The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-23
SUGAR. SHORTAGE IN NEW YORK
. more ACUTE THAN WAS SHOWN
Little Is Available and People Are Glad Buy What nefed Is
Offered To Them At Ten Cents Pound Hawaiian Shippers
Get Six Ninety From Rehners .siT All

! Chaotic conditions in the sugar mar
ket in New York are reported TO To-.
cal agency here by its New York cor
respondent in two letters recently res
eeived. The shortage is more acute
than ever Sugar can hardly be bought
at retail. A Wholesale house undertook
TO supply public needs in twenty-five
pound lots but the, supply gave out and
there were still long lines of walters
when the doors were closed. The at
tempt was not renewed next day for
fear of riot.
In New York honsekeepers are glad
to get unrefned sugar at ten cents a
pound and that in limited quantities.
This sugar is nothing like so good in
purity and appearance as is our washed
sugar in Hawaii.
Hawaiian sugar arriving in New
York is being taken at 600 cents a.
pound.
Failure Of the Louisiana crop, sloy
arrivals. of the beet sugar crop and
| freight and weather conditions have
given the sugar commission tremendous
problems and put IL in a bad light with
the consuming public. 5a
Under date Of November 10 the New
| York correspondent says;
! Famine More Acute
/ "We are still waiting for something
to turn up. The sugar famine here is
now more serious than ever. Those
who were farseeing enough to lay in a
few pounds in excess of their immediate
needs are beginning to worry for the
press is fun Of dire forebodings to the
| effect that il will be months before SUI
gar can again become plentiful If then.
| Those who faithfully followed the adj
vice of prominent men in the business
and bought for immediate requirement
only are wroth and will not be comfort
ed5 Those who can only at best buy
! by the pound or two at time are say
ing some very cutting things about the
food controllers, who promised TO save
them certain number of millions in
the aggregate but cannot furnish sugar
at any price. " a.. 49,. ,'.-.
"But for the release of. few thou
sand tons that was intended for export
| the situation would be worse than il is.
The Louisiana crop as result of sue
cession of freezes is now being estimat-
| ed at 100000 tons. The beet sugar that
was to relieve the stringency in the
Eastern States is nowhere in evidence
and tales of ear shortage, bad weather
conditions, scarcity of labor come to us
| in successive waves.
'.In some grocery stores in New
York VIE find what is called South
American Sugar selling at ten cents
a pound. This is nothing more or less
than Surinames and Perus unrefned
which appear to get by the restrictions
OF the food Spminissiohers ABOUT sen
ing prices. Men IN good positions VINO
have Gnever mad 70 thlnk ABOUT theiI
domestic economies petore nave peBged
the winter 10 try 10 get them Few
pounds OF any kind OF sugar ~ any o l.u
price only 70 meet win non possumusa'
Hawaiian sugar frlce - =. -,
INC Cupan representatives are INV
meeung the iooa commissioners CONN - VIII 9
view 10 nxing price TOT next year
crop ana lndleatlonS are tnat ~ VIII De
somewhere between IN SOY ,, ana 10 ce ests
=, y. y. Cupa, Inc onlelal OASIS IoI
arrivals OF hawaiian sugars IN 'hiS
territory sun remains AT ,o'SV cents
ePieekes y eSnPeting VIII NV
american h HusaI henIins ~. "a ltvu'o =.
anas put Rotning pu. eia Islr3 ~
tne siogan ol IheSe Sen1iemen Mn1 ppl
pose 70 Ina a nay Whne tne sun S .nd9s
an9 sen an tney can piLses 20 the lay
| WIEN aPPeals 70 oe giau ~ so' '"'
sugar AZ any prlse wltin IeasT :.
ne e tSn.D rs ~ nag .in,, - -" ~
houns s 'na tth az rs ar aSomnH, Ss ~ ~
ihteiiee WI" w. In ,ua e" - s,,I,,,';t
. .l. anu 'n 10 UoA9s ~ - NJ. Mt
.neli o. ~ a a. sssa' ~ ~ 80 ~
Wno - sp0 o''''' = ~ =
An w r.; ,,or;o,. ,o.,ar ,nder doto 90
- ~ nis Pa' ~ $50 go. .a a1 ~
tN9 9sYat ano,bo T waeSibas gona nv ,but
L. aoi,s;nn 90 ~ Snnast;on of orr
wy r,,n ~ co. ~ Rnmors
sSs sa,s spP2 c,,Sas 70 reSnino inter.
~ 49,. ~ o7Il a,,,s c. L. 49,
been cateeoriealIy denied, 4
H1Iast time we wrote ON this subject
We were filled with visions of a return
~, the DAYS Of ADEQUATE supplies. A
cold douche has been encountered
since. The much heralded sale of
| Louisiana sugar to the American Sugar
Refining Company turns out to have