The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
MEAT famine KERE.]
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.

The last consignment of live stock
that will reach New York until the
Pullman strikers break the blockade
came In this morning.
A train of forty cars, containing 700
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 messengers
hands and showed to an Evening
World" reporter this telegram:
CHICAGO July 3.
u. II. Sherman. Jersey City: Nothing out to-
az ''N SIMON oDoNNELL.
There is not a horn nor hoof of live
meat on it's way here from the great
western markets. and Mr.. Sherman
says:
''If this keeps up n few days longer.
there won't be enough beef in New York
10 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
Sl.25 hundred, and the significance or
present conditions is that 1t shortly
cannot be mad at any price.
Here are couple Of the warl!ke bulle-
tins Mr.. Sherman had to snow THIS
morning:
The strikers and United States marshals have
got fighting The Governor has called out Second
OF getting anything out before the last of this
An SIMON O'DONNELL.
CHICAGO, July 3.
H. H. Sherman. New York:
Can't get anything out on Vanderbilt lines.
GomDss Blockade ms that here hGSs
bad as here. The Burlington road is the only
bringing il s'Gs The RI bsye
and stop them SIMON o'DoNNELL.
As simon ODonnell used to be a po-
lice captain on the turbulent west side
of Chicago, where most OF the railroad
yards are, he probably knows what he
is wiring about.
This means very serious condition
fer tse suRs Of We Mew ss
and good deal of mutton from the i'm,
mediate neignborhood, the South and
| Ohio, the great bulk of beef comes from
be bounded on the east by a line run
north and south through Central I'LL.
nois. From the region west OF this the
cattle chiefly come. and are dropped on
| q
What cattle they raise in the inter.
mediate regions they need for the con,
as Cincinnati. Cleveland. Pittsburg and
the like. -,
obtainable here, as they will be con;
sumed in the immediate neighborhood
where they are raised.
Dressed beef has also been pushed up
tyrrn an fS VI =
chasable at any price II this thing Keeps
up. You can see by my kilograms that
everything Is tied up In Chicago, and
that means that New York cannot get
adequate fresh meat II the blockade
| continues"
A steady advance in the price Of beet
was felt in the local markets this morn
ing. Dealers had to pay Is and l6 cents
a pound for prime beef. while carcasses
brought from 10 to II cents. In conse:
quence, rib roasts sold as high as q
| brought 90 cents.
Local fish dealers. who ship to West
ern markets, are heavy sufferers BY the
refusal Of the railroads to accept per
CLANS crabs and iopsters. and blue,
hsh and makeral are at the height OF
ons o these he as srs
seaboard cousins. and they, pay their
money for them real cheerfully.
However, as these products are re.
| as the 1llpsl sOie "a
freight the railroads will not accept
them from far Western points, and there
is Il 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 vii
Years Years / have been accustomed to shir
| ten carloads a day of fish, crabs, lob
sters, clans and oysters, and md my
self now unable t9 get out S car ie I'm
hood must take TO an active diet OF sea
| food or there will be thousands OF dollar:
worth Of 1t that will be fit only for fer
Goodsell G. Co, the California frui
auctioneers at 1903 Park place. say tina
there are carloads OF California fruit
and that If the blockade is not raised
there will be a serious impairment OF
this supply to this market.
AT the same time the dealers In Flor
over the trouble in reaching their West
ern customers. Invoices continue to ar
rive In shlploads, but the railroads VII
signees. The logical effect OF this stu
alton ought TO be TO advance the loca
price Of apples, pears, cherries. peaches
and aprlc1tsi ana TO mood the marke
The effect of the strike has been Yer!
depressing upon the passenger railway
| business People are AFRAID TO under
take a westward journey In the face o
prospects Of being tied up at wa!
point.
A solid train OF Pullman sleepens lief
Jersey City last evening, 1t Is said, with
only one passenger The on1ces or tn
Western roads and those having Western
connections are besieged to-day with in
quiries from persons having friends VIII
left a few days ago, bound West.
singular feature OF the situation Il
that the railway agents and merchant
affected all express the belief that TIL
strike will last but few days, and TIA
business will reopen before the end o
the week under normal conditions. Thi
confidence Is not altogether warranted
by the troub!ous advices received from
the West.
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