The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-01
FREE SUGAR.
Consumers Can Now Buy 1t Two
Cents a Pound Cheaper.

ASous e"O teuts pOunQ cheaper lot
the consumer.
Cheaper candy also.
The provision of the Mckinley bin pro
vidiDg for cheap sugar became operative
at midnight and ct the enchanted hour at
the stores of wholesalers and the refinerles
throughout the country trucks were
loaded that ere the people awoke retailers
could be provided with cheap sugar for
their breakfasts.
For the last mouth a number of the
sugar refineries have been refining their
sugar IN bond ana as soon as il was
packed into barrels it would be loaded
on TO cars. These were locked and sealed
and forwarded to various parts Of the
United States. The sugar placed in these
cars could not be taken out uutil April l,
unless it was to store them in bonded
warehouse.
The building Of the American Sugar
Refining Company on Washington street
has been a bonded warehouse for the past
month. 1t has been stocked with sugar,
Notwithstanding the fact that It had
shipped in bond thousands Of barrels
throughout the country. Early this
morning, before the break Of day, most Of
it had been loaded on trucks, and was on
its way TO the wholesale houses In New
York. This continued all morning. Yet
they were unable to I'LL the demand. and
telegrams and telephone calls kept the
shipping clerks on the jump all
morning. OF course the retailers
have held off from buying
the past month, merely getting what they
actually required from day to day. Now
they make demand for quantity, aud
unless the utmost discretion is used there
viii be scarcity Of sugar for the next
month or two.
At the free stores at the foot of Grand
street. Cleary, the wholesale grocer, had
upwards Of one hundred barrels in bond.
He had trucks at tie stores about five
O'Clock this morning to get mis- sugar, but
had to wait till six O'clock.
AT the cooperage of the American
Sngar Refining Company thousands of
barrels are ready for filling, and the
coopers are busy as possible Masking
more. Already the effect has been made
manifest in the retail stores. Mr.. Turner,
of Turner s. Bennen, the Montgomery
street grocers, informed me this morning
that the average reduction would be
about one and a half to two cents per
pound. Another Montgomery street
grocer has a large sign outside his store
reading ''31S pounds granulated sugar II
cents" While Hugh Cassidy attracts at
tention by the sign Cassidy ahead of the
Mckinley bill, 81 pounds granulated
sugar IS cents.n But a Grove street
grocer does even better. He speaks TO his
customers thus:-"GOod news-duty of
granulated sugar-31S pounds for lo
cents"
At the several railroad depats in this
city very little sugar was held in bond IN
the cars. Most of it had been shipped to
other points. The Jersey City retailers
buy their sugar from New York whole
salers. who ship It by truck TO this side OF
the river.
Mayor Cleveland told me this morning
that concerning himself the cheap sugar
in this city was an outrage perpetrated
by certain newspaper reporters TO en-
deavor TO sweeten his disposition towards
them.
AT Enoch Smiths and Doyle's saloons
an extra amount Of sugar mas been laid
"what's this fors" I asked the barten-
der.
why don't you know sugar is free to-
day and people will want to use more;
The more sugar put in glass the less rum
used. Seer"
communicated this information to
PADDY O'Neil, who answered "Well,
well fill the glass to check too much
sweetness; but for heavens sake don't
put it in the paper / said so, for the fel-
lows around the Y. NJ c. A might not
like it."
Don't you care, PaddysD said Assem-
blyman Mullone, who was standing near:
sugar and rum 60 good together, and
the sweeter they make 1t, why the better
we will like it.
John Parnen Feeney has struck a rich
idea from the sugar talk which will no
doubt help add to his riches The idea
struck him this morning while setting in
the cane rocker at Phil MuldoOn's cigar
store. He suggests that Phil roll all his
cigars in sugar before selling them.
Patent has been applied for, snd a com
pany will be formed Already agents
have been sent out to buy up the first
crop OF cabbages. The manufacturing
will be done in the rear room of the cigar
store, where there Is at times plenty Of
sugar.
President Voorhees, of the School Di-
reetyrs and Director Moran of the FL
nance Committee held conference this
morning and decided TO take the teachers
sugar out of bond.
At Fire Headquarters this had already
been done. aud each fireman received his
share of the March sugar.