St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-01
BREAD ADVANCES.
Wheat's Flyer Sends Other Prices
Up Too.

CHICAGO, Sept. 30.-A hundred mas
ter bakers held meeting at "Old
Quincy No. 81 Saturday night, and
tried to convince each other that an adj
vance in the price Of bread was neces-
sary to meet the recent advance in the
prices-Of -four, but all they did finally
was to defer action until next Sunday,
when mass meeting of master bakers
will be held to consider the subject. Of
those who were present at last nights
meeting a considerable majority were
in favor of making bread cents
pound, which is an advance of 2 cents,
but they were afraid to agree on that
figure until they knew whether or not
the rest of the craft would cooperate
with them. 1t was given out in the
meeting that Ell. FL. Kohlsaat and ID. f.
Bremner would not consent to the adj
vance, but would continue to sell their
product at the old price; also, that
Heissler & Junge would stand out, no
matter what action might be taken.
Then our only COURSE" exclaimed a
stont baker as soon as the announce
ment was made, sis to meet the advance
in flour by making lighter loaveS."
Said baker, in speaking of the stu
alton after the meeting: ''There must
be an advance in the price of our bread
and that very se0n, because we are
losing money on every loaf we sell.
To-day flour went up so cents barrel:
next week it will probably go higher.
The small bakers can not stand the
pressure any longer. The big bakers,
however. are all right, because they
have store of flour laid by which they
obtained at the old prices, and which
will last them over this furry. We
can not compete with these men unless
they come TO our terms, except by max
ing light loaves, and that we do not
want to do"
''How much will you advance your
price,"
"At least cents. One cent will not
help U.S.
Flour is getting dearer. The closing
prices on the board of trade yesterday
were S6.l0 per barrel for patent grades,
and So. 10 for winter wheats. The cost
per barrel to retail dealers and large
consumers, such as bakers, is $3.50 for
the first grades, and $40 to $3.50 for the
others, and about rs cents more for
hOuseholders. 1.-THE ADVANCE" said a
representative of the f. Of l. Pieser 81
Co., lis. of course. DUE rgely to the
extraordinary tiuctu ,lh n the wheat
market. The condition o. the wheat
crop, however, mas SOHletlllilS IO 10
with it, as a letter and sample which
we received to-day from Pillsbury, of
Minneapolis, shows" allow is the
wheat?" and he emptied a hand
full of grain from small
paper bag. "You can see
that it is not of good quality, but Mr..
Pillsbury writes that it is fair sample
of 60 per cent of the wheat that is being
received at the mills. Now it takes at
least seven bushels of this stuff to make
barrel of flour, while five bushels of
ordinary wheat ought to suffice. The
reason is that this wheat is blighted. 1t
is hard to tell whether or not flour has
reached its limit, but | do not believe
that it has. [ think it will go up again
next week. and in anticipation of that
we have been instructing our statesmen
all over the country to hold prices firm"
Other dealers who were questioned
about the probability of further adj
vances in flour conceded with Mr..
Pieser's representative. None of them,
however, would fix any limit on the
price that the staple may attain, for
they said that would depend entirely
upon crop reports and the result of the
present wheat maniDulatiOnS.