St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-13

HER GLORY Is GONE.
Phil Armour Says Chicago Has Reached
High Water Mark as Packing.
City.
The Star Of Commercial Prosperity is
Steadily Taxing Westward
Course.
No Settlement Yet Reached of the
Strike For Eight Hours
Work.
Yesterdays Doings by the Knights OF
Labor in Session at Rich
mond, Va.
HER GLORY IS GONE.
The Stock Yards Strike.

CHICAGO, Oct. ia published interview
concerning the stock yards strike with Mr..
Armour, says: 1.-The day of Chicago's
supremacy as pork packing center will now
be thing OF the past. Kansas City, Omaha,
Cedar Rapids and other Western points are
fast taking the business away from here.
Take Kansas City, for instance. The price
of hogs there is % cents hundred less than
it Is here, while her freight rates to all West
ern and Southern points are as low as ours,
and her freight rates TO the Atlantic seaboard
are only i2 cents, or at the most Is cents a
hundred higher. In otter words Kansas
Clty's freight rates to the markets were 80
per cent. of ours; products sold are just as
good as ours, while
TaEHoGs ARE CHEAPER.
What is true Of Kansas City is true in a
greater or less degree Of other Western points
1t is the natural course of events. The corn
belt has moved West, and with it hog raising.
1t is history repeating itself. Only a few
years ago Chicago took away the supremacy
from Cincinnati and ST. Louis. To show that
this is not idle talk, brought on by the pres
ent troubles, Will say haven't AIDED single
brick to my packing house property here IL.
Chicago, while in Kansas City, where already
had 81, 800, goo worth of packing house prop
erty, have built $500, 000 worth additional
this summer, and between now and next jan
uary will build another 100000 worth.
Five hundred of the strikers met tonight
and listened to report from Messrs. Barry
and Butler. They stated that they had as
yet
ACCOMPLISHED BUT LITTLE
in the way Of settlement. general dis
cussiOn Of the situation ensued, which re-
suited in giving the general executive board
of District 81, together with Messrs. Barry
and Butler, full powers to arrange a settle
ment. An advisory committee, representing
the various branches of the work in the
packing houses, was selected. Permanent
headquarters will be established. A meeting
of the packing house proprietors was held
this evening, but the result was
not made public. Armour's beef
men, it is understood. are liable
to be ordered out tomorrow or next day,
Mr. Barry was questioned on the subject to-
night, and said: If the pending negotia-
tons fall through the men employed IN the
beef department of Armour's viii certainly
be ordered out. We will meet all the packers
tomorrow and eudeavor to effect settle
ment. We have talked with most of the
packers to-day. There is only one man stand
ing in the way of an amicable settlement.
There is no probability that the men employed
by Nelson, Morris & Co., and Swift & Co.. will
be ordered out. We are satisfied with their
position in this matter. We have succeeded
to-day in systematiZing some matters which
were in state Of chaos. The situation will
change materially in the next tWenty-four
hours. but 1t is impossible to predict what the
change will be-"