PRICES TO JUMP
CENT THROUGHOUT
DEALERS ASSERT
use Will Affect All Grades
fa product Already in
Force In uormamown
and Overbrook
BLAME ON THE WAR
et Ml ? will -;. t
. i muanpiitiiii iviji iw..
E .Vnrflne to statements Issued today
L'-RuSKek. president of Abbott Al-fcC-
"l4?..,. .i ft. Henderson SuDDlee.
y Iiri" -
".. i rtnlrtolL
,.iiv Increasing shipment of
5ucts to tha Allies, the high price
J bv thVwar and Intrusion ot New
.Vn.iiimore dealers Into the Fhtla-
Li mil ne were Klten by them as
.... .t..ird that a German subma-
Mnfkade of American ports would re
!r. .ii...iion. because, he said, such
EEocksde would stop shipment of sup-
This country Mr. Supplee said such a
p as well as for the consumer.
i n rent a botili Increase In the price of
JL i. belnr paid by consumers In German-
1 and eroruun. i.,. ..-.. -nd
nine cents a quart Is the new
" k... fwn districts, and In a few
J Jh9 prices will preall throughout
FTM situation." said Mr. Llndbach. "Is
li . L-itnr more tense. We dealers
J"; ft to raise the price or go out of
uAlnaM.
-The Allies are gobbling up all the mil
T? '. ,L. ran crab In this country. The
I.ri ire getting such high, prices for
Eik products from KnRiana. France nno
ITSLi: ihat they are selling the great bulk
STiiit to manufacturers of condensed mllK.
rSS fin. T butter They have jerked up
h2Ttrlces to the dealers, and If we won't
PI1 i. thv nt lnnch and sav
If1. . .t richt nrlcea from the cheese.
,23,n.ed mil and butter manufacturers.
w vesterday. when I trica to ouy a car
'OBIT yfiST'lh. n.r ald! 'You will
llSr, to PV ten cents per quart for It or
I'1" ......,. tn Vnnw how dealers can
MTUn cents per quart for milk and retail
;.pyn , rrh verv Imnosslb llty of this
Inebrious-
I "The war is ranmn urc ol ..w.
x. -i.. tnnv I received a notice of an
!, of eight cents per thousand for
?t-. n we use or our milk bottles. Last
fwir I bought 8000 steel milk cans at S2.S0
VilkM Today the manufacturers want St
k ( for these same cans. Feed has gone
rifrom twenty to forty per cent, and milk
f Miles from fifty to seventy-ne per cent.
"I was sa Ing to my associates last night
' tfest It would be a good thing for the dealer
I .-a it., consumer If a fleet of German sub-
taurines would lay oft our coast and stop
! gfttpinent or. suppues iu xurujje. im bhu-
rtlea Is cohig to bo most serious before the
rt of the year. Prices will soon exceed
$ of the Civil War.
I "We hae raised prices In the Overbrook
f uxl Germantown districts because the cost
if dellrery mere is ruuyta nan cent per
t fcttrt moer than It Is In the central section
t the city. This Is because residents of
: Germintown and Oerbrook want service.
nM residents want their milk placed on
(stir back steps Instead of the front steps,
' to we have to keep two men on the milk
1 jons.M
Mr. Supplee said:
The farmers are raising the price all
tit time. They can get their price by deal-
t lt with the manufacturers, who are doing
U land-omce business shipping condensed
aUk, cheese and butter to the Allies. The
rice ot cheese has advancod from fifteen
nU to twenty-one cents per pound. Milk
Ikielllng In Washington' and Richmond for
(tea cents per quart, and the dealers In those
' Httlons are reaching tnto the Philadelphia!
B Bilk tone for their supply. We nave got toJ
EVENING LElXJER-PHlEADEI.PHLfV. ' TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10.
SIBILANT SOUP SUPPING SUPPRESSED
IN THIS CAPE WITH MARKED ELOQUENCE
Risa Isuf Won't Have It and Defies His Customers to Try
Itr-Even Puts Up $1000 Bail When Forced to
Insist on His Hobby
nisa Isuf believes In silent eating
The noise made by stirring coffee affects
his nerves. Furthermore, he doesn't like
persons to smack their lips while attacking
the food. And when It come to soup
well, he simply won't stand for IL
nisa's rules are strictly followed In his
Greek restaurant at 207 North Sixth street.
nerythlng was quiet when Frlla Sellwlne
entered. Frlti, who keeps sober despite his
name, demanded some "chesmyal a cre
ation composed ot beef, carrots, potatoes,
parsley, onions, et al. He ate long and
loudly. It Is said, and ventilated his opin
ion on subjects which are tinder the ban
In nisa's restaurant.
lllsa looked annoyed. When FtIU com
plained of the price aked for the food.
Isuf was Indignant A few monents later
Frits wai obsened leaving the eating
house backward, minus his coat
Frits ran to his employer, Ioule Chester,
who keeps a clothing store a few doors
away.
"Go get my coat." pleaded Frits.
tule knew Isuf. "Hetter get It your
self," he suggested. Frlta returned with
defiant demeanor and clenched fists. This
time he came out of the restaurant at an
angle of forty-five degrees, minus his vest
He had other things which he didn't pos
sess before. They were two black eyes and
swollen lips.
Louie called a cop. When the cop asked
Irut about It he shrugged his shoulders and
gesticulated. Several other customers, all
Greeks, also shrugged their shoulders.
Hut Louie knew several definite things.
They were that Frits had n coat and et
when he entered the quiet cafe, and that
now he had none of the clothing mentioned,
but wore arl-colored eyes and larger lips.
Thafa enough," said the bluecoat Frits
was sent to the Jefferson Hospital and Isuf
was brought for an Interview before Magis
trate Klsenbrown.
"What's It all aboutr asked the "Judge,"
Isuf shrugged his shoulders, so did sev
eral other assembled Greeks.
The magistrate looked bored. "One thou
sand ball for a further hearing," he said.
raise the price to nine cents If we expect to
make any profit out ot our business
The war Is shooting prices sky high. We
find things hae advanced In all lines. We
use 350 horses In'oUr business and buy fifty
or moro new ones every spring. Whon we
go Into the horse market we find that the
demands of the Allies has advanced horses
JB0 per head In price. The price ot milk
may go higher than nine cents, but we are
hoping to effect a compromise with the
farmers so that we can fix It at that price."
Kills HlmBclf While Seated In Chair
Seated comfortably In a morris chair
while his wife, mother and two children
Mere asleep In rooms nearby, Alexander
narsuglla, forty-two years old, a delicates
sen storekeeper at SIS South Sixtieth street,
committed suicide early today by shooting
himself In the mouth with a revolver. Ac
cording to the police, narsuglla, who had
been In 111 health for many years, planned
the act with caution and closed all the
doors to present the sound of the report
from being heard. Mrs. Anna narsuglla,
his mother, heard the shot shortly before
dawn, however, and called to her son. Get
ting no response, she went to sleep again.
The body was found shortly before break
fast time.
dropped thlrtjf-four degrees by midnight
The maximum temperature was reached at
11:10 p. m., when the omclal register
showed eighty-six, or two degrees higher
than the previous record for the date. The
thermometer registered forty-three at g
o'clock this morning, and Forecaster Bliss
thinks the cold weather will continue.
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Tall Weather Arrives at Last
Real fall weather la here at last The
summer-like weather ot yesterday, Inci
dentally the hottest October 9 on record,
disappeared before a stilt northwest wind
last night, which was preceded by a few
light showers. The temperature had
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