The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-22
FOr The JtrlI Wing
BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER,

THE NEW YORK MARKETs-w WASHINGTON
J AND FULTON MARKETs-BUsINEss FAIL
UREs -wREsTLING BEARs,-ETC, ETC
Among the few old landmarks that still
remain to remind us of good old times. Full
ton and Washington markets occupy
very tender spot in the heart of every old
| New Yorker. Everything else is changed.
| In my memory, the population of the city
has Increased from three hundred thousand
to million. Cuion Square, which is now
away below the center Of the city, was then
suburban outskirt, TO which people retired
when they wanted to get a mouthful of
country air. Amateur sportSmen wandered
with dog and gun over the ground now oc-
cuped by magnificent houses on Fifth
Avenue, and there was pretty good fishing
on the site of the Grand Central Depot.
For many years new and magnificent
temple has occupied the sites of old Trinity;
splendid buildings with iron, marble, and
brown stone fronts have gradually dis
placed the tenements of forty years ago.
The Park is built all over, so that we
scarcely know it. The site of The old
Presbyterian church, erected in 1867, be-
tween Beekman and Spruce Streets, where
once rested the ashes Of the patriot, Jacob
Leisier, is now covered by the office of the
Times and the World. The old building
where the white coated philosophy of tie
Tribune penned those treuchant articles
wi adj hat 1,nf
has disappeared. carrying with it the Pew
ter Mug and all its mufderous crew of Pad
dy the Slasher, and One eyed Kelly, and
Dickey Finch, Toad Hutchings Mickey
Mann, Red Jack Walsh aud hosts of others
who died with theil boots on: some shot
some killed in drunken brawls some dying
III States prison, and many Of them perish
ing on the galows.
Great men were butchers of Washington
and Fulton markets in those days. A man
desiring to make an Impression in good So
cety, generally traded his ancestors TIC some
post diuvian butcher. The vernacular of
the slaughter-house gave tone to our fash
ionable gatherings, and the flavor of the
market stall and the meat block compensa-
ed for Jockey Club and Odour Chinoise,
which are now the delight of our modern
bellies. Great was the guild of butchers.
They ruled our politics with an iron despot,
ism, unknown even under Fernando Wood
or old Bill Tweed. But though the mar
kets remain as of yore, the power has pass
ted from the Sykeses and the Moses never,
| trust, to return.
| do not believe that there is city of
equal population on the face of the globe
that has as disgraceful markets as the City
of New York: nor do believe that there are
any markets in the world which have
more magnificent supply. Amid rlckety
old roofs and tumbed down walls can be
found the choicest ofeverything that swims
in the sea, that flies in the air. Or creeps or
walks on the ground. The fruits of the
tropics are here in as great abundance as
you can find under the Equator, and it is
not uncommon to oranges and lemons
cheaper than You can purchase indiffer-
ent apples which are grown at our own
door. All sorts of fish from whale to
and vegetables are served up as green in
December and January as you can get them
elsewhere in June or July. Figs, bananas
pine-apples and grapes are so be had
through the entire year, and at moderate
cost. Such being the fact, it is marvellous
that New York has never sought to initiate
her sister cities of the world and give her
people decent market.
Business commences at Washington Mar
ket in the early hours of the morning, for
this is the point from which several mil
lions of people draw their supplies 1t is
not only New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City
and their envrons, but for many things,
markets as far west as Nebraska and Min
nesota, seek their supplies in Washington
Market. While the rest of the city is
wrapt in quiet sleep, around Washington
Market is heard the roar of thousands of
wagons and the harsh jar of multitude
of voices. and the continuous hustle of
eager and busy crowds; for blocks all
around the market the streets are fairly
choked with wagons which have been
standing there all the night, waiting for
the market t" open. They are piled up
with vegetables brought in from New ,Ier-
sey, Long Island, and the surrounding
country. The early morning is occupied
mostly by wholesalers but as the morning
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