New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
CityHas Food to
Keep Famine
OFF for Weeks
Continued from paso one,

Two days ago they were sellinc f.,
5000 150-pound bag. Yestsrd iol
morning they were quoted at s13 haass
Another firm has 400 900 bags of nots.
toes on the way in four ships from Den
mark and Belgium. There are practi.
ca1ly no new potatoes on the market.
Butter and egg dealers who get thei,
shipments through the st. Johns PARK
freight house, a t Hudson and Laight
streets, were unable to replenish their
stocks yesterday. No cars we're brouph,
into the yards.
All the perishable goods in freight
cars in the Pennsylvania Railroac
freight yards at Thirtv-seventh anC
Ihlrty-elghth streets and the NORTH
River, 1T was announced last NIGHT. hac
been removed by dealers.
force of twelve men, under the
supervision Of J. J. Lotus, yard super
intendent, finished at 1890 O'Clock in
the afternoon the task Of unloading 1858
refrigerator cars loaded with meats
and other perishable food They had
strike started. No violence was re-
ported.
The New York Central gave out a
statement al night saying that 4,74O,-
o00 pounds of fresh and cured meats
were brought in Friday night on the
West Side line. This Importation was
Immediately taken away by distributors
and merchants
The meat trains came from Chicago
with seventy mine cars of fresh beef
pork, mutton and sides of bacon. Mer-
chants were ready with trucks to un-
load the cars
The New York Central also says that
Quantities Of miscellaneous foodstufs
cheese, eggs and canned goods. An
other solid trainload of fresh and cure
meats should be on the West Side
tracks for delivery tomorrow.
+; +: Crowley. operating vice-presi-
dent OF the road, praised the willing
ness Of the merchants to take the
produce from the trains at the points
TO- which the railroad was able to
bring it. "
The capacity of the half-dozen frejrht
stations on the West Side tracks has
been greatly increased by the willing
ness OF the receivers to accept deliv-
erles from the cars in trucks The
principal stations being used are those
at West both Street and Seventh
second. Sixtieth and Thirty-third
streets.
Increased prices in foodstuffs were not
greatly in evidence. William Minder
president of the Washington Market
Merchants Association. said, however
that the wholesale merchants had in
creased their prices from three to five
cents pound on all classes of meat
and this would be reflected in the price
to the consumer by tomorrow or Tues
day. A great deal depends on the ra-
pidlty with which the retail dealers
got rid of the stock which they had be-
Tore the strike started
he said no fresh meat was coming
IN and that it was impossible to get
pigs. The slaughter houses would not
take orders for them. He did not think
that the supply of fresh meat now on
hand would last more than ten days.
DR.: Royal S. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, Will call a conference OF
produce. fruit and vegetable dealers. if
the strike continues to threaten the
city, tomorrow. to meet representa-.
tlves OF the railroads He is making
an Investigation of the amount Of foo q
available for city use.
The milk supply is normal" said the
commissioner. but there is likely to be
trouble in getting the empty milk cans
back to the farmers. However. there is
no occasion for alarm and no reason for
hoardIng"