New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-29
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CLOSING OF THE OYSTER sEAsoN-FREsH vEoEs
TABLES BECOMING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
AND PINEAPPLEs.
Tho close of the oyster season on Tuesday viii
greatly diminish the business Of many dealers In
fish in Fulton Market as most of them keep on
hand miscellaneous stock embracing not only
the fish that swms but also the bivaIve that moves
with the tide. More than a million bushels Of
oysters are handled yearly in this city. Counting
200 oysters to the bushe the appalling total Is over
200,000,O00 consumed. From now until Septembef
this business will fall of-in the estimate of Fish
Comm issoner Blackford-fully seyen-eighths
Sadderock is the fshermans term for choice, large
oysters the pick of all that come to the market.
These sold during last week for 81 hundred In tho
she'll. Freeports. Shrewsburys aud Bueponts
brought from rs cents to 81 so hundred. Little
Neck clans in great measure supply the gap mado
in the market by the close of the oyster season.
They are small hard and finely favored and are
worth 80 and 70 cents hundred. Many hundred
Thousand of them used during the summer sea-
son at Coney Island and neghboring seaside resorts
There are few other changes to note in Fulton
Market. The cold, rainy weather shortened the sup
ply of staple fish, and the prices were not lower than
In the previous week. Cod are worth and IL
cents white Lalibut 8 cents, bass Is and 70
cents and paddock cents pound. Fresh-caughr
salmon from Nova Scotia are 81 pound. Connec-
ticut River snad are Is cents each for the bucks
and ST. for the roe shad. North River roo shad
bring 50 cents and those from the South go cents
EACH Live Holsters are selling for ID cents. frozen
salmon for 80 cents and founders cents u pound.
A scanty supply of Blacklist brings ID cents flesh
mackeIel 10 and 20 cents Spanish mackerel Do
cents and pompano 80 cents pound. Sheershead
worth % cents white perch 10 and - cents,
red snappers and smelts 20 cents blu esh Is cents,
herring q cents, and rayfsh cents pound. Long
Island brook trout are 81 pound, Southern fresh
water black bass 20 cents, plckerel Is cents. and
walleyed pike 10 cents pound. Crayfish are 81 30
a hundred shrimps 81 30 and scollops 81 80 gallon.
Delicate white frogs legs lie had for 40 cents
and Goldfish tongues for 10 cents pound, Hard
crabs are $3 90 hundred, and SOFT crabs %
dozen.
The retail butchers smilingly assure the house
keepers who throng Washington Market tnat al
though the wholesale prices OF beef and mutton re-
main at high figures and threaten to 90 still higher,
yet the retail prices will positively not be ad-
vanced 1t Is discouragng to Imagine them geltlng
any further up than they are at present Porter
house steak is still 30 cents pound downtowns
while uptown 80 cents Is asked for it. Srloln
steak is % cents and siron roast - cents pound
Spring lamb sells at f3 for hndqaarters and ~ 90
for fOrequarters. leg of beet is woIth$l and Q
shin IS cents. Mutton chops BELL for % cents and
a shoulder of mutton for = cents pound: Veal
chops bring % cents and veal outlets 80 cents
aDOund Those who relish fresh pork can get IL Tor
16 cents pound. 80 "a
cents pound. Good eating butter made last year
and artificialy colored can be had for 20 cents
pound Creamery butter is worth 80 cents. Eggs
arc selling at fourteen for % cents.
Strawberries are very plentiful In the city now
and pedlers are hawking them about the streets at
% cents quart. They are bringing in the market
all the way from 20 TO 30 cents quart Inc
wholesale price of hothOuse peaches is about 80
cents each and the retail fruterers uptown easily
dispose of them at 81 each: A large number OIL
pinea pples that were brought from Porto Rico were
sold IN Washington Market last week for 81 each.
LIGHTHOUSE grapes are bringing the eAtravagant price
of So pound. The prices OF other fruits remain
unchanged
Unlimited quantities Of vegetables of every sort
are offered for sale Just now. Their green iresh APP
pearance and the artistic manner In when the
dealers arrange them on their booths form pleasant
and attractive features of the market 1t Is grati-
fyng to note that each week with summer APP
preaching brings them closer TO the means Oi tho
poor. Up to Nav the prices OF fresh VegetsDles
render them luXuries only TO be enjoyed by those
who not Inched in purse: But cueumoers
which could only be had month ago Tor Do cents
each. now sell for ID cents. Asparagus IS selling
for 30 cents a bunch which % month ago brought II
and so On througbou the entire list sweet p0ta-
toes are now worth 30 cents a half peck, tomatoes
% rents a quart, string beans 20 cents for TWO
quarts, and green peas 40 cents half-pecK Let
tuce brings % cents for five punches, Bermuda
onions ~ cents quart spinach 90 cents d half-
peck, ana new potatoes 10 cents quart.
MENU.
Spring soup.
Baked Sbad. Cucumbers.
Sweetbreads, fried. =,
Spring Lamb, roIst. Green Peas. potatoes II
Creme. Asparagus
Teal Duck. Jelly
Corn salad.
Cheese. Waters.
Frozen Pudding Strawberries.
BOnDOns
Coffee.