Evening star., 1926-09-15

Place on the north. This reserva :
tion, No. !, has an area of 1O6.73:
square feet. and contains brick build
ings covering an area of 81 900 squa re
rect, The land is assessed at $11.25
per square foot, the buildings foi
1000 and the total assessed value
is Sl.S90,623. This market has over
luo stalls, and the entire annual
business, including the farmers row
on the south side of the building
the wholesale section and the refrig
orator plant, amounts to about SIS.
600. 900.
The Center Market was purchased
by the Federal Government from the
w ashington Market co. several years
ago for about $1,500,000, and is al
present operated by the Bureau OF
Agricultural Economics OF the. De-
partment of Agriculture
Commission houses Located on
the north side of b street between
Ninth and Tenth streets and extend
ing to Louisiana avenue is block No
3S2, In which are located large mum
Der of commission merchants on the
south side. Retail merchants occupy
the north side of this block on Louis.
lana avenue. And the volume of bust
ness or both the commission and re-
tail firms is very large.
This land is privately owned and
the area is assessed at about $50 per
square foot. the lot at the extreme
northeast corner being assessed at $50
per square foot.
The business in this square Is
closely related with that of the retail
center Market on one side and the
wholesale and retail Farmers Market
a. ha nt hAr Ii 10 .,
Various Other Markets.
"Other market facilities. Il located
in various parts of the city are nine
other public markets, six of which
are privately owned. The table here
with gives the principal data in regard
to these markets:
PRIVATELY OWNED
Number
Name Location, dealers.
Arcade Market. l4th ST and Park rd 50
lark View Market: Ga ave, and Park rd 80
Riggs MARKET. p ST. bet. l4th and 18th. ;s5
o Street. 9TH and SITS nw... 45
Northeastern. 18TH and II SITS n.e,.... is
PUBLICLY OWNED
Eastern Market. 9TH and G. SITS. s.e..... 40
Fish Market. foot of 1th ST. s,w...... 35
THE assessed value of the sites, per
square foot, is as follows: Arcade, S.;
Park View, 65 cents; Convention Hall,
S150: Riggs, 1925: 0 Street, $3.50
and 81; Northeastern, SO and $3.50;
Eastern. Sl.20; Western, 81, and Fish,
$l.35 and So.
1T win thus be seen that Washing
ton has the market habit and no move
should be made looking to any change
in the location of these active centers
Of business until a very careful sur
vey has been made of all the condi-
tons and of all factors entering into
the economical distribution of the food
supply to the consumers of Washing
ton through the various channels of
trade. In any event no change should
be made which will add to the cost of
this food distribution, and thus tend
to increase the cost of living to the
citizens of Washington. If possible,
this cost of distribution should be de-
creaS Sed.
The Treasury Department, under
act of Congress approved May %,
1926 pub. No. 28D, is authorized to
acquire sites south of Pennsylvania
avenue for the erection of Federal
buildings, and has requested that the
site of the Farmers produce market,
owned by the Federal Government,
but specifically set aside by the act Of
Congress, approved May 20, 1870 16
Stat. 128). as a District market, be
made available for utilization in the
building program at an early date. 1t
would seem from the wording of this
act Of 1870. that additional authoriza-
ton by Congress will be necessary be-
fore this site can be used for other