Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Mayor's Market Commission: Of New York City, December, 1913
A hundred years ago the perishable farm products used in the city all came from nearby farms - there were no means of bringing them over greater distances: When Washington Market was built in 1812 it was a place where the farmer brought his goods and sold them to the people. To-day conditions are more complex and the means of establishing a direct route between producer and consumer less obvious, but public interest in the matter and public provision of the right kind of market is not less important. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
