New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-09
PRICES IN THE NARKE1S.
NORTH RIVER suAD-eoUTHERN VEGETABLES
INTENSIVE UOJUOUsE GRAPES.

NORTH FEVER SUAD-eOUTHEHN VEGETABLES
EXPENSIVE HOTHOUsE GRAPES
North River slad have got inside sandy HOOK
rs the waters off Key port where they are being uheh
in considerable numbers They are ior siie Ill r",'O
Market within four hours Of the time they are taken
from tho water Ii is doubtful If there Is 10 oc lo
more desirable food in the fish market tou'S' INC
extra large rOos cost 81. but fine shad can be hu io
70 cents each Enterprising huchsters are car'lns
North Carolina shnd through the remote suburbs OF Ic
city and Brooklyn and selling them ut 80 cents IL
North River shad. North Carolina roe sh'd sen III
Fulton Market for 80 and 40 cents ana bucks lor
cents Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River roeS o's'
so and GO cents. Shad are worth 10 Genus scn
Among the other novelties in market are legs OF
Gigantic Missouri frogs costing 70 cents pound ihc'
ere 50 large that it only tkes about dozen hdeSS
To weigh pound Then there green blueiiSh from
Albemarle Sound that cost 19 cents pound Inc
first porges of the are to be lad for 10 oc.s
q pyund Some green whltefsh from LAKE f'ie' SUI
for Is cents pound and Chinook salmon from fI'ser
River British Columbia, are selling ut Az ana 30 Genus
n pound Altogether there Is plenty TO be found III
,bo fish market tlIs week Cultivated Long Island
brook front costs III a pound Frozen wild brook trout
from Canada sell for 80 cents pound. Large sea
bass sell for cents, and the medium sire 1or -
cents small black 10 cents, ana HTHe o"eH
ere 20 cents. Market cod Is cents pound 'ou
st.oks are from 10 IL IL cents n pound and whole
1--we cod are = cents II PDuhu' f""""N'' NV - -
a pound frozen nlackcrcl 80 cents each hadd0ok
and herring are cents pound and chicken hhlbut
n l. cents n pound. Portland Holsters are 10 cents
n mound. Pofnpano are % cents pound picherci ac
~ cents pound and red snapper Is rom ~ l" ~
cents a pound Fresh xllmon ia 80 cents pound ana
frozen Oregon salmon is % cents pound. la se Long
island smells are 25 cents n pound. sea bass are
from 10 to Is cents pound, tom Gods are ~ cents
a pound white perch are from 10 to ~ CENTS ava
weakfish are 25 cents pound
Gods, tongues are 20 cents pound TTawns ore
40 cents a quart and sC.llops are 30 cents a quart
Black Hamburg grapes from Long Island hoth"i'e'
cost 80 pound. some people who think they cannot
afford this can solacc themselves with E,ta Beurr
pears from California at - cents each. or lay In n
supply Of Ncw-Jcrsey hothouSe peaches at - q"
each or pay 81 % for tea cupful Of dollhouse straw
berries However Strawberries from the far Soath
a,e getting more available for PEI lc with ordinary
porketbooAs a quart box Of fair berries costs 90
cents.
southern vegetables arc making quite SLOW now
Almost everything In the vegetable lne Is conhs up
from the South by coast line steamers and bN
fast express trains. There to be found Charleston
and North Carolina asparagus, Florida and bermuda
bcets South Carolina and Florida cabbage Ne"-Or
leans and Florida celery New Orleans chickory Florida
green peas Norfolk kale Newt orleans lettuce Havana
and bermuda onions, Norfolk spinach. Florida string
beans and Key West and Havana tomatoes. Field
sell for - cents quart About this season dozens OF
thrifty Italian women be In the vacant lot,
and fields Of the city suburbs hunting for this csculcn
Prime southern asparagus costs al and al 20 bunch
spinach 90 cents peck; green peas. 81 % II peek :
string beans 80 cents quart; Louisiana celery, 10
cents root knob celery used foI salads and flavor
Ing soup 10 cents bunch southern lettuce, cents
held, aud Boston dollhouse lettuce three heads
"a quarter riubarb. three buncles for % cents
breakfast radlshes, cents bunch: cucnmbers, 20
cents each new top onions. > cents "a bunch new
white turnips. 10 cents bunch new potatoes from
Bermuda. Cuba and Florida. ~ peck, Kiln drei
sweet potatoes from Delaware. 80 cents peck; South
tomatoes. - cents quart and dollhouse tomato
30 cents pound new cabbage, 10 - cents Il head
egg plants. 30 cents each, onions, - cents
| quart and summer squash cents each.
The best ElGin butter SELL for 33 cents n pound
and Pilad phia fancy butter for 40 cents STATE
dairy bnttcr costs 20 cent? and Western cUamerie
| 20 10 - cents From fifteen ~ twenty eggs b,
| had for a quarter.
spring lamb /, getting cheaper each week. Fore
q,nrters cost ~ 30 each and hindTaItcr, ~ 90 BY
lambs bring ~ To -. Calves head,
worth 40 cents each Swcetbrrads % 10 - cents each
calves tongues. 10 cents each beef tongues 80 cents
ard calves lvcrs 80 10 80 cents each leg, 81 veal
sell fO9 II cent pound shoulders, cents and brraet
| Veal cuets 23 cents pound, ana l0iu
~ Ii cents. Pork tendcr1in, worth 20 cent
pound and country sasages II and - cents pound
In the big markets can get beet picklc, sliced
or whole. Whole becs cost 10 10 cents each picked
white Onions 90 cents quart mustard chowchow -
cents n Qnart. string beans In brine 10 quart
and mangO-s, pichled, cents each