New-York tribune., 1902-04-22
NO RELIEF TILL JUNE.
MORE RETAIL BUTCHERS OCI of
BUSINESs-MORE FAMILIES GO
WITHOUT MEAT.

The price of meat is becoming problem Oh iioie
and more concern to retail butchers ana NUS
holders. Every day brings in more repoi's "a
tail houses going out of business. ana more iaN -
being forced to abandon a COMMONLY hece'
the nbvsicaI welfare of the workingman NO re-
lief is promised. Wholesale butchers. Wheh asneu
for the probable date for the first reductio III p
shake their heads and indulge in 1ndenhite sNe''
ing. ,..s
Among the Brooklyn butchers who have ciosed
+ne,r sbons arc Henry Denies, Elliott Pace anu
Fulton-st: Felix Metzger, Sixth-ave ana L oui III
st: William witte. Seventh-ave- and fout ,,
Blauvelt No as Seventh-ave. Herman fIIciii -
seventh-ave and Ninth-st. and the St Elk -ha'-
rat No e1S Fulton-st In addition to THESE many
email dealers on the East Side in Manhattan ha.
gone out of business. Many of the pushcat' peu-
dlers who sell chuck steaks IN 'haI u'
found it impossible to lay IN a new supply
The price of meat and other provisions - ,'
this week than last and it will go higher sun say
80, - , nosition to know before it is reduced
Pork has advanced cents. lamb. one anu . ~
half cents and veal one and one-hali ceii'S'
is about the same as 1t was ,,o
Opinions continue to differ to where the piaine lam
lies whether with Nature herself or on the shoui-
ders of the meat trust Arguments pro anu Gun
are strongly tinctured with self-interest anu
curacy of statement is not the uni'erssi - ,a
advocate of the theory that the trust - i
TO blame for the excessive prices that RUE 'ii1 mo-
kets and the people spoke in this vein yes'er0d'
,r, .,.o ,s a,e 70 natural conditions, and solely
to such There are twenty leading killers OF hev
pretors Of abattoirs in greater nat a9 sell it to
aters Of these perhaps five or six s ye as
socaed varously termed The trust furnishes
not 40 to 45 per cent OF ne me socaied com
bination Supply other 60 or % per rsa cent do"
can a 45 per cent control olcid'e pi
A retailer at Washington Market replied TO 'hls
query follows:
cent of the local market They XII ten t t6obSann ; n
cattle week. or five times the ca''ie hi'O ~ "
other abattoir men combined
The defender of the trust continued;
Last week the wholesale price of beef ranged
between and 101k cents pound Sine the pres
ent began: meats have increased ba II CHEAPER
meats have increased in price to a much less ex-
tent than the costlier meats.
The washington Market retailer amended this
as follows
q nound they have gone up about cents The
rise in price of the cheaper meats Is two ana
times tines aS seaks on al the East side sold fortnight age
for She T4eg poorer ere classes nHw Of
gone skyrocketing. why is 1t that end so
many modest homes cannot have meat even onCc
a week?
The defender of the trust continued:
In June there will be grassfed cattle s here IN
to IFS normal level. Corn is now higher than it
has been since gS @ The Pcss sa OF baes for
years The farmers have reaped fortune out VI
the shortage of corn and scarclt? OF cattIe'
Commissioner Lederle. who was seen by Trib-
une reporter yesterday. secuted the tdea that any
horse meat was being sold in this city as result
of the rise in beef prices
In the first place. II is Illegal" said he There
are city ordinances preventing even the slaughter
Of horses without our permission Then these were
amended provide against the exposure OF morse
meat for sale But aside from the question or law.
7 have not heard n word about any horse meat
being sold and 1 don't take any stock In the