New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-23

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sumer and machinery perfected adequate 70 INC
duty con6ded to it, there would be no ciasnias oil
interests; buyer and seller would be beuna oy Que
law namely, integrity to the system Just as tue
n.sssncer and the conductor are related 10 the
railway car Let us make cur meaning plan;
drover purchases cattle for the New. York market
he must sell them at certain price, or be Is not
remunerated for bis labor: il he can exceed thas
price il ia so much clear gain. OF course 1t Is
only pstursl that be should exercise AL his lnee-
nuity in obtaining the highest price possible ior
bis commodity to insure which end he resorts 70
certsin regularly prscticed srtihces which we
have not space to partcularize here. These cattle
being brought to the City markets, they are trans
ferrtd in detail TO the retailer. This involves
fearful loss of tine, which must all he paid r out
Of our pockets The butcher who spends hal
Day in purchasing few head of cattle, could with
much greater facility purchase a lot OF two hun
bred Then. from this infntesimal OPERATION the
butchers family has to be supported, his horse
fed. his refrigerator filled, and ell other expenses
met When We walk the streets sOd geo so many
thousand retailers lettering urproftsbly In their
stores, waiting for purchasers, we see serious
loss to the community of productive capacity
We .ball surprise our readers when We adduce
them few statistics concerning the one staple.
beef. Three thousand cattle, averaging SIX hun
bred pounds each, are sold in cur City markets
weekly. To retail this, with the supply Of other
fresh provisions fifteen hundred butchers are EN-
nloy ed with, on an average, one journeyman each
This represents three thousand families twelve
thousand individuals, producing no value, aud Inv
pr off the community BY the supply OF fresh meat
alone. By the application of the modern system,
which we see in successful operation all round
us-in our manufactures, in our newspapers, in
our public convey ances-one thousand parsons
We uld bave easy times in slaughtering and pur-
veying TO the whole metropolitan demand. Here
is q clear loss of the industry of two. thirds the
number now engaged in the pursuit, and the c)m-
munity is impoverished to the value of their indus
Try thus unproductivey employed.
Further, three per cent of all the fresh provis-
ions offered in this city for sale during the FIVE
Summer months, perish ard are thrown a way in
consequence of the uncertainty of the demand.
In figures, over oneand-a half millions of pounds
of fresh meat are, duriog the fve Summer months,
thrown away in this city, in consequence of our
defective arrangements for supplying the dem and
And that fearful waste takes place too, in the
midst of community where thousands daily go
short Of meal.
Ought this to continue OF the entire amount
expended in fresh provisions, twenty-five per cent
is an excessive and an arbitrary enhancement 1t
is not the retailer whom we blame for this it is
the want of system. 1t is our inert adherence to
an antiquated practice" unrestricted individual
competition with all the clashing interest the
ncepscity the loss of time, and the shortsighted-
ness of individuals, that is bound up in it.
Let our readers imagine q railway line con-
structed upon such system. Individual smiths
tinkeriug, each in his own shed, upon a piece of
railway iron individual contractors, with basket
and barrow, each carry ing out his own uuadjusted
idea in the performance of the undertaking. We
scout the idea as preposterous. Yet building a
railway line, Of whatever length, involves no such
transcendent interest as does the supply of necessa
ries to this metropolis. 1t costs to provision
this City for four months than would build line
from here TO Buffalo