The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
FRESH MEAT FAMINE
That's What the Pullman Car
Strike Means for New York.
M perishab'e Freight Received by
the Western Railroads.
And Local Marketmen Are Alread!
Putting Up Prices.

80 nro,opration of the railway strike
~ I, .h. west means fresh meat famine
Ntor New York and the cluster OF big
,ovns about the metropolis.
y ! rho effect has already been felt in a
.harp advance in the price or meats
hut up to this hour the consumer has
mot been confronted with the full force
Of the stringency.
, The retail dealer is the present suf-
Il ferer. although even he has been conn.,
TTpe,led to add something to what has
ffbeen considered the standard price OF
e.this product
IL "we don't dare ask one customer
10 nav the whole of the advance, be-
1Lcause they will not believe that the
lump in one day is fairly made" say
all the meat market men and retail
butchers. However. If the whole
d sale prices to us continue to be pushed
4 we will have to meet the increased
n rate pro rata"
Nevertheless, thousands OF citizens
visiting the markets and their butchers
\ this morning found that very material
addition had been to the cost of their
daily supplies. While this has operated
as deterrent to the consumption OF
. meat by private individuals and board
transatlantic lines have been forced to
accept large figures, as they cannot go
without.
buyers found themselves confronted
with new prices at these rates:
Beef, lolns. IA cents: round, cents.
and chuck cents. an advance of from
IL to cents pound
Mutton. shoulder, cents: leg, Il IL
cents, and headquarters of Spring lamb,
u ~ cents, an advance at the same
much further advance will be pro-
hibitory upon poor folks, and will doubt
less Increase the hotel and restaurant
tariff on chops. roasts and steaks,
Everything depends upon tine duration
OF the strike. and as TO that the air Is
filled with varying rumors-some to. tn.
effect that Its back is broken and others
that 1t Is spreading.
General orders have been issued here
to-day to agents of the Pennsylvania,
Erie. Baltim2re and Ohio and other rail-
roads with Western connections to re-
celve nc. consisnments Of perisha be
freights. including live stock, fruits and
even periodicals, except at the shipper =
risk.
have been issued at the western ends OF
these roads and connections this morn
ing, as all east-bound freights beyond
Flttsburs and Buffalo are being tied up,
In the event of successful bockades
by the strikers beyond these points, the
supply of meat at this point is going to
be seriously affected. The meat con-
sumed In New York Is received by a
Armour & Co. Swift Il Co.. Morris &
90. and other big Chicago concerns are
the chief puryeyors of dressed meat.
a heavy percentage of the supply
comes on foot to the Strengthening es
Establishments along the East River in
the nelghborhood Of Slxty-elghth street.
Live stock was formerly transferred
from the big abattoir in Jersey city.
sheep have been handled in makeshift
fashion on the meadows. back of Jersey
Guy, each consignment being cut out
and sent from that point by floats to its
oonsignee on the East River.
mir Sherman, who has charge of al
this business for the several railways
centering at that point, could not be
found this morning. as he has been
transacting business with his office in
fire. Exact figures were thus mob
tainable. but that the receipts of the
stock had been heavily reduced was
quite apparent.
. The poultry and fish dealers. In the
markets are proportionately jubilant, as
they contempl3 e an enforced increase
in the local consumption of sea food,
chicken and eggs
One jovia. J. u'trynIGn in the Nash
ing World rcnJ:;er:
THE only proper source OF meat food
is the barn yard Everybody likes poul-
try in some form. Some like chicken
for breakfast: others like turkey for
dinner, but for supper give me eggs
and we will be getting 10 cents dozen
Cor 'em II this keeps up