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Show MUNICIPAL MARKETS SELL OUT QUICKLY Housewives in New York Storm Food Emporiums; Prices Tumble. NEW TOHK, Sept. 1. Housewives armed with market baskets stormed the four municipal markets opened today by the mayor's citizen committee In an effort to stem the rising cost of food In such ntimbern that many farmers and dealers had sold out within an hour. Farmers from the surrounding country, including northern New Jersey, pushcart merchants, commission men and representatives repre-sentatives of one department store Invited In-vited by the committee to occupy tile markets, mar-kets, rent free, were on hand- in force. They sold their goods under supervision of the committee's inspectors, who were fortified with the latest retail and wholesale whole-sale quotations. Prices tumbled. Bread sold as low as i cents a lout and other staples correspondingly corre-spondingly cheap. , Thousands of pounds of sugar at 7 cents a pound were sold during the first hour of trading. The price of potatoes was cut more than one-third; one-third; corn sold for 40 per cent leas than the prices demanded at shops directly across the street: apples, peaches and other fruit, freshly gathered, were cut In price from 20 to 35 per cent. ! |