New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-01
RETURN OF THE OYSTER.
RENEWED ACTIVITY IN WEST FEMINIST.
DEALERS HAPPY OVER BIG ORDERS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE coUNTRY-AGENTs DOWN
SOUTH LOOKING FOR SUCKERS
BALTIMORE DIsTANcED


There is marked activity on the oyster feet which
lies at the foot OF West feminist. September, he
month with the magic r. is at hand. and summer
duness has been banshcd until next May by II, ana
smiles have replaced the shadows on the brawny
oystemcns faces Tho season opens with every
indication Of its being a prosperous one-mcre IN
dicatonS Of prosperity, in fact, than any season
ever starred In with before. Some Imperfect fea
may be formed Of the revival which the oyster bust
ness enjoys with the advent of September nom tho
fact that during tho summer months Deimonico, ac
ccrdng to the oystcrmcn who supply that famous
restaurant, expends about S400 month for the
bivalves, while from September / his oyster bill
during the season averages $4,000 month one
dealer alone In the market supplies him with 10000
oysters daily at the height of the season. Then there
is the brunswick which TO this single dealer IS
good for 1000 oysters every twentyfour hours; the
Hoffman House takes 5000; the Metropolitan Hotel
requires 800 the Gilsey 1000 the Windsor, 1900,
the Park Avenue Hotel 10o0 tire Fifth Avenue, 900,
etc.
.What sort of oysters do they want at the swell
hotels t,ptown p asked reporter Of j. W. Boyle,
Of the leading oystcrmen of the great shelish COM
munity at West Tenthst
"The popular oyster this year." ho said, "is
the Oak Island fshel. Oystcrmen
arc always irving TO find something and better,
and their efforts have produced this oyster now the
most highly priced of ALL 1t is from the spawn oil
Rlue Points planted in shoal water. II is a small
OYSTER for the popular fancy long ago tired Of the
bplly saddlerocks We cannot get as many OF these
Oak Islands as need to supply the trade for the
demssI is tremendous not alone in the East but IN
the West"
"Is the West much OF consumer Of oyStersP
1T buys an immense quantity here in this city, and
c trade is getting bigger and bigger every year. The
tims was when the West mainly supplied by the
little fresh water cove oysters of baltimore, but the
Westerners have learned that the Chesapeake oys' 81
cannot touch. in point of flavor, me
iuicy salt water oyster of the North So We arc
getting all the Baltimore trade If we can get proper
freight and express rates. we can drive thc Baltimore
oysters out of the Western market entirely. Last
winter the express companies had war of rates on
hand and when Il was ended they jumped no the
prces IN such way that Baltimore got in on us ard
dd the most Of the business, but we are on TOP again
this season. There are seven houses in the Western
packing trade here not of whom opens less than
600 shells a day
MIR. Boyle said that they sadly needed openers
in this city About $500 men are at work at the
fool of West feminist, and there was WORK for
1000 more. The thirty wholesale oystcrdea.eis In
and about that locality have big orders TO Ill rom
as far of as salt Lake City and they have sent agents
down 10 baltimore Norfolk and other oyster cues
looking FOR Shuckels