Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-25
New York Markets.
From the New York Times.

FROM the New York Times.
The time to see the markets is unquestionahlv
early In the morning. for, as we have said 1t
is then that business il alive and competition
keen. At Fulton 6 o'clock sees the thorough.
fares near the market thronged with coupes,
which bring the hotel-keepersto consideration
of the needful supplies for the day. Scarcely
prominent hotel landlord i'm New York IL absent
from this early visit of inspection. All pur-
chases for ho; els and restaurants are completed
10y 8 O'Clock; then the main business of the retail
SHAREHOLDERS consists in putting up orders re-
ceiNed 10y mail and attending 10 those trans
United by telegraph and telephone. Since the
general adoption of the telephone the business
of the market has increased enormously. Many
private families who formerly ordered from the
nearest tradesmen now telephone their needs to
the central market. And this new source OF
business would be still further increased If the
cost of opening up such communication here
were not so high, costing as IL does sig within
the city limits. whereas i'm the suburbs tele-
phone connection is made for S2..,0 the result
being that an immense suburban business is car
lled on at the central markets. Ten or fifteen
calls an hour is the usual average in one office.
A good deal of Interest attaches to the deco
rations in Fulton market. which are mainly at
the expense of the SHAREHOLDERS. Some of them
are very handsome; in the aisle devoted spe-
cially TO the sale of fish. which is on the Beck
man-street size, the Filings are of polished
dows give very pleasant appearance to the
whole. Tanks and aquariums are conspicuous,
and @12. 600 has already been expended upon
this one portion of the market The frontage is
$50 feet. and this space incoses Is stalls. In
this department the shareholders are all men,
bat in the poultry and vegetable aisles many
stands rented 10y women. Rents vary ac-
cording TO position and size of the stand. At
present many temporary stands occupy the side
ways awaiting the completion of the central
hail. which is to be covered with glass and
which. when completed. will change the whole
appearance of the market.
Washington market remains open somewhat
longer than Fulton. which closes at o. even on
Saturdays, whereas in Washington an enor-
nous general business is done between that
hour and or on saturday evenings. very
great point of interest in connection with
Washington is the very large business carried
on with Brooklyn and the suburbs and the inn
mense supply of beef brought to its stands.
Probably it is the largest meat market IN the
world. and supplies not only hotels restau-
rants. steamships and companies. but the wants
of the vast number offamilies who i'm crowded
neighbOrhood do their own marketing.
All along the river front the thoroughfares are
crowded with express wagons plying between
Brooklyn Jersey City, and. other districts and
the market packages being delivered for D
| cents apiece. Some of the items of consump-
ton are interesting, for example the fact that
since frogs legs came into fashion as delicacy
from .0O0 to 800 pounds day are sold i'm SUM
the increase. Some splendid specimens of the
latter Succuent dainty are TO bee seen hclplessly
tapping in Fulton market. aud weighing over
800 pounds. which afford food for amazcment
for country visitors; apparently, however, ii 10
not necessary to label them. was recently
done in an uptown store, Hands OF, for the
sake of the turtle
There is in New York an almost entire absence
of one Of the most noticeable features OF Lon
don city life and that is I'm the Open-ar markets
which are held i'm all the crowded districts of the
British metropolis once or twice week. These
markets consist Of open stalls. which are ranged
down either side of large thoroughfares and
which. in spite Of police regulations, do an enor-
nous trade. Formerly something Of the same
kind existed i'm Sth avenue and q few hucksters
may be seen on the avenues on the east side OF
the city. but this bears no comparison TO the
sights TO be witnessed every Saturday night i'm
London and the poorer suburbs. Every con-
ceirabe article for household consumption is
there sold In the street. and wares piled up in
wagons and exhibited under the flickering glare
of blazing oil lamps or torches. There the cheap
Jack reigns supreme. and there the saddest
scenes i'm life's drama are often enacted. In
such thronged districts Dickens drew his inspra-
ton. and to all who are familiar with them,
there lies a pathos and appeal in them which Is
utterly absent from city life on this side of the
Atlantic. where. let the pressure of hard times
be what il may. il can bear no comparison TO the
grinding heel of perpetual poverty which exists
in the wealthiest and most poverty stricken city
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