Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-05
MARKET on ALL NATIONS.
a COSMOPOLITAN SCENE or LUDLOW
STREET. nEwroRk.

StFcEis NEW WYNN
4 Pictaresqne Gathering Of Curious People. |
How the orthodox Hebrews ssIset Their |
sstbaab Food-Ths Rabbi. That Always
EoIisws . Crowd.
Have you ever been In the vicinity Of
the Ludlow Street market ON q Friday
morning. Well. II you have not you
have missed q sight LuGIow 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 10 the
liveliest neighborhood in this city.
The yells and whoops Of an army Of
Conanches 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 mingIe
with the denizens Of the down town dis
tricts. 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-
uresoue feature they make in the middle
Of Gotham.
THE UNLKAvENED BREAD.
Every man. woman and child bears a
basket. and thew are out for material for
their SUNDAY dinner. the Kosher food
for the "Sbabes- table. killed and cured
according to rites prescribed when the
race was youne. notwithstanding the
contradictions pyramids of the marketers.
the traditional shrewdness of the race l.
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. IL sold. The loayes are first given
a thorough inspection. and then the
price is asked. This is followed by an
offer Of cent or two lower. and. after
bapplinp a few minutes. a purchase IL
made, There is reason for the haggling
and the close inspection.
The barches leaves. like other pro-
auctions. are subjected to reiuvenating
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
them soft, then scented to prevent the
sourness from being detected, and then
rta de-
The purchaser feels of the loaf, smells
it, and then balances it in his hand to
see that it is not under weight Then it
is turned over, as thcugh it were some
precious metal instead of five cent
loaf, and then the driving commences.
The dealer is told that he is nothing
short OF highwayman-that the same
article could be purchased somewhere
else for half the money.
The fish stands are highly important,
! for every orthodox Hebrew must have
fish with his meat on SHADES Here,
also, the bargains are tightly driven and
| the inspection thorough and searching.
Like the bread, the fish, too, are some
times doctored. They are perfumed, the
| gills painted red and plenty of sailed ice
water thrown over them to make them
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 cutters and display vegetables. sal
ads, potatoes and all other articles OF
food. including garlic sausage, that meal
90 dear to the Kosher palate. Not alone
do the vendors confine themselves to eat
abIes. Everything from a turtle bach
comb to a dishpan is on sale, and its
merits are hawked in half a dozer
languages; for this is a cosmopolitan
gathering. There are Polish and Ger
man Hebrews, Germans, Hungarians
French and Italian housewives out for {
bargain, besides the keen but dirty rab
BILE that always gather from no on.
knows where, wherever there is crowd