Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-30 | Page 6 | Milk Famine Faces Chicago

MILK FAMINE FACES CHICAGO t Only Ten Per Cent Will Be Available in Event of Railroad Rail-road Tie-up. Chicago, Aug. 30. Only 10 per cent of the 1,200,000 quarts of milk consumed con-sumed in Chicago daily would be' available In the event of a general railway strike unless the dairies can solve the problem of motor truck deliveries, de-liveries, according to the dairies. That a motor truck famine probably will be an early result In the event of a railroad strike became evident today, when milk dealers and other dealers and consumers of perisable goods began bidding against each other oth-er for the use of trains of motor trucks. The potato supply in Chicago will he virtually exhausted In forty-eight hours after a railroad strike begins. A leading dealer said today that the city is almost wholly dependent upon current ' arrivals by rail, which have averaged from thirty-five to fifty carloads car-loads a day. oo