Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-09
TEA, COFFEE AND SUGAR.
How Some of GothaIn's Solid Men
 %imbIy Hunt tho Spry Sixpence.


 NimbIy Hunt tho Spry sixpence.
 Part of Wall street i5 not Wal street at
 all. Down by the ferry, around Front
 and Water streets, there i5 10 GtCc!l and
 bond flavor whatever. Tlii-,g5 down there
 smack of China, of Java. Of Br2zil, and
 of Cuba, but of nothing nearer hol1o.
 Down there the big men in tea, coffee, sugar and molasse3 rule the rCast. If there i5 any boarding house keeper who wants to buy the table llzU-iea ly thc ton or the cargo, just drop around, but other wise stick to tho corner grocery. IhC-e is where the solid men Of Now York and Brooklyn nimbly hunt t,lc CpEy sixpcDcc. At home theSa. heavy ci,i2c13 arc never asked to Go alayth-ng. but down there on tho market they slip around hlzc v2lct5 to Marlnon. With Q pacfUl Of green coffee beans in Cl,c hand and q little paper of Oolong in the other, they jump to servc their masters whi:as.
 1t sccrs funzy to see the millionaire pumping long l2t stick up and down through tho bunghoie of Q ho5shead Of molasses cl the street, running hl3 dia- mond studded fingers along 1t, and scc0p- 41l li4C lN-CAl4esA4 AANesS4N A-llO 11-9 plugged mouth. He is a1 expert. huL he cannot. lick l2;;s fingers any better than the rude untutoEed urchin who steals lesson at it when tho expert turns his back.
 Over on the office steps stands a man whose trotters will bv and by be spu1ning the dust of Central avenue from their hoofs. Look at him sitting coffee. How compiacently he rattles the sieve. Look at him wait 1t from side to side, and toss its contents up and down iko pancake. What is he doing? Blowing tho chaG out of it. It's a sample, and tho pur- chasing jo5ber is at hand. lie has just roasted few handfuls in his own little roastcr i1 tho office, for he himself fought the coffee green.
 Four times Q yc2T-in March, June, September and Dcccmber-the Dutch Govcrnmcnt cells coffee ct public auction i1 Padang. The Dltcllman there meas ures his coffee by the picul (13G pou1d9 and values is by the Guildcr (ifty centS), so inc New Yorker just figures out the equivalent of say, twenty cents pound, and c24cs lis limit to his agents, and they tid the Dutch auctioncer SO much and no more. The day after the sale everybody i1 the trade knows who bought. hoy much he bought and what hc hoG~l:t Gtt. The conunGrum then is: ' l,c.. I--:c,c.--t i3 he c;..,.siieI with? Wh2t I--l i4e sci at!
 One fQ2,-y thing a1out tlo Java coffee business i5 t.l2t tbc-c i.-c G.oUt five times as many pounds of it soll over the Eroccrs counter G3 there &-c grown on the ic!SRd. As -@.rrE Twain says, this would lo0l; IEoS discrepancy, or hiatus, but we've got to accept facts as VIC find them.
 Co1eo from Padans to New York, after a voyago Of 1C0 days. cr-ives more or less Gvcatcd. This p2rt is al skinned of il Brooklyn warehouses and afterward sold e "sl1imnainS5' to jo5bers at 0 re- duced price. t vG9 never known to go any further than that, because tho retail CTS never cell you caything but ''pure old Government Java.
 In tho tasting room of 2 large firm of tea brokers ia Water street half dozen men of critical palates sit around re- volving t2bIo slipping tea from delicate china cups. It's tea party, but what a tea tablel No cloth, no milk, 10 sugar, no gossip! A circle of cups outside of a ring Of canisters, q copper kettle of boil ing water, and that's all-5trictly busi- ness. They sip, and they smack and they spit. A brass spittooa, as high as the table, and looking Ike Q German trombone strengthened out, receives all the ejected liquor.
 Some time ago New York started tea auctions every week, and Chicago IS fol- lowing suit, but tea is Q commodity that loses its flavor very easily, and Chicago's unsavory origin probably has a good deal to do with her failure to rival tho me tropolis as tea mart. The Wall street auctions have become quite a social af- fair. Coffee, sandwiches and napkins are passed around among tho guests. When they sit down facing the auctioneer'G ros- trun, pencils and catalogues in hand, you might easily imagine them a group of re- porters sitting in execution on the latest imported lecturer. It is Gn ordinary thing for 10000 half chests to be sold. This means 450, 900 pounds, and when a couple of spoOnfuls make a nice cup of tea look at the delight in store for our Now York Sun.