewart said he is confident
that these supplies will be on their
way to the school houses before the
end Of next week. Prices for these
commodities have not been fixed. he
SAID, but he expects they will be from
20 to so per cent below the best quo
tatlons any retailer can give his best
customers.
Bacon in Strong Demand
AS on Friday, bacon proved the most
popular commodity offered yesterday.
More than 10000 pounds was cut and
weighed at the Greensboro Market
storehouse and shipped to the various
sales depots. Within about one hour,
Dr Day said, directors of stations
were calling up frantically, asking for
oacon and more bacon. The general
belief that the bacon would be with
cut a lean streak has been dispelled.
DR.. Day said yesterday the sale
when the schools open hours for the
sale might be changed to from p M
70 ., allowing the same time as at
present and giving wives an opportu-
nifty OF impressing their husbands into
carrying service. This was done to a
large degree yesterday, and spouses
VINO expected TO spend the afternoon
at baseball games and elsewhere found
themselves losing flesh under fifty or
SHY pounds OF assorted commodities.
The sales will not be held Tuesday
oeputy Commissioner O'Malley said
yesterday. Following Labor Day, he said
,he salesrooms would be closed every
monday, as well as Sunday. He APP
peaied for volunteer workers, especially
those accustomed to handling financial
accounts. The press of hundreds be-
iore each cashiers booth yesterday
proved severe handicap in the sale
IS on the two days previous. With two
OK Or. three cashiers at each station
vMaliey believes that the sales would
4e increased by 80 per cent or more
voiunteers should communicate with
MIN IN the Municipal Building.
Denies Other Towns Suffer
Dr Day took exception yesterday tt
reports that other towns were being
shghted, as the army food was di
.vserted to New York City. He declared
she government is distributing the
commodities equitably.
=, would also like to make mysel.
eiear on the delay in offering the foot
20, 20 the public for sale" Dr. Day said
from some of the newspaper account:
sne impression might have been gath
eted that the army was to blame be
cause cause of its distribution of foodstuff'
w.lhin the thirteen zones. The army
v.incers, as a matter of fact, did every
shlhg IN their power to assist US. /
was only a matter of making sure o,
our organization before attempting t.
public.
The reports that some of thu
women workers are being paid ar
iiaise. No one is being paid except thu
a4oorers doing the heavy work. Thes'
men men Will work throughout Sunday, cut
ing and weighing huge shipments O.
Daeon. Their work is the kind which
we could ask no volunteer to do"