New-York tribune. [volume], February 20, 1910, Image 41

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THE TOLL OF THE MEAT CUTTER
B-. Wm. Athcr: n Dv Puy
THREE-] : ' ; :- ■ all
.--■-.■.■ • - • : v the
..-..„:. •• ■ flies i f
r;, „ .; goes to the meatman
■ : ■-- • . i: the food so obtained has a
- .-- - alvdae-thirdof all that eatenJ
• of meat there is a p.ir
- ;hr'-. - -a-day interest in the profits
- -. . - • - man who wraps it in brown
•:•-■-■■■ . t 'is interesting to know for
■ • : ■ ■ '.'. :*- twice as great in pro
■ -• : : ■ - •:• at <j: the '<< •• ras <<n the
■■■::-->::■ ; weD to do that it is two
.•.:_:... reat in Hblyoke? Massachii^
n< arbyj that it is higher
a Sr.r- •■ • : : than any other place
atheaatio: • .:■• r in Tacoma. Washing
tr. v.;:h ; • r Uarvland, a close second.
AExhi ■ ■ " ive been found oavbyj the
Departae^: : u!tur» . which has recently
:tt.;.;--- : • Sfty cities Titith the* idea
— ■ " what are the conditions
■■- a t \ ■ ••. :. to the retail meat trade.
■ • ■.•■ retail price of beef in the
'■' rh . • ■ was 31.4 percent, higher
■r. th- ■ :. the wholesale pricf. and
:hi*. the -~ - r. ■-• ■:- r in the small thar. in
ielargt ■ • ADentorm^ IVnnsylvania.
"••-• is an i: iiate ?ross .... of 50 per
cent 47 per .t Harris burg. 23 per cent,
ut Olean, N I'.^ per cent, at Spring
rX : Ma - ..r. •: -" for Ho! yoke, its
r.-:-'r/> r j - tit in New York city
<ras2oper - ! ! r::*a.ie!i)h'a. 20 p^r cent":
" Bssa! .2> ; r eat. and in Boston, 30 per
I" ii'l tr.- ■:■•-. as :r. fact throughout the
•-r.tr;.-. tr- : -■ show conclusively that the
«c the grad : beef the greater the pa
ceaagc <~i '.' :on it. AH*ntowrn"s high per-
Desage tras : ; upon wholesale prices of
'■'■*. In Boston the rate of gross
: -" : tsri • .-•"••ct on -^-ct-nt t>eef as for that
:ostrs£ 13 .-. eats. The advice to the
ae2Ssai! wit: I ition t-> become a mi'Av a
setv would therefore aatu
"-:■ • " ';■'*" the p<Tor.
"- '~ " ■ : is found between Balti
more an . ■ :. in the South Atlantic
■~ '-: ■ - ■ apart. The profit of
ran r city is only 17 per
■ • • ighbor ts 42 per cent..
:. : r the discrepancy,
farther down, assesses a
'-" '-' - -r.:., while AagustaJ equally
... .--..., ,. —„;.- takes a toll
■ - ■• • "."■ ■ gen< ral average
°rtae - es i 3S :-z rent
la the M •■• -- -. the"general aver
.:::■ is 13 the S-'-:ti: Atlantic
:: ' . igo the only return obtained
• gr !•■ of beef, and on these
" '" "' r 10 per cent. In Cincinnati the
DO YOU KNOW? E£S&:S^,
H
■
- • •
■ ■ •
■
whole gross .... was 25 per
cent. : in Omaha. 23 per
cent. ; in Kansas City. Kan
sas, for cheap meat. 50 per cent., while across the
river, in Kansas City Missouri, it was . - per
cent. Minneapolis collects 27 per .■•-■■
while her twin. St. Paul, gamers in 35 per cent.
Milwaukee gets (0 per cent.. St. Louis. 39'
Ak'-n. inino:-. 52. Cedar Rapids. lowa So. East
Liverpool.: Ohio. 43 Wichita Kansas, 49; and
Winona. Minnesota. 37.
But the retail meatmen of none of these
groups know how to charge for their meat as
compared with dealers of the South Central
States, where the profits average 54 per cent.
In Fort Smith. Arkansas, the gross profit is 57
per cent . in Mobile Alabama. 64 per cent.:
Nashville Tennessee. 03 per cent. . in Natchez,
Missis-:]. pi. 56 per cent.: and in Shreveport.
Louisiana, the biggest profit of ... all. GS per
cent. Fort Worth helps redeem this section by
charging only 2s per ■■-■■ and Memphis
aids the cause with 32 per cent.
The mean profit in the West is 39.4 per cent.
Lewiston. Idaho leads with 62 per cent..
Ogden Utah. 50 per cent.. San Francisco, 29
per cent.. Denver. 37. Seattle. 34 per cent.:
and Taeoma. Washington, the ....
them all. with 16 per cent., while Spokane in
explicably collects 5* per cent
The erratic nature of these profits is a puzzle
to the compiler of facts, and it must be con
cluded that they are charged ....
they are charged. In general, the profit of the
•■•'.•* should be. This is to
a certain extent due to the demands of cus
tomers They ask. .... that the dealer
send a solicitor to their homes ad thai .'ill or
ders be delivered. The expense of this must,
of course, ebon by the consumer. The mul
...... should also be discouraged.
It costs vastly more to maintain twenty small
shops with solicitors and delivery wagons in a
given district than it would to maintain one
large one. The multiplication of establish
ments is false economy and the ......
for it. There is economy ad reform in seeking
out shops that maintain no solicitors or de
livery service and trading with them. They
can afford to sell cheaper.
Experts also call attention to the fact that
from the viewpoint of value received the meat
the people buy is the poorest food bargain they
make Sixty cents out of every dollar spent
for food in the country g'^es for meat; yet the
material bought with the remaining forty cents
by actual computation has twice as much nour
ishment in it as has the meat. This means
that twenty cents spent for other grades of
food buys as much nourishment as does sixty
cents spent for meat. The obvious lesson in
getting one's moneys worth would be to forgo
meat as much els possible and buy other foods.
would appear to be the pendulum rather than
the earth that turned, and the plane of the
former would make its daily revolution counter
to that of the earth, or in the same direction as
the sun. This would mean a right handed rota
tion at the .... and a left handed one at
the south but at the equator, try as it will, the
pendulum is unable to better its condition by
turning in either one way or the other and hence
will not show this effect. In general, the time
it will take to make a complete revolution is
inversely proportional to the trigonometric
sine of the latitude. This means one complete
turn in a}*;ut thirty-seven hours for the lati
tude of Xew York city.
Fortunately, the experiment may Ix.- per
formed without such an enormously long pen
dulum as that used by Foucault. A length of
two yards or even less is sufficient to show the
effect clearly. Indeed, such an arrangement as
this might have been used by polar explore!
in helping to locate the north pole] for at the
pole a pendulum would turn at such a rate as
to make one complete rotation in a sidereal day
(the time if a angle revolution of the earth) or
twenty-three hours, fifty-six minutes, and four
seconds.
But while ::.: method rr.av be made to yield
fairly approximate results in estimating lower
latitudes, il ; ■ ■ ■ mes harder to apply and of
less act uracy n< ar latitude ninety degrees, and
hence would • • : little, if any, value as a
means of ;.*;at:rig the pole exactly.
Decidedly Cold
I Id climate in which a flame cannot
I .-'•< itseli R'armJ One of the scientists at
:■'' the f'earv expedition has personally
• ■ • ::.it of intense cold on a wax can
" • tried to burn.
' t< mperature was thirty-five degrees !><•
i"'-'- ." r ■. and its effects were felt not only by
':• m< ::i: ■< r- <;f the expedition; biit even by the
. question. It gave forth no cheery
h as might have been expected from
•• :'.. ' '.':■.• r circumstances, and when jt came to
be examined :: was found that the flame h:.<]
all it could do to keep itself warm.
The air was so cold .... was not
powerful enough to melt all the wax of the caii
dle, but was compelled to eat its way down,
leaving a skeleton structure of wax in ...
of . ; hollow cylinder. Inside this cylinder the
wick burned with a tongue of yellow tire, and
here and There the heat was ... [«r
foratf the outer covering and leave holes of odd
shapes which turned the cylinder into a tub
of lao-iike wax. through the holes in which the
light shone with a strange, weird beauty.
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