New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-01
PRICES IN THE .MIKRE1S
WARM WEATHER CAUSES DULL BUsINEss-LA.r
OF THE EASTERN PEACH CROP.

WARM WEATHER CAUSES DULL BUsINEsS-LA.T
OF THE EASTERN PEACH CROP.
The continuance OF the Thermometer up aroulu ~
degrees seriously retards business In the retail lis"
markets which had already been under clouu iro'h
the cholera scare and II IS probable that the mont"
Just ended will long be memorable september u '"'
retail nlarhc;men Of the city. With cool weather.
which cannot be much longer delayed by weather
manjpuloto,s n Is hoped change for the better VIII
come Down in Fulton Market the arrival OF cariohd
OF Oregon green salmon broke the mOnotony. Inc ISL
cold for 40 cents a pound. Native spanish mackerel
are fairly abundant and sell for 30 cents pouhu
CDosapcale Bay spanish macle:e are cents pouhu
cheaper Fresh machertl from the Nova Scotia walters
arc selling for Il IL to 80 cents each, according to
size Whole Goldfish cost q cents pound, and cod
.tcals 10 and II IL cents, hnddock cents, chicken
halibut IL and 90 cents rcd snapperS. IL cents :
Long Island kingfsh 30 cents: shcepshead from near
by waters 30 cents, aud from Chesapeake lay ~
cents a pound. Among the freslswater fish are plho
for 10 cents and pickerel FOR 10 cents pound fresh
buefsh are 10 cents pound; large striped bass "
cents and small ones % cents; blachsh 10 cents. ana
butterCsh cents FRI sh-csught d Goes. 10 cents eel
Il TO IL cents; founders, luhes, sole and p0fgieS ~
cents weakiish, 10 cents; small scabasS' III Genus ;
white perch IL 12 TO Is cents according rs they arc
small or large: and live HOLSTERS from the Maine ana
Canada coasts 10 and IL IL cents a pound. salmon
front fresh caught from the Northern lakes, sell Tor
10
meat 40 cents a pound: haid crabs are cents cach
and sor crabs from the Chesapeake 81 and 81 30 a
dozen Crnwflsh cost - a hundred; frogs legs, 20
cent, n bound green turtles. IL cents pound ana
prawns aud scaJps 80 cents quart
The rivalry between the grape growers OF California
and the East for popular favor IS now at Its
height. and 50 tempting Is the show OF fruit spread
ont before some OF the more fancy retail stores on
broadway that the public has trouble making up It's
mind whether II prefers the handsome and SNOWY
Wnscats and Tokays Of the faraway Pacific slope or
he chea pcr but lust luscious looking products on
he Lake Kcukn, Hudson ana Chautauqua vineynin',
The Delaware. Concords and Niagarns. \ five pound
basket OF Lake Kcuka DcaWares sells for 30 cents,
Of Concords 20 cents. california bhck Nor0ccD
grapes are also noted among the late arrivals Incy
COST 80 and 20 cents basket Good peaches arr
scarce but there Is more or less abundant supply
O, Inferior Eastern fruit the last pckngS Of The crop,
which can be had for Is cent; 10 81 70 halfbnShci
basket For II 20 a fine peach bashct OF ounces
than which there Is finer lr1Iit Tor prc'eINlhG'
Gun be had. Crabapples are worth ~ bushel Th.re
are many varieties Of pears Just now exposed 10.
sole the popular being the little seokle az 81
10 II 20 u peach basket. Duchess pears sell l"i
- cents basket. and Eartletts are t1he cheaper.
ten pound basket Of California German plllns costs
from ~ 10 81 %, purple plums are worth 80
cents 10 ~ a basket, and green cages fctch abou'
no Nam