Smyrna times., 1867-12-04
How Paris is Fed.

! tbror.- -. U"0 suburbs OF HarlS begin tC
Infohg into town, and converge, with the great
{ noisy drays which bring in the provisions sent
up Iy railway from the provinces, to the great
market, the Hales Centrales. GU"
0li1ated IN front of the beautiful church ot
ot. EuStache, the IIalIes CentraIes arc noOl
nec'ed with the Pont Neuf by the new street
which bears that name. '''o''
Inc twelve pavilions of this magnificent
pIccA VI buildings are constructed entirely of
In IaCA %nu iIon' ana each one is devoted to some
Drahch OF the business Thus one is set anarI
Ior the sale OF meat by auction, another for
rtLic IN meat by retail, or by private contract:
thlru tor hsh, and fourth for butter and
eggs. '"''oi anu
~ lhere are several other markets in Paris =
~ ItoSt 1 OF them are built on the same model as
Ine Italics Centrales, and they are nearly ali
suPpHeo from there with provisions.
some notion OF the amount of animal food
eoISu9led eCmed IN Paris may be obtained from the
I0lloWlng o figures: In the year 1856, bes;Jcs
100000 kilogrammes of meat soIJ h nee,ucS IlS
non ,l at the Halles Centrales. IlO. 600 oven
4o'OOo cows, IG6, 600 calves and $40, 900 sheen
were sold at the cattle markets If is to bp
REMARKED that although more than 46, 600 COWS
are consumed In Paris in year. vet no one
VIII III, own to buying or selling the meat.
>. Inc oInclal returns show Il sale of ten mil
hons and a half Kilograms of butter, and 233
OOO'OOo eggs passed through the hands of the
SorCers' VINO. at work all day in the cellars of
markets. .' gain from three to four thousand
francs year by their occupation, which is
briefly, to pick out the bad eggs from the
goou ones; Ihls consumption Of this enormous
NUMBER OF eggs may be better understood whom
the vast quantities bought by confectioners ara
taken into account. NJ Gullout, for instanco
the manufacturer of Reims biscuis, uses 23,
900 day. 'N' "'o' -''
Everybody has heard the complaint Of tbo
6m 6om9r1iahI that there Is no more of the cheese
Iahea fromarge de Brie." Last year four
hundred and forty thousand of these cheesos
were sold in the Hales Centrales, which. with
ABOUT million and half chesses of other
Klnds, and an equal number of Neufcbatcl
cneSese' make total of nearly three and a. half
millions. ~i" 4" ii"Il
Three hundred and fifty ythree thousand car
loads or vegetables came into Paris last vpor
ana fourteen million kiOgrammes of fresh 6Sb |
OF OF winch ne-tOurth was imported from ahr:oad |
~ i1"Gial4 sehGing salmon, trout and Holsters
arI aro''auu @ sendlng salmon, shrlmps, cells, pike |
anu carp; Switzerland, trout from Lake Ge-
neva; Prussia; salmon and trout. md -
rest OF Germany, enormous quantities of
prawns HN'i'leS vi
Last year two hundred and sixty millions of
oysters were eaten IN Paris, and there was :.
GTeat Ii cry about the increase in their nrico =
| helr wholesale price had, however. onlv in
;reased Twelve centlmeS dozen on that Of tho
previous year, and the public NAV imao;no
%nat y the retailers must have pocketed out Of
me exhorbItant charges asked at the restanr-
ants. Add to this enormous mass of eatabIas
Iwe!Ve and half millions of grapes which
Paris arr eats annually at desert '''0"
lhe poultry and game market, called Lee
harche de la Nallee, must certainly not he
united, Perhaps nowhere is so much care
AIKEN about the preparing and trussing Of
poultry y Tor the market as in France, and here
'ou will find rabbits and hares packed with the
Utmost neat1ess in clean straw, and ready for
he spit. Game. is carefully put up, and no
,ainS are spared to keep it sufficiently fresh for
he French taste. 0'- -o'
;. Pigeons are brought in alive generally from
'lcardy, and being shut up in baskets, are :
cry. much exhausted when they arrive at their 5
estimation. Food, too, they are greatly in
1ant Of as there is usually great difficulty in +!
IMPLYING them with it on their way. Tbev
re given over to boys, called gaveurs, who fil
helr mouths with grain, and allow the pigeons
take it from between their lips. . '''