New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-17
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
A VAST TRADE DEMORALIzED BY THE CHOLERA
PANIC-CHEAPNESS ALL AROUND.

| VAST TRADE DEMOKALlZED BY TIE OiOLEhA
| PANIC-CHEAPNESS ALL AROUND.
The city's vast trade in nearly all kinds of produce
is dcmornlized by the alLpervading cholera scare
People In times like these" said a retail market
man yesterday "are deaf to reason There IS no use
! to argue with them that banana from Baracoa Is
free from Hamburg cholera germs or that green salmon
from Fraser River British Columbia, Is absolutely
unlnfccted by the presence of cholera ships In the
| Lower Bay. Fruit Is fruit, and fish might come
| from Lake Superior or from Princess Bay ana the
average customer would not know the difference.
So they refuse buy anythngshelfsh from Rhode Is
land grapes from Penn Yam and peaches from California
all treated II they were brought over nom te
European cities where pesence is raging. Thus the IN
nocent suffer with the guilty the pure with the impure,
and marketmen losing thousands OF dollars every
day. orders from Outside cities are few and far between
now, which means a big loss OF TO this city,"
Probably the worst sufferers, however, are the nsli
| merchants. II has been q long time since business
was so dun In Fulton Market. People seem TO thnh
all the fish are caught In the Lower Bay. Conse-
qucntly the shmongers have depressed prices greatly
I'm the hope OF hiring people to buy. Fine living can
be had now, and by exercising little discrimination
there Is no fear Of buying fish caught in the waters
where lie the cholera feet Blucish from New-Eng-
land waters, ut their best, sell for 10 cents
pound haddock from the Grand Banks costs cents;
whitehall Is % cents and wekilsh 10 cents pound,
buttcrIsh are worth : cents pound; porg1es I'D
/
cents a pound Chesapeake spanish mackerel, 90 cents
halIbut steaks IL cents Long Island kngfsh, 80
cents native Spanish mackere 80 cents pompano,
40 cents native sheepshcad 30 cents, and southern
sheepshcad, 20 cents large striped bass cost "
cents, and large black bass from interior lakes ana
rivers l. cents fI,sh-caught cscoes and large black
fish, 10 cents cells, 10 to Is cents pound; founders
and fukes, 10 cents; lake pickercl. 10 cents red
snappcrs from Florida and Gulf waters, I6 cents wall
81 mix from mo 1 =
70 Is cents, and bass. 10 to 10 cents pound.
Fresh mackercl abundant and sell from ID TO 80
cents each. Green Oregon salmon Is selling for 30
cents pound this week. and live Portland Holsters
can be had for 10 to II IL cents pound. scallops
are only 80 cents n quart, and prawns 80 cents
quart Crabmeat f. 40 cents pound, and soft crabs
- cents to ~ dozen. Frog legs from Canada cost
- cents n pound.
The demand for salads or uncoohed vegetables
was almost wiped ont BY the cholera scare some
fine celery from the gardens Of Kalamazoo Is coming
in now; It soils for 30 cents dozen roots. Rocles-
ter celery feches - cents a bunch. New Knob
celery be- had for 4 cents bunch. This is raised
n great in the city and suburban truck gar
dcns dozen ears OF sweet cost % cents.
This succulent dish Will not be found fresh In the
markets much longer, Long Island oyster-p'hnt Is
worth 10 cents n bunch Long Island tomatoes 90
cents "A bushel and cents quart; elephants, o to
- cents each; string beans and wax beans. cents
"A quart a half-pcck OF unsheled beans costs %
cents; green okrl Is 20 cents hundred; romaine
lettuce, cents head, and Boston lettuce, . cents:
white cabba,ss are ) cents head and red cabbages,
cents raddlshes cost cents bunch; new parsnips.
cents II bunch, bcets, cents bunch; crook
neck SQUASH to 10 cent? each, summer squash. D
cents and Hubbard and Boston squash. 10
10 20 cents each. Delaware sweet potatoes can be
had for 80 to 90 cents peck Irish potatoes Tor 20
cents peck: rutabaea turnps - cents a peek
and carrots, cents bunch. Cucumbers for the
table are worth > and cents each, and picking
cucrmb"-s 30 cents hundred Chcory and escarole
sell at three punches for 10 cents; soup celery is
cents bunch; caulnowes. Il to % cents each; pie
pumpkins 10 TO 30 cents each; rhubarb, cents "a
bunch, and spinach, 30 cents a peck. Wa,ercreSs
sells for 10 cents quart and egg tomatoes ut 40
cents for II basket holding half bushoi.
Cape Cod cranberfes are IN market. selling Tor 20
cents quart. There VIII not be- much demand for
these, however untll the weather gets cold enough
Tho best Elgin creamery butter brings 3. cents
butter - to 10 cent? ana sweet butter, that is,
butter unsalLed. 80 cents pound. Long Island e-g.
@ @e1,s *o fcs 90 dealers hop" hat the cholera scare may
be- the cause Of II large Increase In their business.
California fruit has almost ceased To come to TINS
cts wherc weeks ago fifty or sixty cas- rachel
here every week. not more than half dozen cars
cholera panic. The limited public demand FOR this
prrshablc has caused all Retailers Ia put down
from New jersey could BE- had Yesterday for II - Il
basket, while Morris whites the finest variety com,
n basket Inferior fruit was unstable nj 80 cents a
basket. For the same re'l'on grapes are cheaper
five pound basket 81 Niacaras can be had now for 10
cents and Delawnr,-S and Concoris for 30 cents.
California grapes are here, ,nrpound basket 81
purule Toknys costing 80 cents Native Earliest
mas cost III and ~ - peach baSh"tfIl Bcurrc
n, aniol pcnrs - cents. siberian crabapples arc
worth so cents "A basket and scchei pears, 30 cents
peck. -, $780, ~ ,,
TomnIc, and sell for 60 and - cents dozen Water
melons and mushnclons We're passing out OF season
ANYHOW but the cholera panic hurried their exit
materially.