Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-04
The PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS" OF New


The PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS" OF New
YoRK-THE BONE AND RAG PicKER's Elk.
cHANGE.-AlI kinds of business tend to concen-
tration. Brokers have their board. merchants
thei exchanges. and more kinds too than one.
There is the cotton exchange, the cloth and the
corn exchange which has been recently estab
lished in one of our cities. Then there is the
horse dealers, or Tattersal's, the cattle dealers,
Or Bulls Head; and twenty others,all of which
are very convenient to promote the public in.
terest.
There is an old. rag and bone pickers OK
change in the city of New York. It's held in
the morning at 8 o'clock, at the corner OF
Broome and another street. The tarfofjoints
in all their variety. and of white and colored
remnants, and the like is here discussed, and
the probable demand and supply. II quarters
of beef rise, so must shanks and aitch bone.
RIBS and rags must keep up even with rents
and rum. At these daily meetings. reports
are made of the stock on hand in the various
cutters. There is always plenty of time to
take an account of these, for the nast'ness OF
that city is the only permanent institution they
have. That is stable, and the chiifonier kno ws
always where TO find it. The business of the
bone and rag pickers is therefore the most reg
ular and safe there is He wants no compa-
ny to insure his property. 1t is perfectly safe
though in the public streets. Nobody will
touch his pile of filth for weeks together; not
even the street commissioner. Where bones
fall there the city lets them lie.
The operations of these chiffoniers at their
exchange are highly amusing The assembly
is composed of men, women, boys, and girls.--
Two children, as we passed, were trying TO
make partition of choice lot of bones, prime
quality, we should Judge; first cost fifteen or
sixteen cents pound; evidently arisocratic
bones. A man and woman were pricing a
tattcred apron, over which, as they held it up
dripping to the sun, volley of very hard un-
Ineligible words were discharged A girl in
hand cart was eating nice piece oil meat
which still remained upon part of spine;
while an elderly person was meditating over a
dirty piece of paper in his hands, and proba-
bly, rejecting on the effect the talked of city
reform would have upon his trade. He was
very sober, as well he might be, for an honest
ma gistracy and clean streets would clean out
the bone picker along with the old bones
The company were all very busy, and we
should Judge their days work was about half
over at that early hour. when that Of the city
generally is but just begun. Your bone pick
er is an early riser H. is also honorably CON
nected with agriculture and the press; the for
mer he supplies with one of the most favorable
ifuctfers; the other with its wings OF
,lhought. There are few callings more de-
serving than the property saving bone and rag
picker. True his employment is dirty one;
but, properly considered not so much so as
many others held genteel; and therefore we
are glad to learn that the dirty business is re.
warded with good share Of the product OF
The equally dirty yellow mine. Their depot is
near the East river, where their flags are al.
ways flying TO the wind NeWark Daily.