New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-27

), the fruit IN basket"
Isn't it fair Can't every one bid an,
buy ?" exclaimed the fruit planter.
go, yes, fair on the outside, but you le
an outsider go into that ring, and I'll be
yOu he gets squeezed"
The two parties then put their heads to
gether and procured a third, who was {
stranger. He was to 60 il and bid.
Now, III bet they run it up On him, the
merchant said. "YOu see he bids 81 50 fol
the same kind of box sold for ST. % a
second ago." A bid Of 81 60 com es from
the ring-sI 20 from him-$l so from the
ring. IN sign him to draw of"-$2-
81 1872 25. Too late. Knocked down
to him, by Jove!"
Il wish that lot you bought had been
mine to sell at that price, replied the fruit
grower.
We'll, my argument cost me something
to-day" said the merchant. ave got to
take n boxes of peaches at 81 25 that we're
selling minute before that outsider stepped
in at 81 %. But, my points made, and I'm
satisfied"
That's all legitimate" replied the fruit
grower. lyon can't go to an auction with
| your eyes shut"
Perhaps it's legitimate enough in bust
ness way, but my point is that every kind
of business in this city runs into mOnopolies
in which the members will all join hands to
! put down an outsider and ruin him, though
they'll be fighting one another and killing,
| numbering one another on any other point.
These fruit men are as firmly bound to-
gether as Masons. So are the vegetable
dealers, the butchers, the bakers. It's the
vice Of the climate or soil, don't know
which. Go on the levee where they sell
bananas, pineapples and such stuff, or
where they sell apples, you'll find the same
crowd, the same carts, the same auctioneers
and fixed rate of purchase I've known
them to buy up fruit and let it rot before
another man should have it, I'm glad to
see some effort made to force competition
and make fruit cheaper, for in summer it
may be called necessary of life. Still all
vOcatiOns that are not mOnOpolies now will
be before many years.
The only way to beat them is to form a
company together" said the fruit grower.
I'm glad to see you fruit growers have
begun this kind Of a fight, and hope you'll
get along we'll"
How about the fancy grocers T.
There's no monopoly there"
eyes; in case the Ievee shed bill had
passed it would have been a monopoly, Just
as the sugar shed institution forces sugar
daa laru IN RI a riDTv
"Wel, now you're talking politics, and
it's time to quit"
1t may not have been the exact words
but the above conversation is actual, and if
any one don't believe the fruit dealers in
the city may daily be found at the Jackson
depot auctioneering fruit let him 60 there
and find out for himself.
Louisiana cultivated last year, said a
reed merchant, eight per cent more acres
in corn than the year before"
That's good news" replied a Texas
drOver; chow about Texas r.
"The same increase"
And Mississippi! ?"
Zone per cent"
Then all have to say is that Louisiana |
and Texas are seven per cent more level
headed than Mississippi. When we all get
to raising our own food and draw it mild |
on exports we can't eat well be prosper
Gus. /, for one, am glad to see this senti-
ment is spreading and multiplying. No |
agricultural people can beindependeDt who
have to send thousand miles away to get |
feed for thdr live stock and breakfast |
tables"
Though l don't believe in turning the |
country into corn crib think we ought |
to raise enough meat and bread for home |
replied the feed merchant.
A grocery keeper who repaired to the |
levee that he might make original pur-
chases, remarked, as he wiped brown face
with a cotton Handkerchief that the |
weather was very hot.
"NOt near so hot as in New York" re
piled young man whose duty required him
to visit that great metropolis once a year.
''You don't say So" exclaimed the gro
Gerry buyer" ''Why, 1 thought, now" he
continued. laying down the law cooIly as
possible under the circums tances, New
York was in the North where people went
to get COOL
Going there to get COOL said the young
traveller "and from this
place! It's jumping out of the frying pan
nto the fire."
"YOu surprise me-" returned the other,
,till wiping his face.
"DO II Well, will astoush you still
more, New York always has been hotter
IL the summer than New Orleans. This is
proved by the range of the thermometer.
That doesn't deter people from crying out
against the health of our town, when 1t is
he healthiest in the Union, including yeI-
Ow fever. They say it is the hottest when
t is the coolest, the sickliest when it is the
lealthiest, Sunstroke in New York kills
is bakers dozen every day. You don't
lear of it here. New diseases are developed
y the great heat which puzzle physicians;
et you will find people rushing there in
earch of a GOODNESS which they leave be-
lind here"
Didn't a man die of surstroke yester-
ay inquired the grocer.
THAT was the first case this season.
While New York cemeteries are holding
undreds, her hospitals thousands affected
Y beat. There it Is the height of fashion /
or a man to be 'walkin' down Broad way t
nth his coat on his arm, fan in his hand
nd-Ive heard of such cases-a cravat
f ice under the back of his neck"
I'm gOiu home and tell that to lY {