Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-29
NORTH Of AVENUE
MARKET FAVORED
Bureau of Efficiency Holds
Sites in Southern Sec.
tions Inconvenient.

The Bureau of Efficiency in re-
port to the Gibson subcommittee last
night strongly recommends that the
Farmers Produce Market be located
north Of Pennsylvania avenue" and IN
PRODUCES q new site n the lexington
area for consideration. Ten sites are
studied separately in the Bureau OF
Efficiency report which Is signed by
George c. Havenner as investigator, the
advantages and disadvantages Of each
site being summarized.
The report is voluminous. containing
y numbered pages besides scores OF
charts and tables II covers the his
tory Of the market problem and gen.
eral studies OF the area, population,
hotels and boarding houses, retail gro
Gerry stores and the location Of exist
Ing markets as a background for the
specific study Of proposed sites.
Convenience Is Considered.
In its conclusion the Bureau Of Ef-
ficiency says;
III the Farmers Produce Market Is
10 serve the people. 1t should De 50
placed as to be convenient 70 them
Four-fifths of the entire popuiation OF
the District OF Columbia live nortn OF
Pennsylvania avenue.
If the farmers produce market Is
a wholesale market only, as mas oeen
contended by certain interests tnen
the question arises as 20 whether tnere
is any more justification for the TAX
payers OF the District OF Columbia 10
provide a wholesale market for farmers
products than there is that they should
provide a wholesale market for meats
ior dry goods for drugs or for other
commodities.
Fish Market Cited.
To show that the location OF the
Farmers Market in the Southwest sec
ton would mean that IL would be
wholesale market. which the consumers
of Washington would not paironiEs,
the report says,
when the Municipal Fish Market
was established in 1918 the people 81
the District Of Columbia were told
that Il would es wholesale and
retail market and that IL would oe
an excellent place for the housewives
OF the city 70 so for their sea food
products. II was located on the water
front In Southwest Washington.
"As result of this location. this
market has developed into a wholesale
market, being 50 far removed from the
center Of population and 50 ncon-
venient Of access that It's retail trace
failed 10 Haterialise. As result o.
this location StoreroomS III this market
rent for only SO 70 $50 \ month
whereas had this market been located
convenient 10 the people these same
storeroon,S would bring Increased rentals,
Again. ~ show that this market
was wrongly located, IL Is oniy necsS~
sary IL state that at least SO per cent
of all Of the sea food products e'I,,ins
To the WASHINGTON market are brought
70 II by rail- or by truck The sea fond
products from the hover reaches OF the
Potomac River and tram Chesapeake
HAv causht on one tide are IN me
market before the eeo and flow ~ the
next tide. eetns brought thereto ey
trucks"
Twelve Reasons Listed.
Twelve reasons are given III a sum
mary In the Bureau os Efaeiency ne"
,Art why the Farmers Produce Market
should not I've located south N Penn
Sylvania avenue, aS follows
u Because nearly every customer
of this market would he compelled 10
10 through the downtown coi,seSsed
enne 1T the city Ia reach the market
- Because every farmer cpn0nHS
into the city nom the nWth and ~eSs
will have Ia ~ through the dewnsoNn
cSanseated sone ef the city,
q Because the Federal deNelee-
ment ot the Mall triangle VIII further
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