The daily gazette., 1878-01-03
NEW YEARS TABLES

HOW THE NINE Is OBSERVED IN NEW
YoRK--MARKETINd BY WHOLE
sALE-$3,0 900 FOR A "spREAD."
"Monsieur x" thus writes In the New
York sum-
Passing through the market, encoun-
tered well known caterer.
"Getting ready for New Year's?"
"Ytsjhere never was such rush since
I came 10 New York"
"Are you furnishing many tables2"
"Well. my book-keeper told me this
afternoon that we have had more orders
already than in the past two years."
"What do they order, as a rule, OF
your"
"Boned turkeys, game, fruit glace,
charlotte russo, creams, and ware"
"wMe?'
"Yes, all kinds of ware, from china to-
gold You know we have most elabo-
rate sets Of exquisite designs, and hire
them out"
"But don't people notice the same sets
iD different houses?"
"Oh, we are careful of that, too. We
manage so that the silver and china, for
instance, that are sent to one house, do
not 60 again together for a year. We
have many sets, and by system we can
manage anything"
"What do you charge for first class
table?o
| "rhat depends. We can set an ele-
giant table for $3.50, without wine, but
really $500 are needed TO make any kind
of show"
"Doyou furnish walters as well?"
"Always where we send our ware we
send our waters. Otherwise we do not
care; we make nothing from the waiter
service"
"What is the largest order thus far re-
ceived for the coming year."
SOUR largest order for the past three
years has come from Brooklyn gentle
man. Last year, including wine his bill
was $1,000: the year before S2,500. This
year our estimates not far from last
years bill. The bill Is swollen by cigars
and liquors used by his friends, who
pour in upon him by the hundreds, and
who are treated by him in princley style,
or rather as no prince treats anybody"
"Give me an idea"
"Well, he has ten dozen quail, for in
stance, six dishes, o.. .boned turkey, at $40
dish; three pyramids of fruit glaee;
picked oysters, think he had 10000 at
IS hundred; ice creams, iccs, cold
meats of all kinds, and everything In
profusion. The wine opened in that
mans house would swim a sloop, and be
has the finest cigars by the dozen boxes
Come down 10 the fruit market. l want
TO get some oranges"
We walked over to Washington Mar
ket, our ears assailed at every step By
the frantic appeals Of drummers anc
salesmen, peddlers and market women
hucksters and farmers.
That market is q sight.
Every man means business, and every
womans means nothing else.
The town is full of fruit-or was, las
night. L saw boxes Of oranges change
hands readily at Sc to 30 cents a dozen
They were sweet and sound, and worth
on Broadway from 80 cents to 81. In ba
nanas the trade was exciting. 1 nevei
knew before that dealers in that kline
Of fruit had any special rivalry, but they
have. They beat the old-fas hi nee
steamboat runners, and II any one |,
anxious to purchase bananas cheap, by
the quantity, let him 60 to the Washing
ton Market and excite the attention OF
any two dealers that may chance to b,
otherwise unoccupied.
The Identical fruit for which consci
enceless Broadway dealers ask dollar
dosen, and often twelve cents each, caI
be had down town all the way from
thirty to sixty cents q dozen.
My companion bought largely for cash
and was welcomed wherever he went
He ordered 81 ixteen boxes of oranges. AN {
secured them at twenty-five cents {
dozen.
"Can you use that many before they
; decay" ?" 1 asked.
Eyes, indeed, and If not. what of IL
shall sell them for q dollar a dozen
: People who order New Years table of US
pay little attention to details. They or.
der a $3.50 or $500 table, and leave the res
to us. 1t wouldn't do for us to furnish
table meanly.'
"You think, then, that there is to be
general observance of the day, and 6
generous provision, too.
"I certainly do. Our candy broker
"Candy broker? What's that ="
"Why a sample man. We buy all eur
candy by samples. You don't suppose
: people send warehouse full of candy
for a man TO look at. A candy broker
has horse and wagon. In the wagon b,
has compartment trunk orbox. in whicl
| his wares are laid out under certain head
with price lables attached. Each kline
of candy is represented by bits or pieces
) An expert can, tell by the feel of SO mt
sorts just what they are and how the,
taste. l would never trust myself to bu,
, candy. The can't fool me on meat, gam
or fruit, but Pm perfect baby in candy
and would take the first that was Offered
; me. have q man however, who cal
tell fraud from sugar stick as sooh a
he sees it. We buy great deal"
"What for ?"
. sChildren's parties, birthday parties
lovers boxes, and all that sort of hing
Then, too, when we have big dinners
: candy is always put on TOWARDS the enc
I'll tell you something. Daniel Wetste
and William III. Seward were the great
l est munchers of candy you ever heard of.
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