New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-23
BUTCHERS PROMISE To
Do THE TURKEY DROP
Fall in Price of Christmas
Birds Due to Trainloads
from South.
BUT THEY GO AT ANY COST
Dealer Ridicules Boycott Ru'
NOR, and Declares Present
Consumption Breaks
All Sales Records.
Down with turkcy,

Down with turkey,
That is not a rallying cry OF the Balkan
allies. neither IS it a clause to be ahNed
TO the blessing that precedes the Christ
mas dinner. 1t pertains wholly ~ III"
price of the bird without which 'hrist-
mas dinner would be as incomplete as
was home I'm Brooklyn years ago with
out a rubber plant.
At Thanksgiving turkey vls costly-t"p
much so for many fiat dwelIers i'm Name
haitian and The Bronx. True, spare
two DAYS before the day for general re-
ioicing arrived a trainload Of turkeys
from the South reached New York ana
made their presence felt upon tho current
quota lions by the marketmen. Since the
last Thursday I'm November, however
turkey has slid down the scale a few
cents a pound. and choice gobblers are
row selling at prices nearer the rate Of
past years. And il is not unlikely that
prices will take a further drop to-day
ri en- 5000 turkeys. mixed toms and hens,
a. the dealers call them, arr snuntei
into the city in box ca.s.
Some Shunted Of Elsewhere.
The birds are from the Tennessee dis
trict. and their market value is said 10 be
near half million dollars. Some of them
were dropped off the train at Baltimore,
few more at Philadelphia; but the bulk
OF the consignment came through 10 New
York, TO be gobbled by hungry Manhat-
tanites.
In keeping with the smaller cost OF tur-
"a. VEGETABLES.
Because OF the deaness OF turkey az
Thanksgiving. which made many people
resort TO the square-riggcd goose or
chickens as substitute IL seelneu ~
unlikely that there might be nCtlceaDle
decrease in the demand for them az pres
cut A market man on the West Slde Ilu-
died the theory yesterday, however.
There has never been bigger demand
for turks than this year since love pen
IN the business" he said. Then he addsd'
And that IL just twenty-seven years,
For the last three or four seasons tur-
keys have gone up little, IN accoIudhce
with pretty nearly everything else, but
there are more people in New YORK eat
ing them to-day than there were Few
wears ago That may be because the pop
ulation is increasing right along put
should say the proportion or the bros
sold now even beats the increase In peo-
when customers first come around and
inquire the price and find they are hlhu
OF high many OF them are inclined 70 put
IN "a kick and swear that for the princi-
pie OF the thing they will not pay what
thew call an outlandsh price. have one
customer. a man. who always selects his
own bird. At Thanksgiving he came
around and when ! told him turkey was
al cents a pound he went away vowing
that his family would dine on corn beer
and cabbage. The next night, though, ne
sent his wife around TO buy turkey
selling now AT IS cents, and he kicked,
but bought a pound bird.
That" ne added, rs about the way
they all do. Christmas In New YORK
would not be Christmas without turhey
any more than IL would be II there were
no four-foot Christmas trees loaded with
18th candles to threaten the existence OF
the apartment"