New York’s False Weights

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 33.

New York’s False Weights

Mayor Gaynor of New York instituted a campaign against false balances and weights. As a result, many fake measures were smashed and a ton of confiscated scales were dumped into the bay. The businesses mostly involved in this petty thieving were fish-markets, push-carts, and ice wagons. One paper estimates, however, that the saving which the use of just measures gives New York's people, will be about $5,000,000 a year.