New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-21

the living animals sold at the cat lie market for the
last three and half years, the population OF Berlin
having increased in that time from rather more
than 100000 to $4,000, as / wrote in my last
The table divides the animals into two classes,
sucb as are raised in the ZOllverein, and such "a
cross the boundaries subject to a tariff:
FROM TIE zoLLyIRrrx. lDone'tieJ
1882. l .s3s 1874 1874 1872 ss'; moi.
ess9 . 'i s1o sle5 ss.s ssl mo-:
sSiSt'........ 90 Ss G757I as'4s2 2l,lsl mos.
az ss 50 s $50 s.al9s %S;
rRos OTHrr STATES (fS css s,so.
Co osp..::..:: I5a SO iss rs 5Uo'.
s ss.:s SIS sS SIS SIS ss isss mo-:
Clv,s....... sac 4,7ls 1919 7al mos
Particularly noteworthy in the first table Is the
uniformly OF the supply of each species of meat
for the last 81 years in the second, that Of oxen
and swine only have increased in number cows
have Just held their own, while foreign sheep and
calves are rapidly disappearing from the stalls. 1t
is clear that the result must be dimnution OF
supply in proportion to the increase OF the popula-
ton and Of the concourse Of strangers in the city,
and consequent rise of prices, with smaller al
lowance of meat to the poorer classes. The STA
tItics Of the bureau chow all this.
The entire consumption Of meat in the city, as
shown by the registers of the tollhouses and the
city gates, in 1852 0025,2 POP lbs, or 93s lbs
TO each individual of the population, and In 1888 IL
was 80 347 1893 lbs or SS3 lbs. to each individual
in 1854, SO 193707 lbs or 500 lbs to an inhabit-
ant the first half the present year only IL 56O919
lbs. at which rate each inhabtant will have for
the year but ~ 2.5 lbs. Dividing the population
into families of five persons each the daily con-
sumption of meat for 1852 was Ia ID; 1854, a lit
tie less Ito h. this year not quite pound
1891 the pound being three per cent less than
ours.
The wholesale prices averaged for the three
Years for first-class cattle, $40 so, S1l %, $l2
H. tn he
in weight; for the secOnd-class, 50 cents less for
the third-class, Sc rs, So and SO. The prices of
swine show q corresponding increase: 1852, ST.
per 100 ID 1853, $l3 371 1854, $14 25.
In retailing meat here the different parts Of the
animal are not so minutely classified as with us !
three sorts only are recognized" flet, or baking
pieces "byaten,' or frying pieces; and soup
| flesh" OF pieces to be boiled. In three years
residence in this city never saw piece of meat
roasted before fire or brOiled upon grdiron.
! OF Beef, which always rules the market the retail
prices have been for some time past-for " flet,'
to silvergrOschen per lb, or IL to ~ cents;
| "braten, Is to II cents boiling pieces, to III
cents Consider now the great number of rich no.
bes and strangers from all lands constantly here
iu public and private hotels, the 25 600 soldiers,
| the 1000 students, the multitude of clerks and
| business men who dine at eating houses, and the
great number of wellfed families Of the upper
classes who permanently reside here; take into
|
| a lsborng man. and the 10 ounces Of meat per
diem to family of five persons, now selling 1t is
| clear must dwinde to almost nothing for the poor
er people 1t is notorious that Irish emigraats in
| America are always Boosting how much better oil
| they are in 9TH ould cOunthry;' something of
| that spirit leads the Germans sometimes to deny
| the fact that thousands here scarcely once week
taste animal food The statistics of the bureau
prove it, When it is eaten, it is bought by the
quarter or half pound, fat, simply to render the
dinner of vegetables more palatable or as Sun
day evening or birthday luxury, half pound of
ham boiled or raw, go cents per H. or some sort
of sausage which requires no cooking, GO to 80
cents, is sent for from the butchers shop. Posi-
bly, on extra occasions they go the length OF having
a few slices of tempting piece of cold roast veal
or picked beef; but these are dainties for the
well-to-dO in the world. Fish is extravagantly
dear, and except in Winter, is only supplied from
fresh water herrings are within reach Of the poor
occasionally dried costing , to cents each,
picked about the same.
The tables above given show that Berlin is main
ly dependent upon certain extent of territory for
the supply Of it's cattle-market: else the figures
would not remain so remarkably equal during
period when prices have risen so much. A certain
thickly inhabited extent Of earths surface can
produce one year with anOther-the state OF agri-
culture remaining the same as is the case am0ng
European peasants-abOut the same amount OF
grain fruit, vegetables and cattle. A glance at
the map will show the extent Of country upon
which Berlin is now dependent
If you imagine the New York and Erie railroad
extended from Berlin directly south, it would pass,
after leaving Prussia, through the center OF Sax
ony between Dresden and Leipsc, cross success
lively the western part Of Bohemia, the province
of Upper Austria, with the Danube near Linz
Carinthia, and end at very great distance north
Of the Gulf of Trieste. Following the routes Of
the crooked railroads which in fact extend south
wardly via Dresden Prague and Brunn the same
road would bIDg the traveller to Vienna, or there
abouts; or going via Leipsic, Hof and Nure nberg,
he would reach Augsburg with few miles to
spare. The distance Of these points as sosrces OF
supply for the csttle-market is, according 10 our
Az ericsn ideas, nothing at al-merely the dis
lance from New lOrk 10 Lake Erie; but uuluckly
for Berlin this short distance reaches some OF the
principal markets cf Genital Europe. aud tAe lines
cross most thickly populated States whose natural
commercial outlets are the Danube, the Rhine and
the lbe. Possibly, were there no legislative I'M
regiments, Bohemia might send occasionally
drove Of cattle past Dresden across the Eloe, and
the sandy plains to Berlin. This may, as 1t is
sometimes take place, but the rich manufacturing
and mining districts of Saxony create far greater
market than can be supplied by that small
kingdom with food snd Bohemia, so easily acces-
sibie BY the nayigsble Elbe, and now by railroad,
is the natural source of supply. To the south,
then, Berlin can look bat some 100 miles over
thibly inhabited and sterile country, for meat
We,twardly the Erie road would reach the kline:
but the noble valley Of that river tinds Tor It's smal
surplus Of cattle better markets than one to reach
which Hanover and Brunswick must be crossed
Holland, Belgium and England al Oder markets
easier Ieeched. aud more profitable than Berlin
can Ger. North westerly at distance oil only
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