The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-07
II IS DEAR TO LIVE.
Beef is High, But it Will be
Higher Still Pres
emily.
GROCERIES AT TOP NOTCH.
Milk Not as Plentiful as Usual
1t May Be Scarce This
Summer.
Prices are still climbing on almost every

keeper, who has for the past
six weeks been grumbling at
the excessive figures charged her
for beef, may prepare herself to meet a
still further advance. The wholesale
price of dressed beef has advanced one
half cent pound within the past few
days and retailers are looking for still
further rise.
"Of course" said a retailer to a NEWS
reporter yesterday. ''the retail prices do
not always jump with the wholesale
prices. We dare not put mp prices i'm
mediately. Customers come iD, and.
finding figures advanced, slide out and
enquire of others the prices, and finding
the figures the same in other stores, pur-
chase at the last place they call at. 1t al
ways takes few days at least to satisfy
tn EN- they are not paying more than their
nelghDors who deal elsewhere. Yes, the
retail prices of meats Will go up even be-
yond the present high figures"
NO PROFIT Is BEEF.
There's no profit in beef TO the retailer
at the present high prices" said another
retailer. why just look at the retailers
VINO have been forced out of business
There's the retail store of Wholesale
Dealers Sherman g. Tabor at Grove
street and Newark ayenue. You will find
1t closed. The firm found no profits IN
the business and simply closed the store.
Then there's +. A. Doors store closed at
No. LAG Newark avenue. Miller 81 Vree-
land, at No. 194 Newark avenue, have also
given up business there. Schultz, at
Newark avenue and Cole street, has given
up the business there, and l understand
that Stilsing Is about to close one of his
uf. ara fgh nlo
avenue, and presume you will find the
same state Of affairs In other portions Of
the city,"
GROCERIES HIGH TOO.
As 10 other provisions, a wholesale gro
GER maintained last night that the prices
which recently advanced remain about
the same. Jones & Bro s. Hour has ad-
vanced from Sc. rs to SIPS per barrel
Drew Brothers consulted their books for
the difference in prices of vegetables be-
tween this spring and last spring. The
spring is backward, they say, and 50 was
last spring. This always affects prices.
Nevertheless. owing TO the shortnes5 of
the old potato crop, new potatoes that
sold for As cents per haif peck last spring
are bringing 90 cents per half peck this
spring. Old potatoes that sold for 40
cents perspeck this time last year are sell
ing at 90 cents per peck. Lettuce and
radishes are about the same IS last year.
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so cents per half peck, now they are sell
ing at rs cents per half peck The supply
is not up to the demand. ASPARAGUS is
selling at 25 cents bunch. The cold
snap will send prices ahead tomorrow.
MILK NOT OVER PLENTY.
The economical housekeeper doeSn' 't
appear to be in it nowadays. Prices have
advanced on all sorts of provisions aud
clothing, and to add to her dis
comfiture the probability is strong that
she will not even reap the usual benefit
of a summers fall 10 the price OF milk.
talked with several leading mIlkmen
this morning on the prospects of cheaper
prices in lacteal fluid during the summer
months.
d. P. Harding. of Grove street, assured
me that he for one would not lower the
price from eight cents.
i seldom do lower the price in sum-
mer," he said. II suppose those who
handle cheaper grades, 10 which is mixed
SKINNED milk, will go down to six cents.
don't handle that kind of milk. do
not see why should lower my present
prices"
as milk scarcer this season than last9'
asked.
II can't say that it Is. think it very
likely, but haven't studied the figures. +"
Mr. Hardin SAID there was no milk
dealers association in the city, and that
each dealer regulated his own prices.
no REDUCTION IN a HURRY.
Mix Dealer Reardon, OF Ninth and Pro
vost streets deals largely in milk and
supplies many retail dealers. He is a
close student of the milk business. In a
chat with me yesterday he said;
"The prices remain the same and are
likely to continue SO until the hot weather
sets in, when a larger consumption OF
milk will probably increase the price.
Pure milk has been and is still retailing
at eight cents per quart. There are some
dealers VINO furnish customers who pur-
chase several quarts at the rate OF six
cents. We have no milk dealers assO-
citation. Every dealer regulates the
prices of his own stock. There are some
grocers, butchers and confecttoners who
sell below eight cents. They only handle
it to draw trade to other departments
Then there are those who sell an inferior
grade of milk. The inspection is not as
close as it should be, aud mucn SKINNED
milk is smuggled in"
"Milk is scarcer this season than last,
continued Mr.. Reardon. Cattle are
scarcer. ana cattle feed is scarce and
high. Farmers couldn't afford to keep
cows during the winter. and sold many OF
them for beef. Butter and cheese are
scarce also. There is no new butter COM
ing in. see by this mornings paper tnat
Elgin, QlL } and local creamery butter is
quoted at 2S aud 2S5S cents. This time
last wear the same butter sold at is aud
20 cents. As to milk the wholesale price
dropped one-half cent per quart this time
last wear. see no indication of such a
drop this year. Nav aud June, the grass
months, are supposed to be the cheap
milk months of the year. don't tdink
you will find the general price fall below
eight cents, and it will probably advance
In July and August
HOW THE MILK REACHES TEE MARKET
In reply to my question concerning the
Quantity of milk consumed in Jersey
CITY daily, Mr.. Reardon said he would
approximate the estimate somewhere in
the neighborhood of twenty thousand
quarts. He produced the March number
of The MIX Recorder, which gives tab
ulated statement of the quantity Of milk
brought in over the various railroads for
consumption by the population OF New
York, Brooklyn. Jersey City, Hoboken.
Bayonne and other immediate suburbs.
The total number of cans brought in dur
ing the month of March is given as 800. :
54S cans. or 20.02l 920 quarts, of which
1873. 74s cans, each containing 40 quarts,
came over the Erie Railwsy; Al ,2l6 came
over the West Shore Road, and 10000 over
the New Jersey Central. The New York,
Susouehanna and Western cars brought
10 1888 cans, and those of the Morris
and Essex division of Delaware a. Lacka
wanna brought 1000 (estimatedl; the
New York, Ontario and Western, ST. 4sd
caus.
In addition to this amount consumed in
March. the Erie brought In f43. 74S galloas
of bottled milk, the New YORK, ODtario