New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-16
THREE CENTS HIGHER.
Price of Beef Still Soaring-Fish as
Cheap as EUer.

Meat prices continued TO rise In this city
yesterday. An advance OF Ia cents a pound
for beef, wholesale. caused the retailers to
charge three cents pound more.
In Washington Market some OF the dealers
were unwilling TO give their increased prices
for publication. for fear their customers would
desert them. a number OF dealers there did
not raise their prices George Alexander was
one of them. The meat he was selling he
bought last week. and he had enough in stock
to sell at the old prices until next week. He
said. however. that there was little beef and
lamb coming in from the West. and that deal
ers as rule. were taking advantage of the
situation 10 raise prices. Most Of the butchers
who were suffering were those who did not have
capital or forethought enough 10 protect them
selves Fresh killed lamb very scarce.
There was. however. great quantity of frozen
meats on hand which the Beef Trust was abls
TO supply TO branch houses. Poultry. as rule.
was two cents higher pound.
A representative OF the Schwarzschid & Sulz-
berger Company said last night that they had
on hand an ample supply OF beef for four days.
and that the situation, SO far as consumers were
concerned. was BY no means so serious as II
had been made out to be. He asserted that for
a week to come. at least, there should not be
any anxiety in this city regarding ample
supply of beef. The company has big storage
plants OF frozen neef. which would furnish
three weeks supply. independent DutCherS were
also killing cattle for consumption. although
not to the same extent IN former seasons,
At the office of Eugene G.. Blackboard. in Full
ton Market. &c was said there a plentiful
supply OF fish on hand, and that there was no
disposition among fish dealers TO raise prices,
Fish was perishable, and had to be handled
quickly. Barring storms, there would be plenty
of fish for everybody, and the meat strike should
have effect on the fish business.
From word received from the Brooklyn meat
depots, the butchers in that borough yesterday
told their customers that they could not expect
to get any beef except at prohibtive prices
after tonight. There is more veal and mutton
and pork on hand, but the supply there is linn
the Brooklyn depots from the West yesterday.
Usually from twenty to thirty cars arrive each
day
In the Strengthening district along the East
River front. about Forty hfth-st.. yesterday. the
large plants, which include those or many OF the
largest packing houses shut up.
Joseph Well. the secretary and treasurer of
the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company,
voiced the sentiment Of all the packers when
he said:
The situation is very serious indeed. There IS
one thing certain. and that is that we have got TO
keep up to contracts. We will do that one way
or another. That's all there Is about it, l believe
that conditions are absolutely critical
Isaac Bumenthal president of the United
Dressed Beef Company. said the company was
supplying. or trying to supply, regular GUS
toners. and had only two or three days sup
ply. He said that If the retailers had raised
prices 1t was not because they had 10. but mere
ly as money making proposition
John j. Harrington. who does a large business
In the Strengthening of lambs and calves. said:
There is earthly why the prices in
lambs and calves should go up except as q trade
proposition. IL is commercial Investment ON the
In our slaughtering in fact are on the In
crease. as We are not affected In any way. am