Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-18

Everything ABOUT the alu gentleman
though cleanly, Is suggests. Of nntlqaii
and long use. lie Is always On hand q
peep OF day. AS the visitor gazes throug
the market, stout sons of Erin. b.-awn
Ieutons, and here and there an zoe
female with a squeaky voice, give varieti
10 the spectacle.
Curious and interesting as Is this oranf
temple Of purchase and sale In lis ,n
terror, its approaches are even more 10
Crowded along vesey street are sinai
vendors OF the finest OF hric.a.brsc. mos,
probably obtained from a s,fence.a and
their frequent expulsion by the police a
only followed by their speedy resppear.
ance. There sre $50 Inviting displays of
old clothes which have all but lost the
powered cohesion.
The market has made mullonaIres.
both through SIS buyers aud lis sailors
Smith 6 McNeil's Washington Mari AZ
restaurant buys Its supplies by the ear
load For " are, the Long Island and
Jerseymen asked for nothing better In the
season Of them than strawberry short.
cake and a cup Of coffee, and the mann.
moth bakery whore they were made
turned them out by the CARLOAD
Liquids, too, we're Ia heavy demand.
and ten fortunes have been realIyed
out OF those market saloons, which have
existed less by the grace Of
the board OF excise commissioners
than by the sufserauce Of the pollce
These places We're quiet and ORDERLY. and
the "cop," as he walked aionu his beat.
did not trouble himself about them. In
Water, when the air is cool and the prox-
unity OF the river makes 1t windy, the 30.
licemau at his post does not disturb me
rural bivouacer as he kindles hts IRE IN
the street and takes his preliminary ssgin
sling" provocative OF pleasure aud leth-
argyt TO warm himself before going TO
sleep on his load
la the long period that has elapsed since.
Its establishment, the wholesalers have
gradually appropriated so much of the
river as to pass the state line, and the
city was compelled to acquire title TO the
land at cost Of $4,000. For Years the
dock department has sought to oust the
marketmen frum the place they built mn.
TO make room for more piers. But 70 do
this would cost milton OF dollrrs. md
the city now realizes Sl2O, 600 In revenues
from the stands IN the West WASHINGTON
mar6tt. The annual fees from the retail
market amount TO SS5, 900. So the mat
ter remains IN statu quo, and II is not
likely that the Wholesale men will ever be
dispossessed.
Though the market could not go be-
yond certain point riyerward, hind.
ward there WAS no fixed bound, The
overcrowding Of the old market was re-
lleved Ave wears ago by the creation of
Gansevoort market ut Little Twelfth
street for the sale of vegetables, The
countrymen walt at Washington for the
hour to sell their staff AZ Gansevoort.
When the present Washington market
building WAS erected In 1884, at a cost OF
s270 600, the old irregular gangways OF
the former structure were preserved ia
order that the holders of stands might
retain the same relative positions as tSey
bad before. Many OF these stands have
passed from sire to son, and though
most oftae elders have passed beyond
the realm ottrade, few are left to re-
vive the memories OF 'ye olden time.r
President Kay OF the Market associa-
ton, an organization formed to protect
the rights OF members and adjust inter.
nal differences, has heen IN business at
the same stand for thirty-three years, and
Is reckoned among the Ngstols Of the
place.
But the market merchant IN not nj.
ways in action, and at the close OF bust
nsss and in his moments Of elegant lels.
ure, when he dOns his lustrous tile and
arrays himself in the splendor of swal-
low tail or Prince Albert and immaculate
shirt front, with diamond studs and mas.
sive watch chain, one is surprised to see
how much man ls indebted to the ac-
cldents OF dress, and how much magnet
ism there Is in the creations of the
tailor's art. GRoRGE j. CLARKE.