White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-03-11
LIGHT, ofNewN
BY [. [. STEVENSON

the world, according to Max Water
man, chairman of the committee on
foodstuffs of the Merchants associa.
ton. AS proof, he has dug up fig
ures which show that each year the
individual consumption of food
amounts to 1852 pounds of meats, %
pounds of live poultry, 81 pounds OF
dressed poultry, so pounds of fish.
"a pounds of butter, 6.5 pounds OF
cheese, 240 pounds of eggs and 500
pounds of fruits and vegetables.
During the last year, $4,000 car
loads-what train that would
make!-of "fine foods came across
the continent to the New York mar
ket. The South sends us more than
10000 carloads year of fruits and
vegetables. More than five billion
pounds of fruit and vegetables reach
here each year. Twenty-four green
and root vegetables are available
at all seasons usually at prices
within reach of the pocketbook OF
lHe average housewife.
Five reasons are given by Chair
man Waterman as to why New York
ers- those who can afford it-live so
we'll. First, the development of ex.
ceptional transportation and refrig-
GRAFTON facilities permitting the city
to receive in prime conditions food
stuffs grown in all, the productive
parts of the globe. Second, the
size of the New York markets, pro-
ducing a steady demand and Undue
ing food shippers to supply it at all
seasons of the year. Third, raising
of dietary standards through the dis
semination of educational material
enabling those on limited budgets to
feed themselves properly. Fourth,
intensive competition, which pro-
duces prices comparing favorably
with those in the country districts.
Fifth, a system of food regulations,
backed up by inspectors, which in
sure the sanitary and safe han
sling of all food products.
Speaking merely as layman and
not desiring to arouse competition,
the Waterman statement in regard
to prices comparing favorably with
those in the country districts doesn't
quite click with me. In the first
,N1o Sc %h0 ot1+h0 Yi%1,
statement made some time ago that
it costs more to move bag of
potatoes eight miles in New York
than it does to bring them here
from the fields of Michigan 300
miles away. Then, too recall that
last year while green corn was
dime an ear in New York, it was
a dime dozen back in my home
town.
New York municipal marriage
chapels have been losing business
ever since the law requiring an in
terval of 70 hours between the is
suing of the license and the per.
Torrance of the ceremony went into
effect. There was time when hap
py couples went to the city clerks
office, got the necessary piece of
paper and walked hand in hand over
to the chapel where deputy clerk
performed the ceremony. The whole
proceeding took only few minutes
and the result was that many
couples who entered the building,
which straddles Chambers street,
single, came out double. In No
vember, 1885, about 81 marriage
ceremonies a day were performed
in the chapel. During the month of
November, 1887, the average was
about 20 day. In Brooklyn, the
average dropped from II day to
six, with proportionate drops in other
boroughs.
James Bell, deputy city clerk in
charge Of the marriage license Of
flee over in Brooklyn, has figured