The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-07
HURT BY THE STRIKE.
Merchants Feeling the Effects of the
Te-Cp Every Day.

T1e-Cp Every Day.
The effects of the great railway strike
IN the wesG are being very sensibly felt
in Savan nah. There has been an increase
in the Price Of all western products in
the LIST few days. and unless there is
some diminution in the strike by Mon
DAG a general ana decided increase in
the prices of all western products may
ne expected The cold storage ware
houses have placed the price of beef
wholesale at 9 cents a pound, an increase
.of Il, cents pound in the last ten days.
The supply on hand is very short, and
unless supplies are received IN the next
dav or two there will be no western
beef on the market at any price next
week. The cold storage warehouse of
Nelson Morris & Co. has not a pound of
meat on hand. This warehouse is sup
nIted from Chicago. The warehouses of
Swift * Co. ana the Armour Packing
Company, which are supplied from
Kansas City, still have a small supply of
meat on hand, but are liable TO be shut
out from their base of supplies at any
time.
"JJnless there is some change in the
situation the Savannah market will have
10 depend almost entirely upon domestic
beef" said Mr.. H. Logan yesterday
There is a plenty of domestic beef to
fully supply the market, but the cattle
are not i'll as good condition now as they
will be later In the season. There is a
good supply of poultry and other dOmes-
tic meats and there is no likelihood of a
meat famine, even If we should be cut off
entirely from the west"
All classes of cured meats have in
creased in price since the beginning of
the sCrike. Bacon has gone up 80 points
and hams, shoulders and other classes of
PORK have also increased in price. The
Savannah houses had a heavy supply of
meats on hand at the beginning of the
strike, but the increased demand from in
terror points, whose merchants have
been ordering directly from the
west, but have been shut out
from their regular markets from the
strike, is likely to cause shortage in the
meat supply. Orders from the interior
for provision supplies of all kinds have
largely increased since the beginning of
the strike. 1t is an i'll wind that blows
nobody good, and the Savannah merchants
are getting some benefit from the strike
in increased orders and better prices.
They are in hopes of being able to main
tain their supplies from Boston, which is
the main eastern meat market, Boston
bellies being a staple article of the trade.
Boston may be so heavily drawn upon
from all points, however, that the supply
there may be soon exhausted. AS the
Boston packing houses are supplied with
hogs from the west this is bound to be the
case, unless there is let-up in the strike.
I'VE will feel the effects of the strike
more later on, y said Mr.. Joseph F'erst. of
NJ Ferst's Sons x Co. Even if the strike
should come TO an end within the next
few DAYS il will take the wholesale lob
bers some time to catch up with their or
ders. and then is the time that we will
feel the scarcity. Savannah gets her
principal supply of hams and cured meats
from Baltimore, and we have not had any
trouble in filling orders from this point as
yet AS Baltimore is supplied from the
west her supply is likely to run short
soon There will not be the same demand
for these articles as for the coarser
grades, however We have a large stock
Of flour on hand, and have taken the pre-
caution 10 place large orders with nearby
mills. The demand from the interior for
supplies of all kinds has largely increased
since the strike began"
There is no meat to be gotten from the
west" said MIR. Kayton of Herman 4
kayton. Our advices are simply cant
ship, and that is all there is to it. A
N at famine is likely to result in this
section unless there is an early let up in
the strike
Orders were received from Montgom-
cry, Ala, for meat by the provision
brokers here yesterday. Montgomery
gets her supplies direct from the west
and appears to be entirely cut off, from
the fact of orders being placed here
The hay and grain men have expert
enced no trouble with their supplies as
yet. A large part OF the grain shipped to
Savannah reaches here by lake and ocean
transportation and naturally has not been
affected so much by the strike as the all
rail transportation. A Savannah broker
received advices from a Chicago grain
house yesterday, however, that it could
not make lake shipments any longer 1t
is supposed that the lake traffic has also
been affected by the strike.
The opinion was generally expressed
among business men that the strike would
not last over u week longer though il
was admitted that the effects would be
felt for some time after. The continuance
OF the strike would mean great incOn
venence to the business of this section
but is not likely to cause any real suffer
ing, as the south has plenty of resources
OF its own to fall back upon.
MIR. }. 5. Tyson, who had arranged tC
send number of railroad tiremen and
swltchmen to Louisville, received a tele
gram from the Louisville and Nashville
railroad yesterday not to do so until he
had received further advices. The Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad has not beer
seriously affected by the strike as yet, but
Is only taking precautions to have men il
readiness to take the places of the strikers
should its men Join the strike.