The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-10
LONDON MARKETS.

| The Enormous Quantity of Food Required
to supply the Wants of Londoners.
Last year in Billingsgate alone and
its neighboring streets over 49, 900
tons of fish were landed. In much less
tine than it would take lady to fix
herself for an afternoon call l have
seen the contents of fields and fields OF
potatoes and eabbages unloaded in
Covent Garden. The Monday before
| Christmas 2, 1879 tons of beef. represent
ING a herd of about 6.519 bullocks, were
hooked in the Smithtield market, and
on the following day, Tuesday, had
a capital luncheon on board the Elder
sic. 81 steamship just arrived from New
Zealand W tn $1,000 carcasSes of prime
mutton. The day before Christmas |
was lOaiiny in the. Leadenhall market
| an ungrudging bazaar. where. accord
| ing to your fancy. you can get as Little
as dead lark or As much as liv NJ
| tiger. The place was so encountered
| with poultry, meat, game and other
prov ons that the difficulty of the
buyers to get at the. sellers was only
equalled by the impossib lily of the lat
| ter to sally on the former. A Spanish
Ambassador once told Charles III. that
more provisions were sold in that mart
than in all Spain. l bet that if the
Queen would kindly take the present
| Spanish representative round the same
place her Majesty would probably hear
the same speech
The Englishnsan lives very well when
he can, and ALWAYS wastes. l specu-
late that twice the actual population of
London, if it were Dutch, would live
here luxuriOusly on what is hardly suffi-
Gent for its present inhabitants.
Long has England ceased to produce
enough food for her children. In an
average year. say 1884 the London
central markets seld lS1, 029 tons OF |
English meat and as much as AZ, 1884 |
tons of foreign meat, 26, 1913 tons of |
which were from the. United States. |
Each year the proportion of foreign
meat landed here increases. The full |
official report for the year 1884 has not |
been published. but | know that Aus
tralia and New have, during that |
year. sent over here no less than $685.
1855 carcasses of mutton The Ameri- |
can trade. which has been dull for a
little while. is looking up again. and
those interested Will no doubt hear with
pleasure that the private company,
principally composed Of statesmen hav-
.ng Their stores at Smithfield Market, |
which had built hard by some cold-air
stores for the keeping of all perishable
provisions, are considerably extending
them. These stores can already take
in from 800 to 900 tons of meat, and
will soon be capable of sheltering
double that quantity. Statesmen will.
therefore, be able to keep the meat as
long as they can get a remunerative price
for it, instead Of having to throw it
away after certain time regardless of |
loss. l have visited these stores. Their
temperature, kept down by splendid
Hazlam engines, was almost Siberian.
The charges for renting them is two
and one-half pence per week for eight |.
pounds, which is cheap. and lower
rates are 81 anted for larger quantities.
In one week only, the week ending \
January %. 1885, the United States \
and Canada had landed IS, 30 sacks of
flour in London. In the week ending
january %, 1885. 800 cwts. of Amer!-
can cheese were unshipped in the port
of London. exclusive of consignments
by rail. The American cheese is in
great favor in this country. No, cam
tankerouS gourmet is able now to point
to the least difference between the. for
eign art Gle and the best English Ched-
dar, and it is just three pence cheaper
per pound. Many London houses take
nothing but American cheese. The
national product is losing much ground.
In one week a'One in July last. Mr..
Lowell, of the great firm of Lowell.
& Christmas, West Smithfield. tells me
that he has sold 1000 American
cheeses. He kindly takes ME into his
enormous cellars, which can easily ac-
10000 boxes of the article.
and explains that he never proeures any
Cor. N. T. Sun.