New-York tribune., 1910-01-23
MEAT ON BRO4DW4Y.
Big Hotels Still Unaffected by
Spreading Boycott.

That part OF the city known in musical
comedy as Broadway has not begun as vet
10 think about dining on cereal substitutes
Tor lamb chops and porterhouse steak Any
boycott against the output of the beef
oarons of the country to be successful in
thls Town VIII have TO gain impetus i'm the
adjacent thoroughfares And that impetus
seems TO be girding its lolns for strug-
gle Managers of the best known hotels
may cherish secret santi-meat hopes be-
cause of the luxuriant prices they are
forced to pay their butchers but as one
OF them said yesterday, When a man has
enough money to eat meat he is going to
DO 1t. and the persons who come to this
hotel have the money
In other quarters a spirit of warfare ex-
lists that the leaders of various oreaniZa-
uons now engaged in a no-meat crusade
expect will make butchers bow and pack
ers plead for pity. Women lead in the for
mutation of plans to procure a reduction or
a series of reductions, In the prices that
now prevail. Mrs. Sofa Loebinger. presi-
dent of the National Progressive Women's
Suffrage Union, believes that the open air
meeting TO be held in Union Square on
Tuesday next, at noon will influence
thrifty housewives from Poughkeepsie, TO
Quarantine. Miss Helen Murphy, Mrs Bea-
A
be among the advocates of eggs. fish and
homemade dishes that will afford pleasant
and nutritious substitutes for any kind of
meat. -s,.
We shall ask at this meeting for sig
natures to a pledge to. abstain from all
kinds OF meat for thirty and perhaps sixty
DAYS, Mrs. Loebinger said yesterday I'VE
are prepared to supply request a great
many recipes for splendid substitutes for
meat 1T is surprising how well persons
may dine and not know meat. We have
studied how to make delightful things with
eggs; and it is not necessary. either, to
resort 10 the very expensive eggs, as any
one who writes to US will see
A representative of a company that runs
a chain of restaurants throughout the city
said yesterday that orders for meat had
fallen off 20 per cent in the last two days
He added that he expected an even greater
reduction to he noted soon
Under the leadership of Miss Mary
Dreier, president of the Womens Trades
Union League. four thousand striking girl
shirtwaist makers will cover the city with
circulars requesting New Workers to eat no
meat for month. Mrs. Frederick Nathan,
president of the Consumers League, will
address a mass meeting to be held under
the auspices of the league at Cooper Union
on next Thursday night. The ambition of
the league is TO obtain. a result of the
meeting, the signatures of 500 600 house
wives to the pledge OF boycottng tile
butcher. Among the other, speakers will
be the Rev. Hugh Black. Miss Rose Schnei-
dermann, Miss Florence Kelley and John
Mitchell e.. ~
Representatives of labor unions who were
seen yesterday, showed little enthusiasm
regarding the crusade against the use of
meat, ana they took the same view as was
taken by some o, the delegates at the
meeting of the Central Federation on Fri
day evening, which was that the trust
would not be touched by such fight but
that only the small dealers would be in
jured.