The Portland daily press., 1901-02-16
A GOOD APPLE SEASON.
More Than the Average Number Being
sent From Portland This Winter

"a large number of apples are being
shipped from this port across the weser'
SAID Mir. Harry +. Libby OF the whoiesaie
producs house of the J. l. Libby company
xastardav. srhus far there have been
little more than one million OF barrels
that have been sent over on she ooean
steamers-a much better record than was
made last year when the crop was very
small Inc crop for this seasons Market
WAS very large and the number OF apples
that have been sent out from Portland SO
far fails short only of the quantity thae
WAS cant out in the season OF 1877, wnion
WAS next to 1876, the banner year Tor TINS
mort. At the corresponding time OF tnis
year In .96 over two million barrels mao
haen shipped from Portland. The most
of the applss ara sent to Liverpool al
though many barrels are sent to dlasso"
and London. All OF the di1erent hheS
coming to Portland have taken out ap-
ples this season. Before the great
gale of last fall the crop OF apples
covering the United States and Canaus
amounted to sixty million barrels IhaV
gale caused q tremendous loss and after
that the number fell to forty million bar
rels. This season the farmers have oeen
receiving very good prices.
"But up to the first of January" con-
tinued MIR. Libby, "there were as many
apples shipped west as there were peing
shipped across the water. The prices ne-
gan TO advance after the first OF the year
ana as a result the shipping to the west
stopped. Maine is the best apple stats In
New England and ths quality of apples
has been excellent in this state this sea-
son. Generally New York lays way over
all other states In both quality and guam
tity. What we bank on In Maine is the
Baldwin apple, and we can raise as Roou
q quality OF these apples as in any state
in the Union. We send more Baldwins
across than any other kind, although
during the latter part of the season they
do not keep very well and more of the
Ben Davis kind are sent. Very few sweet
apples are sent. There is little demand
for them and they sell at prices that are
one dollar or more under the Baldwins."
THE POWER OF THE Rum VOTE
There is great activity manifested In
the Democratic party this year and one
of the workers vouchsafed the informa-
tion yesterday that tine Democrats would
win hands down at the coming election
because they have the rum vote with
them. "Perhaps you didn't know 1t, but
the rum vote controls this city, said
tnis Democratic optimist. "We've got
'em with us now and the most Of them
know they have nothing to gain by vot'
ing q Republican ticket and everything
Co gain by voting for US, and they will
stay with us from now out.
"The police under this Republican ad-
ministration have been altogether too
active. They had the rumseliers on the
run before Pearson's administration
came In and left but little for Pearson's .
deputies TO do. Between tine Prohibition
sheriff and the Republican police the
rum sellers and their friends have had
a hard time of it and as they attribute
all Of their troubles to the Republican
party they are going to get square at this
coming election"
1t Will be Interesting to observe wheth-
er the rum vote does control the City
Of Portland because the Republican
party has evidently lost 1t for good.