Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-08-19
WILMINGTON, August ~.
, shipments yesterday, by rail were

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Thirteen trains are out ON the road again to-
day.
Our Philadelphia correspondents, summing up
Yesterdays business, say The market has been
completely demoralized to day. The quotations
given in our telegram will no doubt be a little
too high on BASKETS as SO many arrived by rail
after the message was forwarded. BY some
means the fruit was very late unloading, Many
Of these will be total loss, and many by boat
will sell SO low 40 hardly to clear freights. This
has been the worst glut of the season. The
market will be clear again by Thursday morning,
but the quantity sent in will determine prices.
We renew our advice to "ship light"
A commission house in Buffalo, n. y, writes
thus to a New York house, on Monday Z" This
has been the worst day OF the season, Eight
OF yours. Peaches sold all the way from l0c to
Doc per crate. Tue demand will probably revive
in day or Two, and as many Shippers will be dis
couraged, the supply will be lighter. The quaint
ity in to-day is more than double the amount
ever here before ut any one time"
The "glut" IN Baltimore caused general
stir-around amongst commission men. Meet
ings Of the latter were held on Tuesday evening
and yesterday, and emphatic complaints made
that the Baltimore and Ohio II, Il, was charging
too high freights to the West. The freight on
| a car with $50 boxes of peaches to Chicago lis
S2i5, and information from that point was to
the effect that peaches were selling there at II
to Sl.75 per box. The freight on a box OF
peaches to Cincinnati IL 96 cents and to Pitts
burg 43 cents per box, whilst the fruit is selling
at those places at little more than enough to pay
freight. Ihe shippers consequently lost the
amount paid for the peaches in Baltimore, which
was from 40 to 60 cents box. One shipper
who sent out IL cars IN one day lost last week
n 600, and the experience of Others was equally
unfortunate. 1t was stated that the railroad
companies, chiefly the Baltimore and Ohio had
been paid about $1,000 day for freight by the
peach shippers, the charge for one train alone
heing LOO.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Co. will probably reduce
its freight charges. Vice President King yester-
day telegraphed for General Freight Agent Gull
foru and Master of Transportation Sharp, who
are temporarily absent, torctmn These dflicals
will be Ill Baltimore to-day and confer with the
shippers
The receipts at Baltimore yesterday were 90
600 boxes by water, of winch 1000 were not sold
and many were returned to the growers by the
boats that brought them. The boats took
them back free of charge,as they do empty box
es and the fruit will be thrown away. The pack
| ers took 5000 or 5000 boxes, at prices ranging
from 30 to 10 cents per box. There were all good
yellow fruit, chiefly Crawlorts. Other fruit sold
| ut nominal rates, and one dealer reported that
| he gave away 500 boxes.
AT yesterday meeting in Baltimore, Col. VIII
hlns, OF Kent county, one of the largest growers
| Oh the Peninsula, reported resolutions, which
| say that the present depressed condition of the
| peach market has been caused bv the growers.
who have shipped much inferior and immature
| fruit and that the remedy is with the growers
| themselves. Unless they keep out all inferior
| fruit they cannot possibly receive remunerative
| prices thls season. The resolutions declare that
aAfNNta
ceive or offer for sale any but strictly prime fruit
| hereafter.
| Besides the shipments by this route, the New
| York market received yesterday, 1G carloads by
| the New-Jersey southern Railroad, and 5000
crates by the Old Dominion steamer from Loves,
| Del. To Boston and other Eastern points 20 car
| loads were forwarded The Tri5unes report of
| the market says 60 Nearly every prominent
| dealer held large surplus late yesterday after.
| noon and stock that could be kept sound will be
| sold at low price to wagon vendors to-day.
| Yesterdays rates allowed even these low
| pnce buyers to reject fruit not
frst'c class. For steamer lots the prices were
very indeinte, as the peaches were III poor con-
dltlon. Sellers have stopped shipments from
| Maryland on account OF the low markets. All
/ the owners from the southern sections OF Dela-
ware have lost money thus far. Good peaches
are not abundant hot showers spot them very
| quickly, and II they are not full of water upon
| their srrival they soon become 80 in the present
l
| OF Melocotons sold as high as 81 per crate for
fancy fruit stores Sellers look for steady
market as soon rs qualities become even and
| haAuhoLle.
THE WILMINGTON MARKET.
Very much to the surprise of the commission
| meu and the growers who had come into market
| very little of the immense quantity OF peaches
offered yesterday remained unsold at night The
most of those who stood in the Peach Market
sold out entirely by one o clock in the afternoon,
f4I A.. ~ 900 lrrN fNN,fs YItr... Il
smaller than on the previous day Dealers say
| that yesterdays market was peculiar one All
| nlne O'Clock in the morning very few reaches
| had been sold, the rain keeping back the buyers
but beginning With that hour takers were plenti.
ful, II the prices were not too high. Hence de.
moralizstion set in, anl prices went way down in
tue competition, the sellers feeling that they mus
get nd OF the fruit in some way. The best onl,
brought twenty or thlrty-cents per basket me.
dium fifteen to eighteen, while inferior sold i,
| some instances as low as five cents At Til,
rate buyers Hooked into market, bought it'll;
else but peaches aid potatoes, the commission
men say, and thus the market was very vel
cleared
The receipts by rail, this morning, were much
lighter than Yesterday, amounting only to SO;
| baskets and j1s crates. But few growers arc IL
the market; still the supply seems fully equal t.
| the deinand the market being somewhat elliggiph
| Prices rule as yesterday, but peaches sell bette,
in baskets than i'll crates.
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Report j. II. 4 u. II. Kenney 3O5 N. water St.l
by Telegraph t. the Commercial
PHILADELPHIA, August 10.
The glut continues, and sellers accept an,
price that they can get. The market is 20 un
settled and demorallzed thut We will not under
take to quote Prices.
| PERsoNAL DoT7.-Among those who returned
| yesterday, from Ocean City were Z. Richardson
Charles Warner and family and Samuel N. Pu
| sey.
Hon. Thos. T. Bayard and family and L. A
Sanlrump arrived, yesterday, from Cape May.
robert H. Hpbinson and H. Emmett Robinson
LEFT at noon to-day for Saratoga
Rev Isaac N Hademan, who has been absen
from the city for couple OF weeks by sickness
Will fill his pulpit delaware Avenue church.
on Sunday next both morning and evening
Charles Is. Lore Esq, is recovering from his
| late indisposition at his farm in Somerset coun.
! ty, Md aLa will return on Saturday.