The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
ENGLAND SECURES
SHARE Of WORLDS
RAW SUGAR FIRST
Because of This Fact Supply
Of Sweets on New Orleans
Market Is Shrinking With
Demand Increasing.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. l5.-While
-t,9l6,e0O pounds of raw sugar have
reached the port of New Orleans since
Aug. l In excess of receipts during the
same period IN 1915, local wholesalers
repeated again that they are still un-
able to get more thar rs per cent Of
their orders filled at the refineries. The
situation Is universally considered more
acute Just now than during the most
depressing period of the war. Dealers
ana retiners unite in saying that eX-
ports are responsible for this condition.
Contracts made by the equalization
board for export of Cuban sugar, which,
are said to be tying up the bulk of re-
finery production, are blamed for the
shortage, which not only locally but in
all other cities of the country, accord
ing TO press dispatches. is rapidly APP
preaching the proportions Of a famine. |
While the receipts of the local port this |
season have far overshadowed those Of
last year, II Is pointed out that the eN-
ports have attained ever a higher per-
centage Of increase, Bishop G.. Per-
klns, president of the Sugar and Mo
lasses Distributors association, stated
that the shipments from this port dur
Ing the first seven months Of this year
exceeded those Of the same period of
last year by 1919 long tons. ,
England Is Blamed.
Were It not for the fact that the Brit
ish high commission had succeeded in
contracting through the board Of
equalization for a third of the Cuban
crop, which must be refined in this
country, 1t would be difficult to under
stand why sugar Is being doled out n
limited quantities to New Orleans
housekeepers. But England seems to be
"the goat" and those in this city ia
miliar with the true inwardness of the
situation are not hesitating In blaming
the whole local shortage on John Bull,
ITS all right TO feed starving Eau
rope" said one wholesaler, but why
not feed Americans, too?'
The visible supply of sugar In New
Orleans Is shrinking daily. More and
more stores are reserVing their small
supply for regular customers, and the.
separate purchase to them Is becoming
smaller, At the general offices of A. NJ,
e. j. Solari 1t was said they were able to
get only a very small percentage Of
their orders filled at the %refiueries,
This firm, which operates several stores,
has been compelled, 1t was said, to cut
down the individual orders aud praCti-
cally to suspend sales to occasional buy
ers. Other large retailers, h buy
through the wholesale houses instead
Of the refineries, as the Solari house
does, and are consequently feeling the
effects of u double shrinkage, acknowl-
edge even q more serious situation.
Worse Than During War.
Louis Fred Sivori, of Wash DIVE &
Co, was one Of the local wholesalers
stating the condition now is far worse
than during the war. ut is not a new
situation" he said. ut has been com
ing on for months, and while the deal
ers foresaw the present shortage, there
was no way out.n On Aug. 5 MIR. Sivor
wrote ], II. McLaurin, president of the
Southern Wholesale Grocers' associa'
ton, at Jacksonville, Fla, pointing GU
the fact thatNas the season advanced
and the demand grew he was getting
smaller deliveries from the refineries.