Quote – Mr. Frank P. Hill, baker.

The rent is very high, and you can’t recent a place above ground in New York city to establish a bakery. If you can’t have a bake shop in a basement in New York City, you can’t have a bake shop here, that is all, unless people will pay prohibitive prices for bread; And we hear a great deal now about the high cost of living.

Factory Investigating Commission, Preliminary report, Volume II,. p. 741.

Friday, March 1, 1912
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