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Letters to the Herald Editorial Page
THE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1920.
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FOOD PRICES. A New Yorker Finds the Charges Still High in Hotels.
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In this letter to the editor published in The New York Herald on October 3, 1920, a disgruntled resident writing under the pseudonym "New Yorker" questions why wholesale price drops in commodities and food are not reflected in New York City hotel dining rooms. The writer highlights exorbitant charges for everyday basics—including bread, butter, oatmeal, eggs, a baked potato, and tea—and calls for local food control oversight and investigation into hotel pricing practices.
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FOOD PRICES.
A New Yorker Finds the Charges Still High in Hotels.
To the New York Herald: Each morning your paper announces reductions in wholesale food prices, clothing, &c., but in New York city. So long as little bread is $1 a pound, butter $1 a pound, oatmeal $1 a pound, eggs $1 cents a dozen, the average New Yorker takes such statements with a "pinch of salt."
A baked potato costs me 30 cents, apple 25 cents, while the tea, per cup, is 50 cents a bush.
Why doesn't the food control get after the hotels in New York, where the per cent. is 250 per cent. to 400 per cent.?
Other cities seem to be forcing the hotels to reduce their prices; why is New York the last place to do anything for its citizens?
One hotel has recently jumped its prices to permanent guests 50 per cent., and where on an examination that guest receives $50 worth of food, and we pay $250 for it.
Why not investigate the trusts which make these high prices?
NEW YORKER.
NEW YORK, October 1.
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NEW YORKER.
NEW YORK, October 1.
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