Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — PRICES OF FISH HAVE RISEN [ARTICLE]

PRICES OF FISH HAVE RISEN

Why Product of the Sea Should Cost as Much as Choice Steaks Is Question Asked. One of the Inexplicable things in connection with the tremendous increase in the cost of foodstuffs in New York is the rise in the price of fish. Nothing gives a more specific evidence of the necessity of some sort of regulation to prevent artificial price making, a New York correspondent .of the Cincinnati Times-Star says. Neither the freight congestion nor the Increased demand which prosperity has brought can be argued as a cause. Fish cost more simply because the defers have the opportunity to charge more. Spanish mackerel, brought a few miles into New York harbor by the fishermen, are now selling for as much per pound as the choicest steaks, • a few months ago, when a local newspaper chartered a score of boafg nnd opened sale stations all over the city, it was possible for housewives to buy the choicest It was contended and it is no doubt true that an inexhaustible supply of fish is ready to the nets near New York and that the cost of taking them is small. Ft is a common thing for dealers to dump cargoes of fresh food fishinto the harbor.af ter they have bought them, in order that an oversupply may not reduce prices.