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Show HOTELS IN EAiT JUN BIG BOYCOTT i i Pittsburg. Pa., Jan. 24. Cattle prices dropped from fifty to forty cents a hundred at tho Union Stock Yards here as a direct result of tho boycott on that commodity. Whllo there has been some reduction reduc-tion In prices of veal and rwk. heef Bllll contlnueg at the high price that sot tho boycott In operation. Tho price of hogs also took a drop, but there was no reduction In the price of dressed beef. It was reported that the supply of hogs and cattle was greater today than for several weeks. All hotels of , the city are falling into line with meatless menus. One hundred and twenty-five thousand have signed the anti-meat pledge, Involving COO.000 J people. Hetty Green Can't Afford to Eat Meat. New York. Jan. 24. Mrs. Hetty Green, who has many millions of dol lara, declared today that at present prices meat Is too dear for her. and .she cut it out of her luncheon order. ! Mrs Green entered a modest uptown up-town restaurant and scanned the bill of faro. Steak she found at 50 cents a portion and roast lamb and roat beef at 35 cents. Mrs Green took halibut, which was 16 cents a portion. "Havo you Joined the boycott?1' asked the waiter. "No," said Mrs. Green dubiously, "but moat Is too high. You don't pet your money's worth. People really can't afford to eat It. There are other things Just as good and cheaper." In response to a lighter demand, the price of beef In the Brooklyn wholesale district declined twenty per cent today and pork loins slumped .sympatheticallv. As an offset there were 6igD that the western supply will be shut off to hold up the price, although representatives of tho packers pack-ers deny this Fewer carloads were received today. Two young women who made a house to house canvas today for the National Progressive Woman's Suffrage Suf-frage Union obtained nearly 1,000 pledges to abstain from meat for sixty days. Labor unions, although they listen to many fiery resolutions, seem loath to commit themselves to definite action. |