The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-13
More Markets and Cheaper Dinners
Inperatively Demanded.
Comparative Statements Of Prices in New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Wash
ington, Baltimore, Quebec, Paris,
London, Vienna, Berlin
and St. Petersburg.
Ours the Dearest Metropolis
in the World.

'iow 70 feed ny family" the personal problem Of
nearly half million Of in New York daily. How
70 feed New York Is = greater sudy-lhe sphynx Of
probsma Its belly is tickle one; its pulse is unrelia-
bbs Population ebps and lows here IL does nowhere
else In the world. The destinations and the profits Of
the city make vegetable farming the suburbs slow
and melancholy work. Our market houses are rooksries
enough In themselves defer respectable from
stnng in them and either three transfers
10 DO made Of all produce between the farm and the
stall In Philadelphia, Boston and Cincinnati tho
'rucker" butcher or hunter rides directly into tewn
with his dearborn" whether be lives ave or twenty
miles away; the market is either the tail OF his wagon
on the sidewalk in covered shed down the mid
die of the street, in commodous and luxurious
buildings bu3t By private corporations To the great
mass of people the palpabs facts thesethat New
York has six considerable houses Washington,
Fulton, Jefferson Tompkins, Clinton and Essex that
nearly four hundred huckster wagons go up and down
streets with market produce and that upwards Of
eleven hundred green grocsrsn dispense fresh meat
and vegetables Manhattan Island In the markets.
collectively there are over two thousand stalls About
four thousand market wagons in from the country
every week. In the retailing Of fresh vegetables
fruit and meat therefore, quite eight thousand persons
are capitalists in and around this island. In general
sense 1t may be alleged that New York includes Brook
lyn and all other adjacent cities this estmate We
are the receiving depot and the markets and shops OF
Staten Island, Jersey City, Williamsburg, &C. are sup
piled from This touches only the question Of what
70 fresh from the shxmbss and the ground broader
inquiry is this:
"wno RAISES THE FOOD YORK %
Here are. In small radius, . million i've hundred
thousand people in round numbers Within almost a.
small radius Of tine there i've millions Of people
those who, BY our manifold systems Of communication,
reach into New York and cat quickly do We En-
crossing almost al the OF the greatest
anary and live stock country in tina world the crops
arise from million square miles OF harvest and march
into us'or through US. So do the hundred thousand
acres OF swne the great grazing landscapes Of cattle
and sheep belts Of orchard and vegetable garden
oil the continent burst here and spill their cornucopas
The verp 6shss the fog banks Of Newfoundland up
the cold rivers. and in the bays, swim, were into
New York harbor hence to be distributed the con-
tinsnt one could stand ut point in the air and
get glimpse Of tho whole continent he would The
docks flying, the herds marching the grain
pouring. the Ash swimming the fruit flowing,
the milk streaming, and the vegetables rolling
~ down some mighty amphithea.re to one common
centre, New York. The like Is true Of other
tnent port in the world. Here paid the highest
prices here bought the vastest quantities Fruit
that Philadelphia wants to buy past her. prefer
grown thirty miles from Philadelphia and Baltimore are
eaten in those cities after having made the journey to this
market and been distributed back again. II have
ported TO foreign countries too largely OF produce it
turns to US through New ork almost entirely Lastycar
va called back from Liverpool thirty six thousand barrels
Of pork, although had sent thther nearly half million
barrela Ampfcstion upon this subject unnecessary.
There dealer in anything that the belly
between Francisco and Cape Race, moi fix
his eye upon New York upon SONS hungry countc-
nance. The stock, provision and gram ey-
changes OF other cities moss sab-onices for
this grand agency and dep,, All that Is
not eaten by tho way convergss here TO be-
consumed exported The proposition Of thiS sr;icls
10 trace mp its all that foeds the people Of
New York, to show the OF its transportation
and distrbution what 1t costs the people, and why.
For immediate question than the corruption Of
politics or tho relations between employer and man,
10 that Of feeding tho people This Is the deares. city
in the world live in dearsr than st. Petersburg II is
dsarer TO eat here than to lodgehere There must be
artificial for the fact that in the common
market or the continent there hunger than else
where and that life struggles here more pinchingly
BEyysrEAK.
During one week in Angus. $40 car loads Of live
produce came over the Erie railroad alone or these
1888 cars were filled with cattle. making 3 100 cows
During the week, BY all the routes $40 OF live
produce came into New York, or, altogether, 1890
head OF cattle calves hogs aud sheep. alive
During the same week there came OF salt
pork, hams and beef, 900 barrels by rail alone
Put these live animals IN line and restore the salted
ncsh 10 its anatomy and iocomotion, aud VIC should
have nis OF cattle I'VE miles long entering the city
every week The meat that is brought here alive is
either marched from the mountain and interior coun-
from Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago In the former
case buyer acting either a factor for stock mcr
the add pays for sneep or cattle They are
collected by himself and assistant; these with
drovss dog conduct The herd by e.sy stages eastward
Along all way there are farmers whose entire lands
are reserved for grazing The drover pays from ten
cents day per hcac Tor cattle 10 ten cents week for
sheep, and this price increases the city approached
The drove sometimes advances In the night and rests
feeding in the heat Of the day, improving in weight
the middle OF New York, viii command no more than
four Owe cents pound In gross; their way east
the same way stock that comes eastward by rail
y collected at points along tho ROAD. Trains OF
New York in eighty hours. Those snimais 20,
little food on the way, sometimes not any water
Generally they are accompanied BY no one, being in
sured when shipped and CONSIGNED TO dealer at the
termination Of their journey. Whsteyer livestock Is
sent in and around city and passes
through markets. Tho butchers arc confederate
and have large establishments for killing at commission
IN Jersey while the drovers have yards at fortieth
stu many butte srs IN Se. York and n ali is sub
urbs, but the saughtorers' do most OF the killing.
Take scene a. any one o. these drovsrs' places say
Albany or The Bulls Head. Here FIVE ten acres
Of pens--a dreary, mry stretch OF pac fences With
wckes between the yards and lanes running and out
Some OF them are empty; Others sho~ q COW or two
loving bungry yonder IS whole herd cramped
enclosure, believing hustily Near by the pens Is
large hotel, with the sign OF the Ruirs Head or the
Spotted Cow, upon IT. Around IL are backed IN great
number Of short CARTS with boys ON the seas sospiy
locked, cigar stump Ia the corners ~ their mouths
pointing upward and over the bar within or walking
10 and fro among tie pens whip IN hand the butchers
and the factors with trowaers stuffed in their boots
10 chanering in crisp, dry, hot unmanneriy speecb
The trade concluded, boy picks ont his single
pair OF steers and walks them toward the sham
HES while the butcher drives same place befoye
him and prepares for the afternoons wsrk. Communi.
nav which Ia In full operation, and inviting q com
petitor by The 10 has had both and
pecunariiy Is based upon tho abattor system OF Paris