Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-21
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ns'lihalihssd q 4 Famine in The worlds Fair
ciy ia 1888.

ns'lihslihssl q Famine in The worlds Fair |
City ia 1888.
Chicago. March sa.--thitage will have
plenty of provender wherewith % satisfy
the appetites of her regular population
and guests alike during the Worlds fair.
There need be no apprehension on this
score. Very likely the story told in holy
writ will be repeated. and when the last
Of our visitors have lef. us there may be
many beslletfuls to carry away. some
timlil folk--and they have managed 10
communicate their apprehensions 70 the
outside world--haye an idea to the con-
trary.
just because the western floods Of las.
spring played havoc with the vegetable
crop. Just as the snow blockades on the
railroads during the last couple OF
months induced temporary scarcity OF
other classes of supplies, and because.
further. as Il natural result Of these con-
ditions, there was an advance in the
prices of many articles of sustenance
and i'll some c&ses a scarcity IN supply,
they rushed at once TO the conclusion
that the prevailing conditions were sim
ply a foreruuuar of what might be ex-
peete,i few months hence. And SO
they are stocking up their cellars with
barrels OF -four. and big piles of cans OF
corned beef. and of canned soups, and
canned vegetables, and loudly Boosting
to their meigibors that. so far at least as
their stomachs are concerned, they have
SO fortified themselves that they are GER
tain to be on the safe side from May to
November.
All this is sheer Mysteries, sheer non
sense. the kind Of panicky feeling that
no good citizen should allow himself or
herself 10 publicly manifest. We are
s4eiing million and half of mouths
daily today We may be called upon to
feed another million i'll addition before
MANY months. And we can do it. At
least SO say the men who are the 90
betweens for the producers and the
retailers, the commission element that
gathers in the produce and distributes ii
around the hotels, and the stores. and
the private houses-the vehicles of com
munication. as it We're, between the fer
tile plains of the east and the west and
the people that have to be fed. These
people may he supposed to know where
of they speak. And when they declare,
as hundred strong they have declared
to the writer today. that for the rest of
the year Chicago will have plenty to eat
and plenty to spare they may be sup
posed to speak by the book. Nobody, it
is certain, has better right to do so.
There will certainly be no scarcity Of
the staff Of life, neither of flesh meats.
The great northwestern country that is
tributary to the Worlds fair city. aud
which annually transfers across its Dor
ders for foreign consumption hundreds
of thousands of barrels of flour. and the
great southwest, that daily sends to our
great stockyards thousands of head of
cattle to he killed and dressed and the
carcasses thereof to be transported east
ward and thence across the water to
strengthen the bone and sinew and mus
Gle of our transatlantic brethren, can
certainly be depended upon to keep the
Chicago market well stocked. Perhaps
it may be necessary to limit the foreign
supply if the local demand should go be-
yond all expectation, but at any rate
the supply will be here, and it will not
get beyond Chicago so long as we want
ii and are willing to go a fraction higher
than the figure that may be obtainable
elsewhere.
Nor need we restrict ourselves or our
visitors to bread and meat was talk
ing this morning with one of the biggest
produce commission merchants in the
country, and who has just returned from
IA trip that extended to Denver on the
the west. New Orleans on the south and
Boston on the east. Between his de-
parture from and return to Chicago he |
had made contracts for the delivery of
500, 600 pounds of frozen turkeys. chick
ems and ducks. 5000 dozen of spring
chickens and 300 tons of game of var-
Gus descriptions. Not only this, but lie |
had arranged for the delivery of as large
IA total of frozen fish as he has handled |
in Chicago in the last five years. He is |
only one Of many in the same business,
and they all agree in the opinion that |
supplies will be plentiful, and that, as
rule, ordinary prices will prevail, al |
though there may be some slight ad |
vances for fancy stock.
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