Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-26
Tuesday, August 90, 1890.
THE BEEF FAMINE.


and Vegetables.
Prospects are very bright that the peo-
pie of New Haven will have to eat mutton
or dried meats for few days at the end
of this week and the Sunday and Monday
following. This is one of the inconven-
iencies felt from the big Chicago strike and
were it not that mutton oan be obtained in
sufficient quantities at Buffalo, Cincinnati
and other points we would have a literal
fresh meat famine. The local dealers have
pretty nearly all supply of beef that viii
last until the coming Thursday night. Ad-
vices sent on from Chicago by the sup
pliers indicate that in all probability no
shipment will be able to reach here under
a week. An attemptj is beingmad to send
the meat east by the way of Kansas City
and Omaha, thereby escaping the strike.
Meat is advancing in price at an alarming
rate hourly. Mr.. F. III. Hart of the firm
of Strong, Barnes, Hart & Co., stated last
night that they would have enough beef
to supply their customers until
Thursday night. They received
advice from their suppliers in Chicago
yesterday that no shipments would be
made to-day, but further than that they
did not hint. This company received its
last shipment last Thursday and do not
expect another before next Monday.
IN HARTFORD AND VICINITY.
HARTFORD, Aug. 25.-Local dealers and
shippers of western dressed beef are sadly
crippled by the strike in the Chicago stock
yards. Until some sort of settlement is
!.
will be impossible to obtain any beef from
the regular sources, as all trains are held
back in the yards. Yesterday all stock
trains were sidetracked and word was sent
to the slaughter house men TO come and
push the cars out onto the track, where
they would attempt to make up train.
Gangs of men were sent out at once only
to be driven back by the strikers. Should
the strike be amicably settled of course
trains will move at once.
Botsford, Ingraham & Swift received
one car load on Saturday that had been
shipped before the strike was on, but it is
almost gone now. They have another
car on the way shipped from Kansas City.
That, however, will not arrive till Thurs
day or Friday, as il takes seven days for
car to come from Kansas City. Some
beef may also possibly be obtained from
Omaha
Other dealers are in about the same fix
All are short and are completely shut off
from the chicago supply. A necessary
advance in price has followed from the
attempt of the wholesale dealers to hold
beef back for their regular customers.
Outsiders come in and offer an advanced
price. The wholesale price of roasts has
jumped from 10 cents to Is cents, and
they are difficult to obtain in any quantity
at any price.
Naturally the dealers must attempt to
fall back upon the home supply. Already
buyers are securing the country to pick
up fat cattle on the hoof to supply the To-
cal market. The opinion has been ex-
pressed that they will find the home sup
ply more plentiful than was expected.
AS yet the retail price has not been ad-
vanced. The marketmen hope to hold the
present price till the difficulty is over.
The Late Mrs. Elias PIerpont.
The death of Mrs. Elias Pierpont, which
occurred at the residence of her son-in-
law, DR.. A. B. Fuller, at Savin Rock, on
Sunday, will cause much pain to her many
friends in this city and elsewhere. Having
resided in this city all her life, she was
very well known, and leaves a large circle
of friends to mourn her loss. She was a
most charming companion on account of
her knowledge of persons and things that
have taken place in this city. No one who
knew her could fail to be impressed with
her charitable and Christian disposition.
| She was never known to turn a deaf ear to
4 any one in distress, and she possessed the
happy faculty of so distributing her char
| ity that no one ever left her presence with
out realizing that her sympathy
consisted not merely of words, but
of actions as well. She has been from her
youth up an earnest worker in and sup
porter of the works of the church and has
| spent much of her time and money in that
/ way. She did not confine her charity ex
clnsively to any particular denomination
although member of the Episcopal faith
and many of the churches of that denOmi
nation in this city and elsewhere have re-
ceived many gifts from her. Mrs. Pierponi
was born in this city December Z, 1906
and was the daughter of the late Beriah
Bradley. The funeral services will take
place tomorrow afternoon at st. Paul's
church at 3 o'clock