New-York tribune., 1910-01-30
WOMEN'S CLUBS ACT.
~ ontd Prohibit Cold STORAGE
Enceeding I'hirtu Dams

,u.soure, Jan. 2s.-Sweep,nr resolutions
.se the anti-meat crusaders were
c,,.l py the Congress of Women,s
oi western Pennsylvania here to-
me resolutions urge the Legislature
e,... IL penalty to sell provisions
49,, "hoiesale or retail that have been
IT, ooio storage more than thirty days
tbouss represented nearly five
usaho club members throughout west
ern pennsylvania
no price on pork dropped tbree oer+s
Today. simultaneously q nrmhsr 90 49,
1e dealers in meat bee1,n storin, ,,ar,,
.i onelr Ice warehouses Meat dealers now
uliii. asn they are feeling the boycott Tho
iouuoh OF five thousand meatIass
h-N, was begun to-day by a prominent
oAei' VINO guarantees to feed a person
"i'hout meat fer Il cents a day.
Neiaho' Jan. 29.-Cleveland was select
Gu Today as the centre of the stata-vide
piooe INTO the cost of living to be insti-
early next week by the legislative
ihNesugating committee appointed for that
purpose A'' ''iA'
me summit County Grand Jury, after g.
session at Akron, adjourned
ueciarins that "a part at least of
'Ne increased prices is due to unlawful and
piiiauons and agreements to control prices
we refer to the large meat packers, to the
iaiiroad and transportation companies cold
storage concerns and wholesale dealers in
large distributing centres"
Inc Stark County, Grand Jury. at Canton.
VIII start like investigation on Monday.
Homer Mcdaniel, manager of the Sheriff
street Market Company, told the legisla-
1--WE committee here to-day that the cold
storage house had in 1t at present 1883
pounds of butter and 242,5S0 dozen eggs. A
year ago, he said, 405,590 pounds of butter
ano l.osS,54o dozen eggs We're in storage
Storage regulates ITSELF. he said mo
one thinks of putting eggs in storage after
July j. There are no butter and egg specu-
lators in Ohio
MCDANIEL admitted. however, that eggs
and butter were bought al as low prices as
possible for storage and sold when the
market was higher. He was indignant
when asked if he would bring his books be-
fore the grand jury. That body investi-
gates criminal actions, doesn't it?" he
snorted.
We'll, we can get the books by issuing a
summons" said the prosecutor.
Meat prices held firm throughout Ohio
to-day.
Springfield, Mass, Jan. 29.-Retail prices
OF meat dropped from two to five cents a
pound in the local markets to-day as a re-
suit of the poor demand.
Boston. Jan. 29.-Some five hundred per-
sons attended the meeting of the mo Meat
Club" of Boston. at Faneul Hall tonight.
Half of them signed a pledge to abstain
from meat until prices had been reasona bly,
reduced.
James l.. Cowles, of New York, secretary
of the Postal Reform League, laid the high
prices TO two causes-the tariff and high
postal and railroad rates. He advocated
free trade in necessary commodities, a
low uniform rate for merchandise carried
by the postal service and government
ownership of the railroads.
B. d. Lewis, a Harvard graduate, who
said he was the son of a prominent ranch
man of Missouri, defended Western cattle
raisers. He said his father sold his beef
and pork at the prices dictated by the trust,
and such was the rule throughout the
West The ranchman received an average
Of cents pound for beef and to cents
for pork, making less than $500 on each
bunch of seventy head of cattle shipped to
market.