Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-10-11
CENTRE MARKET.
TIE BUSY SCENES WITNESSED On A sAfuR.
DAT MIGHT.
Throngs Of People laying in Stores Er the Sunday
Dinng-A Great Variety Of Ediblss-Sons
Characteristic Scenes.
TIE MARKrr on SATURDAY NIGHT.

| A nate bit av money mesilf OF have made,
Where sat with me back to the wall.
We sell turnips and partridges, turkey and cab
An crockery and tinware so bright.
It's parsnips and crosses an little babes
dresses
At the market on Saturday night.
We sell lemons and butterbesns, carrots and
| holly green's,
An celery so crisp and bright; .
| Oh it's pickles and chow-choW ana dogs tnat
say bow-wow,
At the market on Saturday night.
In summer or winter, oh, When the wind blows,
1llin' wild dust all our eyes,
In rain or in frost, or in terrible SHOWS.
We are shouting an yelling our cries.
We sell peanuts, bananas and Chinese Ia
vaIRs;
OBJ, it's really beautiful sight;
It's oleomargerine and little pigs crobeens
At the market on Saturday night
One of the sights Of Wheeling these glo-
rious autumn days is the Center market OF
Saturday night, and trip through the
two big buildings set apart for the sale of
meat, vegetables, fruit and hundred other
items Of necessity, is we'll worth the
trouble and pains.
Time was when the Center mark ct was
rather small affair, the great bulk OF the
population Of the city supplying themselves
from the morning markets in the Second
ward, but since the new building IN the
Fifth ward has been completed, the mar
ket there has taken big Jump in Import
ance, and it is now as large if not larger
than the Second ward. The attendance is
no longer confined to the people Of the
South Side, as in other days,
for hundreds Of families living north
of the creek, mainly in East Wheeling,
now regularly resort to it, and it is no I'M
usual sight indeed to see baskets brought
empty from the Island and far up town, re-
turning well laden with all sorts Of sup
plies. The Tuesday morning markets in
the Fifth ward--a late innovation, by the
Way-are well attended, but Saturday eve
ming excels all other displays in this line,
and the big buildings, with their throngs
of buyers and busy sellers, takes on good
many of the aspects Of fair. A REGISTER
reporter traversed this scene Of activity
last night, and he here reiterates:
If you have never been TO the market on
a Saturday night you ouRhtto go.
tits interesting, and would be revelation
to q stranger.
The many bright lights Of numerous
stalls the crowd moving to and fro as its
individual component parts busy them
selves here and there making their pur-
chases. The hum of the voices Of the crowd
produce an effect not TO be found anywhere
else.
All classes Of people go there, from the
richest tn the poorest, on Saturday night
The good housewife who sends the servant
girl to DO the marketing all the week goes
herself on Saturday night, because not only
the husband but the boys will be at home
for the Sunday dinner and they all think
that no one can manage the getting up OF a
dinner as she can, and therefore she takes
a pride in coming TO Centre Market on Sat
urday night that John and the boys may
have dinner to their tastes on Sunday.
The stately dame comes TO the market,
too. with her servant and basket. She
too, is preparing for the Sunday dinner,
and there are many dainty vegetables and
fruits and games which her family are par
ticularly fond nf and n~l" ~
Young married women always bring
their husbands with them and take much
pleasure III making purchases, because
their husbands can see how GOOD Judges
they are of good things.
The poor woman comes and makes her
purchases in a hurried, half-scared way,
and hastens off as If she cannot near tne
iostling, good-humored crowd, the lght ana
noise OF the Market
There are lots of children, for the widow
with large family brings all that are big
enough to walk and can find their way
nome alone if she loses them in the crowd
There is a larger percentage OF the male
nonulation at the market on SATURDAY
aight than on any day during the week.
The crowd is cosmopolitan, easy going
and uolite. It speaks all the modern ian
guaees from Russian TO Italian, ana us
tastes are as various as the hues OF the
many colored coat of Jacobs son.
Wny, one can learn as much OF the
epicurean endowments OF the people OF
Wheeling in a Saturday night at Centre
market as he could by reading all the hotel
and restaurant bills Of fare for year. 10
stand and watch the throng buying fruits
and meats, and vegetables, and honey, and
pickles and the thousand and one things
kent in Centre market, tasting, testing,
smelling, feeling, pinchiug, punching poul-
try. game. fruit and vegetables, would Dea
liberal education for an amateur chef and
would give a newly married man all the
nointers he could possibly need in the way
of buying provender.
The upper or old market Is mostly oe-
voted. on the inside rows OF stalls, 10 tne
sale of meat, with hucksters and vegetable
sellers along the eastern and western edRes,
and here the scene much resembles that al
the Second ward. But the moment the
spectator and visitor passes into the new
market the scene changes, and he is brought
face to face with as fine variety OF must
ling retailers as one could run across In ten
States.
"Grapes. grapes; only twenty-five
basket This way for grapes
"Buya re banan! Ten centa 20 dozen!
Buys 20 oanan!'
"Five a quart-only five quart! Heres
YOUR pea-nuts-five quartz
"Handkerchiefs and suspendersl Here
%Tin-ware! Lampsl Cheapest goods
on the market"
"Dishes. Madamel Glass-warel Here
YOU are, now"
These and a score Of other cries assail
ones ears all along through the immense
buildinR. while all the available space
along the narrow footwalks between the
stands are filed with a iOstling, hurrylng
and eager crowd, which buys right ana
left as il surges along. Every
body does big business, and
by nine O'Clock the crowd as well as the
stalls and booths have thinned-out ap
nearance. and the sidewalks and street cars,
In all directions, are filed with heavily
laden and tired men, women and children,
trudging of home with their well-hlled
baskets. By ten o'clock the market is al
most deserted, andiis soon after closed for
the night.