Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Markets, Prices and Costs of the New York State Food Investigating Commission: August 1, 1912
Mr. P. S. Shilotri, Garth Fellow in Political Economy at Columbia University, assisted in the interpretation of the statistical studies made.
Mr. William Conley assisted in investigating the operations of wholesale and retail food dealers and the general conditions underlying the distribution of food.
In securing retail and wholesale prices, the assistance extended the Committee by the Hon. Calvin J. Huson, Commissioner of Agriculture, who detailed a number of the Agents of the Department to assist in this work, was greatly appreciated.
The thanks of the Committee are specially due to the many witnesses who have testified freely and have given to the public a complete picture of the food supply business of the city.
General Observations.
The Committee on Markets, Prices and Costs has sought the facts regarding the handling, marketing and distribution of food supplies in Greater New York and other important cities of the State. The subject has been very generally discussed, but, so far as we are aware, no comprehensive study of the facts has previously been attempted. The subjects covered were terminal facilities, trucking, storage, both cold and general, the location and nature of centers of handling food supplies, public markets, private markets, retail stores, push-cart dealers, the methods and cost of doing business in each of these agencies, the advances in price caused by each of them, the systems of price fixing, whether by auction or by private treaty, and a study of the history and present condition of public markets here and elsewhere.
It is the view of the Committee that a knowledge of the items that add to cost should be the first step in planning to reduce the cost. It is a problem in transportation, storage and selling which cannot be solved without finding out what the present handling is, what each movement is, what it costs, what movements and storage are unnecessary and can be eliminated and what can be saved.
In short, this Committee has not been engaged in an examination of the general problems of the cost of living or the problems of food production.
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