The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
MEAT FAMINE HERE.
Last Train of Live Stock Arrives
from the West To- Day.
All Roads Are Now Completely
Tied Up There.
Exports Of Sea Food Stopped by
the Pullman Strike.

tnat Will TeaCn ne" 1OTk untll inc
Pullman strikers break the blockade
came in this morning.
A train Of forty cars, containing 100
cattle, which left Chicago Friday. was
rushed into the Central Stock Yards.
Jersey City. this morning fifteen hours
ahead of time. The Pennsylvania road
made the rush to anticipate a possible
extension of the strike.
On the instant that this train
stopped in the yards. d. II. Sherman,
the manager, took from n messengers
hands and showed to an Evening
World" reporter this telegram:
CHICAGO. July T.
D. II. Sherman, Jersey city: Nothing out to-
' ' SIMON o'DoNNELL
There is not horn nor a hoof Of live
meat on its way here from the great
western markets. and Mr.. Sherman
III this keeps up few few d, days ysI longer Yc,S
to grease your boots with
When the small receipt OF this morn
ing came in there were only forty or
fifty head on hand In the yards. The
price OF cattle on the hoof has advanced
$125 hundred, and the signifcance of
present conditions Is that 1t shortly
cannot be had at any price.
Here are n couple of the warlike bulle-
tins Mr.. Sherman haa to show this
morning:
D. H. Sherman. New York:
The strlkers and United States marshals have
got nghting. The Governor has called out Second
Regiment. It looks bad. Don't see any prospects
Of getting ANYTHING out before the last OF TINS
4th SIMON oDoNNELL.
CHICAGO. July s.
Can't get anything out on Vanderbilt lines
There is complete blockade her.. Manyon tthe
St. Louis AGENT wires me that St, Louis is as
one one bringing in stock. The striker, are nshtins
them Looks like there will be trouble here to-
sns .top 1hs .h.% call ' SIMON ' oiosNkLI
As Simon O'Donnell used to be po-
of Chicago, where most of tn, railroad
| Is wiring about.
| This means a very serious condition
for the meat supply Of Mew w; sGk s ssd
and good deal OF mutton frSm the I'M,
Ohio, the great bulk OF beef comes from
the West. The territory of supply may
be bounded on the, east by line run
| north and south through Central ILL
nois. From the region west of this. the
cattle chiefly come, and are dropped on
at points all the way from indianapolis
what HHiaA uattie they raise in the inter
| sumption OF their own big towns, such
as Cincinnati. Cleveland, Pittsburg and
the like.
They may struggle to gather up old
cows but even at that they MI not be
ob.aaabe here as they viii be eon
where they are raised.
Dressed beef has also been pushed up
two cents a pound. but Will not be pur-
chasable at any price II this thing keeps
| kilograms
that means that New York cannot get
adequate fresh meat il the blockade
'u a steady advance in the price of beef
was felt in the local markets this morn
ing. Dealers had to pay Is and l6 cents
brought from 10 to Ii cents. In conse-
quence. rib roasts sold as high as 25
cents pound, and porterhouse steaks
| brought 30 cents.
Local fish dealers. who ship to West
ern markets. are heavy sufferers by the
refusal of the railroads to accept per
ishable freight. This is the season for
fish and makeral are at the height OF
their run" The Western people are
| as fond of these delicacies as are their
money for them real cheertully.
However. as these products are re-
garded as the most perishable sort OF
| freight the railroads will not accept
! is a consequent stagnation in that line
| Of business.
F.. F. Hopkins, large shipper of sea
food from the Fulton Market, said this
| "A continuance OF this situation will
| bankrupt us. At this season in previous
years ! have been accustomed to snip
ten carloads a day of fish, crabs, lob
| sters, clans and oysters. and | hnd my
| self now unable to get out car lot. The
people OF New York and the neishbor-
| taly 70 N ~ iNn lot nf a
| food or there will be thousands of dollars
worth Of 1t that will be fit only for fer
tilizing."
auctioneers at 1903 Park place say that
there are carloads of California fruit
decsying at way stations in the West
and that If the blockade Is not raised
there viii be a serious impairment of
this supply to this market
At the same time the dealers In Flor.
ida and West India fruit are worried
| over the trouble in reaching their West
ern customers. Invoices continue to ar
rive in shiploads, but the railroads will
not take the freight for Western CON
signees. The logical effect OF this stu;
alton ought TO be to advance the local
price OF apples, pears, cherries, peaches
and apricots. and to flood the market
with pineapples and bananas.
| The effect of the strike has been very
| depressing upon the passenger railway
| business. People are afraid 10 under,
| take westward journey In the face of
prospects of being tied up at a way
point.
A solid train Of Pullman sleepens left
| Jersey city last evening, ii Is said, with
only one passenger. The offices OF the
Western roads and those having Western
connections are besieged to-day with in
qures from persons having friends who
left few days ago, bound West .
| singular feature of the situation j.
that the railway agents and merchants
| affected all express the belief that the
strike will last but a few days, and thar
| business will reopen before the end OF
| the week under normal conditions. This
| confidence is not altogether warrante
by the troublous advices received from
| the West.
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