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Show FREE MARKETS THROWN OPEN New York City Plans to Reduce Re-duce High Cost of Living Appeal to Housewives. New York. Sept. 1 Housewives armed with market baskets stormed the four municipal markets opened to day by the mayor's citizen commit lee In an effort to stem the rising cost of food In such numbers that many farmers and dealers had sold out within an hour Farmers from the surrounding country, coun-try, including northern New Jersey, push cart merchants, commission men and representatives of one department depart-ment store, invited by the committee to occupy the new markets, rent free, were on hand in force. They sold their goods under supervision of the committee's inspectors who were for tified With the latest retail and wholesale quotations Prices tumbled Dread sold as low-as low-as 4 cents a loaf and other staples Correspondingly 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, new corn sold tor 10 per cent less than the prices pri-ces demanded at shops directly across the street, apples, peaches and other fruit, freshly gathered, were cut in price from 20 to 35 per cent. New York Sept 1 Four expori mental free markets with accommodations accommoda-tions for 500 push carts or stands and 112 farm wagons were thrown open to the public in New York early ot-day ot-day The success or failure of this plan to reduce the high cost of food, ac cording to Its promoters, depended on the spirit of the purchasing public An appeal to housewives to get out their market baskets and visit the market nearest their homs, which was sent out last night b Mrs Julian Heath, president of the National Housewives' league, was expected to result in a general rush throughout the day to test the declaration that prices can be reduced by purchasing direct from the producer |