The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-09
WHAT IT COSTS U.s..
Residents of Greater New York
Assessed for the Big Strike.
Estimated that s240,000 Per Day
Increase Is Paid for Food.
The Blockade Has Raised the Prices
Of Neccssarics of Life.


The western railway strike Is tapping
thp rockets of people in New York and
,.i,,ini,y :, a., enormous oy,,,t
~. =, 80. ~ ~, a.
Inc 1e'''V' people 9hthereu Wihih the
actual, IL not corporate. limits OF this
cro,t city ora h,i,s ,ssosa,l for mia
wy h -. ,,'a
rhlet uone thousahu hl'ies away Les
perate men in u remote quarter are
t,,,Dy the shots of soldiers In their eff
lo'tS u ops'r"', lines Oh "'''S''o'''''o"
and Iurn and pi.lagc carloads Of goods,
and here peaceful men and women al,
cnr,nelIsd n INV heavily for the dam.
In the last week nlmcs, everything in
,,,, ,ro,t,,.,,, ,i,,., h,, ,,d,,,ccl In ,rico
,"t ,'", ''''" ',"V " n"n, Ira,,,, :,
the Western hlocka,i,s the cause for this
advanc, /, il certainly coiucideu. with
' -
1t. and provisioners unite In the deciara-
ton that the strike has done 1t.
rha hound +, IN, nr,c, of ba,f which
' ~ VIC ,.,,,. 49,
Is inc S'arie meat net "t c'''',"e" man
M, n hesd Of living stoc, not a carcass
80 "',,u VI N''e ",o ,,' ~. " ~,
OF dressed beei' Is arriving from West
ern markets There Is plenty of Eastern
c,.t,n ~ hand howoyar hut tho op,nlon
c"'''e a' manu- "oNeNe'' 'u' ''c 'P''''',
IL universal That even this supply VIII
he curtailed by the demands Of the big
towns In the immediate stock raising
regions. if th. strike continues to shut
oul far Western meat for "A few days
| longer.
| Mutton AMI lamb which are largely
| Iust aud The. South. are exempt from the
| nrSS,nt NJ strinrencv and have held to a
| uniformly low figure. But mutton l.
Very fnr from heing an item of daily
| Fl re- as besf is Few men could stick I,
nm unv,ried dot az mutton frr any con.
| siler.hle Length or tim. and A larg,
| m,rcnn,,,,,a c'nn,. nat n. al al
| pnn,,i,rus IN Ill f,,.ns althnuyh locally
| raiscI G,s nJyarrej in the mast wce,
| ,ran, tn 4 rants n Mound Eggs. which
could be " bought July FOR Il cents a
| do1a,, in-dav hripp 10 cents
~ ro,au soiiinr nrices of ham, bacon
na He,,t ~ s,,pah nen,s 81 largely
aa,d a., co. tr,, ,rs 10 We., have gone Tor
uvini eu ,,u,i ~. canta ,,nurd nm
ward about 'hree GEMS p'"'" vi
ea,r,,,,,, ma, oaro,, nroducts HAY, not
,,s, 'o oI,.a nn b,t tbsre is not n shadow
| az dnuht thnt thew viii cost more in q
| " "ount ''ihr tneI nrnvI.inns is
,vm ~, liz -. IN in verv larSe cnnsi.rn.
rfa,,a' tbinneJ sjnviv and at regular
mnrioIs ne silently perishabie quality
Of these goods makes i eonvenlen, to
Present SUPPLIES have been in for two
vet hcpnn To he fell. but there is not
| . flour dealer I'm the city to-day who
a t.'u a., faal ,nnrehe,sive for the i'm.
,n.di.te future ''
,rbe sbinments from, grain and milling
| co,,nros ~ next Wool; are under way. of
| nncht 70 he ana "A uroionpntion OF the
| uIp',i,, is' hnnnd to he felt IN in,
| 49, ~ hra,J iT II continues a week
| innuar
Eyen ,t nr,sent Il T.. a very reasonabl,
,stina,e ~ stat, Inst iivInS in Greater
! M Snr,, coats c,rh individual six cent,
!, day mere than n did a week ago. ant
| 50 tSa nennla az C;reater New York ar,
| even now paving nearly n quarter of
| uiliion Of dollars a day for the destruc
| tive uassions OF men whose cause the,
barely under.t,nd,
| Mr. H. II. Sherman manager of tn
stock Yards foot OF Sixth street, Jerse,
civ. said to AN 'E.vening World" re
unrt.r this afternoon:
nXVa hav. received 200 ears Of cattl
tn-JaV or about = 400 head There wa
not n single shipment from Chicago. st
J.r,iis or any other Western depot, no
hns there ha.n since TUESDAY last W,
do not cXuect any from those points 10
some time to come.
! "F,vnn If the strike is settled thi
week the Western markets will not h,
ready for some DAYS after to begin I,
shin meat. live or dressed, as usual"
! "Nhern do YOU get your present sup
ply Of live stock?' he was asked
prom points in Virginia, ohio an,
| Kentucky principally, and some from
parts of New York state"
"Is The supply sufficient"
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