Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-04
Our New York Letter.


New YoRK, June 3Oth, 1879.
The business of marketing for great New
York hotel is a matter which the ordinary
mind can hardly grasp in its fullest extent.
l was filled with astonishment when the pro-
prietor of one of our city caravanseries gave
me mn account of his duties connected with
the feeding of the guests in his establishment.
An average of three thousand people are fur
nished with food by him every day through
out the year, Sundays excepted. The pro-
prietor 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 purchased, 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 Connecticut river
brook trout from Long Island, mackerel, sea
bass, cod, blue fish, porges, Spanish mack
erel, pan fish, cells, HOLSTERS, crabs mussels
other varieties, which I 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 CLANS. Then visit is paid to
the berry department, whore one woman,
slender, small and delicate. does the largest
berry business in the city. The buyer orders
several hundred quarts of strawberries and
then goes to a large beef market in Fulton
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supply Of meat is bespokcn. To IA little store
in Washington street, just north of Nosey,
the buyer goes for his daily supply of potu-
toes, carrots, turnips, onions, lettuce, pars-
ley, cabbages, tomatoes water-cresses, Gu
cumbers radshes, squashes. rhubarb, peas,
asparagus. and other garden truck as the
market men term it, In the basement of this
store oranges, lemons and lines are ordered
10y the box. In Washington market the buy
er lays in his supply OF smoked beef, smoked
salmon, cheeseP fifteen or twenty loins of
fresh pork, half dozen immense pieces of
corned beef, and, finally one hundred dol
lars worth of poultry. In Chambers street
ho 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
. o'clock the marketing for the day is done.
The cash payments made every day for arti-
cles of food by this one person are never I'M
der $500, and very frequently 30 beyond
$1,000. Milk is purchased to the amount of
$4,000 every year, and during the season it
costs $500 day to supply the wants of the
lovers of oysters.
In support of New York's boast that She is
the true centre of the whole country, every
outside institution which grows to importance
be it bank, railroad, mine, or individual
enterprises certain to have its New York
Office. OF late years, the large newspapers
Of the West have followed this general and
convenient fashion, until there is now scarce
ly an American journal Of national reputa-
ton which has not its regular metropolitan
representative ready to transact all business
in its behalf. Within few months, indeed,
the most important newspaper institution in
the country outside of this city, namely, KEEL
logs chain of auxiliary printing houses, Of
Chicago St Louis. and Cleveland has yield
ed to this tendency toward Capitalization
and established an Office here TO facilitate the
transaction of its immense and wide spread
business. How vast that business is may be
judged from the fact that Mr. Kellogg prints
regularly one-half of over seven hundred and
fifty weekly newspapers, scattered from New
Mississippi. He was the originator Of the
great system of inside printing in this
country, and has developed this curious and
once novel industry from absolutely nothing
to a business of imposing proportions. An
interesting letter might be written about the
history of this business Capitalization which
has made New York a compact epitome of
the whole nation, but l must await more
favorable opportunity TO pursue the subject
Astronomers tell us that although ignorant
man has decreed that summer shall COM
mence on June LIST, that season, in fact, be-
gins only with the Solstice which has just
passed. judge from the actions of the Their
mometer that the astronomers have the best
of it, for precious lsttlc summer have We had
until this week. Now, however, the dog days
are very plainly upon us, and the faces of the
seaside hotel men, which heightened rapidly
during the first three weeks Of alleged sum
mer, have suddenly broadened into smile
of pleased boneyolencc. About the neigh
boring watering places, and numerous recent
improvements upon them, purpose writing
in another letter RADn.