Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-20


thunderstruCk with awe and anaZe,Hent at NV
War-dlnce burst with loud cries OF - Itrd Il
-lReric0H0!'
CAEGOE.s CT sCOECsa POTATOES.
s New gfs,portatiof, 10 Meet The Want
caused by Dry Seasons Here.
From the y. Y. Sun.
printed statement that the steamship An
Gloria on her last "trip Brought over from Scot
. iand three hundred tons OF potatoes WAS shown
TO several lar@p dealers down town. With one
exception they knew nothing about it, They
said tat 1t has been bad year for potatoes
and that the demand has been met as in all bad
years 10y Immense shipments from Nova Scotia
and Prince Edwards Island. This year. how
ever, these northern potatoes have been bad
GOOD potatoes are selling at - per barrel. but
Early hose potatoes axe $3.50 and Snowflakes
are $50 The dealers predict that as soon rs
the Nova Scotia potatoes are out of the market
prices viii rise still higher
Mr. A. f. Edwards Of the commission house
OF Fraser Il Edwards. heavy potato dealers
said, when questioned. We introduced the
scotch potato IN this market. All these pota-
toes you see in sacks here are from Scotland
We do an export business in fruit. and five wears
ago my partner was out in Scotland attending
to our interests i'll that direction. The potato
crop here was very light and | wrote to him to
see whether there would not be some profit in
buying a lot of Scotch potatoes and shipping
them to me He shipped some and | sold them
, for 80 and $50 Il barrel, making a very hand
! some profit. Two years ago the crop was light
mere and we got some more Scotch potatoes
+, and did well with them. and now understand
others are going into the business. We had LOO
tons on the Anchoria and 100 tons more are
| now Oh the Way. besides 900 tons that are to
come have already sold some ahead for y %
a barrel. | sold some of the last shipment at
- 10 Il sack Of l63 pounds. and have sold some
In the past "a low aS 81 but they We're not good.
The steamship companies, in one or two in
stances. tried the experiment of buying them
heie ana seitin" them to pay freight. but not
4 being in the business they made a mess of if
understand also that part Of that lot of 800
tons on the tnchoria was composed ot ship
mentS ny outsiders. and their potatoes were
soii at auct.on here and fetched only sixty cents
and from that up to eighty cents per bushe!.
THESE Scotch potatoes cost from seventy
five sililiingS down TO fOTty-fiye shiI!ngs Der
ton OH board SHIP. the broker continued but
the latter is an exceptionally low price. Then
there is the freight and an outrageous duty Of
fifteen cents a busiel to be paid the govern
ment. so that while the potatoes cannot COM
pete with oar best potatues. they still must
fetch good price in order TO pay for bringing
them over. IHis year was Il dry one ana late
potatoes failed all through the south We send
the Scotch potatoes to the south and to the min
III" regions of Pennsylvania. where the peonle
cant afford TO pay high prices. We have Gus
toner In Pittsburgh WHO orders ten car loads
week. eat the Scotch potatoes at home and
| iikcthenl. They are good sized, and hard as 50
|
! of the constant rain ont there at this season
They are likely to be wet. and need careful
cooking. but they have not the strong taste of
MANY OF the potatoes we eat. They are grown
Wlthli. a radius of from fifty to one hundred
miles around Glasgow"
why don't you import Irish potatoes:'
" Because they are hOlloW-heaIted You know
the freshman is accused Of liking his potato with
q stick IN IL; WE'LL as matter OF fact he gets it
with Il hole in it instead. have had some Irish
POTATOES here IF rhnm Whit,
Irish Champions. and they are large. vet, hol-
loW-he&rfed, anu APT to rot. The Dutch pota-
f, toes are good, md had an offer of some French
potatoes that must be excellent for they are
quoted at ninety-tye shillings IA ton-too much
for this market"
This firm is at present shipping large quanti-
ties of apples to the atner side, and Mr. Edwards
said. incidentally that al this time every year
Ich Americans send over to their wealthy
friends in England Christmas Gifts of Newtown
pippins. carefully selected and packed. This
annual custom il much observed that the
barrels of these apples form Il conspicuous item
OF export just before the holidays
LADY Help.''
Several years ago Il Mrs Crawslay of Enc
land. undertook to kill two birds with one
stone-tO remedy the servant difficulty and TO
provide at the same time for the wants of indi-
gent gcntlewolnen who have never been trained
to remuneratiye work. by inducing numbers of
the latter class to enter domestic service under
the name OF lady help. The idea was much
fdcuied at the time. perhaps as much because
OF the unfortunate name as for any other reason
yet 1t gained ground TO certain extent, as one
may see from the advertising columns of the
! London papers where the services OF lady helps
are IA regularly offered as those of other do !
mestics. The plan might seem practicable only /
in English establishments, where many SER |
wants are kept, and where there is decided |
distinction between upper" and CLOVER" |
servantS.-the former being usually provided /
with a table of their own. Yet there are reasons |
why it ought TO meet with even greater favor |
here where the complaint of ignorant unframed |
servants is universal. The social descent i'm
piled in taking up household service ought not |
to be so great in democratic country as in |
England, although as matter of fact there is |
nowhere such pronounced repugnance to |
''meniar' labor as in America Hence the in |
sufferable self-assertiOn of our native American |
servants.
But as far as Lady Helps-if we must call |
them so-are concerned, it would seem that the |
remedy must be near at hand If both mistress |
and servant are truly ladies. there ought to be |
little difficulty in adjusting the social position
of the latter as to the family and the hdbitues of
the house So many ladies from necessity do
their own household work. SO many others have
ayailed themselves of the services of sister, or
cousin, Or maiden aunt who in everything but /
the matter of wages are just Lady Helps and |
nothing else that it would seem as if there were
really precedents enough upon which to form
RUE vi Conuuo. IL, Suoii CASE. OHc very practCaI
difficulty Is in the matter Of table-service The
majority of families keep but one servant, and if |
she is to be a lady and share the family meals
there must be disagreeable jumping up and
sitting down. or lack of efficient service where
It is most needed. Yet to arrange for such a
fnnctionary to eat by herself would be to place
her upon footing with ordinary servants which
is not the idea in the plan of Lady Help. For
TINS plan Is not the one which says all work ie
IN itself honorable and though You are a lady
your truest dignity is found In recognizing that
The Lady Help plan. on the contrary. aims To
Keep ever IN view the fact that these are ladies,
not enrYants and 40 r., raiso fio 81 af,,a f o,,s