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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1888
Page
8
A wide array of grains and milled products show steady or firmer prices amid tight stocks and dull general business. Wheat and flour markets vary by region with exports active. oats, corn, rye, and millfeed display mixed to steady demand while spot and future quotes reflect cautious buying and a quiet trading floor.
Receipts for May end show butter 67 636 pkgs, 13 457 boxes. oleo 19 681 pkgs. cheese 6 678 boxes. eggs 264 boxes. cases 50 327. beans 5 601 bbis. potatoes 180 cars 226 675 bush. hay 679 cars. straw 77 cars. paltry 1288 pkgs. sweet potatoes 779 bbls. 1837 totals include notable shifts. Butter market weak, receipts rising, prices easing with regional variation across St Louis New York and Cincinnati markets.
Western and Michigan markets show firm or steady quotes for choice beans peas and corn. New York Eastern firsts 166c Western 164c. Grass seeds and timothy firm with varied regional prices. Potatoes and hay steady or dull with specific regional barrel stock and turf prices noted. Poultry market quiet with mixed fresh killed and live fowls priced by region.
Receipts for May end include Apples 3,859 bbls, strawberries 24,613 pigs, Florida oranges 87 boxes, Valencia 5,657 cases, Palermo 9,332 boxes, Naples 4,400, Lemons Palermo 23,800, Naples 800 boxes. Last year’s figures show varied totals. Bananas 160,959 bunches in Boston. steamer Ponca sale prices. Pineapples 1,597 dozen. Apples steady with Baldwins and russets priced. Oranges and Lemons steady with Palermo 3.50–4.50 per box and Messina 2.50–4.00 per box. Strawberries large but poor quality with low prices. Bananas and coconuts sold by WW & CR Noyes. Florida peaches 1.50–2.00 per crate.
The Balder from Baracoa sails with bananas for G. H. Harding. The Lorenzo D. Baker from Jamaica brings bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Gambetta from Baracoa carries bananas for Seaverns & Co.
The schooner Mary Ann McCann has arrived from Bermuda carrying 5022 boxes of onions for C. E. Morrison & Co. Sales were brisk at 16 pence per crate. A steady demand at prior prices is noted for truck produce including Norfork green peas, Florida tomatoes, Southern cabbage, kale, spinach, string beans, wax beans, dandelions, onions, beets, squash, carrots, lettuce, parsnips, turnips, and various cucumbers. Prices shown include crates, bbls, and per bush units across multiple regions.
Allan Asher & Co report a largely unchanged market with limited investment demand and a narrow price range. New York futures opened dull and closed quiet as Liverpool and U S spot prices show modest advances, exports rising and mills expanding to July and October.
St Louis Net shows two day total of 73 with gross 472 and shipments 1480, stock 34301 and mid price 99 16 cents. Consolidated Net six day receipts total 18766 with exports to Great Britain 20095, to France 714, to the continent 7093, stock at all U S ports 392 538m.
A monthly tally shows meat and fat supplies including pork 2825 bbls beef 034 bbls fresh beef 638 cars lard 16 541 tierces 3255 cases and 24 477 pigs hams 1624 ubis and 1624 tierces bacon 11 957 boxes and other items. Prices and markets across New York Cincinnati Chicago and Western ports are listed with measurements for lard bacon and pork tongues. Beef and fresh meats move at firm or steady quotes with pork and hog products noted as in good demand.
Sugar and molasses prices are reported firm with active demand at prior levels. Raw sugar quotes include Cuba refining 413-16 415.16c and Javas Nos 10 to 11 at 569-16. refined sugars show steady demand with pulverized 8c and granulated 67c. New York raw sugar steady while molasses market remains quiet and unchanged across many grades and ports.
In Kansas City receipts show dull hogs with prices down up to 10 cents and steady cattle. St Louis hogs mixed with Yorkers at 5.10 to 5.80 and butchers steady. Peoria hogs quiet at 6.10 to 5.50. Chicago cattle stronger with beeves 4.50 to 5.50, hogs dull at 5.25 to 5.45. Cincinnati hogs dull to lower with 4.55 to 5.75 for packing and butchers.
Tallow and cotton markets show quiet steady activity in New York and St Louis with slight firming in Rio levels. Turpentine and rosin edge higher in New York while petroleum complex sustains gains and Peps Line Certificates close at tight ranges.
A lengthy OCR fragment catalogues 1888 imports and exports across Azua, Santo Domingo, Cardenas, Liverpool, and Bermuda. Items include sugar, coffee, hides, skins, tin, pig iron, Yuk. ships named Ystava, Virginian, Mary Ann McCann. firms Baring Bros & co, Whitney, Pousland & co, Delong & Seaman, Wing & Evans, Stone & Downer, Morey & co. The list notes quantities like 8576 boxes bananas, 10,000 dry hides, 692,000 gist logs, and 211 tons 17 cwt. The entry appears as a raw mercantile ledger excerpt with vessel names, consignors, and cargo items.
A dense list from Liverpool, Melbourne, and Five Islands shipping records detailing cargoes aboard several vessels including the Kansas, Anastasia, and Benjamin F Hant Jr. Items listed cover vast quantities of corn, cotton, beef, lard, flour, canned goods, hardware, wood, rope, oil, kerosene, and numerous other commodities. Totals indicate vast overseas trade activity with multiple consignments and vessel movements recorded for May 28 to May 31, 1888.
A detailed ledger of staple goods and shipments across the Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and related lines. It itemizes bales of cotton and wool, flour, oats, corn, grease, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, tea, coffee, and lumber among others, with hundreds of quantity figures and car or box counts. The entry covers May 31, 1888, and reflects extensive inland trade activity.
Foreign markets in London and Liverpool show wheat quiet with poor demand and few cargoes moving. Corn steady to dull. Paris and Antwerp markets ease on wheat and flour. futures for California wheat mix with June at 63 8 144, July 68 8 10, October 63 10d. Liverpool spot wheat neglected, breadstuffs subdued, pork steady at 70s, bacon drifting lower.
Citations call next of kin and creditors to appear at Boston Probate Court in June 1888 for administrations and trusteeships. Names include CHARLES H. FISKE, GEORGE A. SMYTHE, WALTER S. PROVAN, LOUISE K. DEAKE, CHARLES S. BRADLEY among others. Public notice via the Boston Post required.
Philadelphia Express Daily Hartford New Haven Jersey City Trenton via Washington with Pullman buffet cars to Washington Night Express to New York via Hartford arrives 6 48 am through Magnificent sleepers Parlor Berths and state rooms Tickets at 322 Washington Street or depot Sumner Street Boston officials Jackson Vining Kendall See source for service details and connections to Norwich New London City of Boston City of New York.
Trains depart Boston Causeway Street after May 27 1988 to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and westbound services include 6.30 8.30 am Ex palace parlor car to Troy Albany Binghamton 11.35 am palace parlor car to Troy 3 pm Express to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Erie 7 pm Express to Chicago via Niagara Falls Grand Trunk also to St Louis via Wabash 11 pm palace sleeping car to Troy Albany Binghamton Ayer Junction service at 6.30 8 8.30 9 11.35 am 2.20 5 3.05 4.40 6 6.23 47 11 pm Sundays 9 am 1.05.
A dense listing of train and ferry times across Boston area towns including Ashmont Braintree Brockton Hingham Mattapan Nantasket Beach Neponset Quincy Weymouth and Fall River with numerous weekday and Sunday departures and seasonal exicumptions, detailing early morning to late night services and via routes.
A list of weekday bus schedules across Cape Cod towns including Buzzards Bay Bourne Bourne under BM Bournedale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Vineyard Haven Edgartown Nantucket via New Bedford Amset Bay Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet and Wareham with multiple morning and afternoon departure times such as 8.15 am 4.15 pm and various intermediate stops.
A dense OCR of intercity rail times lists departures and arrivals for Providence and nearby stations including Park Square, Attleboro, Canton Junction, Dedham, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roxbury, and Pawtucket. The fragmentary page shows varied times, Sunday notes, and late evening services, with frequent references to the Shore Line and New York connections.
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