1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
757 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Fire in a Chicago glucose factory October 
21 killed five persons; property loss, $400,000. . . . At 
White Plains, N. Y., October 23, J. C. Lathrop, Christian 
science healer, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Quimby were de¬ 
clared guilty of manslaughter by a coroner’s jury, they 
having permitted seven-year-old Esther Quimby, c'hild of 
two accused persons, to die of diphtheria without medical 
care.The Supreme Court at Olympia, Wash., 
has decided that a Japanese cannot become a citizen of 
the United States. The point came up directly in the mat¬ 
ter of admission of a young Japanese lawyer to the 
Washington bar, the law making citizenship a qualifica¬ 
tion for admission.A robber held up a passen¬ 
ger train on the Northern Pacific Railroad near Drum¬ 
mond, Mont., October 24, killed the engineer, rifled express 
and mail cars, and escaped with a large amount of plun¬ 
der.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the pioneer of wo¬ 
man’s rights, died in New York October 26, aged 87. She 
was prominent among Abolitionists, her husband being 
strongly identified wfith this movement. Mrs. Stanton in¬ 
fluenced the New York Legislature in the passage of the 
married woman’s property act in 1848. She had of late 
been interested in bringing the women of all nations 
nearer together, and to that end she formed and was 
the first president of the International Council of Women. 
As a writer, Mrs. Stanton was most prolific. With Susan 
B. Anthony and Parker Pillsbury she edited The Revo¬ 
lution, founded in 1868, and she was the joint author with 
Miss Anthoriy of the “History of Woman’s Suffrage.’’ In 
1895, Mrs. Stanton, with others, published “The Woman’s 
Bible.” Mrs. Stanton’s husband died in 1887, leaving his 
widow with six children. Henry Brewster Stanton was a 
lawyer, journalist and orator of National reputation. He 
was one of the founders of the Abolition party, and was 
a member of the convention of which the Republican 
party was formed.October 26 a large automo¬ 
bile struck a trolley car at Yonkers, N. Y., wrecking the 
car and injuring 22 persons, one fatally. . . . Frank 
Norris, the well-known novelist, author of “The Octopus,” 
died at San Francisco, Cal., October 25, following an op¬ 
eration for appendicitis. 
ADMINISTRATION.—King Oscar of Sweden and Nor¬ 
way, appointed arbitrator in the Samoan difficulty, has 
decided in favor of Germany, and against the United 
States and Great Britain. . . . Denmark has finally 
voted against the sale of the Danish ^Vest Indies to the 
United States.The response of the Colombian 
government to the proposition made by the State Depart¬ 
ment for a canal treaty has reached Washington. It sets 
back the proceedings by opening new topics for discus¬ 
sion. The Colombian government is entirely dissatisfied 
with the small amount of the payment to be made to it 
by the United States under the terms of the protocol 
which it is proposed to use as the basis of the treaty. 
This sum is $7,000,000. Colombia wants at least $10,000,000. 
Moreover, the original proposal looked to a wait for 14 
years before beginning the payment of annual rental, the 
amount of which was to be then fixed by mutual agree¬ 
ment. Colombia now asks the United States to agree at 
once on a lump yearly payment of $600,000, which will 
considerably increase the immediate cost of the enter¬ 
prise. The Colombian government clings to its conten¬ 
tion that it has no constitutional authority to alienate 
any Colombian territory, and reiterates that the best it 
can do to meet the language of the Spooner act, which 
looks to perpetual control by the United States over the 
canal strip, is to make a 100-year lease, with a distinct 
stipulation that the same shall be renewable by the 
United States at the expiration of the first century. 
LABOR.—The discovery that non-union men will not be 
discharged to make places for striking mine workers led 
to a renewal of violence in the anthracite region October 
22. At Hazleton, Emil Eick, a striker, who had just re¬ 
turned from Pittsburg to get work, was mistaken for a 
non-union man by Joseph Kern and John Reed, and was 
so frightfully beaten that he will be disfigured for life. 
Five houses were dynamited, three at Port Carbon and 
two at Gilberton. They were carefully planned and skil¬ 
fully executed. The houses at Port Carbon were those 
belonging to Charles Schrode and Peter Weaver, non¬ 
union workers, and Mrs. Harry Schfode, the mother of a 
deputy. Though in different quarters of the town, they 
were blown up within five minutes of each other, and the 
police believe that there were three separate parties act¬ 
ing with a full knowledge of what the others were doing. 
The same condition obtained at Gilberton, where the 
houses of Malachi Hullinger and Abbet Balliett, in op¬ 
posite ends of the town, were blown up within a couple 
of minutes of each other. In each of the five cases the 
fronts of the houses were badly damaged, some were 
torn out, and the w-alls and plaster were cracked and 
broken. The inmates suffered only slight injuries. 
Houses in the vicinity lost glass, pictures and chinaware. 
There is no clew to any of the perpetrators. Two at¬ 
tempts were made the same night to wreck railroad trains 
by driving wedges into frogs, so that any train reaching 
the adjacent rails would be thrown from the track. At 
Middleport, October 23, attempts were made to blow up 
two houses with dynamite, and a good deal of damage 
was done. The houses were tenanted by persons whose 
relatives worked in the mines during the strike. . 
The Arbitration Commission met October 30. On October 
29 there was a general suspension of work in honor of 
“Mitchell Day.” 
PHILIPPINES.—It is believed that the Philippines will 
experience a rice famine. The islands’ crops are small, 
the Oriental supply seems limited and the price is ad¬ 
vancing rapidly. It is possible that the Government will 
be forced to provide supplies for the poorer natives. . . 
. . The depreciation in the value of silver has cost the 
Insular Government approximately $1,000,000 in gold, as 
the government is carrying $10,000,000 in silver. Further 
depreciation will increase the loss. The official rate now 
is $2.40 silver for $1 in gold. The prospective surplus 
which the government planned to devote to needed pub¬ 
lic improvements has vanished, and a small deficit seems 
inevitable. Discontent on account of the fluctuating cur¬ 
rency is general. Many merchants and others have sus¬ 
tained losses proportionate to that of the government, 
and many firms have put their business on a gold basis. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The National Association of 
Creamery Butter-makers met in annual convention at 
Milwaukee, Wis., October 21. They were welcomed to 
the State by ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard. 
Newton K. Fluke, director of the Iowa Horticultural 
Society and widely known for his work in propagating 
now varieties of fruit, especially the dewberry, dropped 
dead October 21 while at his w r ork at the Experiment 
Station at Davenport, Iowa. 
BUSHEL BOXES FOR APPLES. 
Various Markets Heard From. 
Very late in the season we handle a great many apples 
in bushel boxes and consider it an A1 package for strictly 
fancy stock. Do not think it advisable, however, to put 
anything but the very finest stock in this package. 
Cleveland, Ohio. the bigalow fruit co. 
It might do in a year when apples were scarce to put 
the best fruit in boxes, as the California people do, but 
this year, apples being so plentiful and reasonable, most 
of our trade prefer them in barrels. The California peo¬ 
ple have so far to send their apples that the box makes 
the best package for them to ship in. a. f. young & co. 
New York. 
We find barrel fruit sells the best in our market, that 
is better t’han box goods, except when the fruit is very 
high towards Spring, when the trade prefers to buy a box 
instead of a barrel. Our Deadwood house, however, west 
of here, prefers box goods, and we find that the case the 
farther west we get. h. g. streight & co. 
Omaha, Neb. 
In my opinion the apple box is not a suitable package 
for the general marketing of apples, except in seasons 
when apples are rather scarce, and then I would advise 
packing only the best fruit in this way. There is no doubt 
but what we will have to use this package eventually, as 
barrels are getting more scarce every year. 
Boston, Mass. Walter webling. 
The box package for apples is not at all popular in this 
market, except among the fanciest trade. We do not 
think that this package would be practicable for general 
use, but no doubt it is the most desirable package for ex¬ 
tremely fancy goods. Our trade will not buy the box 
package except when apples are very scarce and high. 
Wheeling, W. Va. Chester franzell. 
Apples packed in boxes are not regarded very favorably 
in our market. We have brought apples in boxes to this 
market from California and Colorado and tried to get our 
trade accustomed to them in that style package but in 
every instance it has proven a failure. We t’hink that 
you will find that barrels are the most popular package 
throughout the entire South. muscat & lott. 
Mobile, Ala. 
California boxed apples have been on the market for 
some years, and they generally take very well. We pre¬ 
sume. however, that the eastern apple, packed in boxes, 
would meet with just as much success as the California 
fruit. It is true that the small package would reac’h the 
best class of customers, but the trade here is mostly in 
favor of barreled stock. miller & teasdale com. co. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
We have handled a good many boxed apples from Cali¬ 
fornia and Oregon and find there is an increasing demand 
for boxed fruit. While we favor boxes for fine selected 
fruit we do not favor their use on ordinary grades. The 
California box does not hold as much fruit as the Oregon 
box, and dealers will not buy the California style box as 
long as the Oregon package is on the market. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. m. fugazzi & co. 
Trade here does not take well to the apple box, espec¬ 
ially in a year of plenty like this. In past years we have 
’handled a few in boxes. Nothing but the best fruit- 
stand trade buys them. In a year like this, when best- 
grown are shipped in bulk, such as King and other fancy 
varieties, selling at $1 to $1.10 per bushel, boxes don’t 
stand any show. morton & kyle. 
Chattanooga, Tenn. 
The apple box in our market is not at all popular. We 
do, at certain seasons, handle some California and Colo¬ 
rado apples packed that way in bushel boxes. Our mar¬ 
ket prefers barrels, and I think will continue to give bar¬ 
rels the preference for some time to come. When fruit is 
scarce in the early Spring fancy varieties are then taken 
by t’he trade, but only in the absence of good barrel stock. 
Buffalo. N. Y. CHARLES RICHARDSON. 
The bushel apple box for our market would not be a 
profitable package. As a general thing we have a local 
supply of apples here enough for all times, and the farm¬ 
ers peddle them to every store, and many times to every 
house every day through the season, so that the dealers 
will buy them in any package provided they can make a 
deal with the farmer. But in the larger cities, from 
what I have heard, I should think it would be very pop¬ 
ular. f. c. HATCH. 
Springfield, Mass. 
For the past 10 to 12 years we have been in this market 
regarded as extensive dealers in apples, having always 
stored large quantities in coolers for Winter purposes. 
The boxes used in California and Utah are desirable, es¬ 
pecially when fruit is selling at high prices. We believe 
in using this package where the growers or packers mean 
to put up a strictly fancy grade and variety, for there is 
much fancy trade which prefers to take this style of 
package where the fruit is of a uniform size throughout 
the box and of perfect quality, and this class, as a rule, 
is willing in this market to pay the value of such fruit. 
To some extent we could also recommend it to be used 
for choice grade or ordinary pack, as many of our large 
retail dealers will take this style of package in good 
quantities to be sold again to the consumers in the orig¬ 
inal way, saving the retail dealer considerable expense 
and trouble in handling and unpacking and measuring. 
In using this style of package we would recommend that 
they would contain one full bushel of at least 55 pounds 
gross weight or about 48 to 50 pounds net. 
Peoria, Ill J. g. reuter & co. 
In our opinion the proper way to pack the best grade of 
apples is in boxes. It is universally liked by the best 
trade and they are willing to pay a premium for same, 
but we hardly think it advisable to pack ordinary grades 
that way. Even coming into competition with a big east¬ 
ern crop the California and Oregon apples packed in boxes 
have been able to come into the market here and realize 
fair prices, in numerous instances about as much being 
realized for the boxes as for barrels. The trouble is that 
many apples in barrels are not packed straight. We 
cannot recommend too strongly packing all fancy apples 
in boxes. p. ruhlman & co. 
New York. 
We are very favorably impressed with the box as a 
package for apples. The California style of package we 
think is the best up to the present time. No doubt the 
use of the boxes for packing apples would increase the 
sale. There is one trouble in the general adaptation of 
the box for a package here in the East, the general poor 
quality of the fruit. Fancy fruit is all right put up 
in boxes but ordinary fruit should not be packed in that 
way, and there is so very little good fruit raised here in 
the East as a general thing that we have not up to the 
present time advised the use of that style of package 
for the usual run of fruit. I think, however, that the 
use of the box will increase and that in the near future 
there will be a large quantity of fruit handled in that way. 
Worcester, Mass. w. h. blodget. 
THE MARKETMEN ON BELGIAN HARES. 
This Belgian hare humbug was about the biggest gold- 
brick scheme ever offered to the public, and the public 
was crazy over it. The value of Belgian hares per pair 
for their meat is about 75 cents. Hares and rabbits are 
used almost entirely by the foreign population; very few 
being sold to Americans, and when they sell above 75 
cents a pair they will not use them. At 50 or 75 cents 
per pair a great many would be sold. j. d. mead & co. 
Boston, Mass. 
In regard to Belgian hares the quantity received here 
does r,ot yet take the place of the wild animal for food 
purposes, being mainly specimens for breeding. Those of 
our customers who can afford t’he luxury occasionally 
buy them for table use at a price exceeding the native 
and wild variety, but it is our opinion, with judicious 
cultivation (considering their prolific breeding) that they 
will be in demand as a staple article of food, at prices 
above the flesh of the ordinary rabbit. We are daily dis¬ 
posing of many pairs to customers who intend breeding. 
Our prices have averaged from $1.50 to $12 per pair, con¬ 
sidering quality and breeding. We have had dressed 
and prepared, as an experiment, several of these Belgian 
hares in various ways, and find the flesh most delicious. 
New Orleans. ruty & appel. 
The Belgian hare craze struck this part of the country 
some time ago, ran its course, and died a natural death. 
In fact, it became such a craze that two newspapers were 
started in this city for the express purpose of furnishing 
information for breeders of Belgian hares. Hundreds of 
people spent hundreds of dollars on purebred stock, 
houses and equipment. On the market there never was 
any demand for them, and there never was a "flatter” 
boom than this; the bottom fell entirely out and it is 
scarcely heard of to-day. I received a few shipments 
of Belgian hares, and was never able to get more than 
five cents per pound, or 25 cents each for them. The ex¬ 
perience of other commission men is similar. They were 
never quoted in the prices made by the Kansas City 
Produce Exchange. If you can keep your readers from 
wasting their time and money on this worn-out fad you 
will have done them a great, service. d. a. trimble. 
Kansas City, Mo . 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Archdeacon & Co., 100 Murray Street, New York, are 
extensive dealers in dressed poultry and hothouse pro¬ 
ducts 
The repairs being made on the White House include 
roofing, and We learn that the material used Is the U. S. 
Eagle N. M. Brand, made by the American Tin Company. 
It is the best quality of the American product. It is 
said to be not only a substantial roof but is also an ar¬ 
tistic ornament 
The reputation of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 
New Haven, Conn., stands as high abroad as in this 
country, as is shown by the fact that most European 
monarchs place orders with them for their hunting out¬ 
fits. The last addition to the long list Is King Oscar of 
Sweden. He was so pleased with the guns made for him 
by this company that, without solicitation upon their 
part, he appointed them Gunmakers to His Majesty. 
The Frost wire fence is constructed with a view to 
strength in every wire. To this end the wire is made of 
hard coiled spring steel, expansion and contraction are 
provided for, the vertical wires are made large and con¬ 
nected with the running wires by use of the Frost wedge- 
lock so as firmly to unite them without lessening the 
strength of either. Anyone interested in durable wire 
fences may get further information of the manufacturer, 
the Frost Wire Fence Co., Cleveland, O. 
One of the most promising enterprises that we saw in 
a recent southern trip was the new factory of the De 
Loach Mill & Mfg. Co., at Atlanta, Ga. The destruction 
of the old mill by fire some time ago left the ground open 
for an entire new plant, which ’has been built and 
equipped with modern machinery. It has a capacity of 
200 sawmills per month, and turns out besides shingle- 
mill machinery, planers, water wheels and buhr mills. 
Their sawmills are suited to any power from four-horse 
to 200. To those interested in any of these lines of ma¬ 
chinery a large illustrated catalogue will be sent free. 
