THE BREAD QUESTION.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5011, 3 February 1885, Page 3

THE BREAD QUESTION.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)

Sib,—lt was not, my intention to have : laid anything more on the above subject, : bnt after the lengthy effusion by " An Old London Dough*boy" in your last issue, I think I am entitled to a few words. His

Ir't er contains a good deal of maudlin sentiment over _ the wey in which the bikers overcharge the paying public. It is my own opinion—and I believe most people with their senses about them will oee it—that under the guise of a philan-

thropist, ." An Old Dough boy " wishes to secure a good position with a good salary «■ manager of this proposed bakery. The same thing has been done before to-day, •nd in the present instance looks very much like it. I hardly fancy be will get 32G0 shares at 5s each (fully paid up) taken up al the present state of the money market on the Thames ; and quite agree with "Dough-boy " that £800 is not in the least too mnch to start such a vast

affair as a Cooperative Grain, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Small Goods Store. "Dongh'boy" again asserts that my figures concerning the price of flour and freights are incorrect, but when he be* .comeimanager of the Thames Co-operative --, Grain, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Small .' Goods Store he will come to the conclu- , aion that I have not much over-stepped - ■ the mark: N6w concerning the number of loaves a tack of flour of 2001bs will yield, I will not waste words on " DoughDQy," bat put him to a practical test. I challenge " Dough-boy "' (who professes to be a practical baker) to prove by ocular , demonstration that he can make over 140 - 21b turnover loaves out of a sack of flour

■'• containing 2001 bs, the flour to cost not • more than at the rate of £10 10s per ton - delivered into the bakehouse. I have

made arrangements with one of our lead- * ing Bakers for the use of his bakehouse and oven,. and he has further promised ' that-if." Dough boy" can make more than 140 21b loaves out of a sack of flour

, he,will give him the flour. If "Dough- : boy " accepts the challenge, he will please ,-, send his. name and address to " Practical," ' care Stak Office, and I will return mine.

,:j.\V*e ran then.see .each other, and make arrangements. If he does not take up the gauntlet, I shall denounce him as an importer and a sham, unworthy the confidence of the public—l am, &c, • ■■„;■. . '■? ■ ' ' ; " PRACTICAL i VP:S.~"-Doogh-boy must use no alum -• or other chemicals.