Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-18

Second Ward Market. Yesterday
Morning.
The internecine strife which has
been raging among the local butchers
came to a full and permanent stop Just
before midnight last night. and this
morning there will be a lot Of hrst-class
munitions of war in the shape OF market
house stall licenses, options on sites for
butcher shops, sueamers, signs, etc, for
sale cheap on easy terms.
All day yesterday the fight was on
good and strong, and both sides out
lined a number Of things they were go
ing to do in the immediate future. in
the hope and expectation of making
it hot for the other fellows. Stalls in
the market houses were in active de-
mand, the wholesalers wanting four in
each market, while the retailers init
mated desire to get a like number if
they could do so. The Swift Beef Com
/ pany representative was also securing
/ options for retail butcher shops, and
said he intended 70 open a retail place
/ in each ward of the city, while the
/ butchers threw out an inumation that
/ their price list agreement would be
7 abrOgated to-day and the war carried
I into Africa
All this presaged lively times to
come, but through it all there was a
marked inclination among the cooler
/ heads on each side to settle the diff
Guilty which was costing the whole but
cheering fraternity a good deal of money,
in one way and another, and last even
/ ine, joint committee got together to try
90 agree upon basis for peace and the
restoration OF the statu quo ante bellum.
After a good deal of talk. the matter
was settled by the retailers receding
from their position.
So ends a business war out of which
the general public has reaped consider
able benefit
Mr.. C. B. Southern. manager Of the
Wheeling Beet Company (Swift's),
speaking for the Wholesalers said last
night:
The controversy between the whole
sale meat dealers and the Retail Butch
erS' Protective Association is at an end.
A committee composed of NesSrs. A.
Korn, Charles Holman, Louis Nieber-
gall and Fred Neiniuger, was appointed
this evening to wait on the wholesalers
with a view TO reaching an amicable
solution OF the controversy which has
existed for the past few days. The
wholesalers represented were the Wheel
ing Beef Company (Swifts), +. Schenk
4 Sons. +. Weimer * Sons, the Home
Dressed Beef Company, represented by
Mr.. G.. H. Medick. and George Zoeckler.
The Butchers Protective Association
conceded the right to wholesale meat
dealers to sell TO the grocery trade as
they see fit. The Wheeling Beef Com
pany, not desiring to remain i'm the re-
tail meat business, VIII withdraw from
the same. the Butchers Protective AssO-
citation taking of their hands such
things-tools, stalls, etc-as they have
been compelled to buy in order to en-
gage i'm the retail trade. and to stand
such other legitimate expenses as the
Wheeling Beef Company has been put
to i'm engaging in the retail business.
Both sides of the controversy will at
once Withdraw all advertisements that
NAV have been inserted in the news
Dapers detrimental to each others in
| tereSts.'
MIR. KOrn, speaking for the Protective
/ Association, corrobOrated the above
statement by Mr. Southern.
The scenes at the Second ward mar
zet house. yesterday morning, demon
strated very conclusively The deep in
terest the public took, and the extent
to- which the people profted, by the
I3+e state of affairs. People were at
the market from all portion of the
city. as well as from the surrounding
towns on the Ohio side of the river and
even when market closed down at
eleven o'clock people were crowded
around the stalls Of the representatives
of the wholesale interests and were
clamoring for more meat and demand
ing that the business of retailing De
continued right along. without regard
to regular market hours. AT eleven
o'clock. at stall No. 3, when the an
nouncement was made that the closing
time had arrived there were at least
ffrc ppOple present. and pronounced
( protest against closing arose people
CRYING: Keep open, and Well pay
your fine .n.
The crowd began to gather about the
/ wholesalers stalls almost as soon as
market opened. and at times there were
/ rs many as forty at Schenk's, seventy
al stall No. 3 and smaller crowds aJ
Zoecklers and Weimers. An enor-
nous amount of meat was disposed OIL