New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-03
More Supplies Are Expect
ed To-day as Tracks Are
Cleared from Snow.
UPTOWN ALREADY
FEELS SHORTAGE
Storekeepers Refuse to Deliver
More than Actually Needed
Snow Also Ties Up Coal.

eauroad conditions are expected to I'M
prove sufficiently to-day TO ADMIT ',0
many trains bearing milk ana othel loVN
stuffs TO the city and avert the famine
which has been imminent for the laSu 'Wo
davs. Some of the trains due here cary
Yesterday morning came in later III INC
day. IA
Four big milk trains that had been he'u
IN In snow banks arrived In the city laS'
night. Two Of them came In on the III
and two on the Lehgh. go /.
..If there is any scarcity OF lhilN III
New York it will be because the wagons
cannot get to the milk depots TO get IT,
Gid the agent of the New York Central
% tho soth street and Tenth avenue depot
last night.
..yve have enough milk here TO float the
station" he said. rs he pointed 10 the
many hundreds of cans piled on the p'd'-
forms which the distributors were uhdoio
IN haul away because of Venice 'ranio
on the streets being blocked by the SNOW
He pointed TO about twenty-five auto
trucks and teams stalled in the snow on
ra,,,h avenue "There is your danger OF
q milk famine in New York. he ADDED
The available supply of butter eggs ana
other foodstuffs which must be shlppeu III
daily Is perilously low. Storekeepers are
keeping orders down as low as possible py
refusing 10 deliver more than Is actually
needed TO any one household.
The supply Of canned milk, on which the
city will have to depend In case 'raiho .
not opened within the next twenty-iou'
hours, is also small
Coal dealers have sent out Word 10 l"e'l
customers that coal should not be orueIeu
unless. necessary, and that IT Will not DC
delivered except where there is an ac'udi
need. The Brooklyn Coal Exchange gave
out a statement yesterday IN regard u '"e
supply, which says. in part:
"No definite promise OF delivery OF coal
can be made. Newtown Creek. Go"anus
and Wallabout are choked whit ice ana
barges cannot be unloaded. There Is an
ample supply for one week. but mousse
holders are requested TO refrain from oi
dering coal until they are positively com
nelled TO. Even then they VIII be oDhsed
TO take whatever kind Of coal they can
get The coal yards will be open all night
and coal will be sold to all who come lot
IL at the regular prices
The first effects of the threatened FAMINE
were felt in the uptown district YESTERDAY
morning. when milk and groceries falleu
10 appear Telephone calls brought lor'h
the information that the wagons and
trucks were stalled and that the custom
ers would have to wait until later IN the
day or call at the stores.
Several apartment houses on the Nes'
Side were without steam heat yesterday
afternoon. The few tons Of coal that the
owners had been able TO store up were eX-
hausted and they were unable to get
more.
No immediate effects of the storm have
as yet been felt i'm the meat supply. but II
traffic is delayed for another day the en-
tire city will be forced 10 draw on the
storage houses in Jersey City.
All of the milk trains due yesterday
were late. Most of those on the New York
Central and the New York. New Haven &
Hartford lines appeared later in the day
The Pennsylvania milk train due at mid
night Is lost somewhere between New
York and Buffalo and could not be found
yesterday afternoon.
The I,ehieh. Erie and Lackawanna com
panies also have trains stalled which they
cannot find. TWO trains. with total OF
fifty cars Of milk and other foodstuffs, ar
rived at the Lehigh station, in Jersey
City during the day.
With such conditions prevailing the
managers Of the large milk companies are
extremely doubtful as to their ability &c
cope with the situation. According tC
H. y. Hallock. Of the Borden company
practically none Of the milk supposed &C
reach here yesterday has arrived.