Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-27
DEEF'S LOWER, BUT
OUTRUsH or SUGAR
IS ALARMING FACT
In August, 1913, N. Y. Exported
100000 Pounds of Sweet
ener, VS.. 60,000,O00 in
Shorter Period Now.

dDTotn from tneSe ShOreS DechIne uSlliiltc-
~ apparent yesterday
The mayors committee, subordinating
for the moment all questions of imme-
diate local relief, definitely determined !
that most earnest attention must be |
given at once to the question Of ex- |
ports, If America problem of eating |
is to be solved
AS evidence of the huge drain upon
the countrys resources the committee
cited that during August, 1913 the
United States sent from the port of
New York only 100000 pounds Of sugar. |
During the first twenty-four days of
August of this year the United States
sent from New York to England, Scot
land and ireland alone, 100000 pounds
of sugar with no evidence Of a stop In
the sweeping outward tide.
While the grain dealers have talked
much about Americas $50. 900 surplus
bushels of wheat. the committee learned
that from It's ports last week the United
states foated away 100000 bushels In
the form OF wheat and -four At that rate
the surplus would be exhausted soon.
COMMITTEE MUST ACT SOON.
These figures were looked on as more
significant than any of the mass of data
| already gathered about food-stuffs
Though the committee has not yet com
mitted itself to a policy, George W.
| Perkins. its chairman. said yesterday
that a definite stand must be taken soon
# the committee is to represent the
city's population in seeking relief.
| That the general outlook, as lar as
| ig
tain that the committee feels it un-
wise to offer definite advice to the
public at this time, was admitted by Mr..
Perkins.
what is going to happen this win
ter no man may vet predict" said he
Beyond such definite items as calling
attention to the cheapness of fish and
the plentifulness of fresh vegetables
we are not safe in telling the house
holder what to do We do not wish
to alarm the public, but 1t is already
apparent that the situation may pres
| emily become very serious.
whether il is practicable to pro-
hibit exports or through government
agency, to decree arbitrary prices, is
great question. and we do not yet
offer an opinion. The effect upon our
own producers must he considered as
! we'll as the bitter retaliation we will
| suffer from Europe later If we refuse
their women and children food now"
A SLIGHT TURN IN THE TIDE.
The local markets showed two i'm
portant changes Yesterday. Most i'm
portant was a retail drop in beef, av-
eraging throughout the city from two
to four cents on the pound for the
various cuts. This ii was said, was
! a direct result of the campaign of edu-
cation in the matter of substituting
foods and the growing public resent
ment at high prices.
| Retail butchers In great numbers
report that their business has fallen
off from % to 40 per cent. Stocks
bought on Monday were not moving
and a big slash was inevitable. Whole
sale figures were unchanged yester
day. but 1t was predicted that reduced
consumption inevitable will force the
packers to another cut
: AS meat went down, rice, always
g considered a cheap foodstuff, raised
another cent. making cents a pound
. elevation in less than seven days
$ Every evidence of boarding for expor,
l was behind this boost, and investiga
d tors regarded II as another indication
e that slowly and gradually every known
e foodstuff is to be made to cost more
to the American consumer
4 Second only to the course of food
l. stuffs was the state OF the drug mar
e ket yesterday. The American trad,
has awakened to the fact that it ha.
been alarmingly dependent upon Europ,
for its raw supplies. as we'll as thou
/ | sands of manufactured and refined pro
. ducts, Drugs and chemical makers are il
: a mad scramble to avert the threatened
4 shortage.
3 GRABBING BY DRUG MAKER
Isaac Perlstrir who fixes prices TO
b the Riker-H egeman chain Of retail
drug stores, told Assistant District
Attorney Seymour Nork who is in
| vestigatlng the drug situation In tn
Bronx. that Merck n Co. Of No, 4
7 Park place. ono of the largest importing
3 and manufacturing firms. had booste,
= rriccs all along the line Mr.. Perlstcil
showed a circular from his firm. whicl
said: "Rc Merck-In order to get the re
G tail price double the list price and adj
the cost of the container." In list o
900 articles there were but two excep
tics to the l"D per cent. raise Thes
We're sugar of milk and sodium phos
phate both made here from domestic ray
materials.
Mr.. Perlsteiu admitted that certai
s. other articles on the list were not i'm
81 ported, but said that between August
ad August his firm had had severa
advices OF increased prices from Mac
n e. Co, and that his own arm told hr
as If he wanted to sell on a safe basis h
IN must add 100 per Get. to retail prices !
le existence before the war.
at Mr.. Perstein told of a % per cen
or Increase of Pnaud q Co.'S French per
fumes, and added that Riker-Iiegema
had been ad lsed by the Frech firm I
~ carry a large stock, so the extra prof
a, could be split
H. Albert Paut of Lehn X Fink, NO ].
ra william street, predicted, as did otheri
~ that there will be a great boom in tn
n, production of drugs, perfumes and toil'
~ articles I'm the United states But
q. lower tarf ON raw materials Is needed
;, he added.
os Before supreme Court Justice Behedi'
40 I'm Brooklyn yesterday JudsOn l.ounsberN
OF manager of the American sugar Rehhlil
company, controlling nearly 40 per cen
of the sugar refined in this country
blamed foreign demand for Cuban ra"
for the radical Jumps In that commodit!
ed James H. Post. president of the M
tional Sugar Refining company, said
recent haf-cont or quartcr-ccnt reductlo
lie had not had any real effect, rs PRACTICAL