The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-03
GOSSIP FROM THE CENTENNIAL.
Preparations for Feeding the Visitors
Eggs and Butter for the Big show-Frozen
Poultry from the White Mountains.
fFrom Our Own Correspondent.l

Preparations for Feeding the Nisuors-
Eggs and Butter for the Big show-Frozen
Poultry from the White Mountains.
From Our own correspondent.l
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.
Some of the schemes by which Phila-
delphians expect to realize innumerable
fortunes border on the ridiculous. This
is especially the case as regards the ar
rangements to provide food for visitors.
1t is expected that after the opening at
least 20, 900 strangers will arrive every
day, to remain, on an average, Tor ten
days. Upon this it is calculated that
not less than 200, 900 visitors will be in
Philadelphia every day during the six
months that the exhibition is to last, and
who must be furnished with meals. 1t
is fact that farmers in Delaware, in
New Jersey, in Maryland, and through
large section of this State, Pennsylvania,
have not sown any grain this year, bit
prepared the soil to raise vegetables for
the Centennial market, hoping for exor-
bitant prices but so extensive has been
this movement that the supply OF "gar-
den truck" will be much more than
sufficient, and prices will not materially
advance. A scarcity of butter was great
! ly feared and the proprietors of several
of the largest hotels made contracts for
full supply during the Centennial year
at 81 pound. They have since paid a
! large bonus to have these contracts re-
scinded, as news has come that the dali
ries in the cheese districts of New York
and Ohio have generally given up cheese
making, and will send butter instead to
Philadelphia. AS to eggs, there will be
superabundance. One speculative
firm in this city has alone five thousand
dozen of eggs contracted for In the
West, and the demand has been SO brisk
that farmers throughout the Mississippi
Valley have commenced to fill up their
poultry-yards, and are stimulating the
gg-laying capacity of their hens by arti
fetal means in order to furnish the de-
mand for eggs which will come from
Philadelphia. One speculation, how
ever, which few enterprising men have
entered into smacks good deal
of inexperienced folly. They
have settled on poultry to make
them millionaires. Their agents have
been busy for months all through the
| West and Canada to buy up what they
could, and one of the firm has gone to
the White Mountains, where he built
number of large ice-hOuses. There are
already now stored in ice 600, 900 chick
ems, 400, coo turkeys, 200, 900 geese, and
100000 ducks, all in frozen condition,
and more are being still produced every
! day. This frozen poultry is to be sent
/ f,,,o ,tr,. 1oil 20
phia. In speaking of this to an
experienced OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, she
laughed, saying that the whole thing is
the height of folly, since poultry kept so
long III frozen state is unfit for food.
Next week ground will be broken for a
new building on the Centennial grounds
specially erected for the Brew
ers Industrial Exhibition. The con-
tributions came in so literally that
the original plan has been much en-
larged and the expenditures will now
reach, if not exceed, $4,000 The
brewers of New York have already sub
scribed 500, 900, and those of Philadel-
phia like sum; those of Boston give
$4,000, and like sums in proportion
are announced from many cities IN the
West. Only the brewers in Milwaukee
seem as yet TO hold back. Mr.. j. II.
Schwarzman, Chief Engineer of the
Centennial Commission, has prepared
the plan of the building, which will be
400 feet long by 200 feet wide, shape like
! the letter + the middle or central por
| ton of the main building being three
stories high and will contain the model
brewery, to be kept continually at work.
Arrangements have been made with the
Internal Revenue Bureau to have this
brewery registered, according to law,
and its books will be kept and the tax
paid as in any other regular brewery.
The Centennial Commissioners will also
derive considerable income from it.
At first they demanded a royalty of
81. 80 for every barrel of liquor made and
sold, but further negotiation has result
ed in an agreement by which the brewers
pay 50 per barrel, which is expected will
net the Commission about $50, 900. A
subcommittee has been appointed, con-
sisting of VIM. Schade, of Washington,
and Messrs. A. Schwarz and John Film
toff, of New York, to prepare complete
historical, statistical, and hygienic re-
view of maxi liquors with special refer
ence to the temperance agitation, which
is to be printed and freely distributed.
The Centennial Commissioners are,
however, in some trouble. No sooner
did the temperance persons hear OF the
brewers intentions, than they COM
menced combined onslaught on the
Commission to withdraw the consent
they had already given. Since then re-
monstranses have poured in from re-
ligious organizations in New England,
from Baltimore, Washington, and even
from the West, urging the Commission
ers to rescind their former resolution
and prohibit the brewers coming upon
the Centennial ground. So far the re-
monstrance has been ruthless.
Fraudulent Failures.
II isn't so EASY to fail and make money