The New York herald., 1875-09-22

heavy one Then viii be long lines of wagons
as the licensed dsh vender OF the city calls himself
proprietor OIL and their skinny ana dilapidatcd animals
who look as IL 70 good browse pasture land might
save their lives and lttcu them up it they could
obtain a short ia tue country. These venders
have each tim horn, whose dismal and earsplltting
eonnds arc known In All the ALLEYS lnes and poorer
quarters the city These sh hawkers generally pay
from $40 500 Tor their entire estabshment-horse,
wagon, scales, Tin horn and all-and some
of the horses, condemned in market, broken
and wind CALLED, do not than
$40 apiece. But they serve their purpose as
well and better, perhaps, than many Goldsmith
Maids or Ethan Aliens and that is sufficient The
noise and clmor Of the fish helpers running around
under the gas Jets IN the sh market at carly morning,
proof boots the busio and business confusion of the
carrying TO and fro OF fish from the ''nsh cars' and
sinacks IN the rear OF The market At anchor the
enormous quantities Of fish that being weighed,
behcadcd and then delivered, all these sights make
strong impression on the person who u Tor me
first time, and brings to his mind the similar
which may be observed at Bllngsgate in London Of an
early morning when that great city is asleep
ONE DAYS SUPPLY or FIsn
Mr. Blackiord, who is the agent in this city for for
states Fish Commission al Woods Hole Mass now in
charge Professor Baird OF the Smithsonian Institute
Washington, gave the HERALD reporter many inter.
estiug details in regard to the catching and selling OF
fish and also furnished him with an estimated agcre-
gate o the nsh found necessary to supply the inhab
Of this city and lis suburbs With days food OF
the hsh line hr BacSiord said:--''Ihe amount OF
fish used IN the city of New York in day
for fish sale, Is as iollows:-Haddock, 200 COZ
pounds; $4,000 Goldfish. $4,000 bluensh 1000
striped bass, 10000 fresh mackercl 100 900 hoibu
. coo Span sh mackere 500 refrigerated salmon % 900
miscellaneous fish, such buticrlsh and wcaktsh
(he smelts and porges come ia ater) 5000 pounds
OF Holsters 200 gallons of scaops, 300 dozen of soft
crabs 600 pounds Of green turtle for soups and steaks
In mussels there not much done at present There
are not more than thirty wholesale fish dealers in New
York city, Of which twenty-siX in the Fulton Fish
Market and four in the fish market in NcseF street
and Washington street. Taking the fishing snack9 ana
their tackle and equipments, think that there
is invested in the wholesale fish business OF
New YORK city sum Of about SG9oVGo, % 'Go
suburbs OF the city and all the watering places such as
Long Branch Saratoga, sharon Springs, Iltchhcld
Springs West Point the Highlands, Pasade Mountain
| House, Schooey Mountain ana other places. Newport
Is not furnished from New York it has its own fish
the waters around in great plenty Spanish mackcrcl
has only been found in New York waters IN the last
three years, and is originally Gull fish When
it was first discovered in our waters it
brought as high as 81 30 pound POmpino was
first brought from New Orleans and is now got IN our
northern waters and brings at present 81 pound.
''The different fishes in the market" continued Mr.
Blackford, ''are selling at tho following rates =
Spanish mackerel 40c. pound; striped bass, 25c.
pound; sea bass, lSc pound black bass, l5c a
pound; fresh macSerel Sc a piece, and very small
blue fish, 12c pound; Goldfish. 1Oc pound; halibut,
1sc. pound; king fish. 25c pound large weakfsh,
12c. pound; green turtle, lSc pound soft crabs,
81 so dozen; scolops, 81 so gallon, and the hind
legs Of frogs, great delicacy, are sold at SOC.
FROGS TIE FRrGHTFuL DELcAcy
Within few years back-say four years-frogs have
become great and much desired delicacy among our
citizens Those who disliked them Mt the beginning
have learned to like them very much later on, and
there is no dish now in our American markets that is
sought after much by the 'g0u,pleti high liver
In the Ontario district of Canada these frogs which
sold in the New York market chiefly caught That
country has many fresh water marshes and the frog
fishermen catch them with a short line a hook and
red rag attached something after the fash on in which
biueflsh are beguiled 10 their fate on the Atlantic
coast They are in some cases brought all alive TO
New York inclosed in waterpens. The red rag is
dropped Immediately in front of the frogs nose as It
appears in the marsh and he sees the red
rag he grabs at the hook in furious fashion, and IS
hauled out kicking like big black spider The hind
legs quarters only are eaten that is the best part
of the frog The hind quarters packed up ice
and there are fifty pounds in each package when sent
TO the New York market 1t takes six pair OF legs to
make pound of frog for eating The best way 10 cook
them is to fry them in pan with cracker dust or
bread crumbs, and in that way they taste like spring
chicken. Three years ago there hardly any sale
French cooking has achieved a wonderful result
as TO the demand for and consumption Of
frogs, and each Friday the sale OF frogs,
ported Fulton Marketthe distributing depot for all
frogs that enter the ctyamounts to about 5000 frogs
This one day sae-on friday alone-ot frogs feA :es
the Of $3.50. The sale on the other days Of the
week IS less than that on Friday; but II is calculated
that 10, 900 frogs sold weekly in the city
now THE FIsH ARE KEPT FOR WINTER MARKET.
AT Fulton Market the fish dealers have adopted new
method preserve the fall catch of fish for
! the winter market Whole buildings devoted to
this purpose and ice chambers built down from the
flooring into lower story, the chamber being large
ordinary parlor Tubes of galvanized
iron, of about eight inches in diameter, to tho
and from wooden tanks above pounded ice and rock
salt is kept pouring down into the iron tubes and
the thcky pankcd trap door is shut fast above the
temperature found to be about six degrees above
The air is made cold by the melting ice and salt
which becomes moisture and leaves boar frost in the
hottest day Of the summer half an inch thick on the
iron tubing There IN one oI these chambers which re-
qures $50 pounds of ice per day, found salmon
Spanish mackere and blue fish stiff brick
and fact they were frozen hard that they
would break before they could be bent, while
outside at the same time the temperature in the
street was above eighty degrees of Farenhet The
catch of fish has not been very large of late owing TO
the prevalence OF storms the and the east winds
which always interfere with the fishermen. Very often
however there Will be found the Fulton Market slip
many as twenty sail Of fishing smacks in the winter
time loaded with herrlngs from the Bay OF Fundv
which sold to the licensed vendes for three four
cents pound Sometimes schooner will have
large number as 500, 900 herrings her hold when
there has been large catch. The fish of different kinds
consumed in this city each week may be roughly esti
mated in value at IRON 100000 to 100000
CONSUMPTION OF
The canned goods business is this day almost
in It's extent and yet it not long since it but
mere trie in trade 1t is very difficult Of course, TO
form estimate Of the amount of canned goods
sumed by the people of this city, there bureau
of statistics to show how any articles OF food aggregate
where would be possible TO obtain any figures
would be nearly this any other OF the
prominent branches OF trade 1t calculated however
tnat OF canned goods there is consumption yearly in
the city OF about 81 100000 in value and
although there are not great many houses in the city
who make this their sole specalty-not than half
dozcnyet great wholesale houses in the grocery bus
ness do very great trade Obbers in canned goods,
sending the hermeticaly sealed deAcacies to Europe,
ever one dealer whose goods to the amount OF nine
ty-hve per cent consumed the city gave his
ment the amount OF goods packed by him for
TINS statement Of course, does include the
rare and costly preserves, which sold less guam
titles. For tho season Of 1875 he packed the fol
lowing canned goods Peaches, 80 600 three pound
cans grcengages 20 600; ounces 5OO0 Bartlett pears,
1000 cherries, 1000 quarts pneapplcs 2j OO0 black
berries 5000 quarts; raspberrcs, 700 quarts
berries 1000 quarts; whOreb9rres, 600; cranbcrl
res, 1000 quarts rhubarb 1000 quarts; asparagus,
10000 lunches; peas, marrowiat and small, 900
quarts; corn, $4,000 quarts; Lima beans,
5000 quarts; string beans, 25 900; tOma-
toes 125 000 pumpkins, 10000 okra, 1000;
Holsters, 1900; oysters 5000; salmon, 1900;
clans ann 100 ooOO, pickles pgn mixed ana assorted
80 do. picked tomatoes, $50 do jccs, 10 tons and
preserves stone jars. 10 II will be understood
that this aggregate Is only Tor one house but those
who have knowledge Of Tie canned goods trade
that the above list n multpl,ed by fy would perhaps