Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, November 11, 1890. GRAIN. Wheat | Cora. Oats. | Kj,e Indianapolis,. |2 r|d w\i wsJ-iwfl Chicago 2f6 101 53k *«%.- - Cincinnati 2 r’d »% *» Bt. L0ui5......... 2 r'd 100 51 45 New Y0rk.....; 2 r'dloß% 90% 49% * Baltimore 100 88% 44 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 101 #2 52%jClover Seed Toledo 101 55 4C 4 30 Detroit IwHS 56 4«%| Minneapolis: 100 Louisville - <L.. ■ 1 .ii,... 1 . ■ ■ I .'11... 1.. ■■ I ~ LIVH STOCK. Cattlh Export grades..,,, fL30<54.t!0 Good to choice shippers j.. 4.00(84.-.a Common to medium shippers.... 3.2,.yjtt.00 Btockers, 600t0850 B> .... 2.03(88.0) Good to choice heifers 2.50(43.00 Common to medium heifers li-wtsc Good to choice cows 2.205)2.6 1 Fair to medium cows L 7 452.10 Hogs—Heavy 4.iG(B».'jti Light J’.«5(«53.9) Mixed : .'.s® .9 1 Heavy roughs 3.00® '.so Shrub -Good to 0h0i0e.......... 4.3 <44.5 < Fair to medium. 3.75®4.i 1 MISCHLLANBUtrs. Eggs 1 c. Butter, Creamery >v ($24; Dairy : lb, Good Country i)c. Feather*, “Vt. KeeaI wax, 18(820; Wool SOy'K, Un washed 2.1; I Poultry, Hens .c. xurkayv-a toms 6c Clover seal 4 53(84.75

Every Wee Week in Sew York Means a Loss or $1,000,000. - i Hew York World. “ —lt has been estimated that every - ' rainy day in New York costs more than $1,000,000. The largest losers are, of course, the great setail dry-goods stores in Fourteenth and Twenty-third streets and along Broadway and Sixth avenue, and the loss is a-real one; not merely an apparent one. Every woman knows that on rainy days the big shops, with their hundreds of clerks, bookkeepers, saleswomen, horses and drivers, do very little business. It is sometimes said that the fine day will more than make up for the deficit. This, however, # is not the case, as all of the great merchants testify. On the first sunshiny day after a storm trade is just about the same as on any other brightr day, when clerks stood about drawing their wages and earning nothing, marks a heavy-loss. The horses eat just as •much in their stalls, all the thousand and qne expenses of a great establishment keep right on, and it costs just jas much to conduct the business when 'nothing is doing as when trade is brisk, j The great blizzard of March 12, two years ago. proved that conclusively. It fell upon the town on Monday, and all of that week the stores did very little. The next week was bright, but the shops never made up their losses, and comparisons with the years before ;and the years following show that the • deficit caused: by that great snows - istorm was never wholly made up. j A majority of things bought by shoppers are not absolute necessities- They are very much needed, but people oan dispense with them at a pinch. , | This is true isl even so apparently essential commodities as the butcher ’and grocer sells. But the retail butcher and grocer and baker lose by, -tee «da-lust-aa the dry goods meo lose. Instead of chops and steak for breakfast and a bit of fruit, the average housewife makes an excuse of the rain and her husband and children are content with eggs and what odds and ends the pantry affords. Dinner is also a less elaborate affair, for the good market woman always gives a smaller order when the grocer sends his boy for it than when she goes out herself and sees what she is purchase ing. Anybody can see that this loss is never made up. for the family certainly doesn’t eat twice as much breakfast or dinner the next sunshiny day. So it is with other goods. i So far as the mere proportion of loss goes, the small retail confectioner probably comes in for the largest share. Few transients are loitering about the streets on rainy days ready to drop in for a glass of soda or a plate of ice c-eam, and all that rainy day the boxes of candy remain unsold. Saloons suffer in the same way, for the casual drinker does not leave his office to plod through the rain for his nip. The saloonkeeper, however, makes up for the smaller number of customers by the difference in the drinks they buy. More whiskies and brandy are sold on rainy days compared to the whole number of drinks, and the man who usually calls for beer takes something stronger ard more expensive to keep out the wet. 4 Cigar dealers lose heavily by the rain. Few men care to smoke on the streets with an umbrella in one hand, and the smoker goes without rather than get soaked splashing out after a cigar. So with the restaurants. The apple woman comes around about 2- v o’clock, and the sandwich man supplies a luncheon, and the restaurant chairs remain empty. This loss is never made up. Even the postoffice sells fewer stamps on rainy days than on bright ones. Suburban travel is far lighter and all the railways running into New York carry fewer passengers when the clouds are emptying their buckets up*, on the defenseless earth than when the sun shines. Intending visitors postpone their journeys and shoppers wait for a brighter day. Transients in town for a day or two intending to take home a few things from New York shops decline to stir from comfortable rooms and content themselves with either doing without or gotting the articles at home. So all through the list of retail dealers the loss goes. Theaters and peaces of public amusement suffer from the rain, and their loss alone means a small fortune. The street venders who sell shoestrings, suspenders and small articles of that Bort actually go out of business when it rains. Taken all in all it is not an exaggeration to say that a week of rain in New York city means a total loss to trade of $1,000,000.