Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

INCW 1OIh uOOOl 10 d mdbUCA WhlOh ohS
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. Sundays
excepted. The proprietor sets out to
make his purchases at half-past six in
the morning. For his beef and mutton
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 pur-
chased, with the legs and shoulders of
half dozen Spring lambs and several
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 Connec-
ticut River, brook-trout from Long ISL
and, mackerel, sea bass, cod, blue fish
porgies, Spanish mackerel, pan fish, cells,
Holsters, crabs, mussels, oysters, CLANS,
salmon, paddock, and fifty other varie-
ties, 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
to the berry department, where one wo-
man, slender, small and delicate, does
the largest berry business in the city.
The buyer orders several hundred quarts
of strawberries. 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 onions, lettuce, pars-
ley, cabbages, tomatoes, water-cresses,
cucumbers, radishes, squashes, rhubarb,
peas, asparagus, and other garden
truck" as the market men term it. In
the basement of this store, oranges, lem
ons and lines are ordered by the box.
In Washington market the buyer lays
in his supply of smoked beef, smoked
salmon, cheese, fifteen or twenty loins
of fresh pork. half dozen immense
peices of corned beef, and, finally, one
hundred dollars worth of poultry. 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 nine o'clock the
marketing for the day is done. The cash
payments made every 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 1t was feared would prove ar
unsoluble mystery, has been explained
and the strange tension of public feel
ing an the subject relieved by the dis
, covery and arrest of the negro assassin
in Boston. l speak of the strong ant
lasting interest in this particular cas-,
as strange, for murders here are by NJ
: means uncommon, nor was the victim il
this instance renowned, nor the circum
stances peculiarly horrible. The intens
sensation, and the fact that hundreds 0
columns of fine print upon the subject
have found eager readers everywhere
j are only explainable on the mystery Q
the affair was the secret of its horribl
s magnetism. The inexplicable featur
: was the terrible one. The public ca
4 not bear that. When this announcement
: of such tragedy comes before then
e accompanied by full details of its az
!. complishment and the names of the erin
o inals concerned, comparatively sligt
!. impression is made. But let a Grim
:. remain puzzle to the police for forty
it eight hours and popular uneasiness an
~ ly inclined has been calculating ii
It chances of each New Workers. meetin
r similar fate and finds them to be /;
n one to untold millions, yet had not da,
t. light been let in upon this matter nun
e bers of people would have retained fl
h years the dread of secret assassination
IS Oddly and somewhat Significant
If this case which SO thoroughly baffied "tl
t. finest police &c. that the event prove
l every one of the theories upon whic
:. they were working to have been utter
~ wrong. was, as you are probably ava
a. by this time, cleared up by newspap
I'd man, reporter named Balch havir
ne spotted the murderer in the streets
~ Boston and caused his arrest. Mr.. Balt
who did similar service to society son
" time ago by securing the arrest of Win
IS. low. the Boston forger, is very appropl
to ately attached to the Boston Heral
ut the great New England paper which
to that whole region what the New 70