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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1929
Page
2
Chicago January 11 zero weather halted loading over two days. Strong Holland cabbage market lifted prices to new highs with sales up to 60 a ton f o b Wisconsin and most around 50.62. Demand remained brisk and ships plan to move cabbage in two to three weeks.
The report notes gradual advances up to mid December with few declines during the shipping season. Most cabbage was of excellent quality and there was little difficulty from rejections due to inferior stock.
Mark Jacobsen head of Mark P. Jacobsen Company is confined at home with eye and nose trouble. Walter Farley recently married in Los Angeles spent the first of the week on the local market with Mrs Farley. Jerry Masek of the American Fruit Growers Inc Illinois left Monday for California to mix golf with business.
Milwaukee market reports a quiet week in fruits and vegetables with a firm undertone. Cabbage prices rose sharply on low supplies while onions, potatoes, cucumbers, green peas, beans, peppers, and shallots showed strength. lettuce and some staples weakened as supply increased.
Chicago onion prices rose this week after a month of stability with values from 50c to 1 dollar per cwt. Good yellow onions hovered at 4.50 per hundred for delivery and up to 5.50 locally, while white onions, scarce, fetched 6 dollars for top quality.
James Marcel Marcelletti, Paw Paw Michigan grower and shipper, opens an office in room 714 Produce Exchange building Chicago. He will be based there during the Southern vegetable deal.
Chicago delegates from the 11th annual American Fruit & Vegetable Shippers' Association will tour Chicago's new cold storage at 1650 Blue Island avenue. The first unit, nearly complete, will open in March and cost about 4.5 million dollars. The 11 story reinforced concrete building spans 337,210 square feet and serves seven trunk rail lines with 80 car daily capacity. Frank E. Roth will manage. the Produce Terminal Cold Storage Co. board includes Christians, Costa, Cuneo, Rocca, Mayer, Ward.
Chicago January 11 The opening hour of local produce terminals was changed to 6 a m last Saturday by South Water Market dealers. They deemed 6:30, set six weeks ago for winter, unsatisfactory as some jobbers must pull loads by 6 to serve retail buyers who arrive early.
The Bruns Arrigo Company, formed about a month ago, discontinued business Monday at 82 South Water Market. The firm occupied part of that store and plans to continue in the market but has not chosen a new location.
Vegetable trading in Chicago began with a standstill due to extreme cold, then improved as conditions warmed. Prices across beans, lettuce, celery, cucumbers, peppers, radish, shallots, spinach, and tomatoes varied with quality and origin, showing steadier or higher levels despite some downtrends in hot house stock and off grade supplies.
Robert G. England 53 of Chicago died at his Oak Park home Sunday night after a sudden bout of pleural pneumonia. He was a partner in Walde & England for about 11 years and previously worked with his brother George D. England at South Water Market. Funeral services were held in Rochelle, Ill. He is survived by two brothers and a sister. Roy A. Klotz will manage the firm, having been with the organization seven years and active in management for five years due to Mr. England’s ill health.
Merkel Brothers Company of Chicago says its 1928 year was strong doubling volume from 1927 and handling more than 1 800 cars of produce plus direct shipping tonnage. The firm operates departments managed by experienced salesmen and also packs apples tomatoes and celery cabbage under the Flying Merkel brand.
Otto L. Anne reno & Co. named Chicago distributors for Health brand rhubarb shipped from Detroit by Joseph Becker. First shipments arrived this week in five pound cartons. The firm also holds exclusive Chicago distribution for Magnolia brand hothouse cucumbers and handles Edgewood cucumbers from Jacksonville Florida, packed in family sized cartons of one dozen with six cartons per crate.
A Tuesday morning blaze of unknown origin destroyed tar and felt covering that shields brine pipes at 161 and 163 South Water Market. The pipes link freezers to the Central Cold Storage plant in the market basement. Only smoke discoloration and brief telephone outages in Fourteenth Place west block noted.
Wert Hoxie of Waterloo Fruit and Commission Company and longtime civic and fruit industry figure was stricken with meningitis. He was in critical condition for days but improved after serum treatment from Iowa State College specialists and his recovery was expected.
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