Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-25

The Effect OF Saturdays Arrival o
Vegetables in the New York Markets
plain Statement of Facts.

THE TRUCKERS SHIPMENTS.
the Effect OF saturdays Arrival OF
Vegetables in the New York Markets
A Plain Statement OF Facts.
Editor Moraing Nc,cS The matter
having been brought before the public,
and believing that the injurious effects Of
SATURDAY. arrivals of Southern vegetables
i'm the New York market upon an industry
of some Importance TO tins community is
neither fully understood nor correctly APP
preciated even by truck farmers them
selves, address you upon the subject. I
feel constrained to do so as President of
the Vegetable and Fruit Growers Associ-
alton Of Chatham county. This is no
attack upon the steamship Company. A
statement of facts and the necessities Of
the truck interest may surely be made
without enmity TO the transportation CON-
panies, who are themselves deeply inter-
ested in the future development of the in
dustry.
In so far then as the interests of the
shippers and consignees are concerned
there would not be the slightest differ
ence whether the ship was discharged on
Saturday at noon or at p. m. The ef-
fects in either case would be alike disas-
trOus, for in both the dealer would be
compelled to keep the perishable produce
over for Mondays market.
The Savannah market closing at 8 a.
m, not open in the afternoon, and pur-
chasers having dispersed, the Effngham
county farmer, arriving with produce at
10 a. m, is no better off than his neighbor
who arrives an hour or two later.
An imagined dealer in fresh meats in
the Savannah market { the already
partially stale condition of the New York
e = l.. - ind
/ being compelled, under the above con-
ditions, to dispose of tainted beef on
Monday morning before he may handle
! fresh consignment arriving at favorable
hour for Tuesdays market, would occupy
| the same unenviable position as the New
| York commission merchant. The whole
sale market of New Y Ork opens at 3 a. M,
/ and at 8, or at latest, business is over.
To enable the retail dealers of Jersey
/ City, Newark, Brooklyn and Of more dis
I tant cities. to offer this produce to their
| customers at their several Saturday mar
/ kets, it should be in the hands of the CON-
/ mission merchants at or before a, IN.
/ After that hour every moments delay In
4 wolves loss, which increases as time passes
/ and the number of purchasers de-
| creases. Whatever of these vegetables
are not sold between these hours must be
/ gotten rid of on Monday morning at any
! price.
Their comparatively worthless cOndi-
ton depresses the value of fresh oOnsign-
ments arriving fer Tuesdays market by
/ the ship sailing hence on Saturday. The
| worst feature in the case is that the de-
! preston also affects articles not in large
/ supply, and that the market never again
| RECEIVERS its previous tone,
/ 1t is not so much the quantity OF pro-
| duce which causes the glut as the neces-
( sity of disDOsing of cOnsignments of stale
! and fresh produce during two consecutive
| DAYS, Southern shipments are not so i'm
mense as to compare with the produce Of
| the numerous nearby farms of Long
/ Island and New Jersey.
/ Last season was an exceptional one.
/ The country was so bare of vegetables as
/ to have induced heavy impOrtatiOns from
| Europe, and the demand was so great that
| corners were operated, and the effects of
| late Saturday arrivals of perishable pro-
/ duce were not so disastrous, hence no
/ complaints. They are so we'll under
stood in New York and so deplOred that the
| Near York Market journal suggests the
! Produce Exchange be called upon to exert
/ its influence for their discOntinuanee,
! These glutS, so ruinous to the truck in
/ terest of the Southern seaboard, will occur
as long as they are continued. Many per-
! sons newly engaged in the industry viii
! abandon it. Others contemplating TO en-
Il ter it-and from these l am frequently
] receiving letters from the NOrth-will
/ change their minds.
! a New York commission merchant,
| who receives numerous cOnsignments
| from Savannah, told me in March last
/ that the idea had been suggested, and
/ with a greater degree of cooperation
among them, the merchants would now
/ have a Tuesdays steamer running be-
! tween our ports TO avoid the Saturday ar
rivals.
Individual representations to the Ocean
! Steamship Company have been annually
made for years past. and the Vegetables
and Fruit Growers Association of Chat
| ham County owes its organization chiefly
/ to the hope of being able to show sufficient
! reasons for effecting a change in the day
/ of sailing 1t has even been suggested
/ that the growers would willingly pay a
/ sufficiently increased rate of freight on
! that day, if the change involved a greater
! expense for stevedOring.
! Unfortunately, however, for truck far
mers, interests Of more importance TO the
/ Ocean steamship Company seem to clash
! with those of their industry and the boon
| has not been granted. 1t Is TO be regret
! ted that the numerous interests cannot
! be made to harmonic so as 10 insure a
l greater degree OF success, ana. therefore,
( more extensive, truck farming in this Sec
/ ton. A, OEMLER.
! In connection with the foregoing and
bearing directly upon the subject dis
cussed by DIR. Oemler, we copy by re-
| quest the following paragraphs from the
New York Market journal of the I'd and
| 9th inst.
SATURDAY ARRIVALS OF SHIPMENTS.
The Mercantile Exchange, which holds
so many meetings and discusses so many
| reforms, should, among other things, have
| commission men and dealers generally
/ take in consideration the necessity Of
| doing away with the heavy shipments of
| goods by producers or agents so as TO
/ reach the market on Saturday after the
| business is past. The extra work and eX-
/ pense caused by this illogical manner of
doing things is a great drawback and in
| convenience.
EXCITEMENT IN THE STRAWBERRY
| MARKET.
There was wild excitement in the berry
! market among the grOcers and retail
| dealers generally Wednesday morning
over the nOn-arriYal Of strawberries,
many having to 90 back to their places
| of business without a single crate, but
| about : o'clock the great berry train on
the Pennsylvania Road, which had met
I with an accident, arrived. In order TO
get rid of the stock prices were put very
low, and the delay of an hour cost the
berry growers and commission dealers
nearly $40, 900. Whole crates OF beautiful
berries were sold for 81 70 and 81 % =,
thirty-two quarts in crate.
The new French steamer NOrmandie,
which arrived at New York Sunday, the
/ 18th inst, brought over a.2O0 cases of
Veuve Chcquot. This is the largest i'm
portatiOn of any one brand of champagne
/ or-or ,onnir-ol In this country i'm q sinOln