The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
PRUNES FOR POOR
IS DAYS SLOGAN
Markets Commissioner Orders
Case Sales Restricted. to
Bar Wholesalers.
ARMY FOOD GOES FAST
Receipts From School Stores
Here Totalled $4,000
on Friday.
ARMY FOOD GOES FAST

BOARDING house mistresses may az well
make I'D their minds right now that they
cannot get together winter hoard OF
.uyplus army prunes from the supplies
INV being sold through the schools un-
dor the direction Of the Department OF
public Markets This applies also to
restaurant keepers eager to add to the
money making power OF their menus by
eobbling up bargains in these highly
nr,zed. nutritious and municipality re-
tailed P,unus domestica. The authority
for this statement is the Rev. DR.. Jona-
than C. Day, Commissioner Of Public
Markets.
eve are anxious that the poor of the
city shall get these prunes, or as many
N them as they want" DR.. Day said.
III boarding houses and restaurants
were permitted to buy several cases at
time there wouldn't be enough to go
around.
San officer of one Of the big system Of
restaurants called up en- the telephone
to-day and asked IL the city wouldn't
sell him 200 cases of prunes. II he
could get them from us, he said, he
would promise to double the size Of
his prune portions without increasing
his price. This would be fine thing
for his patrons, but it wouldn't be fair
to the poor. providing they wish to get
our prunes'
One Case to a Purchaser.
Special instructions have been sent to
the selling forces Of the seventy school
stores not to sell more than one case Of
goods to a purchaser unless they are
satisfied beyond question that the buyer
doesn't intend to resell the goods at in
creased prices. Several storekeepers
have been under suspicion OF trying to
get possession Of supplies in the schools
in order to stock up their shelves. At
least one complaint was made that a
wholesaler attempted to get a lot of
stuff, but the department investigators
we're unable TO get the goods on him."
Business Is particularly brisk these
days at School ISL, Ludlow and Delaney
street, where the total sales on Friday
amounted to. $4,000. When this store
first was stocked with bacon, canned
pork and beans and other things the
patronage was terribly discouraging
Housewives In the neighborhood ex-
planned that they couldn't get excited
about buying things cheap for the reason
that they had religious scruples against
eating bacon or other food that once was
a part of the pig. Now that prunes.
canned vegetables, evaporated fruits and
other commodities not associated with
the pork family, are to be found In stock
everything is different 1t was thought
during the first few days of riss ssies
that it would have to be necessary to
close this East Side school store, but now
Dr. Day looks upon 1t as one of the most
lourishing and useful stores In his entire
chain. The returns at Public School los
in East Fourth street. another lively
selling centre, amounted to $4,000 FRI
day. The total receipts of all the schools
that day aggregated $751; 900. MAMMA ttan
leading with 81, 600 and The Bronx hav-
ing $4,000. Brooklyn was third with
$1,000, Queens fourth with $4,000 and
Richmond last with $1,000.
Mayor Hylan received yesterday a let
ter from Clifford L. Newman, Mayor Of
Paterson, asking the city of New York
TO help the Silk City in it's campaign to
induce the Federal Government TO per-
init the sales of surplus army blankets
to the people by the municipalities. May
or Hylan referred the request to DIR. Day.
and the Market Commissioner wrote to
Mayor Newman that the department is
heartily in favor of the scheme. DR.. Day
explained that already he has informed
the army officers Of his belief that
more blankets can be distributed. and
distributed more easily. through the
cty's seventy school stores than through
the lone big army store proposed for the
city Of New York.
Stores to BE Continued.
The fall session Of school will start
at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. but the
reopening will not interfere seriously
with the stores business No store VIII
be abandoned except where the sales
are being conducted in space used as
fairgrounds. In these cases the store
will be closed to make way for the
children's fun and a substitute store
will be established In another school
building in the neighborhood. New hours
have been fixed for sales In the schools
as follows: 10 A. NJ. to IL :45 A M,
and from / :15 p. M. to p. M.
1t is believed that sales will Increase
on school days because the children VIII
be asked to buy foodstuffs for their
mothers after school is out