The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1914, Page 3

. continue until the war ts ove! teat oh yon BOYCOTT OF 1 FORGES ANOTHER DECREASE IN THE PRICES OF MEATS oe Second Decrease in Two Days Noted To-Day—Investiga- tion Scares Dealers, EGGS CONTINUE HIGHER Warehouses Are Stocked and Criminal Actions May Re- sult Soon. Forced by the publicity given to} Municipal Bullding. their unwarranted inéfeasey in tho Prices of all meats, wholesalers and retailers alike to-day made the sec- ond cut in two days, The purchaser can now buy beef or lamb at from two to four cents less a pound than on Saturday. The reduction of to-day over Monday was one to two cents. Retail butchers say that probably beef will go lower. ‘The reductions prove that the large increases in all prices last week were attempts to rob the people under the pretense that the war made higher prices imperative. They amply bear out the assertion of The Evening World that beef is piling up in the storage houses of the great packing interests and that meat should be cheaper now than on June 1. Retail butcher's say they have suf- fered from the housewives’ boycott, but the big packer has not been af- fected by such means. To him came the fear of city, State and Federal investigations and the apprehension that a conspiracy charge might be laid against him. €GG8, BUTTER AND CHEESE CONTINUE TO ADVANCE. But while the prices of beef and other meats are decreasing, the cost of eggs, butter and cheese continues higher than is reasonable. It is be- Meved some organisation ts behind this grasping market. Investigators will determine if.this fs true within the next few days. Then prices will either be lowered or criminal actions will be taken. Sugar and flour, too, are at higher levels. No reasonable excuse is given for the big increase in the price of flour, with the enormous wheat crop now being gathered, and small excuse exists for sugar being doubled in price in three weeks. Responsibility for both increases will be fixed. Investigation to-day revealed that since Aug. eleven days after war was declared, 222,000 barrels of flour have entered New York City. Only 86,000 barrels have been exported. When this period began there was at least two weeks’ supply in the elty. It Js estimated that the greater city uses 40,000 barrels each week. About 20,000 barrels are shipped to nearby trade centres. Using these figures of the flour wholesale houses, New York City has sufficient flour to last one month, even if no additional imports are made. Despite this, prices have risen steadily, and flour dealers asserted to- day that they expected the rise would MORE THAN 1,800,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT HERE. While flour was piling up in New York to an extent rarely known, wheat was coming here at an even greater rate. To-day, according to figures of the. Produce Exchange, 1,861,000 bushels of wheat are in Man- hattan and Brooklyn warehouses. The average for the past two years has been 1,000,000 bushels, ‘There is no doubt that this wheat is being stored for European ship- ment, and that it is being heli for speculative purposes. Even the news that the ship lanes were opened caused wheat to jump four cents a bushel Tuesday, and 276,000 bushels lett the city for European poin Corn and oat storage ho’ ses in the city are also being crammed to ca- pacity. Approximately 650,000 bushels of corn, or 400,000 more than normal, ‘and 425,000 bushels of oats, or 250,000 more than normal, are stored here, while ‘the daily Imports exceed the exports by 30,000 bushels. Despite these facts, prices continue te in- erease and no relief is in sight Unscrupulous bakers are still sell- ing underweight and unlabelled bread, Women inspectors from the office of Commissioners of Weights and Meas- yres Hartigan learned to-day, Crim- inal action will follow. The inspectors for Commissioner Hartigan also report that the price of what ts known as loose or dip milk —that which Is sold from cans in gro- cery stores—has gone up 8-4 cents to 1 gent a quart in the last twenty-four Bours, This increase has spread al) through the east side, The State Board of Health Ray bad | inspectors to work to-day getting In- QUSEWIVES Ventories of the numerous cold stor- age warehouses. The object ia to learn just bow much perishable food 1s on hand here, who owns it and how much each big food dealer has in reserve and what he proposes| doing with his stock on hand. George W. Perkins, Chairman of the Mayor's Food Committee; City Chamberlain Henry Bruere, Commis- sioner of Weights and Measures Joseph Hartigan and representatives of the District-Attorney’s office are; to meet thirty food experts of the Manhattan Borough Market Commis- sion at 4 P. M. to-day in the office of Borough President Marks in the Speaking of this meeting, the Bor- ough President “The experts of the Market Commission will prove to the members of the Mayor's Commit- tee that as soon as the $42,000 appro- Priated by the Board of Estimate for market centres is available the prices of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, fish and other household commodities will be reduced to a figute never before reached in the history of the Greater City.” The food experts have completed a list of prices which go to show the uniform increase everywhere: PRICES OF AUG. 18 AND THOSE OF JULY 18, c Stewing plec: Soup pieces Porterhouse Hindquarter lamb. 28e 260 Leg lamb. fic Forequarte: Vie Lamb ch z Stowing pieces. . 32e-160 Leg mutton.. 16¢ Filet veal.... 3c Rui veal. fic bs Shofder veal 18c \8e B2c 300 26c tbe PROVISIONS. ory 20¢ 18¢ 220 200 50-28 the 23¢ ate 28c 23c Smoked beet tongues 26c tte BUTTER. Best creamery butter Bbclb, Ste EaGs. State ogee. . BSc doz. 82c WHOLESALE PRICES OF MEATS| SHOWING THE INCREA! Comparative table showing whole- | le prices of the following items ob- ained by the packers for ribs, loins, chucks and rounds of No. 1 beet for} the dates as indicate July 13.. July 20. July 27. Aug. 3 Aug. 6.. 19¢ Aug. 13.. 20¢ Aug. 17.. 20¢ The average price of hindquarters and ribs of beef for the months of| June and July, 1913 and 1914, and/ also the average price for the first two weeks In August of each year aro given below: +16%-15%e July 15%-16%c Aug. ‘These are prices paid by age butcher who operates three four retail stores and also does a| kind of wholesale business, selling to | smaller butchers and to hotels, res- taurants and clubs, ‘The average price to-day is 17¢ to 17%c, The 18c price mentioned is for a few sales of very fancy top quality hinds and ribs, Food prices for Williamaburg Bridge, Pitt street, Ridge street and Attornéy street district, Aug, 18, 1914: Present retail prices op pushcarts Flour, 7 ibs, 25¢. small en 180, Beans, Ib, Rolled Oats, be bx. Cabbage, 3-6c hd, | Milk, 6c at. Corn, 3 ears Se, Kale, 1¢ Ib, Sugar, Te Ib, i Cont to retailer: Ang. 8 Aug. 18, Increase Butter .... sBlelb, 8240 lhe Eggs . 220 doz, 2c so 2.26 bbl. 260 Potatoes $2 bbl, Flour-- Patent .$4.40 bbl.(Av.) 5.25 860 | Rye ....83.75-3,90 bbl, 4,50 Tbe | Common ...$3.95 bbl. 4.75 —_-80¢ Caraway Seed (German product)— 8c lb 16¢ ae Tomatoes (av.).,.80c bx 50. Meats—nll grades average an in- crease of 2c per 1b. Fruits—Plenty In the market, No| inerense in price, Sugar—increased $2 per 100 Ibs, in| jlagt three weeks, Flour—increased 75c per bbl, in| last three weeks, FISH, Perch—cost 2%-3%%c per Ib, Retail 4e_a be per Ib, Flounders-—sost 2% per ib, Sell for 4c per Ib. Fluke—cost 8c, sell for #€ per Ib, White Fish—cost 60, sell for 6c per Ib, Ane aad~écat, 98,00 bbl. of 250 Ibe, | Ralston. iehictan » ohaie Ey ia VTE aN gy sae qe sa7 7h 7 AKE FIRST STEPS TO-DAY TO CUT HIGH PRICES OF . ‘00D ANTWERP, BELGIAN GOVERNMENT NEW SEAT COUNT WITTESAYS Y1iL) ARG enane teoety SRas “VIEW COOKING BAST FROM Bva~ VAN DYCK =—THE CATHEDRAL IN CENTER BWONDERWOSCO ANDUONDER! GOLD SHIP IS HELD FOR SAFE CONDUCT INTO ZONE OF WAR Warring Nations Fail to Guar.| antee Safety of American Representatives. FALMOUTH, England, Aug. 19 (via London).—The United States cruiser Tennessee, which should have sailed at dawn to-day for the Hook of Hol- land on its mission of relieving stranded Americans in Europe, did not depart. . Henry 8. Breckinridge, United States Assistant Secretary of War, in explanation of the delay, sald: “I had expected to receive informa- |tlop from all the European Govern- ments promising safe escort for my representatives in conveying treasure to the different capitals, 1 also ex- pected more definite {nformation, through Ambassador Walter Hints Page, from the Continent of Europe to the exact number of Anfericans stranded in the various countries, As this has not arrived, I must stay on until it does, so that I can instruct my representatives exactly what to do. “It 1s impossible to get information by wireless at sea in the war areu, as we have been asked not to use wur wireless in the war area. Therefore at sea we should be cut off from everybody without having perfected our Continental plans. “I shall remain here until I receive all the information.” The cruiser North Carolina, which anchored in the Channel all night, left at dawn for Cherbourg. The Ten- nessee will communicate with her t cable, Hi American sailors here complain of the high charges for changing their money. They lose 80 cents on each five-dollar plece. Americans who arrived in London to-day from Denmark say they saw A. A. Adee, the American Second As- sistant Secretary of State, In Copen- hagen. Major Daniel W. Ketcham, direct- ing the American Gobernment relief measures in London, has opened of- fices In the Army and Navy Man- sions, No. 115 Victoria street, where ¢ | he will provide steamer reservations for stranded Americans. ol. J. E. Willard, American Am- bassador to Spain, left London to- day for Paris, accompanied by Capt. He will go on immediately to Madrid. ‘ LONDON, Aug. 19.—Robert P. Skin- |ner, American Consul-General at Lon- don, to-day received a communication from Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, saying that the British Government would permit the exportation of American owned motor cars. The Government also is & willing, the Beoretary ‘dad, to allow the of Ameri- EW LOOKING NORT AR WOSD 4n® ONDER. Aue ON’ RIVER SCHELODT. EUROPE'S WAR WILL ~-ENDINS MONTHS lye Ruslan Stal Statesman Be- lieves Downfall of Ger- many Is Certain. PARIS, Aug. 19.-A news despatch from Tarbes quotes Count Witte, the Russian statesman, who is on bis w from Biarritz to Russia, as declaring the European war would not last more than two or three months. It was bound to end, he sald, in the downfall of Germany. The moment had come when Russia should Inter- ven®. Her mobilization had been car- ried out slowly but surely, and her army was certain to vanquish Ger- many, whatever might happen, Belgians Tell Wh y Capi tal Was Removed to Antwerp —An official communication from Brussels, made public to-day, giv some detuils of the transfer of the} seat of the Belgian Government from Brussels to Antwerp. This transfer was not an immediate necessity, it is explained, but it was, can bred horses and puio ponies which are not needed by the militar: Boy Scouts hava been indispensable | to the American Relief Committeo as messengers and guides, but the uni- versality of their usefulness was proved to-day when a scout acted as an interpreter for a Russian woman, who was unable to speak Enulish, The scout was Alexander Wolkoff, son of the Russian naval attache in London. ' Twenty-five thousand ¢ have registered with the polic London district to date, The German Relief Committee is giving soup tickets to thousands, most of whorn, of the are forced to sleep in the park or at) lodging houses, WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Diplo- matic officials in Germany, Austria and Switzerland had instructions from the State Department to-day arrange for the transfer to France and England of all Americans who want to return home. English line steamers have resumed sailings and situation from justed. puld be the transportation French ports is ¢: Secretary Garrison said it PARIS, Aug. 19—(Assoclated Press) preferred to effect it now in a normal ‘they deny that. tho station ma rather than risk interruption to governmental business. | While Belgian officials have gone to Antwerp, their families remain in | Brussels, Her Majesty the Queen and ‘the Princes ure at the Antwerp pal- ace, while the King is with the army, sador Penfield from Vienna cabled the State Department to-day that there 2,200 Americans in Austria, Two- | are thirds of them desire to return to the United States, Fifteen hundred are} Americans are leay- ily, son admitted to-day that the Tennessee, held at Falmouth, England, was awaiting his orders, but refused to Macuss the mat It was eetd ar ents have not been com pleted for piloting the American ship through possible mine flelds and to in sure her wafe arrival at ports of coun- tries involved in the war, orauianeemenias GERMANS FEARING WASHINGTON WILL CUT THEIR WIRELESS. Members of the German-American Chamber of Commerce, No, 11 Broad- way, greatly excited over the likell- hood that this Government will shut rrigon maid tt would bel down the German wireless plants at Me in France and. Bing, | Tuckerton, N. J, and at Sayville, Ty yuld reach{ 1, complained to-day that an ex- those countries. J that the| change of telegrams wiih problem now was to got transporta lot State Bryan hut failed to ttu- some neutral port, for the stranded | Minate the situation, Following the tourists in other countries. protest of Colville Barclay, the Brit- Orders for the outfitting of several| ish Charge d’Affaires, to the State De- army transports to auil on a rellot| partment against the continued oper- Aapeaition cont ued ik ree teaey: ation of the German wireless, the Germany's offer to. place, severat| (ertman Chamber of Commerce wired liners at the disposal of the United States, American Red Cross officials an- nounced they hoped to have their relief ship ready to sail for Burope wi aH ING TO ten days. W. IGTQN, Aug. 19.—Ambas- ‘ Secretary Bryan for information and received this telegram to-day: Your telegram of Aug. 16 re- ceived, Relative to the d ft the establishment of the Tuckerton wireless etatiam this department ly Me entan advised that no license for opera- tion has been issued by the De- partment of Commerce under the act of Aug. 13, 1912, Whether this means that Secretary | Bryan intends to shut down the plant ‘in what is worrying the Germans here. being used exclusively to convey war news |to German steamships and battleships and point out that Great Britain, ‘rance and the allies have the benefit of cable service, lost to the Germans through the cutting of their cable. ‘The Government for the tle being has established a censor the Tuck- jerton and Sayville plants a mel WHAT HISTORY WOULD NOT CONTAIN HAD CORRE- SPONDENTS ALWAYS BEEN KEPT FROM THE FRONT! FIRST FULL STORY OF SINKING: OF AMPHION BY GERMAN MIN Sheet of Flame Enveloped the Bridge, and a Men Left Ship Second Mine Com- pleted Destruction. LONDON, Aug. 19 (Central News Cable].—The War Office Press Bu reau this afternoon issued an official and graphic story of the North Sea ” engagement which resulted in the sinking of the German mine-laying. steamer Koenigin Luise and the loss of the British cruiser Amphion. " The War Office story says: At 9 A. M. on the Gth of August the cruiser Amphion of the thtra> flotilia carrying out @ prearranged plan, began its search for Hostile war-_ ships off the coast of Easex. About an hour later a fishing trawler con+« veyed the information to the commander of the Amphion that she had seen & suspicious ship throwing things overboard. “The trawler indicated the position, and, proceeding in that Atrection, | the Amphion soon sighted the Koenigin Luise steaming east. ‘Four, de- | stroyers immediately gave chase, rounded up the Koenigin Luise and sank » her in an hour's time, The survivors were picked up, and the search for * other hostile ships was continued until 3.30 in the morning when the Amphion, returning, neared the scene of tho Koenigin's operations, “With the object of avoiding the danger zone the Amphion altered her course, but struck a mine at 6.30. “A sheet of flame enveloped the bridge, and Capt. Fox, who was rendered insensible, fell from the bridge. When he recovered consciousness he rang to the engine room to stop the engines, which were going at*twenty knots. “Al ithe fore part of the vessel was afire and it was impossible to reach the bridge or flood the fore magazines. The ship's back appeared to be broken and she was already settling by the bow. “Efforts were immediately directed to getting the wounded to a place of safety in case of the explosion of the forward magazine. By the time the destroyers closed in it was clearly time to abandon the ship, and the men fell in for this purpose. The same composure marked their behavior throughout, all being done without confu- sion. The men, officers and captain left the ship after the mine was struck. “another explosion occurred after the captain had left the shin, which enveloped and blew up the whole of the fore part. The vessel evidently struck a second mine, which exploded the fore magazine. “Debris falling from a great height struck rescue boats sent out by the destroyers and one of the Amphion’s shells burst on the deck of a destroyer, killing two seamen and a German prisoner who had been rescued from the Koenigen Luise. “The Amphion disappeared in about a quarter of an hour, Capt. Fox speaks in the highest terms of the behavior of the officers and men, declaring that every order was promptly obeyed without confusion or perturbation.” house@: GERMAN RESERVISTS SE arses STRMDEDIN NEWYORK Seiszese== ere CANT GET SHIPS HOME German reservists, stranded in this city, with little hope of getting ships for the Fatherland, waited éagerly to-day at the registration office of the North German Lloyd steamship offices, No. 11 Broadway, for a man who called there yesterday and pi posed to eatablMsh a concentration camp on the Catskill estate of Prince Paul Troubetskoy and his American wife, Amelie Rives, the novelist. None asked his name yesterday, but to-day more than Ofty men, with bagsa, awaited his coming. Prince Paul Troubetakoy, who is stopping at the Rits-Cariton, said, when he heard of the offer, that the man might be an employee of bis brother, Prince Pierre Troubetskoy. He ‘himself had no place In the Cats- kills, he aad, The situation of the German re- servists is a difficult one. The Con- sulate is short of funds, being unable to procure cash from abroad. Men continue to arrive datly to join the Tho problem of feed- ing them has taxed the ingenulty of the Consular officials. It has been partly solved by tho patriotic generosity of German reai- dents of this city. Heinrich 8, Koch of No, 914 Longwood avenue, the Bronx, has been handling funds pro- vided by popular subscription which, ao far, have been sufficient to provide bread and sausage for the reservists as a breakfast and a scanty meal at —_——_$ $$ night. Then they have been Like whiff across the Aretie waste Is this iced tea to all who taste. GAY.—On Aw HOWARD GA’ Funeral trom at 10.30 A. M., Friday, Fia., papers please copy. HELP WANTEO-—MALE. rae Oo Had correspondents always been kept from the battlefleld history to-day | would undoubtedly have been without -|any mention of such deeds as these, save in very brie€ and unatirring en- s from war archives: harge of the Light Brigade, Sheridan's Ride at Gettysburg. nthe Torpedoes.” arge, Cuban War, Hoer War, ‘amit ning the River After Swin hate Axuinaldo. Hobson's Sinki The firat encou ips in the Russ: shlpe tely without 4 report froma cor- What a story could have of the Merrimac: 7 odern battle- For Constipation EX LAX The Delicious Lazative Sree tee end me digestion, Good for ver nd srometse Cid, 10ty She, end Ge at beyad O00 B. Altman & Co.’ ‘ Reduction Sale of W-men’s Bathing Costumes The remainder of the Summer assortments of Satin, Taffeta, Moire and Mohair Bathe ing Costumes are now being offered at great reductions in prices. Silk Bathing Costumes, with combination, | at $6.00 & 7.50 Mohair Bathing Costumes, with bloomers, § at $2.85 \. 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