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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1914
Page
1
The Barnet Baff murder probe reveals how Emerson and his Live Poultry Auction Company allegedly manipulated market prices. Circulars claim the firm opposed unfair dealing while the system reportedly pushed up New York prices via auction room bids.
The Pearson Page Company Portland’s largest fruit and vegetable dealer reopened after planning to quit due to old leases and heavy warehouse rent. The bank refused a shutdown, agreed to cancel leases and reduce rent, allowing the firm to resume operations on a larger, stronger footing.
Notices signal a special meeting of the National Association of Carlot Live Poultry Shippers in St Louis at the American hotel. The purpose remains undisclosed though the A. T. Pearson matter may be discussed. Anticipation runs high after recent tense times in the union.
The twenty third annual convention of the National League of Commission Merchants will be held in Detroit at the Hotel Cadillac January 13 to 15. A cordial invitation is extended to producers shippers press railroad representatives and others in the produce and fruit trade. Smith McNeil’s hotel in New York closes with liabilities of 37000 and assets only fixtures.
New York report states Julius D. Mahr is named for president by the nomination committee of the New York Mercantile Exchange with the rest of the slate largely unchanged including directors. California Vegetable Shipments
A. Cowart and H. J. Aken faced mail fraud charges tied to the Hub Produce and Grocery Company scheme in Dallas. Cowart was transferred from Fort Worth to a federal prison in Leflore, Kansas, to serve five years while Aken remains at large. The scheme exploited shippers of poultry and eggs across Texas.
C E Todhunter, active in Cincinnati and Covington for over a year, faces lawsuits for money owed on onion shipments. Wells of Knox Indiana seeks $234 for two carloads of onions shipped September 30 and October 10, with Todhunter issuing a now nonpayable check. A second suit concerns onion sets from Louisville firm L S Brown & Co. Todhunter, often between Cincinnati and Covington, has recently worked with Mendel Grote and the Cincinnati Produce Co.
Charles Strang once of Strang & Burlingame, a fruit and vegetable jobber at 23 Washington Street, failed last week. He owes about 1500 to the trade and has assets of roughly 400 as yet.
The bulletin, mailed free to advertisers, lists hundreds of names and addresses of growers and shippers across Texas Florida Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Alabama Kentucky Ohio Missouri and more. It covers eggs poultry butter dressed turkeys onions potatoes cabbage apples cider fruit and other produce with tips to act on.
New York reports more than 1,000 attendees at the APaOpe convention led by Samuel Greenbaum and federation president Ely Greenblatt. The federation counts 1,400 members, 63 branches in 11 states, and highlights cooperative fire insurance with over $1,000,000 in coverage and a purchasing bureau moving $185,000 in supplies saving $20,000. Local credit unions enable borrowings up to $100 to bridge gaps before harvest.
The Freda Oetjen Company at 339 Washington Street was closed by the Internal Revenue Department for violating oleomargarine laws. Inspectors found two casks and two barrels of oleo oil as authorities lock the doors and review books. Fred Oetjen, a prominent figure in New York butter and egg trade, is not in custody. the seizure follows reports from New York to Washington and back.
The Secretary of Agriculture lifted the potato quarantine for Canada until December 22 1913 allowing disease free Canadian potatoes to enter the United States via New York and Boston under strict inspection and certification requirements. Importers must obtain a permit and any diseased lots will be refused entry and permits canceled if disease is found.
Fair demand continued for barreled apples in Chicago with no major change. Warm weather caused some deterioration in arrivals and many apples were in specked condition requiring quick movement. Receipts were mostly medium grade Baldwins and Greenings were tighter. Prices ranged from 1.40 to 3.00 per barrel depending on variety and size. Large Jonathans arrived ripe and sold cheaply to peddlers.
Apple shipments from all American ports reached 126 886 barrels for the week ending last Saturday, up from 99 708 barrels a year earlier. Major routes included New York Boston and Montreal with notable Halifax totals, while box fruit and barrel prices varied by variety and quality across markets.
Trade in citrus fruits remained good in Chicago despite a post holiday lull. Oranges stayed firm with strong demand, California navel and Florida oranges priced around 2.65 to 3.58 per box, grapefruit plentiful with prices about 2.25 to 2.50, lemons quiet with California quotes at 3.00 to 3.26.
A bankruptcy petition was filed in New York on Monday against Max Newman a Harlem fruit and produce jobber who failed last week Creditors include Robt Cochran Co 154 A F Young Co 137 and H G Miles Co 235 Newman owes between 5000 and 6000 to about 70 creditors A meeting was held but Newman and his attorney did not appear and creditors plan further investigation plus a prior offer of 20 percent cash and remaining in notes was rejected Detroit Poultry Dealer Sucks Trade Epstein a small local jobber vanishes after taking about 2000 of poultry and goods Plattekill farmer Kopaski filed for bankruptcy listing assets of 5161 with no assets.
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