The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-14
WAR ECHOES

the total supply of imported beer in this country will not last longer than two or three weeks. The only recourse will be the consumption of domestic beers, which to many Germans will be new exper- 1 fence.
 While there is a reasonably large supply of imported whiskies Scotch and Irish the liquors in bonded warehouses in and i near New York, the jobbing houses have already substantially advanced wholesale prices. Within a week or less 1t is prob able that Scotch whiskies. which formerly retailed at 15 cents straight. will be ad- vanced to 20 or 25 cents.
 Today nearly all jobbers will increase the wholesale price of Scotch 50 per case, as the supply now in New York is limited The European conflict came to head so l quickly that importers did not have an opportunity or the foresight to order a siege stock. For the same reason the stock of imported canned delcacies in New York will shortly be exhausted. l Barney Stahl. manager of the Kaiser hof. which is owned by Rudolph Oelsner, one of the largest importers of German
  Oelsner imported 90,000 barrels of beer last Year, the present supply in his ware house will not last more than two weeks, I and, like similar places that make a spe- | oialty of selling Pilsner and other im- l ported beers, we will be forced to supply i our patrons with the domestic product. ! It is likely that all cafes will charge 10 ! cents a glass for the latter
 | New Workers may as well count on this l famine lasting very long time. even if | the war is of short duration, as it will | be many months after the close of hos | tilities before the German breweries can manufacture sufficient beer to meet the export requirements.
 I For the same reason the supply of inn ported canned delicacies will not hold out much longer Many hundreds of delica l tessen shops deal almost exclusively in ] imported canned foods, and the jobbing houses will not be able to replenish the empty shelves of the retailers To make ! in domestic foodstuffs are taking advan- tage of the retailers dilemma and are raising prices indscriminately." 1 Those who patronize the restaurants may expect material increases in menu rpices within a few days.
 ] Wholesale grocery houses that deal in imported liquors are sparng even now in l filling orders. The steward of one Broad way hotel who ordered for immediate de- livery 25 cases of French vermouth, was told that he could have only one case at l a ip1p x-bi is a dox xyfc The reserve stock of vermouth, too, is short. so the man who relishes cocktail before dinner will soon have to become | accustomed to straight rye or bourbon if he feels he must have an appetizer As result of the inability of wnole- salers to supply the demand for imported liquors the consumption of the domestic article will vastly increase at advanced prices to the retailer.
 Washington Special to the New York
 Times: Postmaster General Burleson told Secretary Bryan today that the fear of Ambassador Dumba of Austria Hun gary, that mail sent from here to his
 country might go to England, need not
 be held any longer. The ambassador
 wrote to Secretary Bryan that there
 would be great inconvenience and JOSS if
 direct mail communication between the
 United States. Germany and Austria were
 suspended.
 In reply to letter from the Secretary
 of State on the subjecr, the Postmaster
 General said that representations of this
 character had been anticipated The
 postoffice department already had issued orders, he said that all mail going to Austria Hungary and Germany. ad- dressed Via Rotterdam should be dis ! patched by Dutch lines unless 1t could be
 more expeditiously sent by other routes. Since the outbreak of war between Ger
 many and Great Britain neither German
 nor Austro- Hungarian mail has been sent by British ships. heavy shipment of
 Austrian mail was dispatched yesterdav
 by the neutral liner Europa. German and
 additional Austro- Hungarian mail will be
 forwarded tomorrow by both Dutch and Italian vessels. The steamship Rotterdam
 of the Dutch line, sailing tomorrow, will
 carry mail for Germany and the Nether-
 lands by way of Rotterdam. Concluding, the Postmaster General says:
 T have taken every mea sure to see
 that mail originating in the United States
 for all countries be dispatched by the steamship line which will most expedi- tously deliver the mail at it's destination Yesterday afternoon there was no for , eign mail originating in this country left } on hand in New York. It had all been dispatched"
 The Adriatic carried British and French mail. Mails for Norway and Sweden will leave New York tomorrow by the Der gensmjord of the Norwegian-America Line.
 Because of the complexity of the Euro- pean situation postal money order service . with Austria was suspended today by the
 department.
 New York Times: The peculiar interest which this great neutral nation takes in
 the news of Europe lies in the fact that , it Is largely made up of Europeans and the children of Europeans The 900. .O0l Englsh-born residents of the United States. the 1,352O0o Irishmen and the 5O0.- GOO natives of Scotland and Wales wht
 are here will study with painful interest the situation in which Great Britain finds herself among the European powers. The
 thoughts of 1,25O,Ooo foreign-born iron