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Show NO HALT IN WAR ON LIVING COST N. Y. Authorities Seek to Curb Prices Which Caused Rioting Generally. New York, Feb. 20. The city authorities au-thorities today renewed their efforts . to curb the rising cost of food which I was responsible for riots yesterday in three tenement districts. Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of measures and w eights, appealed to state commissioners of agriculture and state departments of food and markets throughout the country to co-operate j in bringing food supplies to the New York market. The indignation of housewives over- j flowed when peddlers quoted potatoes from five to seven cents a pound and ' onions from 15 to 18 cents. The po- ! lice estimated that at least 1000 wo- ' men took part in one riol Push carts ' were overturned and set afire and veg j etables were doused with kerosene oil. I There were similar scenes elsewhere , and the police were kept busy dispersing dispers-ing the angry women. Dealers here said that within a year I the wholesale price of potatoes had J risen from $3 25 to $9 for a sack of 165 , pounds and the price of onions since ; December 1, 1916, from $3 to $15.50 for 100 pounds. |