Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24

According to his usual custom turkey has
assumed his position king and those who
felt as though they needed toothsome bird t.
grace the morrow's dinner found him very
unapproachable monarch. He started out
early in the morning at the exalted figure
of 10 cents per pound. but speedily rose 2 cents
By o'clock he was % cents and when the hour
of noon arrived rs cents was the regula,
rate. 1t was too high for lots Of
people. Crowds Of humanity with its
mouth set for turkey changed its mind and
cation and profit of the butchers. The rise in
turkey was due to the unusual and continued
mildness Of the weather. In ordinary
winters it is customary for those
who have birds for market to
vance. but when the temperature ranges around
in the seventies and eighties the birds
are very much the better for being
eaten within twenty-four hours OF
their untimely taking off. Phis necessary
delay resulted in a comparatively small supply
Of turkey and prices went up with the Their
mometer. Chickens and ducks were present
in large quantities in the Center market when
q STAR reporter visited that place this morning,
but the demand was not extraordinary.
The butchers were not grumbling they seemed
to be doing their share of business; they would
have been Just as well pleased il there had not
been q turkey in all the market
GAME WAS PLENTIFUL
and far beyond the demand and the same
might be said of fish. Oysters moved of more
rapidly than would be expected Of mollusks
unaccustomed to pedestrian exercise and to-
morrow they will come to the table in company
with the brown bird-it may be in the sauce or
it may be calmly reposing in the biped's in
terror.
THE DISPLAY OF VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
was fully up to anything the market has had in
the past and it must have astonished lots of
people who did not know what grip Center
market had on the earth's vegetation.
Great pyramids Of bright oranges decorated
many stands and with the lighter gold of the
lemons contrasted prettily and in an aPPetizing
manner with the rosy-streaked and polished ap-
Piles. Celery and cranberries made themselves
prominent all over the place. Pumpkins and
squashes of all varieties, but much alike in hue
and mostly destined for pie, were not lacking
as to admirers. The sweet-scented butter and
the attractively put up butterine each had its
advocates and purchasers.
THE FLORISTS
had special display. There were large guam
titles of cut fowers-most Of them looking
especially beautiful in the unexpected and
highly unreasonable December sunshine-and
there were a good many potted plants,
a majority Of them Gala lilies. Along
side the huge punches of La France
roses and hung all around the plants we're inn
mortelles worked into great variety Of de-
signs. Pillows, stars, anchors, hearts and
Tyres were mingled promiscuousiy. Va
cant chairs, with the word s:vacant"
ON the back, to emphasize the only too ap-
parent fact, were apparently popular. A great
many people bought specimens OF those realis-
tic reminders Of grief and took them homo.
Outside the market dealers in evergreens
mistletoe and Christmas trees occupied large
proportion of the available space and seemed
to be doing well, in business sense.
The crowd was immense, and Officer Breen,
who knows what he is talking about. said to q
STAR reporter this afternoon that the crush
was greater than any he had ever yet seen.