The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-10

would 90 over, but they thought they would
take the New York Central, as that road
does not run Pullman sleepers. The party
will consist of Samuel Gompers, Chris Evans
and John IS. Lennon. They VIII Dc Jolnsea
on the way by William Fl. Marden, the
Boston member of the Executive Council
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
With the exception of Detroit, San Fran
cisco and the far Northwest, the mails Tor the
past twenty-four hours have arrived here
about on time as far as domestic letters are
concerned The mail from Asiatic coun-
tries, due here via San francisco, however,
have been delayed, and are not expected TO
arrive in this city unUil the 18th inst. at the
earliest.
The following telegram from Postmasrer
Backus of San Francisco was received mere
this morning by Postmaster Dayton
Mails by steamship Peru also mails by steamship
9eeas dates @ aong 1 y hSeg e Steamship sSns MsnoW dates
Melbourne. June 81 Sidney III Auckana. 10; nonH t;
Via Portland, Seattle and Great Northern Railway.
Superintendent Morgan told a United
Press reporter this morning that 1t was al.
most impossible to estimate the length OF
time il would take the mail steamship to go
from San Francisco to Portland, but II the
strikers did not interfere the Asiatlc mails
and mails from Australia would reach mere
on the 6ay above mentioned
EFFECTS ABROAD.
The strikes are already beginning to make
themselves felt beyond the shores OF TINS
country. The blockaded traffic is affecting
the transatlantic freight business. AS yet
the effect is but slight, but all the agents
realize that if the strikes are not soon stop.
ped there will be practical cessation OF
freight business as far as provisions ana
cattle are concerned.
The White Star Line does perhaps the
largest transatlantic freight business IN
these two departments The frelght steam
shin which went out last week carried puG
little more than two-thirds OF ner usual
cargo, The usual shipment OF cattle amounts
to about seven hundred head. Last week less
than five hundred head went out. Inc
Steamships of the line carry at this
season of the year about 500 tons OF provls-
ions. Last weeks shipment amounted to less
than 400 tons. The Bowie sails today and
the situation is about the same with her She
carries almost no dressed beef and less than
two-thirds of her usual cargo or cattle ana
provisions.
There are plenty of cattle in the market,
but the exporters are unable to get hold OF
them. Owing to the non-arrlyal OF any
dressed beef from Chicago, the local branch
es of the packing houses are buying up all
the live stock which comes into the city, and
saughtering them here in order to Keep their
houses full.
The frelgnb BUSINESS ou uuo Lafaiuui
American Packet Line was not affected to
any extent last week. The western consign-
rnents were under way before the railroads
were SO fully tied up. This week, however,
the company fears that it will be able to
send out scarcely any freight from the west.
The North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany does not feel the effects of the strike SO
@ severely, They carry nothing from Chi
cago except refined lard, and the exporta..
tion of that commodity is at this season of
the year always somewhat light.
They have received their flour from
sas City, as usual Part OF their shipments
of refined lard they have also succeeded in
getting through. The other steamship COM
panies are affected in about the same way.
The agents are not apprehensive, however,
for they regard the backbone of the strike
as already broken, and they believe that it
will not be long before freight traffic will
have resumed its normal condition.