152 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 



vegetable crop, including peas, lentils, and beans, 

 to prevent speculation and reduce the high prices. 



The city council of Hamburg appropriated 12,- 

 000,000,000 marks in February, 1915, with which 

 to purchase a supply of foodstuffs, fodder, and other 

 articles, that the city might be prepared for even- 

 tualities. A commission was appointed to have 

 charge of obtaining these stores. 



Smoked meat is sold by the city of Charlotten- 

 burg in thirty-two publicly announced places, ac- 

 cording to the Kommunale Rundschau} None of 

 this meat is sold to butchers or dealers. In the 

 thirty-two places designated by the city no other 

 meat than that dealt in by the city may be sold. 

 Each purchaser may obtain a maximum of only four 

 pounds, and the meat may not be resold. Prices 

 are fixed for the various kinds of meat. Charlotten- 

 burg also sells potatoes and potato-fiour through 

 certain dealers at fixed prices. 



Municipal meat and fish halls were established in 

 Wilmersdorf several years ago. One of the chief 

 purposes of the fish halls was to stimulate the use 

 of cheap sea-fish. The purpose of the meat hall was 

 to moderate the price of meat. In this case what 

 was begun as a temporary enterprise at a time of 

 high meat prices was kept as a permanent institu- 

 tion during the war. 



The undertakings of the httle town of Ostrowo, 



» Issue of June 21, 1915. 



