Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-27
MEAT PRICES SOARING
NOTABLE ADVANCES REPORTED
FROM CHICAGO TODAY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, Ill, September 27.-Prices Of
choice cuts Of meats are soaring in Chi
cage and the latest boost by the big pack
ers will become general throughout the
country in few days. according to the
information being sent out all along the
line. The advance to the local trade Is
from 2 to cents in the last three weeks, a
second raise OF 1 to cents becoming eff
fective this week, according to local deal
ers. The sharp advances are attributed to
the lack OF demand for sausage and canned
meat products. II consumers can Gull
tivate an appetite for the cheaper cuts of
beef In the guise OF sausage. then the g.
cent pound raise will not effect them.
AS q result of the investigation of the
methods OF manufacturing sausage and
canning meats by the beef packers, this
heretofore Indispensable table necessity is
a thing Of the past with the housewife.
Inc operation OF the new meat inspection
law which will make 1t impossible for the
packers to palm off the by-products as
choice delicacies and the consequent wipins
out or this source of profit to q considerable
extent to the packers is assigned by the
knowing as the chief reasons for the sfarp
ADVANCE In the price OF the choice cuts from
Wnich the packers must realize their profits
In the future
Even pork has struck an almost prohibi-
I'VE price pork loins having jumped from
11ts cents 10 1917 cents q pound. With the
sausage machines at a standstill which
formerly utilized the trimmings of the hogs
INTO homemade" sausage these trimmings
are now practical loss to the packers.
any statement. However, the Bismarck,
EdelW1ss. Hoffbrau and the other principal
restaurants. with the Palmer House Audi
forum. Victoria, Wellington and other ho-
hon =
plain steaks s cents, fancy steaks 10 cents
and prime roasts and chops 10 cents an
order. 80
reporter for The Star Interviewed the
managers Of all the large beef handling es-
tapllshments on B street and on Wholesale
70" this morning, and they assert that they
nave no advices from the home offices of
tnelr hrms to indicate that an advance was
even contemplated. There has, they say,
been practically no change of consequence
IN the price Of beef in the city for several
weeks past. and as far as the managers of
the peef houses can see. II any change is
made In prices 1t will be to lower them in
stead or increasing them. At the Schwartz
chlld q Sulsburger house it was stated that
the quotations on cattle at Chicago were
lower and this would indicate lower whole
sale prices here. If any change in prices at
all is made.
The managers of the local branches Of
the Nelson Morris, the Hammond & Co
and the Armour & Co. houses ali stated to
The Star that they did not believe that any
advance was even contemplated, and that
the Chicago information of The Star must
be erroneous. A prominent beef dealer, who
has been in business in this city for a num-
Der of years past, stated that 1t was his ex-
perience that at this season Of the year no
changes were made in the prices Of beef
by the big houses in the west, as prices Of
cattle at this time varies but little, and
there is no reason for an advance in prices
on beef.