New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-16
SUGAR SCARS; DRUG
CORNER DISCOVERED
MAYORS Committee to Get
Foodstuff List To
morrow.
HEARING ON TUESDAY
Representatives of Flour Firms
and Packing Concerns
Offer Their Aid.

Agents Of the Department Of jus
tice the country over arc investigating
tho charge that the price Of meat IS
controlled by the packers. who raise
and lower prices at viii, according 10
statement made by one government
Official yesterday.
The packers, so the government IN,
formation goes, buy sheep h0gs alu
cattle bv the hundred thousand on the
loof. keep them on the ranges, paying
Tor their feed and care until they arc
wanted in the market, when they arc
shipped in. Just as the packers decide.
One Washington Market butcher,
Who has been in the business almost
forty years, iu speaking TO re,
porter Of The Tribune yesterday, sald
that IL was common talk among butch
cr, that the packers controlled 'hc
price OF meat absolutely
Plan 10 Raise Prices.
There is no danger Of the market
ever being ,l..-.,,. ...n 1vestock: thus
sending the prices OF meat down. said
the Washington Market butcher. The
packers who control the situation VIII
zee to that. Why the United States
government hasn't gone after them
before now Is q mystery.
He scratched his head for second,
and then exclaimed:
Trying to get at the bottom OF TINS
trouble by getting after the retailers
s. like going 10 the top Of the WOOL
worth Building and trying 10 knock IL
down with 4 pollcemans club.
sugar SCARED again yesterday, sell
;nr wholesale a. 81 %, and ono big
Wholesale and retail grocer, Austin,
Nichols & Co. declared they paid 81
per hundredweight for the sugar.
Meat. sugar and -four arc the three
rio stsnles whose sudden rise since
INC European war started has been the
chief source Of complaint. Govern
,pent officials admit they arc as lar
from the solution Of the reason TOT
the increase as ever, and their lnVtsIl-
cations 10 date have not SATISFIED mem
hat there is any legitimate excuse LOT
the advances.
Joseph Hsrtigsn, Commissioner OF
Weights and Measures, who has hiteeh
3uspectors making the rounds OF INC
city 10 obtain the wholesale ano retall
prices OF foodstuffs in an interview
with a reporter for The Tribune yes
terdav said he had information tend
ing to show that q te" men III 'ne
wholesale drug trade were trying 70
corner the market on sugar OF ihliA'
oitric acid and other drugs
Seek to Csrner Drugs.
.Tbere are some men who arc not
,sfiured with increasing the prices on
foods. but tney also want 20 lay tribute
on the nursery and sick room salo
Commissioner Hsrtigsn. nope! now
syer. 10 get the evidence mat VIII re-
,ult in the conviction of rev OF tnese'
and so soon as ! do II WILL be lalo De-
fore District Attorney Whitman OF
whatever prosecuting orheer VIII nave
jurisdiction over the case.
NJ Hartigan asserted that he found
.bst canned tomatoes, coffee, rice, flour,
. ,,,e,sr and evaporated milk, all OF when
co into the field rations of soldler'
lad been boosted in price since the EI-
Topean war started, apparently without
sThere certainly is no reason for the
;,crease in canned tomatoes, with Inc
Greatest crop Of tomatoes IN twenty
60 veare. and there certainly IS not
-, Tor tho increase In rice, Wnlch NC
,aise ourselves. nod, so far as can see,
in any Of our domestic products sa'u
Or. Hartlgan, ..,,,a+or.
"But, evidently the 1000 speOu'SsV W.
have most of us in their power ana uh-
less we put some Of them IN Jall OF
,;iiorv them in the public press, when
y.e cannot convict them Of criminal
licences. they will continue 10 holu
most of US in their power"
he said he saw no reason why mouse,
wives shouldn't use more fruits anG q
vegetables and less meat and flour, ana
,l1s check the food spectators. FISH
fa-n,t gone up in price, he pointed out
and IL IS not likely TO.
sIn our grandmother's day we used