Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
AS TO TABLE VIANDS.
Fruits From Far California Are Now
the Main Dependence.
EGGS AND POULTRY ADVANCING
Higher Grades of Fish and Oysters Scarce
and Tending Upward.
FLORISTS HAPPY OVER PROSPECTS
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY. OCTOBER ii, 1889.

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1889.
Market basket materials are very much
as they were last Saturday as to cost. There
are still a few peaches and pears on the
fruit stalls, but anything choice in this line
halls from the Pacific slope. Grapes are
now at their best. Every variety at reason
able rates is TO be had for next Sunday s
dinner. The home crop is below average,
but Ohio and New York are coming to our
rescue, and the fruit of the vine is here In
abundance.
The first killing frost of the season put in
its appearance on the 9th Of October. To-
matoes are, however, inc full supply, and
will be for weeks to come, as gardeners have
laid bv in store suficiency for the present
month at least.
Retail prices of vegetables are practically
the same as a week ago. The same is true
as to fruits, though the field for selection is
more limited than it was last Saturday.
Dairy products of all kinds have been active
the past week but prices are unchanged.
Its Stimulating Effect.
The cool weather has had stimulating
influence on trade in this line. Reliable
eggs are scarce and higher. Poultry is COM
ing in more freely from the West. Western
Pennsylvania crop OF poultry is unusually
light, and prices would be out of reach OF the
ordinary purse ii the West did not come to
our rescue.
The better grades of fish and oysters are
Il, Fhara hoS hann
an improvement in this respect the past
week. White fish and large salmon are still
short of demand, owing to late storms on
the lakes which prevented the lifting of
nets.
Oysters of the higher grade are scarce and
firm. Baltimore packers complain that they
are losing money at present prices, and all
agree that an advance must soon come.
One Big Fridays Work.
A Diamond Market fish dealer reports
that he cleaned over ton OF hsh this morn
ing, and sold oysters in proportion. Friday
and Saturday are the great fish days and the
trade for these days is larger than all the
balance of the week.
Florists report a steady Improvement of
trade. The wedding business is on the
boom, and this week has been the best of the
season in this line, There is a very large
run OF late JOr Orc0lQS IOT DTlOsll DOuQuelS
From now until the holidays the floral trade
will be at its best. and the outlook for a lively
society time was never brighter in this neck of
the woods than 1t is to-day.
Following are the retail prices of market
basket materials as furnished by leading deal
ers:
Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy which are very often 10 better
than the zoe article; sirloIn, best cuts, from is
to 2Oc; standing rib roast, from l5 to 20c; chuck
TOAST. 10 to l2c; best round steaks, I5c; boiling
beef, 5 to SC; sweet breads, 20 to Soc per pair;
beef kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, sc pound;
calf livers, 25c apiece. corned beef from to 10c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l21a to l5c; cuslets 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
15c. A leg of mutton hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes I5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes Csc per half peck; egg plants 10 to 25c toma
toes 25c per half peck; cabbage ito l0c; bananas.
20 to 25c dozen; carrots, SC a bunch; lemons, 25
TO Soc per dozen; oranges, SOC; lettuce, SC per
bunch, for 25c; radishes, sc per bunch; cucum-
bers, SC apiece; beets, for 10c; caulifowers,
Is to 35c a head; string beans 20c half peck;
golden wax beans, 25c half peck; onions, 20
TO S5c half peck; new Spanish onions. to
size; peas, 2Oc per quarter peck; CatawbaS, to
&c; Delaware grapes to lOc; Concord grapes, 5
to &c per pound: peaches. % to 30c per quarter
peck; pineappes, 20 to S5c: turnips Z5c per half
peck; spinach. 20c per half peck; cranberries,
l5c quart; Lima beans, zoe quart.
Butter. Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, S5c. Good country
butter. Sc. Fancy pound rolls, S5c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 23c.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to
81 Is per pair. Turkeys, 20c per pound. Prairie
chickens, 81 90 a pair: ducks 81 90 to 81 % per
pair; reed birds. 81 90 per dozeni jacksripes,
s. 50 per dozen.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon, l215c; Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc pound; white fish, I21%c; her.
ring, pounds for &c; Spanish maclzerel SOC
TO Csc a pound; sea salmon 4Oc a pound:
blue fish, 25 to SOC; perch. l0c; halibut, 25c;
rock bass Soc; black bass, 20c: lake trout I215c;
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackcrel,
20c small, 40c large. Oysters: N Y. counts
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 % per gallon; scol-
lops. Soc a quart; frogs, g 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
La France roses, 81 253l 50 per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 25 per dozen; Perles, 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 so
per dozen; American Beauty S5c apiece; Mer-
NETS, 81 25 per ooZen; carnaulonS, Soc dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz. fronds; gladiolus
SOC per dozen; lily of the valley, 81 per doSNn.