New-York tribune., 1920-01-15
City Assailed
On Terminal
Market DELAY
Women Notify Board of Es-
innate Members to Keep
Pledges of Food Relief
or Look for New Jobs
Hearing Lasts 4 Hours
Faulty Distribution System
Keeps Prices Up and Is
Getting Worse, Say Experts

women speakers told the members Of
the Board of Estimate at a hearino m
terminal markets yesterday that unless
THESE markets were established soon
the board members would have to look
Tor other jobs. The boards hear;nc
room in the City Hall was thronped
with women, who applauded each men
tlon of the use of the ballot for pun
lsnment OF dilatory officials,
MRS. j. E. Allen, chairman of tho
Red Cross committee of the Bronx said
ehat her organization considered the
present food situation an emerpencv
with terminal markets as the onlv re-
lief. She declared that she represented
only thousand women" but can
toned the Mayor that from a political
standpoint one thousand organized
women were as powerful as ten thou
sand not organized.
IF you refuse u.s." she said. and
hesitated. The Mayor interposed.
Then look out for Election Day"
II guess that's right" Mrs. Alien
said, while the women present applaud
ed heartily.
Hearing Lasts Four Hours
For four hours food market experts.
representatives Of civic organizations
IN the various boroughs, wholesale and
retail merchants, real estate men and
welfare workers set forth the reasons
for terminal markets. Men and women
speakers united in saying that they ex-
pected something to materialize from
their appeals.
Several of the speakers referred to
plans which had been prepared for en-
larglng piers to be used as produce
docks. They said these plans had been
submitted to the Board of Estimate.
Henry H. Curran, President of the
Borough of Manhattan, wanted to know
from the old members where these
plans were. The old members coulS
not answer.
improvements along the water front
to facilitate the receiving of freight
between Pier a and Canal Street and
the erection of storage warehouses and
markets IN each borough where perish
ables would be distributed were sug-
gested by speakers.
Assails Distribution Costs
John J. Dillon, former head of the
State Council of Farms and Markets
declared that .65 cents of every dollars
worth of food was paid by consumers
60 distributors. Farmers were becom-
ing ,disgusted with their small share
OF the money, he said, with the result
mat the production per capita was
lower this year than ever before. Some
system of cheaper distribution was es-
sentlal, he declared, and added that
terminal markets provided y the only
feasible solution. Shipments in car
load lots, instead of deliveries in pack
ages from Jersey piers, would save
thousands Of dollars, he pointed out
he recommended that q committee of
prominent business men be appointed
to consider details of terminal markets.
Elisabeth Marbury said that she
knew Mayor Hylan, in his efforts to
make life happier for the common
people, would recommend terminal
markets. She was surprised, she said,
that nothing had been done before
this.
The lack Of proper facilities for re-
seiving food shipments and distribut-
ing them is causing "tremendous
waste" Cyrus R. Miller told the board
tie suggested improvements for Walla-
bout Market in Brooklyn, which. he
said, would quickly make it the bor-
ough food distributing point. St.
George, Staten Island; territory ada
cent TO the Sunnyside Yards in Queens
and the vicinity of West Washington