New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-19
FAMINE PRICES AHEAD.
STEAMERS WAITING FOR CATTLE.
BUTCHERS AND POULTRY DEALER AD'ANCE
EATFs-FFFECT OF TIE STRIKE on

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THE. CHEESE MARKET
The effect In this city Of the strike al bu"alo
wos M, bv any means confined yesterday to tie
satno If tho armed and equipped battslons OF
,be National Guard for the of the trouble II
traric is not resumed shortly over the great rai''
roads that supply this city and BrVohNh WIN io"i
there will be famine I'm ten days 30 said CONSERVATIVE
men-- butchcrs and groceis Yesterday i"elc WIS
a ,harp advance all this city ana brVohlSh W
retail butchers In the prices asked OF their c"st"erS
ranging from ! TO cents pound on MEATS anu
an average OF cents pound Oh poultry Ihi'
WAS caused by the impending dread OF faue III sup
plies for while butchers preferred hoe 10 sell po"u
more than they could help yesterday YET Wa posi-
BILE TO get meat whenever it was wanted. i"iS was
iu the retail markets. The butchers. however saio
that they could not get their supplies iVn the SHIP
peis Up to Il late hour not head OF cattle Oh all!
kind had reached the city from the West. though
II was understood that abOnt fifty car leads Tor The
Eastnans. intended for slaughter here ana shp"eh
abroad I'm refrigerator steamers, were thi' S'ue o
Poughkeepsle last night A light run u I'VE ea''t
Is expected over the Pennsylvania ROAD To-Day, bul
they all that will reach the jersey CS y"r"S' ana
the demand for them will undoubtedly result In some
tail prices Friday IS q big market day anyway at
The wards even when there are plenty OF cattle
dealers laying In supplies for their saturday. trade
There was no wholesale market yesterday. Ihe
manager Of tie leading Chicago dressed Deer mouse
shipping TO this city told Tribune reporter tha'
they had not enough beef on hand to supply thei'
regular customers. Prices for dressed beer TOOK On
further advance of > cents in the twenty hour
ending at midnight last night. Ii looks a II 10
dpy the shop butchers will have 10 pay whatever the
conscIeDces Of the wholesale men permit them IL
charge. Native sides were sold Yesterday for 10
/ = cents pound
several steamers are held In port because ihcir
con,gnmentS Of cattle have not arrived ana the pros
- one r.lai
these steamers l. the France. Of the National Line
She was 10 b. loaded by Myer Goldsmith and Jacob
slambcrg Goldsmith managed TO get his cattle
through, but slambcrg not 20 successful. The
outlook for SATURDAYS and next weeks Steamers is
lust ms dismal The Iaeo. II said yesterday. would
be- detained until Monday awaiting a cargo.
Retail butchers said that veal. mutton end lamb
also very high though that fact Is not entirely
owing to the strike mos, Of the supplies arr brought
from nearby and southern states tapped by the Penn
sylyana road on which there l. delay t. traffic.
ont on the Iehgh Valley road l. large section
u country principally In Pennsylvania in which
there dozen more p'pulOns cities and towns.
which depend entirely for their hecf supply on the
dressed article which from Chicago over The
Lehleh VALLEY road. Since list Friday therc towns
have not had pound Of th, beef. aud III consequence
an actual meat famine prevails The local butch
have TIED Ia yet supple, Ia this city and from PITT
burg. in both uusucrc>~iuIy We hive - lJoh
ont for ourselves" sail city butcher the reporter
" for things nov look may have beef famine
I'm This city next week. AMI early In the wceh at that
strike" prices began to prevail In other branches
~ the produce trade, likewise. Yesterday. There was
III advance OF from 10 pound in the
Wholesale prices Of Western ,caldrd chickens and
Western dry picked chickens. the standard grades ot
poultry handled by the tnde In This cltv The total
receipts Of dressed Ppur5 Yesterday wrr' l.oor
packages. 1h- Kind of poultry ncarl, all come, In
by the Merchants Dispatch. the New York Cen
trail. The suppy showed falling ~ V"~teriay. but
the p.ice advanced on apprehension ~ what the
strike might do 10 cut Of the supply. "" gel
nearly all our live poultry over the aclnwauna foad
said authority the subject ye-tertnY "ani.
~ is understood. If the ,frkr interfere, with that
road the effect Will be- felt Immediately and seriously
in the poultry trade. The Jews the side |
would be especial sufferers II anything hapIsncd 10
cut OF the NappN ~ live poultry. ii!erIl qntntn |
u dressed poultry was reported TO-DAY. but good
deal u arrived yesterday. ana the hAnn late
IN being delivered by the roal~. though bs noon IA"
bulb 81 II Wa IN sight snl gr,inahN beng q"
Crnilnl road howcvcr arr sin back. Considerable
nn"'Sie'- i az ia fcgari TO conS,f,m"ni. n1~ o.
oday wa MT an active one and not cActci tie |
buyers were bnying ahead u the actual want ~ |
view II the strike"
owing to other cause, the prlce Of egg, Lad M |
vanced cents Ia the Uholc-al' market In THIS CIV |
fgdr. permit, the Canadian dealer u pay hi, duty If
but The bloch at Buffalo -r,ppci tncm.
Cheese merchant, who -,ed buse;, 20 The bic ,als |
held i,.gs!nrly % Throughout this Ntntc
learned y,-t.rl,y tIni lee nf.e If The rai.vd ,trhc
and The inabt; 10 forward god. Lic customary sale
81 the faciOrJ pr'iuc- a. Cuba Gd not tai" lar" on
Wednesday. le-tcray VI. ,nle, DAY at Cataraegu'
but 1t was not believed that the ale. would hc
held there either. 1hon>and- Il bO1cs u chc"c nre
sold TO buyers from this city at thee ale, AID any
,tOppagc II them for an unusual period VIII de |
moraiIe the trade aud shipment, from here. saur
iny l. 'alc day at Walerlo~n Canton aud Oericnsbug