The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-09
| NO WESTERN FREIGHT.
WHOLESALE GROCERS, BEEF AND
BEEF DEALERS CUT OFF.
The Fruit Congestion Has Caused tho City
to BE Flooded with tho Product of
Georgia Orchords and Fields.

| The strike of the American Railway Union
in the northwest is having an unlocked for
! effect in the south.
! Not only has it tied up freight going
west and hindered the journey Of the fam
GUS Georgia watermelon, but it has effect
| ually barred the doors against the western
! shipper, who is such large contributor to
! the city's provision supply.
The wholesale merchants have begun to
! feel the results of it; the wholesale dealers
| in fresh western bcefs are temporarily out
| Of the business and the salConists are with
out their usual supply of western beer
| 1t is impossible to get freight from
| Chicago Kansas City, Sioux City, or any
| point in that section OF the country.
This places the merchants of Atlanta that
| depend the west at the mercy of the
| strikers, as much as if the trouble was
at their doors and directed specially against
! them
| The western beef dealers unable to
| get freight through to their Atlanta agents
| and lntil the present state of affairs is
| changed cannot help themselves.
| Mr.. Samuel NJ. Burbank, the Atlanta rep
! resentative of Nelson Morris s. Co., said
| Thursday night: We are in the same dx
! that the city would be should the water
| works machinery become totally unfit for
| use In THAI case there would be nothing
| to do but wait and that is our fix now
The same state of affairs exists at the
| Armour agency. There the supply of west
| ern meats larger than at the other
| houses and better prospects for more.
| One shipped to the Atlanta agency got
| far Memphis and there is was
| stopped The agency there wired that it
would be sold In Memphis
| The supply Of Western meats is never
! at any time large as shipments are re-
ceived daily by ali of the dealers. None of
them prepared for the existing state
| of affairs and have no larger stock than
| usual on hand.
| a Beer Drought.
| Beer drinkers who have acquired a taste
| for certain classes of the foaming fluid, will
| find their threats dry in less than twenty
| hours.
| Major Carl Werber, who is the Atlanta
| agent for q large western brewery that
| ships great quantity of beer to the city,
| sent the last OF his stock out Thursday night
| He divided his supply equally between his
! customers and then notified them that it
| was his last. He said: 81 without a
! drop of beer in my warehouse and can only
! wait until the strike is over. I received
| telegram today from the brewery saying
| it was useless to attempt any further ship
| ment as the railroads refused to receive
| freight
| All of the beer now being shipped here is
| coming from Cincinnati, as traffic from
that point was not affected up to Thursday
I night.
| The Grocers Feel 1t.
The wholesale grocers Will suffer as
much as the meat and beer dealers. Their
| supply Of cured meats from the
| west. with the exception of Tennessee ship
| ments. Not only do they depend on the
| west for meats, but to q large extent for
| flour. There is not enough flour in the city
| to last for more than ten days. Flour, OF
course, can be gotten from other than
western points, but the market will be
| affected to a cOnSdard bile extent
| Mr.. J. M. Skinner, Of G. Z. Dodd Sc
| Co, wholesale grocers said: cit would take
| d strike of considerable duration to cause
| famine Of provisions, but it has already
! affected the market and our supplies are
even now cut short Other wholesale gro
| GERS expressed themselves in the same way.
| The Melon blockade.
| Viewed from Georgia standpoint the
worst feature of the strike, so far, has been
I the watermelon blockade. The financial loss
| to Georgia fruit dealers CCcasioned by the
| tie-up VIII be something heavy, and added
| to the injury done by the spring cold snap,
| the fruit growers will suffer to a great ex-
| tent this year.
| The inability of the roads entering Attain
| ia to carry the juicy melons to their desti-
| nation has caused the local dealers to be
| overrun with them. Watermelons are
| drug in the market, and the best and juic-
lest variety can be bought several for Il
| song.
| The small vendors Of fruit for several days
| have reaped Il rich harvest. The commits
! sion merchants have been obliged to dis
| pose of their stocks, and in consequence-re-
| duced prices. The fruit stand keepers have
| bought al the reduced prices, but not UNI
till Thursday did they change theirs.
Watermelons, the size that have sold for
| wears to retailers at 10 cents. sold Thurs
! day OF and 8 cents. Pine apples that
usually sold for % cents were offered all day
! 8 cents.
! This is, of course, very good for Atlanta's
! side of the case, but the fruit growing sec
ton OF the state and the entire south are
| suffering. tlanta is now practically 4 lit
tie world to itself. The western country is
unable to reach Atlanta and the shippers
here are fully as helpless when it comes to
disposng of their products away from
home.
If the present state OF affairs exists three
days longer the city will be filled with wa
termelons and fruits.
The strike will injure, in this section, the
men hat belong to the class that caused it.
The worllingmen will be the injured ones
for they will have to pay the same advance
in prices for the necessaries of life that
those more able will be charged
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