The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-14

! AAe Veisatlle secretary of the Com.
mefclal club, %. j. Westlake, suggests
| the ABOVE toothsome menus for those
who can't touch the sky-tendins
prices Of meat. AS for the Commercia
club, Mr.. Westlake says his steward
Will serve fish instead of meat addins
M st. Of our members are good fish.
Iermen y 1870 :.
Mr.. Westlake is a sage on the cues.
tlon OF food. He has served the yora.
clous Yellowstone tourist and the fin
lcky dining car eater, and the quick
meal daycoach traveller all his life. and
ne remarks: 1T will be a mighty good
thing for the people Of this country If
they don't eat meat for sixty DAYS
When was young I was satisfied with
meat once a day and mush seemed a
pretty good food"
Less Famine Talk.
Chefs, stewards, retail butchers and
the agents of the big packinghouses
have their second wind this morning.
They are not so worried over the meat
situation as they We're yesterday Chefs
had begun to figure on substitute bills
Of fare that would satisfy the cpl
curean guests Of the big hotels and
clubs. Today the strike status does
not seem to suggest such dark flu
ture.
as yesterday, but lard has gone UP
half a cent and smoked meats a cent.
It is evident already that the holders
of meat substitutes are going to take
advantage of the situation and get
good prices for their commodities.
The law Of demand and supply will
also force an advance in eggs, milk,
butter, poultry, mushrooms and the
like.
Investigation 'of the meat supply
and comparative consumption goes
to show that if the public will stand
for a smoked and picked meat diet,
that there are enough sausages, hams,
bacon, picked pork, canned beef
tongue and the like to take care Of
the meateaters for over sixty DAYS.
With the stock on hand at the pack
inghouses and the meats going thru
the process of preservation,. which
takes about sixty days, an enormous
supply already killed can be counted
on. Ordinary labor can be used in
finishing the material already under
way.
Vegetarians, uncooked- food and nut
diet adherents are in their elements
today and are using the force of cir
cumstances to proselyte. In fact, they
say that the silver lining to the big
cloud which overhangs the country is
the, fact that, perforce, the digestive
organs Of the people will have a.
wholesome rest from a habit which
they consider extremely injurious and
contrary to a divine law.
State Contract Threatened.
There is some question in the minds
of the state board of control mem
bers as to whether Swift & Co. will
be able to keep it's contract to sup
ply the various state institutions with
meats.
So far there has been no hitch, and
Swift & Co. have not notified the
board Of inability to fulfil the con-
tract.
IF such should prove the case, how
ever, the state institutions will not be
SO badly off as might be supposed.
Each institution is completely fitted
for killing it's own meats, and the
board would at once order each in
stitution superintendent to purchase
from farmers such animals as might
be needed for slaughter.
May Recall Jap. Order.
It is a question whether Japan may
not be called on to help the United
States at this juncture. The Chicago
packinghouses have just landed at
Seattle, by special train over the
Northern Pacific, 100000 pounds of
canned beef for the japanese army.