St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-04

FEEDING GoTHAM'S GUESTS-A GIANT
FEAST-THE HULL TRAGEDY EXPLAIN
ED@THE TERRORs OF MYsTERY-A

FEEDING GOTHAM'S GUESTS-A GIANT
FEAsT-THE HULL TRAGEDY EXPLAIN
ED-THE TERRoRs OF MYsTERY-A
DENCY TO GENERALIZATION.
NEW YORK, June 81, 1879.
TO the Editor of the Caledonian:
The business of marketing for great
New York hotel is matter which the
ordinary mind can hardly grasp in its
fullest extent. l was filled with aston
ishment when the proprietor of one of
our city caravanseries gave me an ac-
count of his duties connected with the
feeding of the guests in his establish
ment. An average of three thousand
people are furnished with food by him
every day throughout the year, Sun
days excepted. The proprietor sets out
to make his purchases at half-past six
in the morning. For his beef and NUT
ton he goes to Jefferson Market, where
the trade is almost wholly confined to
those meats. Here everybody is hard
at work, for most of the business must
be done before eight o'clock. Eighteen
sets of ribs and twelve loins of beef are
purchased, with the legs and shoulders
of half dozen Spring lambs and sever
al sheep. Fulton Market is next visited,
for fish. The fish stands extend along
the whole of one side of the building,
and every variety of fish in season can
be found there in large quantities.
There are turtles, shad from the Con-
necticut River, brook trout from Long
Island, mackerel, sea bass, cod, blue
fish, pOrgies, Spanish mackerel, pan
fish, ellis, Holsters, crabs, mussels, oys-
tiers, CLAIMS, salmon, paddock, and fifty
other varieties, which l have not space
to mention. The buyer selects sixty
mackerel, about thirty sea bass, forty
blue fish, thirty sole, sixty shad, one
hundred Holsters and five hundred
CLAIMS. Then visit is paid to the berry
department, where one woman, slender,
small and delicate, does the largest
berry business in the city. The buyer
orders several hundred quarts of straw
berries, and then goes to large beef
market in Fulton street, near New
Church, where another large supply of
meat is bespOken. To little store in
Washington street, just north of Vesey,
the buyer goes for his daily supply of
potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions, let
tuce, parsley, cabbages, tomatoes, wa
ter-cresses, cucumbers, radishes, rhu-
barb, squashes, peas, asparagus, and
other "garden truck" as the market
men term it. In the basement of this
store, oranges, lemons and lines, are
ordered by the box. In Washington
market the buyer lays in his supply of
smoked beef, cheese, fifteen or twenty
loins of fresh pork, half dozen i'm
mense pieces of corned beef, and, final
ly, one hundred dollars worth of poul-
try. In Chambers street he stops for his
supply of tea, coffee, spices and butter,
three or four tubs of the latter being
the usual amount purchased, as there is
commonly supply on hand. At about
nine o'clock the marketing for the day
is done. The cash payments made ev-
cry day for articles of food, by this one
person are never under 5000, and very
frequently go beyond $1,000. Milk is
purchased to the amount of $4,000
every year, and during the season it
costs 5000 day to supply the wants of
the lovers of oysters.
The Hull murder case, which has
greatly agitated New York for two
weeks, and which it was feared would
prove an unsoluble mystery, has been
and the strange tension of
public feeling on the subject relieved
by the discovery and arrest of the negro
in Boston. l speak of the
strong and lasting interest in this par
ticular case as strange, for murders here
are by no means uncommon, nor was
the victim in this instance renowned,
nor the circumstances peculiarly horri-
BILE. The intense sensation, and the fact
that hundreds of columns of fine print
upon the subject, have found eager
readers everywhere, are only explaina-
bic on the ground that the mystery of
the affair was the secret of it's horrible
magnetism. The inexplicable feature
was the terrible one. The public can
not bear that. When this announce
ment of such tragedy comes before
them, accompanied by full details of its
and the names of the
criminals concerned, comparatively
slight impression is made. But let
crime remain puzzle to the police for
forty-eight hours and popular uneasi-
ness and terror are universal. Some
one curiously inclined has been calcu-
lating the chances of each New Workers.
meeting similar fate and finds them
to be one to untold millions, yet had
not daylight been let in upon this mat
ter numbers of people would have re-
tanned for years the dread of secret as
sassinatien.
Oddly and somewhat significantly,
this case which so thoroughly baffled
1.-THE finest police, &c." that the event
proved every one of the theories upon
which they were working to have been
utterly wrong, was, as you are proba-
bly, aware by this time, cleared up by
newspaper man, reporter named
Balch having spotted the murderer in
the streets of Boston and caused his ar
rest. Mr.. Balch. who did similar SER
vice to society some time ago by secur-
ing the arrest of Winslow, the Boston
forger, is very appropriately attached
to the Boston Herald, the great New
England paper which is to that whole