New-York tribune., 1920-04-16

pers along the Hudson and adjacent
territory by using the Catskil Even
ing Line, now running from Coxsackie
to New York, with five regular stops,
and the Troy Line, which starts to-
morrow. quantity of hay and some
apples are being carried by the Cats
kill line"
A tour of the market districts re-
vealed that the city is not entirely cut
off from food. A trainload of fruit and
vegetables arrived at the Pennsylvania
piers across the river, including five
cars of lettuce, thirteen of cabbage, five
of celery, five Of apples. four of or
anges, four of grapefruit, three of
Strawberries and two of miscellaneous
produce.
NO shipments were received at the
New York Central and Erie piers on
the North River Railroad officials
have notified commission merchants of
the whereabouts of carloads of produce
stranded by the strike, and every eff
fort is being made to bring the stuff
into the city by motor truck Some
trucks have gone as fer as the Potomac
yards, in Delaware, a forty eight-hour
journey Onions arrived from Massa-
chusetts and Florida, N. Y. Lettuce
came Srom Camden, and several truck
loads OF Western asparagus were
brou INT in by trucks from the New
York Central yards at Tarrytown.
Comparatively small supplies were
and North River yard of the New York
Central. Receipts were only forty
eight cars of perishable foodstuffs, CON
slstlng of beans, eggs, onions, apples,
potatoes and poultry, and 103 cars of
milk. The foodstutfs were brought in
from points west of Chicago.
The section of the North River water
front known as the Chelsea Docks, from
Twelfth to Twenty second Street, is
lined with material of all sorts await
ing transfer to the railroads.
The following survey of the arrival
of foodstuffs was given out at the De-
partment of Health last night:
"The New York Central Railroad re-
ceived sixteen cars of butter and but
terine. The Erie Pailroad, at Pier 20,
received fourteen cars Of oranges and
apples. The Baltimore &, Ohio, at Pier
p, received one car of eggs.
"No produce or other foodstuffs were
received at Washington Market, but
elgnt carloads of live poultry, averag-
ing about 10000 pounds to the car, will
reach the market in trucks to-day.
The New York Central, at it's Thir-
ty-third Street station, received seven
cars of meat and sight cars of pota-
toes. No shipments were received at
the stockyards at SiXtieth Street, and
the slaughter houses on the East Side
received practically nothing. In conse-
Quence, many kosher meat shops will
be closed to-day. Some individual
merchants succeeded in trucking in lin
tied supplies of food from Washington,
Baltimore and other cities"
A full milk supply is assured the city
this morning, but authorities declared
that difficulties are likely to develop if
the transportation tie-up continues
much longer.
Edwin j. O'Malley. Commissioner of
Public Markets, announced that he had
completed arrangements with the army
authorities and some large dealers in
meat for the handling of 100000
pounds of government army frozen
beef now in refrigeration places in this
city The wholesalers will get it for
different cuts cf beef at retail will be
determined later. The beef will be on
the market within a week or ten days,
the Commissioner said. the delav being
caused by the necessity of defrigera-
ton, which ordinarily takes about a
week
Representing that thousands of tons
of produce are going to waste in Vir-
ginia and the Carolnas because of the
lack of dock facilities in this city,
delegation of produce and market
men called on Mayor Hylan to urge
that pier be assigned to company
which the Virginia planters contem-
plate forming.