Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-08
MARKET OF ALL NATIONS.
A COSMOPOLITAN SCENE ON LUDLOW
 STREET, NEW YORK.


 How the Orthodox Hebrews Select Their Sabbath Food-The fiabbIe That Always Follows a Crowd.
 Have you ever been in the vicinity of the Ludlow Street market on Friday morning? Well, if you have not you have missed a sight Ludlow Street market comprises that portion of the city bounded by Hester and Canal and by Essex and Orchard streets. Every Friday, from sunrise to sunset. it is the liveliest neighborhood in this city.
 The yells and whoops of an army of Comanches or Donnybrook fair itself never furnished the noise found here every market day. as Friday is called. The sons and daughters of Israel flock from all portions of the city, and mingle with the denizens of the down town dis tficts. Hoboken and Jersey City send their delegations ready for bargains, and before noon the street is impossible. Ragged jackets and scant wraps mingle with sealskins and silks, while white bearded patriarchs jostle elbows with the bright eyed and red tipped Jewish maidens and their swarthy. stalwart brothers and fathers, all keen for bar gain and totally unconscious of the pict- uresque feature they make in the middle of Gotham.
 THE UNLEAvENED BREAD.
 Every man, woman and child bears a basket, and they are out for material for their Sunday dinner, the Kosher" food for the "Shabes" table, killed and cured race was young. Notwithstanding the semi-religious errands of the marketers, the traditional shrewdness of the race is the chief feature of the bargaining. The first places visited by every one of the market men and women are the stands where the barches, or unleavened bread, is sold. The loaves are first given thorough inspection, and then the price is asked. This is followed by an offer of a cent or two lower, and, after haggling a few minutes, purchase is made. There is reason for the haggling and the close inspection.
 The barches loaves, like other pro- ductions, are subjected to a rejuvenating ] treatment before being offered for sale, when they are stale, and knowing ones can tell this by looking them over care fully. When not fresh the loaves are squeezed and handled so as to make l them soft, then scented to prevent the sourness from being detected, and then l put on the stands.
 Tho purchaser feels of the loaf, smells | if a,H fbor, ha ir1 hiS bond fo i see that it is not under weight. Then it is turned over, as though it were some l precious metal instead of a five cent loaf, and then the driving commences. | The dealer is told that he is nothing | short of highwayman-that tho same article could be purchased somewhere else for half the money.
 The fish stands are highly important, 1 for every orthodox Hebrew must have fish with his meat on Shabes. Here, also, the bargains are tightly driven and the inspection thorough and searching i Like the bread, the fish, too, are some times doctored. They are perfumed, the | gills painted red and plenty of salted ice water thrown over them to make them l fresh and firm, and it takes good judge to detect the deception.
 SELLING TRINKETs AND PRAYER BOOKS.
 These, with most stands and notion stands and the thousand and one fakirs, take up every available inch of ground, sidewalks and even the middle of the street. Vendors wagons are strung along the gutters and display vegetables, sal ads, potatoes and all other articles of food, including garlic sausage, that meat so dear to the Kosher palate Not alone do the vendors confine themselves to eat ables. Everything from a turtle back comb to dishpan is on sale, and its merits are hawked in half dozen languages; for this is cosmopolitan gathering. There are Polish and Ger man Hebrews, Germans, Hungarians, French and Italian housewives out for a bargain, besides the keen but dirty rab- ble that always gather from no one knows where, wherever there is crowd.
 Small boys, with tattered trousers and torn coats, but eyes keen as a hawks dodge in and out selling collar buttons and matches. Tottering old fellows vend second hand clothes, old cloaks and an cient hats; altogether forming a scene of indescribable confusion.
 One of the old time characters is an ancient and wretched looking woman who usually sits on an old ash barrel and in cracked tones invites the shoppers tc buy some "Shabes lights, the wax can dles used in their religious observances
 Another character is a venerable old man, who parades Essex street on { market day with never more than foul brooms on his shoulder, faintly crying out his goods.
 But there is another class of wares or sale. They are supposed to furnish sus tenance for the spiritual nature, as the other does for the physical. On every side on small stands are prayer books te gellim, or prayer belts; cloaks or tallis for the rabbis; prayer ribbons, misrachs channaka lights, Talmuds. etc. Ont thing ill particular is noticeable so fa as the religious articles are concerned and that is that the buyer pays big price: for them without murmur.-New Yorl Star.
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