St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-04


Out OF Employment by the
dred-Wholesale Trade at
a Standstill-Bad Effects of
the Present Situation Every
where Visible.
The business interests of st. Paul are
beginning to feel keenly the effects OF
the strike. The Wood harvester works
have been shipping from ten to fourteen
carloads of harvesters and mowers
daily, and have on hand 1000 mowers
and 1000 harvesters that must be
shipped before Aug. or be held over to
next year. The management is Begin
ming to fear that it will not be possible
to get many more machines out on their
way. Material for manufacturing ma
chimes Is running short, and unless the
railroads are opened soon the harvester
works will have to be closed an dthe
immense crew of employees thrown into
idleness.
The clay works closed yesterday fore
noon for want Of material, and some
sixty laborers are thrown out Of work.
The Bohn Manufacturing company
has been shipping out some five car
loads of manufactured goods daily. 1t
is about out of material, and yesterday
the management said that unless the
railroads opened very soon 1t would be
necessary TO shut down the works.
Closing these works will throw out 800
employees.
These few instances are fair samples
of the situation among all the manu-
featuring establishments in the city.
Should the strike lasta week longer, it
is likely that every manufacturing
establishment in the city would be
closed and many thousands of employees
left in idleness.
The wholesale houses are but little
better off than the factories. The busy
season Is over with some of the houses,
and with those the loss will not be
heavy. But with j0bbing concerns that
handle perishable and seasonable goods
at this time OF the year the loss will be
heavy. A visit was made to the dry
goods houses yesterday afternSon. One
of the most prominent members said:
while the season of the dry goods
q good many ways in which he suffers
heavily from the strike. For instance,
my house has recently had large num-
Der Of orders from country merchants
for supplies of summer goods, they hav.
ing run out before the season is over.
We wired East for the various kinds of
goods. Ali these orders are OIL their
way to US, but blockaded some place en-
route, the Lord only knows where.
There is 10 probability that we shall
get any Of these goods in time for the
use of our customers. The goods will
therefore be on our hands, worthless
stock, for they will In all prob
ability be out of fashion next summer.
We will have to pay for them.
and thus you can see that we must lose
quite heavily in this way. The great
bulk of our fall goods are Dlockaded
between the East and st. Paul; There
is no telling when any of them Will ar
rive. We have two carloads of goods
that we need badly in the tangle of cars
i'll the yards of st. Paul. We can't get
any switch engine to work the cars out
from theitangle, and they are SO situated
that we cannot get near them with our
wagons. We have a travelling man
bockaded this side of Helena. The
only way he can get out is to 90 by
team 15O miles to the line of the Great
Northern. We have another travelling
man blOckaded in the West. l have
given you only slight hint OF the Sit
uation with the dry goods houses"
A leading member of the grocery
wholesalers said:
I'VE have only three outlets and in.
lets-the Great Northern. the 500 and
the Duluth roads. We are getting short
OF supplies, and have no means of get
ting some OF them. If this thing lasts
very long every grocery house in the
city will be, out of good manly things.
But the situation in ST. Paul is nothing
compared to that in tine country towns
on the, idle lines of railway. In many
OF these places the grocery stores are
out OF sugar and other staples. Towns
that are not remote from each other are
dividing their supplies of groceries.
The hotels i'll these places are suffering
seriously. If the strike lasts long there
will be famine in many towns. The
strike came on so suddenly that these
towns are not prepared for a long
siege"
Theboot and shoe jobbers are shar-
ing in the loss OH account of delays in
shipments. Some of the shoe manu-
facturers are running short of supplies,
and say that they must soon close. All
of them say that it the strike lasts three
or four days longer their business must
BIZ damaged to Il considerable extent.
The fruit dealers are the heaviest
sufferers, for their goods are perlshable.
Capt. Robertson, of the 3. Presley firm,
said:
I'VE have twenty-one carloads of Cal
ltornla fruit DlOckaded between Truckee
and Omaha, eleven carloads of water
melons Dlockaded at East st. Louis, two
loaaS of tomatoes blockaded at Cairo,
besides lot of BANANAS, and 1000 boxes
of lemons blockaded ell route from New
York. Besides these perishable goods
we have several carloads of potatoes
blockaded ON the Santa Fe. We have a
carload of pineapples Oh the tracks in
ST. Paul, but today we took crOwbars
and worked the car out of the tangle, a
distance of a block, and until men could
get in and carry tue fruit out 10 the
wagons OH their backs. Every fruit
dealer must suffer considerable loss Oh
account Of the strike"
All the wholesale meat dealers of st.
Paul who depend on Chicago for their
supplies have run out, Cudaby, Ham
mond aud Armour headquarters were
completely out yesterday afternoon.
The price of fresh meats took jump
yesterday Of two cents pound. Some
Of the leading retail meat dealers, how
ever, continued 10 serve their old Gus
toners at the old price of Is cents a
pound for beefsteak; but quite hum
Der of retail markets begun yesterday
afternoon selling beefsteak at 20 cents
pound. The Minnesota Packing com.
pany manages to keep up its supply Of
meats from farmers who drive their
STOCK in.
There is little danger of a meat
famine in st. Paul, but considerable
prospect of milk famine. Already
some of the milk firms have had TO send
teams into the country a distance of