1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
246 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The National Sugar Refin¬ 
ing Company, the $20,000,000 corporation 
in which the sugar trust holds stock, has 
paid into the United States Treasury $604,- 
304.37, which the Government has proved to 
the satisfaction of the National was owed 
in duties on underweighed sugar imported 
by that company between 1898 and 1907. 
* A spectacular fire, which lighted up the 
country for miles around, destroyed Feb¬ 
ruary '9 the six-story manufacturing plant 
of the New England Rendering Company 
and an immense cattle shed of the Armour 
Packing Company at the Brighton abattoir, 
Boston, Mass. The total loss is estimated 
at $750,000. The cattle in the sheds were 
turned loose, and 300 head were soon run¬ 
ning wild up and down the yard, impeding 
the work of the firemen, who, however, 
managed to confine the blaze to the one 
shed first ignited. 
A fire which threatened the business cen¬ 
tre of Lancaster, Pa., February 10, caused 
damage estimated at $400,000. It started 
with an explosion, presumably of gunpow¬ 
der, in the hardware store of Reilly Bros. 
& Raul), and this establishment was de¬ 
stroyed ; also several shops. Employees 
of the hardware store were injured by the 
explosion, but none seriously. The build¬ 
ings destroyed were owned by A. C. Kepler, 
whose loss is estimated at $200,000. Last 
September the warehouse of Reilly Bros. 
& Raub was burned, and was just rebuilt. 
Their loss on stock is placed at about $125,- 
000. Admiral Reynolds Post, G. A. R., lost 
a fine collection of relics of the wars of 
the Revolution. 1812, and the Rebellion, in¬ 
cluding some historic battle flags. 
After Oliver Spitzer, convicted refinery 
superintendent of the Sugar Trust, had been 
sentenced February 10 to spend two years 
in prison by .fudge Martin of the United 
Stale Circuit Court, he issued a statement 
attacking the corporation, which, he said, 
had made a scapegoat of him. As soon as 
Judge Martin had passed sentence upon 
Spitzer, a motion was made to release the 
prisoner under bail, pending an appeal, but 
it was denied. As soon as sentence had 
been pronounced on Spitzer Judge Martin 
opened court for the trial of Charles It. 
Ileike, secretary of the American Sugar 
Refining Company of New Jersey and secre¬ 
tary and treasurer of the New York com¬ 
pany. Ileike was indicted on charges of 
defrauding the Government out of customs 
duties on sugar and of overt acts in signing 
checks for the short payments. His trial on 
the conspiracy charge was complicated by 
the plea of his counsel, John B. Stanchfield, 
and George S. Graham, that their client 
should be immune from prosecution because 
he had given before the Federal Grand 
Jury the evidence upon which he was in¬ 
dicted. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At the Wis¬ 
consin Agricultural Experiment Association 
meeting prize winner wheat sold for $(54 
a bushel at auction. Barley brought $60 
a bushel, and oats $44 a bushel. The 
best single ear of corn brought $0.50. 
An international exhibition which is to 
include all inventions made in the line of 
agricultural machinery, organized under the 
auspices of the Agricultural Central Com¬ 
pany of the Kingdom of Bohemia, will 
be held at Prague from May 14 to 22. Of 
especial interest to foreign exhibitors will 
be the departments devoted to dairy equip¬ 
ment. bee and silk worm culture, and sugar 
growing. All information may be had 
from Arthur Gobiet, Prague, Ivarolinenthal. 
Pork on the hoof reached the highest 
price since 1882 at Chicago, February 14, 
when hogs sold for $9.20 a hundred pounds, 
an advance of 40 cents above the prices 
of a week before. The packers made a 
determined effort to hold prices down, but 
receipts of 40,000 proved inadequate to 
Supply the demand and when buyers for 
shipments began the bidding at 5 cents 
above quotations the price jumped rapidly. 
Present prices are 15 cents under the prices 
of 1882, but they are more than $2.50 a 
hundredweight higher than a year ago. 
For the first time in five years European 
eggs are now being imported into this 
country. They are all shipped by brokers 
from Hull, England, but were gathered 
originally from Austria, France and Ger¬ 
many. Up to February 14 the foreign 
eggs amounted to 900 cases, holding up¬ 
ward of 80,000 dozen. All the foreign eggs 
are coated on the outside of the shell with 
a secret compound of paraffin to preserve 
them. The coating is almost transparent, 
but it is so noticeable that foreign eggs 
may be readily distinguished by its pres¬ 
ence from the domestic. The coating is 
not removed, so that the public in buying 
the eggs in the grocery stores will know 
if it is getting foreign or domestic products. 
Arrangements for the movement of Europe¬ 
an eggs to New York were begun several 
weeks ago, when the fresh gathered eggs 
were bringing 50 cents a dozen at whole¬ 
sale in this city, and even storage eggs 
were up to 28 or 29 cents. Since then 
prices have been steadily declining, and 
February 14 the finest fresh gathered eggs 
were quoted at 28 to 28 y 2 cents at whole¬ 
sale, while the first grade of eggs in ware- 
horses could be bought at 22 to 23 cents. 
The foreign eggs are sold at wholesale 
for from 23 to 24 cents. The duty on the 
foreign eggs is five cents a dozen and the 
shipping charges about four cents a dozen. 
The dealers say that the London and other 
European markets are flooded with eggs 
and the extremely low prices abroad enable 
the shippers to .pay the nine cents for 
duty and freight and make a profit in 
New York, even at the prices now prevail¬ 
ing here. Dealers who are handling the 
European eggs say that the foreign pre¬ 
serving process maintains a fresher flavor 
than is obtained by the American plan 
of keeping the eggs in ice. 
The Students’ Association of the New 
York State College of Agriculture has just 
completed a very successful annual meeting 
jn connection with the third annual Far¬ 
mers' Week at the College of Agriculture 
at Cornell University. Ithaca. A large 
number of former students were in attend¬ 
ance, and the interest shown in the adop¬ 
tion of the constitution and the organiza¬ 
tion of the work was great. The move¬ 
ment will be started to organize county 
branches, such as already exist in one or 
two counties in the State. The Association 
is composed of all present and former stud¬ 
ents in the College of Agriculture. The 
life membership fee is $2. The following 
officers were elected •. President, Harry 
Mason Knox, Canton; first vice-president, 
II. N. Kutseliback, president of the Agri¬ 
cultural Association ; second vice-president, 
B. I). VanBurcn, Lockport; third vice- 
president, Charles Osborne, Easthampton, 
Long Island; fourth vice-president, N. It. 
Peet, editor of the Cornell Countryman; 
secretary-treasurer, A. It. Mann. 
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