Review of reviews and world's work . iNER CLEMENT DEISCOLL, OF Till. NEW vokk(TTV DEPARTMENT OF WEIGHTS WI> MEAST RES(Commissioner Dri made the campaign against I>etty the Gaynor administration) investigations indicated that in Manhattan l,(r ((-nt- °f a me ^ a(s per cent. of the weights, and per cent, of the urea swindled the consumer. Conditions a trille better in the other boroughs. \> Iin^ upon this report, Mayor Gaynor com-pletely reorganized the Municipal Departmentof Weights and Measures, appointing Driscoll commissioner. Mr. Driscollat oni e l
Review of reviews and world's work . iNER CLEMENT DEISCOLL, OF Till. NEW vokk(TTV DEPARTMENT OF WEIGHTS WI> MEAST RES(Commissioner Dri made the campaign against I>etty the Gaynor administration) investigations indicated that in Manhattan l,(r ((-nt- °f a me ^ a(s per cent. of the weights, and per cent, of the urea swindled the consumer. Conditions a trille better in the other boroughs. \> Iin^ upon this report, Mayor Gaynor com-pletely reorganized the Municipal Departmentof Weights and Measures, appointing Driscoll commissioner. Mr. Driscollat oni e led a Dumber of raids upon stores andmarkets, and even the greal wholesale house-,.1 extent of short-weigh ting and measurenun .| by him unbeuev able. \ an mui h .i< 1 omplished, andlowed in man) paitin- 1 out I Ml I due to 111 the 322 ////• AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. nil 1 . a ( OMMON im.( ; failure- to keen them clean, and the rust andstiffness which comes from disuse arc largelyaccountable for such variations. In this classof errors the loss, however, works both ways,and the dealer is as likely to sutler as the cus-tomer. In the long run, to be sure, things arelikely to even up. A strict enforcement of thelaw is likely to work to the advantage of bothparties. A far more serious class of offenders is madeup of the small dealers who deliberately falsifytheir weights and measures. When such de-ceptions are mentioned, it is this class which iscommonly called to mind. These offendersshow considerable ingenuity, although littleart. in foisting their short weights upon thepublic. As a rule, they are easily of their devices are so obvious that theconsumer who permits himself to be deceivedarouses little sympathy. U II>l SPRl AD DEC1 One of the mosl elementary methods of de-ception i- to tamper with the measures. Thesmall huck
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