New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-03
LESS ACTIVITY IN GRAIN.
GREAT QUANTITIES on HAND AND CROP
PROSPECTS PREVENT PRICE AID
VANCES.
SHIPMENTS OF OATS To EUROPE AND AFRICA
CONTINUE. BUT PRICES HAVE NOT BEEN
AFFECTED THEREBY-Ro


to the fact that all but the last of the feet OF
steamers which loaded grain here for South and
East Africa have sailed The only one now re-
naming is the City Of Perth which is still load
ing grain. She will take on her general cargo
for East London and Port Elizabeth at the
North Central pier and will probably sail by the
end OF this week.
There are others, however. and two steam
ships are on their way to the Atlantic Stevedor-
ing Company to load grain for East Africa
These steamers are the Straits of Dover and the
Inchlonga.
Some idea of the immense added cost Of these
sacked cargoes may be estimated from the fact
that the City Of Perth has on board some looooo
bushels Of corn and oats. Ordinarily. 1t would
take about one and half days 20 load thh'
amount of grain in bulk. To sack and weigh the
same has taken fully two weeks Surprising the
ships time TO be worth $500 day. and 1t il
probably more the added cost is large item in
the charter Then there is the cost Of sacks
sewers, weighmasters. and the additional labor
needed TO handle the sacked grain The differ
ence in the cost is a very large ono. Added to
this every bushel Of the grain was thoroughly
inspected before shipment.
Large as these shipments have been, they are
but a drop In the bucket compared with the vast
prospects Of the coming crop. Hence it Is that
grain had not shown any advance in response 70
these shipments.
Oats. which being heavily exported. both
to Africa and Europe, were hardly ever lower In
price grain inspector said yesterday after
noon to a Tribune reporter:
Men IN the grain trade used to say that when
ever q bushel OF oats fell to one cent pound
there was a chance to make money. as II was too
cheap for the price to last For al. that, oats
are now worth only u cents bushel or rather
more than 30 per cent fess than one cent
pound. The trouble is that. when there Is a
demand for one kind OF grain in any given year
then q lot Of people rush in and plant excessive
crops of that cereal for TWO or three years TO
come. and then there is corresponding shrink
age in the price of that particular cereal"
Business is pretty good at the South Central
Pier. Funch Edge Co. have chartered Phelps
Brothers steamship Picqua and the firm is load
ing her with grain, oats and general cargo for
Havre. The former firm is discharging the
Union Hamburg steamer Sorrento. with gen
eral Hamburg cargo and the Salerno. Of the
same line. from Santos and Rio Janeiro.
NO YELLOW FEVER AT SANTOS.
The officers report an unusually pleasan; state
Of affairs at both these ports. Five years age
Santos was reeking with yellow fever Cap
tains, officers and seamen died wholesale, often
after only few hours Illness Ships were left
to rot and sometimes were unable to discharge
their cargoes in year. The port was crowded
with vessels and not an hour passed without
the dreaded yellow flag being hoistei on some
vessel or other to mark another victim OF this
most horrible and dreaded disease. In one hote,
alone. up to a certain date. twenty eight cap
! oil odd 1iad from So AZ "a
demc become that Samuel Pmsol!. the sail
ors' friend" introduced bill. in the English
Parliament prohibiting British ships going To
Santos bu. the shipping interests were too
strong for the philanthropist, and the measure
was defeated The loss of life ahoat and ashore
was terrible.
This season. according to the officers Of the
Salerno there is absolutely no yellow fever in
Santos. where the Salerno lay twenty-one days.
There We're few cases at Rio Janeiro, but
nothing out Of the way as the disease exists
there pretty much all the year around
There are several other vessels at the Atlantic
dock including the steamer Fort William. load
ing for Porto Rico; the steamship Annandale is
discharging a cargo Of copper ore at the West
! Central pier where the bark Sea Witch has dis
! charged an immense Colombo cargo Of plumbago,
cocoanut OIL and coir, or cocoa. cord for the
rDanufac ture Of cocoa mats and mattings
At Pn.os elevator Hogan q Sons steamship
Massachusetts is loading grain and oats for
Bristol
WAREHOUSES; PACKED WITH PRODUCTS
Robinson's stores are very busy and have been
so for months. fave an occas ional dull spell.
The warehouses packed with SUGAR. salt.
hemp. sisa grass and score OF other products
The Clyde Liner NowYork has just finished
O. cargo Of San Domingo sugar the bark Taco
ma has discharged cargo Of salt from Liver
pool; the Munson LiIa steamer Vmea is dis
charging q large cargo Of Mexican sisal grass,
cedar and mahogany, while the three mnsted
Pschooner Exception furnished her quota Of i'm
ports in a cargo OF dye-woods.
The fact that the Robinson estate Is to be sold
will cause unfeigned sorrow among workingmen
on the water front. The Robnsons were liberal
and Just employers and hired no cheap foreign
labor unless IL was Impossible q obtain any otnei
The. busint SIS had been very successful in its OPP
! nos,,i,u To- the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse
/ Comrany and II would seem 10 be an inoppor
/ time time 10 dsruOt it, The genera! impression
Is that the estate will fall into the hams Of tho
| Warehouse Trust. ali opposition being thereby
done aNaN with in Brooklyn except thdf Of ia,
! &. Denslow's new warehouses in Forty-se 'ond-s -
There i, opposition, however. from the JersS y
/ shore: the steamer AilaaGhu. whieh arrived on
/ Monday at r binson's stores. merely discharged
/ there some logs OF cedar ana mahogany ana N Il
trok ay,v her L., 600 81 ks Of sugar to be ware
housed al the National Storage Docks, on Black
Ton.
! The steamship Pawnce rs loading heavy carg
o. grain and oats FIR Plymouth. ana positive OF
/ delS received Yesterday thal SiI1 H"f' -
TO this afternoon.
This gives a general idea % the bulk or bus
ness II is not rushing. but i; looks. on the whole
/ better than !; has for many months past
TO KEEP Up SUMMER SERVICES.