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I'altiniore & Ohio have equipped a pier and turned it over to 

 the department; in fact we have more piers than we have 

 jioods to sell; these people are not going to let their busi- 

 iiess get away from them Avithont a straggle ; they are very 

 tamest about this matter, very anxious to hold this busi- 

 ness. They knoAv what the auction company has done with 

 the foreign fruits. They know that co-operative concerns 

 m Porto Rico ship every dollar's Avorth of their stuff to their 

 fcwn representative in Ncav York City, and he acts as the 

 receiver and sells it through the Auction Com])any. They 

 know that Mr. Black for years has represented the Southern 

 California Fruit P]xchange and and receives and looks after 

 their goods through the Fruit Auction Company. They 

 leiiow that ]Mr. Holland represents a California concern 

 shipping citrous fruits to New York; they know that the 

 l^anana Trust, one of the wealtliiest in the Avorld, tested out 

 the auction system one year ago last April. They had their 

 own receiving business; there Avas no opportunitA' for them 

 to fear any fraud or deception or cheating, they received 

 their oaa'u goods and sold them Avith 40 most excellent and 

 fxperienced salesmen, l)ut after they had tried the auction 

 system for 30 days, they notified their men that they might 

 look for other positions and today the Fruit Auction Com- 

 pany, that same company that sells our goods and Avhosc 

 rheck Ave send out, sells all the liananas received in Ncav 

 York Plarbor and sells them for a corporation that does not 

 need the money, they ccmld carry the account themselves. 

 ]mt they found it more economical, more efficient, to haA'e 

 the Fruit Auction Company do it for them than to do it 

 themselves under the old system of private sale. Surely if 

 the people in Ncav York City themselves cannot afford to 

 rell tlioir stuff at private sale, it is a most remarkable com- 

 jnendation for the auction system. 



NoAv ]\[r. Dillon the jniblisher of this ])aper, sometimes 

 illy spoken of by competing papers that do not like their 

 neighbors as they do themselves, is Avorking at a A'cry reas- 

 Duable Avage, in fact he Avorks for nothing and boards him- 



