The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-01


| For factors will it So
Yet war of dates now tiercely fought
! Though prices be unstable.
Should cen insure 90. happy thoughtD
No dateless breakfast table.
New York, Oct. 3o,,The Commercial
says: With precision that brooks
| no argument, and backed by more
confidence than Is common to the 'men
| who 90 down TO the std in ships
divers interested landlubbers, variously
afflicted with cacoethes scribend make
today the finish of the greatest first
tide date delivery race in history. The
itch for scribbling has gone even fur
ther The two rival importers, with a
prescience wonderfully developed, have
| each announced to the Phoenix dactyl
fera eating public that they will de-
| liver first in New York specimens OF
the 1907 crop. For week or more Il
riot of conflicting opinion based on
deep-sea going knowledge mixed with
knots and dates in the thread of more
| speed capabilities of the steamn9 com
petitors for first tide date hOnors have
kept the buying trade on edge. Every
body seemingly wants the first dates to
arrive and orders for more than 30
carloads have been booked with jobbers
| conditional on deliveries being first on
| the market Under these circumstances
| it need occasion no surprise to learn
| that active. aXious sleepless hours have
been the portion of the rival factors.
Thirty seven days from Bussorah
Bar and fourteen days from Gibraltar.
the Umvoti. chartered by William Hills.
| .Jr.. is due to give the South Brook
| lyn roustabOuts a job at unloading
$4,000 boxes of the fruit of the palm
some time today. This statement is
made with the confidence that takes
into some account possible contin9en-
cies of unsettled mid Atlantic weather
and other conditions that might be
supposed to hamper the movements
of Il laboring tramp, doing slightly
better than 10 knots an hour. Thirty
five days from the head of the Persian
Gulf and ten days from Gibraltar.
! the Tabarstan with 10000 boxes of
Persian dates. chartered by Hills Bro
theirs company and credited with
logging ability of fifteen knots an
hour. is somewhere to the east of
Sandy Hook.
Neither ship has been spoken since
the cruise in the Atlantic began. The
fact that accident twice impaired the
run of the Tabaristan in the Alediter
ranean has given cause for uneasiness
to the owners of the cargo. and Incl
dentally added somewhat to the hopes
of their opponents. The vessel was or
iginally made due here Oct. 49, The
arrival date was subsequently advan-
ced to Oct. %. buyers being allowed
to do their own guessing as to the rea-
sons for the delay. In this connection
an importer directly concerned in the
arrival of the Tabaristan on Satur-
day served notice to the jobbing trade
as follows:
"'rhe Tabaristan not having arrived
on Oct. 10. as expected all the new
dates we sold to be delivered out of
this steamer will be billed at the de-
| cline in prices to Az, cents for Hal
lowees: 4$s cents for Khadrowees and
Az censt for Sairs of Standard grade.
This steamer is due in New York to-
morrow, and deliveries will be made in
| rotation as the orders come in
The decline in prices referred to
represents a cut of rs cents from tile
| original basis issued and is is cent
lower than the prices named by the
clarterer of the Umvoti. The substan
tial reductions made apparently cut
| little figure with those buyers who
want to rush first new dates to the
retailers. A circular letter issued on
Saturday by William Hills, Jr., gives
the trade special information.
| The Umvoti the first vessel to sail
from the Persian Gulf and Muscat
with new crop dates" says the cir
cular., is fully due in this market to-
morrow, and will. without question,
barring accidents. deliver the first Per-
sian and Fard dates of the 1907 crop
in New York. The largest part of the
cargo has already been disposed of to
arrive. and the remaining portion will,
without doubt be cleared from the
steamers side. No other vessel with
new crop dates can arrive in New York
lbefore Oct. 30. and the actual time will
probably be few days later