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They made a conservative estimate and reported that, in 

 their judgment, the waste between the time that the foodstutis 

 arrived on the docks in New York City and the time that they 

 reached the consumer in New York City represented more 

 than $120,000,000, annually. 



Ezra A. Tuttle, a Long Island farmer who, for many years. 

 Avas a corporation lawyer in New York City, connected with 

 the street railway people, made a minority report in which he 

 stated that in his judgment the waste between the time the 

 goods arrived on the docks in New York City and the time 

 they reached the consumer was not less than $200,000,000, 

 annually. Even if the estimate of Mr. Tuttle was high in 

 1 910, the great increase in our population anrl the increase of 

 the amount of foodstufifs arriving in New York since 1910 

 makes it almost certain thsit the waste at the present time is 

 not less than $200,000,000, annually. 



The New York State legislature took the matter under ad- 

 visement and, after careful consideration, passed an act estab- 

 lishing the New York State Department of Foods and Markets 

 and, under that act, Governor Glynn appointed the Honorable 

 John J. Dillon, Commissioner of the Department. 



Commissioner Dillon, seeing the small amount of money that 

 had been appropriated would do but little, went to work hero- 

 ically to do the best he could with the amount of funds appro- 

 priated, only $15,000 to carry on the work for the entire year, 

 where at least $200,000 should have been appropriated to the 

 • department. 



The department had only been installed in office about 

 forty-five days when the Bread Trust of New York City 

 decided that they would raise the price of bread from five cents 

 a loaf to six cents per loaf and that they would cut down the 

 weight of the loaf three ounces. Commissioner Dillon made 

 a complaint to the attorney general's office and an investigation 

 was started, the daily newspapers cooperating. 



As the facts were rapidly developed, the only reason for the 

 advance of the l:)read was to make money for the bread trust. 

 the people who were conducting these large commercial bak- 

 eries sued for peace. They told the investigators that if they 

 would stop their investigating, they would put the price of 

 bread back to five cents a loaf and would put sixteen ounces 



