The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-25
HOW IT HURTS BUSINESS.
The Foolish Scare Has Already In
jared Trade.
VERY LITTLE Freight IS MOVING.
One Town Even Refused to Receive
CarboIic Acid--Thnt Galveston
Cotton Dea1-Notcs.
RY LITTLE FREIGHT IS MOVING.
office Of The Post.
Houston, Friday. September "a.

Business men OF Houston are rather
disguised with the stringency Of the quar-
antine regulations at a few Interior town
which are not permitting pound o
freight from this city to be received with
In Their borders. Naturally the exoduI
Of frightened people from Houston
Wednesday and Thursday has been main
ly responsible for the scare In the countr.
towns. and 1t is believed that these de-
partures have caused all the uneasiness
that prevails in the interior. If 1t were
not so serious to trade, many of the Incl
dents of the last day or so would be ex-
ceedingly funny.
A local firm yesterday received tele.
gram from Polk county countermand!ng
an order for a carload of Sherman flour,
simply because Polk had quarantined
against Houston. The -four would have
been shipped from Sherman and wouldn
| have touched within 100 miles OF this city.
That isn't q circumstance though, to
the report on the streets that barrel Of
carbolic acid shipped from here to coun-
| try town had been sent back. A whole
saler also claims to have received the fol-
| lowing from one of his customers today:
| You have an account against me, falling
due October /. For Gods sake don't send
me a statement by mail. but wire the
amount and VIII remit"
| Some people are inclined to doubt the
| truth of these two stories, but undoubted-
| w the scare is genuine, for local business
| today was duller than for many months
past. There was less freight moving.
| fewer orders and a general quietude that
| hasn't been seen since the dull days of
| last summer. 1t Is hardly to be expected
that this semi-pam.cky feeling throughout
the State will last much longer, but the
injury to business already has been very
great.
While Houston jobbers are feeling the
ridiculous quarantine established against
the city by few points in Central Texas.
these towns are doubtless injurlng them
selves ITO a far greater degree. Brazos
county. for instance, will accumulate
good deal of cotton within the next few
DAYS. and, as no trains are permitted to
stop there, 1t can not be shipped to Hous-
ton or Galveston for export. This will
give their local merchants a. heavy load
to carry and may cause a depreciation in
the price that will not be very pleasing to
Brazos county farmers.
Houston merchants are viewing the stu
alton very philosophically. believing that
everything will soon be cleared up and
that business Will be all the letter after
few days forced suspension
Representatives Of every jobbing inter-
est met this afternoon and Ndopted reso-
lutons commencing the high sanitary
condition of this city to the attention of
the State and pleds.ng themselves to use
every effort possible to assist the mayor
and health Officers in maintaining rigid
quarantine against all infected points.
lhey desire the world to know that there |
a Is ny even SUSPICIOUS case of fever here
ana mat the present system of quaran-
unlng Is a guarantee against the introduc- |
ton OF the dreaded disease.
That Galveston Cotton.
The fact that Inman & Read of this |
city bought 300 bales of cotton in Calves.
ton last Wednesday caused considerable
comment IN that city. az evidenced by
Inc Posts report of the matter this morn
ing. Ihere was nothing of especial I'M
however 'e Pute"dse'
In speaking of the item today, Mr.. w
NJ. Read said: I'VE simply wanted To iii
an an ensaseineht, and as the Galveston cot
Ion was ready for export and offered at |
reasonable price we purchased II there
Just al this time the Houston Direct Nav.
sauoh company has little more cotton
man II can handle comfortably. conse.
t tueil Ivy. purchase on the spot at Calves
ION was convenient. We have no fcor Of
any decrease in receipts and are ahIe 70
seo plenty Of cotton FOR immediate shin
Inc report of the Galveston purcba co
eiassd interior merchants to expect n
suIehlng of the spot market, but II IA lied
20 materalize. In fact IL is known thst
INC Saiveston Gotten was bought consid
eraply below the official quotations there
Yesterday and the day before
Trade Notes.
Lard and bacon suffered anotbar =.
cline of lac. ""o'heF ue-
Kansas eggs are In active demand and
VIII soon be higher h""u anu
o2pton seed products are lower. oi,s h.
ing especially weak. o'is oe-
Mnoiesale druggists state that the do
precedented. mas oeeh I'M
r, SSH pa. 81 oats advanced 10c per case TO-DAY
WINE columbian fell the same amonnt y
- "a Iaso grapes on the market this morn
basket. 7so per elGht-pound
.om naa.,mors packers predict 81 rate on
predict S,sSaore christmas. They also q
p & w. quinine and o-,,
,,eny nrm at the recent advanca aud are
'ut rapidly. resent supply going !
me Houston Direct Nav,pat,.,
~ ~, mas mad its twenty-one Sarsas coeh-
5 matn,, o"..on shipments this Week ana
ionai hoe't. arrangements to secure aSSi- II
laws hor moving the staple.
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