The Morning herald., 1875-09-20
Cochran, Butler Bros, and some others. i
saw it selling from, Is cts.i to a per basket,

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saw it selling from Is cts. to a per basket,
governed, entirely. by the, quality of the
fruit. The customers of Fruit Commission
meii, ARE retail groceFs, packers, fruit stands,
and wagon boys, 4andrini justice to the COM
mission men, they are as honest, as the
average class of BUSINESS men, and Try to do
justice to their ,contignors, but they should
not be overloaded. No one horse can do
justice to more than scot z, 900 baskets of
fruit per day, and that should reach them
by daylight |iR the incoming. Not as is too
frequently the case detained by q poorly
paid Railroad Co., until 9, 10, and even -
O'clock and the best customers left the
market for that day. If then sold d,at 8 all,
the price must be very low, and the COM
mission merchant Is is'1n 1unpiustiy blamed, and
condemned to climatetoo hot for pleasure,
when doubtless he has done all in his
power to benefit his. patrons. This is a
matter that calls for redress and the Rail-
road CO.., 'sholld be compelled to pay all
deficiencies in price obtained for fruit when
ever they delay the arrival of fruit trains,
as their extortionate charges for fruit car
age is so outrageous, no excuse should be
valid from. them, for the least violation pf
contract. The consigpees also complain of
too much small, green Indifferent fruit ifi1i-
possible to sell, and often Hard to give
away-fruit which looks we'll at home,
compares badly beside better article when
received in New York, and the interest of
growers and all pattiesy save the R abroad and
hogs at home, rather than Il those oy IN public
CAPACITY abroad, having spent the day Of
the 18th in New York and visited some
thirty, odd commission houses, AT 5,p, m.
took passage on the splendid. steamer
ssBristol, !" BY the Fall River line for Boston,
which reached, Tuesday morning, / 18th
inst, "a. NJ, entering Faneuil Hall Market,
knowing no one and unk nowniby all, 1stroll1
ed Quietly through, pricing fruit from
orchards all ever our peninsula, which dixie
| New York, varied according to quality,
prices "a iraabtnging from so cents to $3.50 and
81 .Oglper SpaSkage. The commission men
inliR ston 1aieI principally importers and
fruits, all Of them having good sized stores
ed to advantage, and sold entirely upon its
merits. saw but little objectioaableih the
Boston method of handling censignments. ]
heard of some cases Of farmiug out surplus
receipts, which Is reprehensible as the con-
signee Is thereby subjected TO double COM
missions, but on the whole, for a New York
market, Boston lhas done well. I visited
and was introduced to the following consig-
nees of Delaware fruit, viz LIS. Cham
berlain & Co.., A. & O.. n. Mead & Co.,
Curtis & Co., J. D, Mead y Co., J. W. & G
H.'Merritt, J. P. Dority, Partridge, Pond &
Co., j. 8. Cornish T. Co., LIS. Kimball,
Bennett g. Rand, Hodsden, Adams & Co..
and A, R. Coolidge & Co. These gentlemen
were all at their stores courteous and atten
tive, and evinced desire to favorably i'm
press their consignors, and to so successfully
4 compete with New York, that Boston ma,
70 longer be the market for New York tt
clean up her refuse fruit on. Boston mer
chants like New York, complain of the dc
:, tention of trains, which some lines are dc
], layed until 2 O'Clock p. m, when they wer
A due by contract at 2 O'Clock a. m. of tina
day, and assert their Inability to obtain a
fair prices for late receipts as for the frui
by first train, although the last lot may b.
better stock. Another thing complained of b,
both Boston and New York merchants ant
| then having to come on to Delaware, ,charte
cars, prepay freights and afterwards pa,
parties three per cent: to solicit coasign
ments for them. TO illustrate, "A is com
Hlc5lOu llAClCAdhU< uC CAdltCto OLA Val
and pays down charter privilege $50; hi
daily; $50, as his settlements are chiefly
once week. Heputs out $10.S0 weekly
in advance of receipts At the end of thu
peaches. and sold gross at an average price
SO cents per basket, yielding s24, 900. Now
on this suma one of our per cent solicitors
at home receives $72O, ostensibly out of the
commission mans 10 per cent, really out OF
the grower, who has all expenses
to pay. And this is the result
g, the grower, ships to A, the commission
merchant In New York, Il, 900 baskets of
peaches, which sell at so cents, S24 900
Deduct freight at 1S cents per basket,
$3.50; carriage at-4eents, 81 800; commits
sion, 10 per cent, a., 400; 8 per cent. to
home solicitor, S72Q; total, 81, $3.50, net re-
| suit, $40, sac. And from this may further
be deducted . reasonable interest on ad
| vance for freight, ETC., and the grower who
/ has had the toll Of the year receives but %
| cents per basket from this moreover, deduct
picking, asserting, cost@f packages. haul
ing and other expenses; which will fairly
average ten cents per package. The grower
has the smallest portion left, but with the
commission men agree, that it is NO part
of their duty to charter cars. paying freight
ard employing every idle man in the neigh
bGrhood to solicit eobsignmcnts at three per
cert. commission, who in their turn hire
some other unemployed party to pack the
fruit while they walk around distributing
cards and urging consignments, interested
only in their three per cent. The foregoing
are few ideas of the fruit trade gathered in
q hasty trip through the peach markets of
New York and Boston, and same (which
calls imperatively for redress, or an ayand-
ment Of the fruit trade, peach growing es-
pecally. PEACH.
BALL AND Bat.
THE QUIcKsTEPs REDEEMING THEMSELVES
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