The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-04
LOOKING CLASS.

There Is a very short apple crop this
year, but prices for the fruit FIRE not so
high AZ the light crop would Justify under
different conditions. Other fruits. with
cranberries aud squashes. have been and
are In heavy supply and as these are use
rs substitutes for apples, people have
been consuming less than the usual
quantities. IL is estimated that this
years crop Is rs per cent higher than last
year. In 1892 it was heavy and Baldwin
apples sold then a. si.75@S2 90 per barrel.
Now they are qu ,ted AT sA75Q3s3.00 As
our readeIs will see, an adviuco OF 81 per
barrel is not sufficient and not In proper
tion to the decrease in the supply. Had
other fruits been in proDortionately the
same light supply as apples, we should
unqesiionably see much higher
prices for the latter. But the So
called soft stuff has been plenty and
cheap, and now pears, cranberries,
squashes aud oranges. all Of which will
be in good supply, are coming to take the
place OF the soft stuff rs substitutes for
apples. Cranberries and SOU ashes can be
cooked and made iuto pies in place OF
apples. and people will be able to buy
pears, grapes and oranges cheap
for eating purposes. These are
the factors which keep the
that colder weather will witness an
advance in their price. Apropos OF
oranges. the Florida crop Ia an exc sedinp-
ly full one and the foreign yield is also
said to be large, so that we may expect
prices on oranges to be agreeaby low
this win or. 1t lis thought when the season
for squashes is over that the supply Will
be lighter. aud this will, of course, help
along the consumption OF apples. The
crop of the latter is so short, that we may
expect to see some very poor lots sold here
this winter. Farmers and Others will
scrape together everything even re-
sembing an apple, and send It to market.
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Fer the lover OF figures, here Is a choice
morsel: Before the senate passed the
silver repeal bill il had been in continu-
GUS session fourteen days, and debated
the subject sixty-one days. During that
time five VOLUMES Of the Congressional
Record were filled with speeches. aRgre-
eating 20 100000 words, which, IL set into
type. would reach from the statue OF
liberty. New York harbor, to the foot Of
the Rocky mountains. ors say, 1000 miles.
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Miss Lizzie Sullivan OF Arctic spent
the first OF the week with friends in this
city.
Lieutenant Smith of Fort Adams visited
the recruiting rendezvous in this city
this week.
Mr.. George Dyson OF Kenyon was in
this city Thursday.
Mr.. Charles Dudley OF this city visited
North Scituate this week.
Mrs. Burke OF this city visited friends
in Apponaug Thursday.
Me-. ll., - L.,
turned from her visit to relatives la this
city.
Mrs. L. c. winn OF this city has this
week been the guest OF her cousin. Mrs.
Porter of Wakefield.
Mr.. jeffrey Davis Of this city registered
at Narragansett his week.
Miss Sarah X. Hazard OF Hazards
Quarry. is visiting friends in this city.
Mrs. Jessie Long OF Wexford has been
In this city this week visiting her mother,
Mrs. q. ID. Lamphear.
Mrs. John S. Gladding of WEXFORD is
visiting friends in this city.
Miss Annie Il. Gilpn of Newport is
visiting Mrs. Roscoe Colman in this city.
I
"a coal combine is not as many peo-
PIE suppose an American idea. said a
we'll known dealer to me today. As early
as 1865. when the English
proprct was between 10000 and 900 600
tons annually, there was held a meet
ing OF the coat dealers at Newc lstle,
when an agreement was signed by
twenty-five coal owners that they would
mine no more coal till the large stocks
then on hand were disposed Of; aud 25 coal
owners signed an agree nent at the same
time for raising the price TO lbs per chal-
dron (53 cwt) About 100 years later,
In III, there WAS formed COM
bination among cDal owners who
shipped their coal by the three rivers, the
Tyne, the Wear and the Tees, to raise the
price OF coal to consumers by res rictng
tn. quantity supplied. This COM
bination known as the Limitation
of the vend," lasted, with but few
temporary interruptions. until 1916.
A committee appointed from among the
cal owners held its meeting regularly in
Newcastle and fixed the price at which
Goals OF various qualities might be sold
when sea borne for consumption within
the kingdom. They alsJ assigned the |
quantity of coal which. during the space |
OF fortnight following each tissue" or |
order, individual collieries might ship.
This Newcastle committee met twenty |
six times in the year, ami according to
the prices in London determined the |
quantity which might be issued during |
the following fortnight The restrictions
enforced by the limitation of the vend |
did not apply TO coal shipped to foreign |
ports. The consequences of this was that
coal was frequently sold to foreign |
markets 40 per cent. under the prices |
in the London market, and English coal |
could sometimes be purchased In St. |
Petersburg at half the price OF the same |
coal la the river Thames. The competl- |
ton Of the coal from the Midland c,un- |
ties seems To have broken down this plan |
OF regulating trade.