New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-16
BEEF GOES UP AGAIN
Advance of Half a Cent Reported,
and Small Fry Are Blue.
RETAILERS "STAND PAT"
Predict High Prices Will Get
Fastened and Stay Up-Lots
of Buying in Fish.

with a few exceptions. beef quotations
rooe,ved by The Tribune yesterday showed
another advance Of half a cent on the three
trades. Rounds Of the second grade have
t.orned from 1919 10 10 cents. while rounds
q, N. third grade remain the same. . cents
c,,ycks Of the third grade. 5is cents. also
vain the same. Ribs and loins OF all
,,-ea Grades went Up half cent.
IN spite Of this, retailers in the important
scaling centres declared they we're stand
a., nat After glancing over the market
~a,o~ts Yesterday afternoon some OIL tne
-. ,,,ov,r retailers In Washington Market
- .ts,- arms and grimly forecasted an
- .,,-,, IN prices about the end OF the
49, III, II NAV jump as high as 81
b,n6redweight. they said. Your heavily
- .h,,tcher, also frightened up his
-, s,r,ngs and remarked that, once these
S,gb prices got fastened on. they would
-sl1. g. much longer than II was good 10
contemplate
p.tsu nrices. for the most part, were IN
.z.r.e6 Yesterday. Dealers doing the big
ces. business still have cattle hanging
60 they are making the most OF what they
80 on hand. The small fry Just look
tiua that's al. They are torn between two
convictions. They want publicity. because
,hov want 10 have the beef trust eX-
-ossd and again, they don't want the news
naners 10 keep harping on the high prices.
,cvvhy. man, II knocks business in the
had We've lost 20 per cent OF our sum-
n,er business in the last few days Just on
account OF this newspaper talk, cried a
washington Market man yesterday. You
sbout II out from the housetops that beef
,s .bree 10 five cents higher. and, by lingo
The people are Just going TO do without H.
Fact|
II Won want 10 run up against a peevisn
nsrson. lust try 70 draw out the managers
Of the big packing house concerns on the
hssr situation. They gave out their rea-
cons az first for the skyrocket course that
hea- and pork had taken in the last few
6svs II may be they have been reading
che newspapers. At any rate, they have
heard what the retailers think about them
and II hurts. evidently. Few Of the whole
salers would talk yesterday.
W P. Mountain. OF the Cincinnati Aoat-
.oi- COMPANY. preserved his good nature,
however
81 saw IN The Tribune yesterday that
Nauss Brothers, Harlem retailers, gave
4r,,-es 70 show substantial increases IN
carload shipments between this year and
LAST for the first two weeks IN August
You mustn't forget" ne said. that there
are more people east Of Chicago this year
than last, and, besides, beef has been
cbeaper up 10 within 4 few days this year
than u was last consequently the demand
has been greater.
"Drouth has affected crops and the de-
r1and FOR good beef has increased. There
YOU have Il in a nutshell Cheaper beer
isn't so bad. Fancy native stock is up 10
49, cents. Medium native beef IS going for
~. cents. and 70 cents buys good native
beef Texas steers are way down. while
cow beef brings only 70 and ~ cents.
II retailers don't want good beef at present
nr,ces. the wholesalers are in a position
- say. Take Il or leave It There Is de-
-naud FOR the best beef and shipments are
fair 50 u isn't going a-besging.
Going back 70 the men behind the meat
blocks. wiping cleavers and knives for want
OF something better 70 do. II was learned
that the high wave Of prices. once II got
started. wouldn't subside until fall, and
maybe until early winter.
Down m the West street side or WASH
ington Market. where fish men toss deep
sea deicacies about without formahnes'
business was brick indeed The phenone-
nal feature OF the fish market was the
low price OF blueAsh. II Is II cents, while
psrserhouse steak is q or 50 cents. Weak
fish IS p cents. while sirloins OF beef fetch
e and o cents. snsppers are 70 cents.
The dark cloud that hangs over the reat
markets shows frs silver lining along the
fish stands