The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-11
MILK WILL Be SCARCE TODAY
No SNOWSTORM or LATE YEARS
so BAD AS THIS RAIN.
Only Where There Are Babies or Invalids
VIII One & 0ncern Leave the Customary
Supply-Erie, D., l.. L W.. Ontario 4
Western and Susquehanna All Put Out
Of the MIX Business Temporarily.

| New York city was on the verge of a
serious milk famine last night. On account
Of the washouts on the railroads the milk
supply yesterday was reduced just about
two-thirds, and advices received by the big
milk companies last night painted the stu
alton as worse instead Of better, so that
| to-day, it was said, would see as great a
| scarcity Of milk as the city had known in
| years.
Managers of several of the big milk con-
Germs that supply Manhattan and Brooklyn
said last night that the situation would be
alarming but for the assurance they felt
that the railroads could repair damages
| within day or two. As 1t was last night :,
however, it looked as though at least half
the population would either have to get
along with condensed milk this morning
| or go without milk entirely. Milk dealers
| said that there was considerable condensed
milk on hand, and counting the canned
kind there isn't much likelihood that coffee
| will have to be taken straight.
Four rail roads which bring more than
half Of the milk consumed by the city every
| day were 30 tied up las night that they
could not handle any Of the milk that was
ready up the State to be brought into town.
| These roads were the Erie, the Ontario
and Western, the New York, Susquehanna
| and Western and the Delaw are, Lacka-
wanna and Western. OF these roads all
| but the latter were out Of business Friday
night.
Last night the Delaware, Lackawanna
| and Western, which was able to move a
little milk the night BEFORE reported that
owing to the carrying away Of bridge
i n. i
through. The New York Central, with
| its Harlem and Poughkeepsie bridge connec-
| tons, and the New York, New Haven and
| Hartford were the only 70 ads bringing much
| milk into the city last night, according
| to the milk companies, and their usual
supply isn't as large as that of some of the
! tied-up roads.
| The Alexander Campbell Milk Com
pany, which does a big business in Brook
| Ign, chartered boat to bring milk from
| Newburgh and other points below on the
| Hudson. but an officer Of the company
said last night that this would be but a
| drop in the bucket at the best. Both the
| Campbell company and the Borden COM
| pany, the two biggest milk concerns, re-
! ported that they had been able yesterday
to supply only one-third the usual amount
of milk
The situation will be worse tomorrow,
said manager of the Borden company
| in this borough last night. We have used
all the leftover milk to-day, and tomorrow
| morning we will have to send out our
| drivers with inst ructions TO leave the regu-
| lar supply of milk only with those families
where there are babies and invalids. Other
| folks will have to go with very little il any.
| Milk is something that cannot be kept in
! storage and New York has to get its milk
| supply from day to day. The situation at
this minute is worse than we remember It,.
| The big snowstorms haven't been marker
milk trains altogether. OF course, the rail-
| roads are working hard to get their wash
| outs fixed, but this cannot be done before
Monday, if by that time, and tomorrow
will see this town az dry of milk as it has
ever been in its history, with the possible
exception of the blizzard of 1883"
| Practically the same thing was said by
| other concerns. Housekeerers got a taste
| of the milk famine yesterday morning all
| over Greater New York. In Brooklyn tho
| big wagons in many cases went around
empty. and the drivers told their customers
| that they had no milk Grocery stores and
| diaries were appealed to with the same
result Brooklyn gets some milk from
, Long Island but this did not help out to
any great extent. The big wagons that
! haul the milk from the Jersey terminals
! came back empty yesterday morning, and
the companies said last night that they
| were sending over empty cans without any
| hope of bringing back any milk.
Dr. Leciere the head of the Health Depart
ment. said last night that the milk famine
would be a very serious danger to the health
| of the city but for the fact that there was
| plenty of condensed milk.
Il am in hopes, said he, that by Monday
morning the fresh milk supply will have
been resumed, and until then no harm can
| come from using condensed milk. as was
done in the blizzard. 1t doesn't hurt
children, but of course fresh milk is good
| deal better
| Last night a woman who brings milk into
125th street every night from her place, in
Kingsbridge road, had no difficulty of dis
posing of all she had at Is cents a quart.
One dealer in Amsterdam avenue, who
| ordinarily runs sixteen wagons, had only
two out last night, and he expressed the
opinion that the supply would not be any
greater to-day. One grocery store in 125th
street sold every can of condensed milk
it had-in all about one hIndred-in less
than two hours.