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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1887
Page
7
Grain prices listed for cornmeal rye flour oatmeal and corn products with ranges for steamer yellow and mixed grades. Millfeed and bran prices per ton vary by bulk or sack, plus cottonseed meal and rye and oats quotes, plus barley and malt hops ranges for Eastern New York markets.
The butter market shows a fairly steady tone with New York unchanged and Philadelphia lower for creamery butter. Cheese is mostly nominal with light supply, eggs firm across regions, and potatoes and poultry steady. Various regional quotes for butter, cheese, eggs, beans, seeds, and tallow are listed, highlighting wholesale levels and jobbing adjustments.
The fruit market remains stable from last quotes with strawberries selling Saturday at 1s 20c and the Norfolk boat carrying 3000 boxes. Apples Baldwin No 1 Massachusetts 350 to 400 dollars, Maine 34 450, spies 4 5, russets 350 4 25, No 2 series 2 60G 83 000. Evaporated, sun dried, and other dried apples priced per ton and per box with various grades. Valencia oranges 37 per case. lemons Messina Palermo per box 2 450. oranges Messina per box 250 4 25. Florida oranges and bananas from Baracoa Aspinwall Jamaica listed with multiple price points.
The market lists robust demand for Bermuda onions and Florida cabbages with prices around 165 and 3 dollars per bill respectively. Supply of asparagus, spinach, dandelions, and beets remains steady, while Southern beans and new Bermuda potatoes sell slowly at quoted rates. Norfolk boat reports 700 cabbage crates and 2650 pea crates, with varied crate and bush prices for multiple vegetables.
The market for packed meats is steady with quiet trade and unchanged prices. Fresh beef and hams show inactivity while lambs and mutton remain moderate to steady.Chicago quotations list varied closing and opening figures for May through September across pork, beef, lard and other cuts, with multiple price points and product names.
The report lists fancy yearlings at 7 8 cents, Eastern mutton at 64 7 cents for choice, with ranges from poor to good at 4 cents. East ern veal shows choice at 83 9 cents, some fancy quality around 10 cents, with poor to good from 5 to 7 cents.
The report covers continental port imports at 90 000 bales and a net weekly cotton decline of 65 699 bales versus 1886, with rises vs 1885 and declines vs 1884. It lists pipeline certificates and May figures, plus sugar prices for raw and refined goods, and steady molasses quotations for cargo lots and regional crops.
May 21 market notes show flour and wheat steady to firm across several cities with mixed receipts. No 1 hard and No 2 red wheat quoted at about 97 to 98 cents in New York and Chicago, while corn and oats vary by region. Prices for pork, lard, and bacon move modestly, with continued activity in flour, rye, and barley markets. Minneapolis shows No 1 hard at 80 to 84 cents for May and June delivery.
June 82c for July 78c No 2 Northern easier at 78c for May 7842c for June 80c for July Wheat firm No 1 hard higher at 2 821c for cash No 1 Northern at 81 8142c for cash No 2 Northern easy at 79c for cash Receipts 14720 bush shipments 35840 bush
Kansas City reports estimated receipts of 6000 today, 7494 yesterday, with shipments 2418. St Louis notes hogs steady with sales mainly 460 to 470, mixed packers 480 to 490, butchers up to 495. Peoria shows hogs steady at 440 to 510 with 800 receipts and 175 shipments. Chicago cattle receipts 400, ships 200, steers 380 to 475, stockers 274 to 325, cows and bulls 2400 to 3100, overall bulk 2750 to 3025. Texas cattle 11000, shipments 38000, packing and shipping 405 to 520, natives 325 to 500, western 340 to 475, Texans 250 to 400, lambs around 200.
Fall River reports weekly production 176000 pieces deliveries 157000 pieces stock 214000 pieces sales 106000 pieces spot 40000 pieces futures 50000 pieces Prices 35 16e nominal for 664x... sixe Nominal for 60x64s Market quiet and firm Providence market also firm with upward tendency closes at 35 16c bid for 64 squares Be for 56x60s Holders ask 3 1/2 percent for 64 spots and early delivery Sales total 52000 pieces vs 31000 last week Includes 1000 pieces 64x64s spots at 314 cent plus 1 per cent 19000 pieces 64x64s spots and early delivery at 35 16c 4000 pieces 6x60s spots at 215 16c 28000 56x60s May and June delivery at 3c Stock in hands of manufacturers 104000 pieces 64s and 3000 pieces x60s.
Market bulletin notes wheat and corn steady in London cargoes with 12 arriving and 13 awaiting sale. Paris wheat and flour firm. Liverpool quiet yet steady wheat, dull corn. Havana sugar market quiet. U S shipments and freight rates listed. Havana and Matanzas stocks tallied.
List of shipments from Rosario to Barrington NS and Calcutta with brig Irene carrying 2000 dry ox and cow hides and 708 bales of mndse. sloop Electric Light with 5000 lobsters. ship George Sheffield with jute butts and hides. Haytien ports steamer with logwood cocoa and coffee. Sch Nellie S Pickering at St Simons loading hard pine.
A compiled shipping record lists schooners and steamers with cargoes across North Atlantic ports. Port Medway to Portland items include Minnie May flour and various flour, meal, and sacks aboard multiple schooners, plus extensive consignments aboard Worcester and Riverdale, from Halifax to Charlottetown, covering hardware, marble, furniture, oils, canned goods, and farm produce.
A compiled list records Staple Products and quantities on May 21 1887 for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western and Lowell. Items cover cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed coffee tea butter lard bacon cheese eggs potatoes lumber leather hides and more.
A list of regional boot and shoe buyers and firms visiting Athens. Names include C W Baldwin Baldwin & Fleming of Baltimore Eichengreen Weil of Baltimore A F Horner J W Horner Charleston N A Hunt N A Hunt Co Charleston C M Drake Martin Drake Sons Cedar Rapids A B George Weeks Co Chicago A Lichtenstein Ad Chicago W W Laws & Co Chattanooga G M Smartt Smartt Bros Co Dubuque E B Pickenbrock Ad Detroit J McLogan W D Robinson Am Fort Worth E H Lewis Lewis Bros Gallipolis W H Andrews J Dages Co Indianapolis W K Hendricks Hendricks & Cooper Jones McKee Co KeKee Branham KeKee & Branham Beals Torrey & D Tennessee C H Vogel Hill Standish Co Adams Virginia M Pincus Lowenburg Hecht Pittsburg H Childs Jr Childs Co Philadelphia Henry Bell Bell Walt Monroe T Upham Upham Gordon Rome A W Tedcastle R G Clark St Louis Jacob Frank Adler Frank Co Montana A T Smith Smith Frazer Co San Francisco M I Cahn Cahn Mikelsburg Co Salt Lake City D M McAllister Zion Shoe Co Towanda Humphrey Bros Tracy
Insolvencies and compromises reported across multiple firms: Isidor H. Merton of Boston settles with creditors at 31.3 cents per dollar. 8S. N. Brickhouse & Co. of Norfolk offers 26 cents on the dollar. Bean & Ross of Boston owe 1770 dollars with 66 dollar lien on a 250 dollar stock. Dr J A Pagnet of St Johnsbury enters insolvency. C C Sanborn of Lisbon faces attachment. F W Bytcher of Milo also insolvent. Isaac C Barton of Bernardston and William Gallagher of Malden enter insolvency. George B Farnham of Lowell files voluntary petition. D R Saul & Son of Greenville attached. Other failures include G B Brown of Tampa W L Dodge of Seymour F F Gesner of New Haven F E Desageee and hardware dealer in Oxford Lewis Katzenberg of Philadelphia.
The article mocks Chicago society chasing crown jewels at a Paris sale. It notes Chicago diamonds dominate the country, reporters mock local dealers and agents abroad, and jokes about Chicagoans testing stones and paying top prices. A stray line mentions a yellow fever case in Key West.
The Cranksville event draws entrants from Boston Chicago Newton Mass Penn Mich and St. Louis for a 100 mile belt road race. With Prince and Frazier injured, Rhodes Whittaker Crocker emerge as leading contenders and Rhodes heads betting at 3 to 20.
A Wells Memorial Blatchford Hall meeting on the Saturday half holiday movement signals hopeful progress as a majority of city metal workers may secure a permanent half holiday in June. The Central Labor Union met in New Era Hall with Edward H. Rogers presiding and Rev. Philo Sprague presenting a hour long talk on wage increases. Carrriers and tanners gathered in Codman Hall under Knights of Labor to push for shorter hours with speakers including Edward Jaine and John C. Short.
A Western Republican Senator recounts securing a post office building for his town with a $100,000 bill while keeping costs under the limit. He negotiates with the President and local officials, claiming the site cost $10,000 and the town chipped in $5,000, with Uncle Sam paying $10,000 toward the project. In Pittsburgh, Panhandle railroad thieves receive prison sentences: Lavalle three years, Haggerty two years six months, Dunlap one year eight months.
Detailed train times effective Monday February 28 1887 for Boston to New York Providence and Mansfield connections. Shore Line Fast Express Shore Line Mail Steamboat Stonington Line and multiple local runs listed with departures from Boston Readville Dedham Stoughton Mansfield and surrounding towns including notes on Sundays late trains and delays.
Due to Connecticut legislation the 10 am Sunday Boston to New York and the 10 am Sunday New York to Boston trains will be discontinued after May 29. A 10 am Boston to Providence Sunday service and a 4 pm Providence to Boston Sunday service start June 5. Beginning May 30 the Shore Line train departs New York for Boston at 9 am instead of 2 pm. A. A. Folsom, Sept.
Boston passengers depart from Causeway Street for North Adams Troy Albany and the West with varied trains and sleeping cars to Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis and Albany. The timetable lists numerous city, town and line stops, connections, ex and sleeping car services, with Sunday and weekday variations and office contact details.
Local timetable notices list train times for Boston to major points including Springfield Albany and New York. Express and sleeping car services are noted with connections at key towns and schedule details across Worcester Framingham Palmer Chatham Ware River Branch and older names.
Timetable listing Sunday train and boat connections from New York via Fall River Line to Cohasset Hingham Weymouth Plymouth Duxbury and Taunton with return times to South Braintree Newport Taunton New Bedford and Fall River and notes on boat arrivals and advance service on Tuesdays and Fridays as announced by J R Kendrick General Manager.
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