The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-19
4 GANG Man.


4 Game Man.
How Fovyi Fortune was Made--Th
Chicken Millionaire Of FuItOn Market
From the \. Y. Evening Gazette
Success in business is the criterion b
" bich a man is measured; with the democ
racy Of America it makes but little differ
ence whether the foundations Of forum,
are laid on hoop skirts, sewing machines
penny evening papers, the sales Of tea, O.
chickens in Fulton market. The dollars
are what count, and the world, upon thin
side of the Atlantic at least, never stops t(
inquire about the rest A man may make
fortune on Wall street. banking or specu
latiug in stocks, and he is received into good
society, just az respectable and respected as
the best of them and why shouldn't he be?
Banking is honorable So is rairoading, OF
selling chickens in Fulton market
1t is true that in. New York fortunes are
often made in very strange manner
There are several wealthy organ grinders
10 town, and it would almost puzzle stran-
ger to count the magnificent hotels which
have been built on broadway out OF the pro-
ceeds Of pills and patent medicines Let us
study for moment the philosophy Of the
lives of those who have been successful in
business. All men do not jump into for
tune at once, making ten strike the first
time. This may sometimes be done on
Wall street, but among majority of man
kind riches are accumulated by slow and
sure process; by attending steadily and care
fully to ones own business; by avoiding ex-
element and risks, and by not being above
working with one's own hands. 1t is a
well known ,act that many of our weaIthiest
citizens are among cur hardest workers -
Like the rest Of mankind, they only get
their board and clothes, for this is, if YOU
consider for moment, all that a man is ca
pabe of digesting
A retail store on Bowling Green would
not pay its expenses, neither would but
ter stand n the interior of some Vermont
village To do a successful business, one
must be located where there are people to
40 it with, and be must deal in something
which the masses want. 1t is doubtful if
man ever made fortune selling telescopes
or century plants. One Of the places in this
city where the people en- g2asSe surge and
tide through, is Fulton market, and in the
midst Of that labyrinthian maze of stalls,
stands aud tables, the famous Mr. a Rob
bins keeps a chicken stall 1t is a very
easy matter to find his place Of business
direct your steps towards tie center of the
market stumbling over a mass Of unsavory
pickle tubs, pass by q sound as Of scrapng
tripe, mediate between long rows of fresh
slaughtered sheep and calves, turn cor
ner by some golden cheeses as large as the
new moou, smell the aroma of the country
aud the spring time III the rolls Of yellow
butter at your left hand. aud the moment
any good game comes in sight, ask for Mr.
Robbins, and although he deals in robbins,
vet cut Of pity, or for some other reason,
he calls them pigeons.
Mr. Robbins is a much younger looking
man than one expects TO find, when he has
been told that he has made couple million
Of dollars selling chickens. He is the ia
nous chicken millionaire, and although so
very rich be attends to his own business
He has beeu in the poultry business thirty
five years, thirty Que Of which have been
beneath the leaky roof OF Fulton market.
His stall is not a large one, and yet he sells
upon an average two thousand chickens a
day the year through which would equal
seven hundred and thirty thousand a year.
His business amounts TO several hundred
thousand dollars year There is very
cosy little office in one corner Of his stall,
ornamented with full length portraits OF
some of the wild game in which he deals,
which literally is not large enough to swing
a cat in. On tue marble topped counters OF
Mr.. Robbins chicken arrangements may be
found ducks, geese, turkeys, English snipe,
woodcocks, prairie hens, English pheasants,
black grouse, wild pigeons, venison, roast
| ing pigs, sweet breads, etc, Everything
which has wings, that man is fond OF eating,
can here be found, with from twelve tc
twenty men to wait on customers, and at
tend to the business. Besides supplying the
public, he has orders for hotels, ships, res
1 taurants, etc, and is, in fact, the largest
chicken dealer in the United States.
All parts Of the country are laid under
con tribution to supply his stalls with game
Partridges come from Maine, Massechu
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut; grouse
! from New Jersey Long Island and TIN
I West; the best canvas backs come from
Havre de Grace, Sandusky, Ohio, and Mis-
sissippi; the mallard ducks and wood duck
the only ducks that light on trees-ar
caught at the Great Lakes, while the blacl
ducks and broad bills come from the sea
shore In winter canvas back ducks are tn
fayorite game with the people; just nov
woodcocks chickens and cartridges are tn
best and most popular.
Bridget is not always sent to market T.
do the buying for the family. Many Amer
/ lean ladies attend to their own household
duties. Mrs. FL W. Beecher can often b
seen in Fulton market, with her basket up
on her arm, purchasing chickens or viii
game of Mr.. Robbins; the face Of Mrs. q
] S Robbins, who took 50 prominent paI
in the soldiers hospitals during the war,
another one of those familiar to the den
zens Of Fulton market
Although Mr.. Robbins has accumulate
such vast fortune that we might suppos
be could afford to retire, yet he prefers, an
does personally attend to bis own business
He has an elegant brown stone resident
G on Remseu street in Brooklyn, which
valued at $50, 600, and the furniture insit
Of it is said to have cost a fabulous SUD
I Going upsa broad fight Of stone steps, ye
pass beneath an arched doorway iuto a We
tibule, where some deliberately carved ma
s bel vases, standing almost as high as 20
head attract attention The halls ar