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Show municipal Set7 : is iiw seen1 Club Women Hold Meeting and Then Enter Protest Against Conditions. CHARGE INEFFICIENCY Mayor Park Admits That Financially Market Fails of Self-support. Various criticism of the city's municln-i market was marie to the city eommWi yesterday by a delegation of club womei representing the women's' organizations that have taken an active part in en deavorlng to make the 'market a Wf! cess. The market Is insanitary and unat. tractive, they say. It has nor the rullroil age expected, nor enough to keep it alive unless an improvement is made. Tlioy complaint against the methods of j. q Smith, the market master, derlming lie was not enforcing the necessary rP.-,, lations on the market and did not aim-P to have the rlut idea about rutiniii public market. The delegates came for the purpose nf having the city make another approurh tion to aid the market. It was sug'tsiM that the city should undertake an advpr 1 tising campaign to arouse public intPrp and Increase the patronage. Also ih,M. asked for a more systematic operaiiun of the market. By advertising certain days on the mar ket, such as '"peach" day. "lomato" riHV "apple" day and so on, they suld, tnrger ' quantities of produce could be sold and I more persons attracted. I Ask for Documents. The commissioners agreed to take the ' matter under consideration. They askrd that the women dciw up in writing their 1 criticisms and suggestions for Improve- ' ment. Heading tho delegation of women wore i Dr. Jane Skolfield ynd Mrs. A. J. Gor-ham. Gor-ham. Both declared that thev were greatly disappointed in the market Com. ', mission er Heber M. Wells, who fosiere-i the market movement, also admitted lie was disappointed in the outcome. It waa t agreed, however, that tho market had been successful in one thins at least the reduction of prices. The women said that even retailers had been compelled to reduce their prices on produce as a resul'j of the operation of the market. ' One vital fault with the market, it was ' pointed out. is the lack of delivery fiu'il-Ities. fiu'il-Ities. Most housewives dislike to have to go to the market and carry home their purchases and would rather ray the extra ex-tra amount in buying from the malleis . in return for the convenience of heln ' able to order over the telephone and havn , the .goods delivered. To iv meiiy I his i fault) the club women have been interviewing inter-viewing the farmers and have succeedud . In having most of them agree.. to make de- liveries in cases where the pun-liases t' amount to i'i or more. Mayor raiK sjihi mat irom a imaneiai standpoint the market had been a Ions to tne city. The revenue was not sufficient . to pay the salary of the market master 1 and the inspectors assigned to the work. Give Startling Report. Mrs. Gorhatn said that reports had ' reached her that some growers had threat- ened to cut off the credit of their customers cus-tomers If they patronized the market. This, she said, may have had some thing i to do with the falling away of the market v patronage. A meeting of women interested in the market was held at the market plaie . during the morning, before tlie city com-! com-! mission met. The complaints and sui;- : gestions laid before the commission were formulated at this meeting and a delesa- v tion was appointed to confer with the commission. A committee appointed recently to investigate in-vestigate market conditions reported at the meeting that it had found that tho Growers' exchange, operating in competl- ) tion to the city market, was underselling undersell-ing the latter, ,and, in fact, was furnishing furnish-ing a large part of the produce sold on the city market. J. O. Smith, market -master, confirmed this, admitting that not more than 45 per cent of the sellers on the city market were producers. |
