San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-11
THE SNOW BLOCKADE CREATES
GREAT SCARCITY IN
NEW YORK.
BUTCHERS SUPPLIES AND DRESSED
MEATS RUNNING VERY
SHORT AND NO RELIEF
IN SIGHT.
Poultry Scarce, and Meat Men
do not Make Their Rounds,
Causing Great Distress
in all the Poor Dis
tricts of New
York.

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Dealers in
live stock and dressed beef express
considerable concern about the
meat supply. None Of them pre-
tend to say that there is anything
Of meat famine, but they are un-
animous in saying that the market
will be seriously crippled unless
the blockade on the roads leading
to New York is raised in a few
days. Advices received by New
York dealers from their agents in
Buffalo and Chicago are any
thing but encouraging. They state
that it is next possible to get any
consignments out from Chicago,
and that freight is stalled at Buffa.
10 with no immediate consign-
ments that reached New York in
the last two days have
been long time on the way.
The advance in price of dressed
beef it is said will amount all the
way from $3.50 to So per hundred,
since the storm blocked the rail
roads. There is a corresponding
advance in veal, mutton and pork.
The poultry supply is also dimin-
ished and prices have been in
creased.
Schwartzchild and Sulzberger
say "meat has not been so scarce in
New York in fifteen Years. The
cattle which we bought in Chicago
Friday that should have been re-
ceived here today, have not left
Chicago yet. Our agents in Chica-
go have advised us that they may
be able to ship the cattle tomorrow.
but that everything is uncertain.
We have also been informed that
there are snow storms now between
here and Buffalo. All cattle sent
out from Chicago just before the
storm are stalled on the way. Our
agents at Buffalo have telegraphed
us that there is little hope of for
warding our cOnsignments today of
cattle that are tied up there by the
snow"
"The advance in the price of
meat has been very marked. The
advance, however, can not be at
tributed entirely to the snow
blockade. There has been short
age in the supply in the western
markets that would necessarily af-
feet prices here. The blockade is
largely responsible for the immedi-
ate advance. Unless beef begins
to come in by Thursday, the sup
ply Of the city will have run low
and the situation will become
really serious"
The New York Veal and Mutton
company has just received a con-
signment OF live stock that left
Buffalo last Wednesday.
awe have two other consign-
ments on the way" a representa-
tive Of the firm said last night,
"but it is very uncertain when it
will reach New York. Both our
Chicago and Buffalo dispatches
that have been received today are
discouraging and give little definite
idea as to when the live stock can
be moved again."
Other buyers Of live stock make
similar statements.
1t is the opinion Of dealers that
there will be further advances in
prices before the New York mar.
kets can be replenished, even il
there should be no more snow.
The proprietors Of some Of the
large down town restaurants, who
are heavy buyers Of provisions Of
all kinds, say that they are not
meeting with any trouble in obtain
ing sufficient supplies.
Milk is scarce and private fami
lies do not receive what they need
The milkmen have failed to call or
many OF their customers and {
great many families have to de
without any milk at all. The
scarcity is felt most among the poo
families OF the east and west side
But very few vegetables are be.
ing brought to New York. Many
grocers have raised the prices o
eggs. Some are charging as higt
as fifty cents dozen.
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