, 1880-05-19
But of tho People Who Keep and Profit
by Thoso Provorbially Exemplary
Workers,
How They Arc Hired and Flourish In
the Very Business Center OF New
Tork City.
Their Flooding Grounds at tho Bnttory
and Thofta from the Florist
Stores.
Tho Harvest Of Honey They yioId-The
Mistake Of suppos1ng They
Make Il.

Make L.
Busctsl Correspondence 10 T1,e Inter Oce1n.l
NEW YonK, May U.-OMu Of tllo b11Ricse
spots in Now York is Broadway in tho vicinity
OF tho poatotllco, nnd only stones throw
from tho grent newspaper buildings. Tho
Cur lines, street and elevated, tho rumbl'ng
stngos md solid column Of heavy tonms and |
carriages that roll along, and tho walks
crowded with pedestrians, combine to mike
an incessant Gin aud confusion, bowalaerinE |
to stranger, but too fa,nillnr to resident |
to be noticed
Passing along here yesterday morning, and |
roileottng rs much ns ono can whom 1ntons
on avoiding horses hoofs md tho elbowH OF
mankind, tho thought occurred that this
shifting scene wns ns purely typical Of city
life ns anything to bo found botwcon Caatlo |
Garden and Central PARK. and just thon, to
avoid putting ont tho orba OF man
or honst, closed my parasol,
to discover, clinglng on tho ribbon which
fashion says must hutter from the top Of
ono'H s,in~anado,
A heal LIVE DEE,
who had evidently been making IN elevated
railroad Of mo to Bnvo his own powers OF 10
comotion Ho looked fat and jolly IN Ills
cont Of brown and gold, but os mitch out OF
place In the heart OF this wilderness Of bricks
and ulortnr, ns 1n1nb, MI angel, or Wat
teau shephordcsa. While ncditatlng Us to
tho possible number and street In which his
leoahtp held forth, aud having turned down
wna heard, and In moment nnothcr busy
Insect lit on my shoulder.
Convinced by tho now conner that No. l
had not e1nhezz1cd another browIa-coat's
rcspondent awaited developments, md, when
both bees took flight, noted TINT they SCARED
upward, crossing TO- tho other side of
tho, street as they flow. While watching
row Of pGo-hiyos on tho roof OF Il lofty,
d'ngy-looklng buRlnesa block, md. resolved
to interview those insects in their own lair,
md SEQ II, according to tho verses Of our
hour" your correspondent commenced to
plirnb the flights OF stairs which led to tho
roof.
Having rcaohod tho last floor, the 1anttor
ton, aald tho apiary belonged to MI: i. J.
Hing i Go. ,ssodltorB Of the Bts- -keepcrs 4Ehga-
rtne. just at this momont tho door OF thu
editorial sanctuln oponed Mr. King mp
cussion, kindly offered q Elnnoo at hts
OUTDOOR 1ouQEns,
which wna Mt onco accepted, md
,,oy yell Of b1ne s,o1 netting ,. being sap-
md in another moment wo stood in 4 heu
village. Over nifty whito and dnlnty little
houses were scattered nbout tho floor, md
Driakly flying bnek and forth were Thousands
Of tho day are over two million tivn hundred
thousand OF these tiny lnborars come ho1nu
to store their honey and scat
''Whore In tho world docs your family
~ Mr.. {,tr f,r inv,
the eye could rcnch, thoro WIS neither flower
nor fruit treos nor clover blossom
Their favorlte place 1a tue battory and
they know that they VIII nlways lnd q
thoro, for tho reason That only ono nun il
kept to NOV the grass, and by tho ttme l,o
geta to ono end OF tho park tho clover hna
again sprung up Oh tho other. Theu thoy
take frequent nlpa on tho way from lower
girls on tho street und tho plants in
front Of the florists, and many Of thu
enturprtsing tly over to Jersey City.
Just then some Of tho bees tint did not
talEed pretty close to my face, suggost'ng
tho question, 'Do you often got atungY"
Very rarely, and unless ONO handles the
bees; by moving quietly, about thcra l. little
uucing q now swarm, 1t Ii only necessary to
blow q ltttlo smoke upon thesn, and huro lot
mo say thnt tho smoke does not atuptfy the
m Is nI A1pKRone bpt Insrs
from any oA.lso they gorge themselves witt
honey until thoy Gun hardly Htlr-n SCARF
having very contrary etlect on their .1pna,
titcs from what 1t docs Oh OURS. This III tho
Becret Of these men III tho
y H1pE-Suows or CIRCUS, ;
or on tho Btreet who nAtonlsli people lly I'LL
ing their hhlr or wli!skors with bees that nrt
ovurfol, anu therefore l,ar1uluAA Ono thins,
however, should always bonvotdc1, a,u thu
Ia breathing on tilon, for tho huniat, breati
Stems to have an hlnloAt madlen,nE etfect.'
III. I'm what !, state III tie bsa industry Of TIL
"Flourfshing, and on tho increase, tl,ouEl
1t ought to be ttvo times as grent IN 1t iM A
II Amorica,. owned, by 10000 bou-kodlura
They. ylold on tho average twoaty-tw
pounds Of honey, which Mt thu 1hodornt
Er.so Of 36 conts per pound ytultls u, 500,
NU0 for thu crop. The wax ls estt,natcl Il
2O,OuU,O 900 pounds. worth :kll, ,0t'D QUO: TIL
sStn 5S$sS' df 5fon M a. !Ssy S sts Ms. as
honoy and, $70t',OD0 worth ct wa:
arc annua!ly oxlortsL NJ. liarhiso'
OF California, clcard S95, 600 per a,ll,,n
nS9ss sao.t IL ftiosGs os sg ts s %sss ii asy "sa ya
there IL mora honey lost n.'nnn'ly III thu
nowory country thu, tho gold guthcruslh
:, .YoS ,,2 t3al Il thas boo.kaupIag'a tho city ther
''lorteot!y 70. We .noet with Ruceosa; m
no do others attempting It, Our buos will Il!
to Centrul Park, atstarco OF
Fouh 1tli4EB, FOR FOOD,
and 1t Ia one OF thu few anltlselncnts ut ti
sountry Which cnn be Ind In the city.
wonder young Indies DO nut take tn II NOR
{ They would lind it profitable M well ,
pleasant. 1ndeou, bookkeeping saunis esp
cinly suited to tho women iu illnny ruspuot
md Mrs. Ellen L. Tupprr, Of Iowa, khop
What m energotio ono us!l! 10 III thla 1usnes
ehe nlso hns nude valuatl0 discoveries ln r
gnrtl to tho haltts Vt beeA"
'.You would bo surprised to Hce tho apl,t
Iently wel!,,utlucate'l ]'coplsa win, do Y
King, Sbut hnvo i dim idcts that Gc.,s max
1t themselves, Or elHo Transform! Il after Entl
erlng, by some proccsA Dt. AtrtlanA g1v'
as Y tSs hSs %asa bn s u Env atsEf
by thun from tho 1loGtnrics ut 1t0Wcrs III,
from that 1eculiar deposit On ,vegrta:ie
aurtnK summer oallesa honey dew U
continuous supply OF Towering trees II,
plnuta through tho summer l'royen.A II
bees from oyer being idlu or suffering, al
though many Of tho
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