New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-14

srice from ten to twenty cents pail ard came 70
sf thereby The poor people in nst tho ns ana
Sa sS IN. dealer had sd to ask oes and
close gates stogether Hardly anohs. ; 0,ssS
cold and heavy snowfall as the very poor. Great
distress has already resulted the tenement onso
aSs sO 81 Ssn and tho
cooking their fOod and the situation appears s'''
Gus in the extreme.
EVEN TIE BIG MARKET NAY FAIL
Five hundred market mon in Washington MAI
ket. and half that number in Fulton Market. yes
tArilav watched tho great heaps Of drfted snow
beaued M on every side with rueful countcnances.
For two days they had not averaged ono customer
to each market man. and the outlook was dismal
indeed
nom 81 to So a hundred pound. Wholesale aud two
is and 30 cents to IS and 20 cents q pound down
town. and almost ont OF sight said q house,
keeper from Harlem Butter; ike Kng yohn ro o..
Ave cents a pound beyond the starting point of
the morning. SO with every article of food
%hos snS wns pn up from to So per cent with
dire forebOdings of . further advance this morn-
lug to the range Of famine figures.
But what's tho use of putting up tho pricef
said a butcher: Eve haven't got any customers.
They can't get here, aud if they did get here wo
ooald not cart their purchases home 20 them for
we haven't got wa kons, seighs. nor nothing.
Bnt while prices for meats, vegetables and hsn
climbed up on stills. there were stu plenty Oh
pective Scarcity. Not so With milk. Not milk
train On road had reached the city since Mon
day morning. Milk is brought to the CITY on IN
quantities sufficient to last one day. lhe
suffering that would come to thousands
Of hapless infants in this city that are nursed on
the bottle should the milk supply fail can easily
be s~ea. That it will fail almost entirely there is
only too muoh reason to believe. The daily supply
Of milk that comes 10 the city is something over
5000 caus Of forty quarts each. On Monday tue
milk trains all reached the city before the storm.
Yesterday. beyond a few milk sleiahs from the
suburbs. carrying probably 900 cans, not plnt oil
milk reached the city,
LIMITED SUPPLY OF CONDENSED MILK.
The man who has charge Of tho milk department
in Lcggett a. Co.'S wholesale stores states that they
had on hand at present stock of condensed milk
that was sufficient to meet the ordinary daily de-
maud for a week; but" he added. d" feel almost
certain that if the orders which should have
reached here to-day could be seen we havo oniy
best"
The manager at the store of Acker, Neral &
Condit, Fifty-ssventh-st. aud Sixth-ave.. rushed
from end OF the big concern to the other as he
said 1.-The hotel men fairly besieged us with or.
dsIs for cases upon cases: but we couldn't more ire
stances we had to cut down the
ot1ss rs per r In s 1t 9hSs %Ir
u
st., ana Fiftn-Ave., no better OIL lie smiled as
he sad II may as we'll tell YOU right here that II
the demand which has beeu made upon us here TO-
day for condensed milk be the same elsewh here,
there ID not enough of the commodity to last over
night. 1t IS unprecedented.
BROOKLYN WILL SUPPLIED AT PRESENT
While Brooklyn was slowly emerging yesterday
from tho embraces of the blizzard, there
was fear in some quarters that the coal
and milk dealers could not supply the demands,
the proprictors of hotels and restaurants having
Laid in q large stock of milk soon AS the biz
gard set in. But the outlying districts had not
been heard from yesterday
There is plenty of coal in Brooklyn; the only
trouble is to deliver il. There is also an abund
ance of condensed milk One instance was
reported yesterday in which man paid 81
for ton of coal. The Clarendon Hotel gOi a
single ton OF coal yesterday, and with difficulty,
too. That was all the coal there was in the house.
The way to enjoy life under the present trying
circumstances, under most others. Is to be a
member Of club. None OF the large clubs
feel the want of anything in the way OF supplies
except milk. and some If the stewards think
they will get through the time TIL the roads are
open without even feeling that want very
verely, especially with the aid Of that boon to
Club it stated last night that there was
hardly coal enough to last through the week.
but a supply was confidently expected to-day.