Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 126, 8 April 1915 — Page 12
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tfHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915.
BAKERS RESIST EFFORT TO FIX BREAD WEIGHT
Declare Regulation of Sizes
by Ordinance Unfair as
They Try Maintain Stand ard Price.
MINSTREL DISPENSES WITH BIG ELEPHANT
Hay Costs Too Much for Elks
to Exhibit Beast in Pa rade.
Declaring the ordinance Introduced
in council last Monday night, prescribing standard weights for loaves of bread offered for sale in this city, to be manifestly, unfair, Richmond bakers have organized to fight the passage of
the measure. Under the provisions of this ordl
nance the so-called "small" loaf of
bread would have to weigh, freshly baked, 16 ounces, and the large loaf
28 ounces.
City Inspector of Weights and Measures McKInley has approved the pro
visions of this ordinance, asserting
that it is as important to provide
standard weights for bread as it is for
any other commodity. Order by Pound.
"When you order a pound of sugar,
for instance, you get a pound, Mc
KInley explained, "but when you order
a loaf of bread you do not know
whether you get a loaf weighing 16
ounces or one weighing 12, 13 or 14
ounces.
"There is a standard price for a small loaf of bread, five cents, and we
bakers seek to maintain this standard
price rather than a standard weight.'
John Zwissler, a local baker, said to
day. "With flour at normal prices the
full sized loaf is manufactured. When tho flour market is abnormally high, as it now is, a slight reduction in the v ifcht of the loaf is i.;ado rather than Increase the price per lonf.
"At this time the average weight
of a freshly baked loaf is thirteen ounces. The same size pans are used for baking these loaves and the same number of slices can be cut from them and our patrons do not complain. On the other hand if we continued to make full weight loaves and charge six cents per loaf, as we would have to do or manufacture at a loss, there would be a general protest. In New York recently an attempt was made to charge six cents per loaf but it was not very long before the bakers dropped back to the smaller loaf at the usual price, five cents." Affects Export Trade. "One of the principal objections we bakers have to the proposed ordinance is the fact that its enforcement would seriously effect our out of town trade. "To hold our out of town markets
There will be no elephant In the
Elks' minstrel , parade next Thursday,
This positive declaration waB made
today by Demas Coe, chairman of the elephant committee.
"A circus has kindly offered to do
nate the lodge the services of an elephant for two days without charge, orovidlne the lodge assumes all ex
penses of bringing him here and car
ing for him .. while a guest of the
lodge," said Mr. Coe. "The proposi
tion looked good until we analysed the expenses which would be Incurred. "To bring the elephant,, here and ship him back would cost $75; then we would have to pay his keeper S6 or $7, and, if not too hungry, he would devour two tons of hay whie In our midst, said hay selling for 18 a ton. The committee has decided the success of the minstrel show does not depend upon an elephant participating in the parade."
OPPOSES ORDINANCE
Aithoueh council was urged to pass
the motor vehicle regulation ordi
nance, introduced last Monaay nigm, under suspension of the rules because Park Suoerintendent Ford desired
prompt action on it, that official today declared that he was much opposed to one section of the measure.
"I nm onnosed to the provision pro-
hfhtttne the ooeratlon of automobiles
and motorcycles in Glen Miller park
on Sunday afternoon.
against competitors in neighboring
cities we would have to ship to these
markets bread which would sell for
five cents. We could not sell cull weight bread so that our customers in these little, towns could offer it to their trade for five cents, and if they asked six cents a loaf for our full
weight loaf there would be no demand
for it. because the trade would Duy
the five cents a loaf Dayton, Muncie, New Castle and Indianapolis bread.
"Therefore, if we kept our out of
town business we would have to man
ufacture bread at weights which could be retailed for five cents, exclusive of the full weight bread manufactured for sale in Richmond. This
would greatly increase our overhead
expenses and would badly cripple us,
for with flour at its present price
there is very little profit in our busi
ness.
am votes AGAINST PAVING BLOCK OF FIFTH Bakers Petition for Needed Improvement Opposing
Board Member Cites r Ex cessive Costs.
L By. a vote of two to one the board
of public, works today ordered the pav
ing of South Fifth street from 'Main street to South A street. McMinn voted in -the negative.. He. said,, the .city's share of the improvement cost was
too much,7 about. $1)3001 .. .
There are three resident property Owners on the block, two of whom petitioned for the improvement. William Quigg representing the - Richmond Baking company, and John Zwissler,
representing the Zwissler Baking company, who have places of business on
this block, both urged the ordering of the improvement. The two bakery men declared that the street is a sea of dust in the summer and a mud hole
in the winter and for sanitary reasons it should be paved. Opposition Arises. Unexpected opposition to the proposed improvement of Southwest Seventh street from Main street . to Na
tional Road developed when the resolution for making a concrete roadway on that street came up for hearing today. Several property owners opposed its adoption. The board supposed the property owners all wanted the street permanently improved as no remonstrance had been filed. The objecting property owners were informed that
they would have ten days to enter a remonstrance. . The board has under
consideration a proposal to modify the resolution to provide a 26 foot instead of a 30 foot roadway. This will be considered at the board meeting next Monday. A resolution for making a cement roadway on and locating a new sewer in the alley between North Twentythird and Twenty-furth streets from North E street to North F street, was rescinded. This alley is between two unimproved streets and the board did not believe the improvement necessary. Only one property owner urged the ordering of the improvement. The board ordered the grading down of the alley between South Seventh and Eighth streets from C street to
within two hundred feet of South E street, a cement roadway and sewer This improvement has been pending before the board for several weeks and has been vigorously opposed.
BOARD SETS ASIDE PHYSICIAN'S CLAIM
The claim of Dr. Jones of Franklin township against the township "poor account for - services . as township physician was again set aside for another quarter, by the county commissioners., , ".,..,',..:.'. ..' 1 " Dr. Jones served as township physician under the trustee who retired In January. He and the trustee have verified the bill several times, but politics entered into the affair and the commissioners decided to investigate further., I -: . - ' - The bill amounts to $110. For what
reasons the residents of Franklin town
ship do' not want it paid or on what
grounds they base their objections are not clearly understood by the board.
ENGINEER BEGINS L. HrV PLANS
Corporation Proposes to
Spend $125,000 of $150,000 For New Addition. Chief Engineer "Esterada " of "the United Gas and Electric company began figuring today for additions to the Light, Heat and Power company. He arrived late-yesterday and immediately began taking measurements for the new building. The corporation engineer will - not make a report to the local plant but will file his plans directly with the high officials at the New York offices for approval. The amount of money to be spent is not known, but it is estimated that between $125,000 and $150,000 will be put into the extended producing plant. This includes the big new stack which 1b planned. No word is expected from the report for the next thirty days at least , and it probably will take longer before the plans reach the engineering department and high officials for approval and bids are asked on the construction and machinery. The new plant is expected to be in operation by June, 1916.
439 NOW ENROLLED
IN BIBLE INSTITUTE
More than five thousand ships pass through the Suez canal in a year.
The enrollment of the Richmond Bi
ble Institute was further increased by the enrollment of thirty-five new members last night, bringing the total to 439. . The address was given by Dr. Morton C. Pearson, of Indianapolis, who spoke on "Efficient Methods In The Sunday School."
MAYOR TO ENFORCE GARBAGE MEASURES
Testa made of garbage recently received at the new crematory shows that many people are careless about dumping wet refuse-In their garbage cans. There Is an ordinance prohibiting this and Mayor Bobbins said today that It would be enforced to the letter. "This ordinance was passed last year and not an arrest was made last summer for violation of its provisions, but from this time on any one who places wet garbage, in cans will be brought Into city court. That Is the word with the bark on It," declared the mayor. "Only dry garbage will be . disposed of at the crematory."
The Mississippi, at the point where It flows out of Lake Itaska is ten feet wide and eighteen inches .deep.
BOND WILL STAND FOR PROGRESSIVES
A report Intimating that he would support Dr. W. W. Zimmerman for the Republican nomination aa mayor in the 1917 primaries was branded as ridiculous by City Attorney Bond today. Mr. Bond haa been and fa now affiliated with the Progressive party. "I am not In politic and have never given, a thought to the next mayoralty contest, which is three years off. The report is all tommyrot about me being lined up for Dr. Zimmerman," Mr. Bond said. Mayor Bobbins, when it was mentioned to him that it had been reported he would seek the Republican mayoralty nomination in 1917, merely laughed. - "I have never considered the matter," he said.
Austria haa the finest collection of orchids in the world.
ASK ORE LOT ; FOR SHEEP KILLED
: An appeal may be taken la Web-
ster township on the alllowance made by appraisers for sheep killed recently by dogs.
-The county commissioners yestep-.
flay allowed a hill of $98.75 from the funds collected from dog taxes, to reimburse the Webster township farmers who are losers. The money will be divided between three men, one receiving $50, one $25 and the third $23. All of them compalned against the appraisements and said they would Insist on higher allowances.
CHARGES DESERTION.
Jasper E. Poor was granted divorce in circuit court today from Lau- -ra Poor, whom he claims deserted him and Is now living in Illinois.
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