Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-03
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pose upon the orc price residents n the
New World the hagEling, shifting. Guns
ming methods Of the I.evantinc
AT last count there were 2a72 fruit
and vegetable dealers in the greater city.
about equally divided-Greek and Italian
The deiIretessen dealers by the same
count numbered 3.d15 they being equally
divided between German ard Husstaa
refugees, hasily engaged In overeharg
.Hg the people &c n land witch gave
them their Eayen from persecution or
tie 1854 groeers az New York. % PER
cent arc German, 80 per cent Russian
- pcr cent Italian aud the remainder
rf scattering aatgpnalities
Ehe dominating foreign horu " Tie
1aIga retail butchers, ard G. iGt bakpriea
are q German birth. with large rep4
~Fs@Efatiau Of Rassiaus. You ask what
percentage az me View York CITY gro
GERS, butchers, bakers and aelicatesseu
dealers are Jews, / could not get any
figures "a that. and anyhow we are writ
ing d pr9Portiouate nationalities, and
not religions
Among $3.50 confecttoners, again the
Greeks forge 10 The trent and they are In
. practical domination Of the business II
selling SUe.ts. 1T least they wera uutiI
the fortunate entry into the metropolis of
several chains & candy stores. The ex.
tfaordinary rush IF the public 70 the lat.
ter for the bargains indicates the extent
t. which fhey bad previously been tnuist
u By the foreign born. independent re-
failers. There are 40 dairies. and 80
eeff.e. tea and spice retal shops In New
! lork, mostly still in the hands Of at least
naturaliz-d citizens. 81 tho owners Of
$500 horses ana wagons, a379 push carts
ahd the 1,1s0 basket peddiers licensed to
s.tl foods. flowers and merchandise upon
the streets IF New York ii il sufficient 10
say ali languages are spoken and com
paratiTe!y short time viii undoubtedly
ind ali these "traveling statesmen In
stalled in Shops of their own, they has in g
succeeded as push cart men. basket ven
doris and wagon merchants many 81 those
WHO arr low New Works. retailers.
There are three hundred and twenty
square miles IN New York city. where
abide fhe six million" in t77,G5o one
family dwellings. a1,3i4 two family
dwellings. 10I. 1872 tenenents without
elevators and 3oI0 hotels and elevator
apartments. It IS the greatest conges
tion It human beings on the North
American continent aud so far as Man
haitian Island is concerned, the most In
tensiye population IN the world.
Between he American producer on the
farm and this tremendous mass Of PEG
pie who have 10 be fed and who need
frIit and flowers In enormous quaint
ties has fallen an alien curtain. To get
through II and reach this market which
+. by every right belongs to Americans who
!ntend 10 Femain Americans and who will
! 3a business IN IN American way Is tho
problem Of the producer, as the Nav
/ York consumer Is. apparently. in the
langEase II Patrick Henry. lying SUI
HtHely upon his baek, bound hand and
foot"
What n chance 1t is for the organized
! farmers o. the land TO come In here and
open retail stores OF their own and sell
direct 70 consumers fresh vegetables,
fruit OF the garden and orchard. butter
and eggs and lastly, flowers for the
baby carriage trade ms we'll as the car
rage trade Extortion Killed the demand
for flowers with the great middle classes
Of the metropolis, but the trade could be
revived il the example Of Kingston tfos-
| lists Is followed and ampiifed with 4 dis
trihuting CENTER down here And if done
; with flowers. even by parcel post why
nof extend that sort 81 direct dealing
with New Workers 70 other products
, from the country; then and only then
would the forr!.n-horn retail oppressors
OF the metropolis possibly assume an at
tituda of square dealing alike to the
people Of New York and the producers In
the great generous land OF their peculiar
sort Of adoption and whom they so
now outrageously niisrepresent