New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-10
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
THE CHOLERA SCARE AFFECTS THE FISH AND
FRUIT BUsINEss-OHEAP OREGON SALMON.

THE CHOLERA sCARE AFFECTS THE FISH AND
FRUIT BUsINEss-OHEAP OREGON SALMON.
The statement OF Mayor Grant about the danger Of
eating clans and fish caught In the Lower Bay In the
vicinity OF the cholera ships wrought havoc with the
business OF the fish merchants Of this city, especially
in the clam and oyster trade The dealers OF Wash.
ington and Fulton Markets have been heaping
ansthemas on the head OF the Mayor. People don't
REALIZE said Wallace blackboard yesterday "tlat only
two or three fishermen get clans or oysters In tbs
vicinity Of these ships and these are mostly OF In.
ferior quality, tainted with sludge ACID and harbor
refuse and are shipped 10 the interior ard sold
All our clans and oysters come from the shrewsbury
River, the Great South Bay Rhode Island, entirely
removed from possible contact with the cholera ships;
vet people are surprisingly ignorant about fish.
They don't know a cisco from a herring, a fresh
water fish from salt water fish, and in consequence
they are afraid to eat any fish. II Is TACT thss
pedcrs in this city sell bonltos which are OF use only
for oil and fertilizer purposes, as spanish macRercL
We have about abandoned the sale Of salt water
fish and dealing in the fresh water product in'
stead"
People Of the most hopeless Ignorance and greatest
timidity however ought TO be able to see that salmon
brought In cars over land from the Columbia River
have danger Of Infection in them Rarely have
these excellent and popular fish been so cheap and
ABUNDANT they at present. The usual price for
green Oregon salmon Is 35 40 cents pound, but
Rugct sound hallbut is likewise cheap and plenti'
full selling for 10 cents pound. Large striped bass.
the first of the seasons are beginning TO come
In. selling for % and 20 cents pound; small sea
bass 10 cents pound. and large ones IL IL to
% cents Goldfish can be had now for cents pound
by the whole fish, and and 10 cents for steaks.
Paddock Is cents pound; founders, hukes, weak
fish and gale 10 cents; els, ID and lo cents.
red spappsrs, 10 cents; whitehall % cents; white
perch, 10 cents; wall-eycd pike from the lakes, 10
cents, and salmon trout 10 cents. Native spanish
macherel be had for 20 cents pound. aid those
from Southern waters for Ii cents; fresh mackerel
fetch from 20 to 80 cents each; native hngtsh, "
cents pound pompano AZ cents a pound, ana
shcepshead, 30 cents
oyster crabs cost - quart, crawfSh, 20 hUpo'cQ
crab meats, 40 cents pound; scallops, IS and W
cents quart soft crabs N 20 to IL 80 dozen hard
crabs, So hundred frogs legs go cents pound and
green turtle, Is cents pound.
Dealers In fruit wholesale and retail, say the
dreaded cholera has had its effect upon their business
Eastern peaches this year are not the finest fruit
In the world, and the public have evidently been
warned on sun the Jersey supply is now pretty well
ceased though there some line Rarenpes, Iieaths
aud Crawfords 10 be had for 81 and 81 80 basket.
Extra large California peaches retail at 35 and "
cents dozen. But II peaches getting scarce
and high the supply Of grapes is becoming abundant
and cheap and the qualify was never better. ten
The same quantity OF Niagaras for 40 cents. five
p0unu baskets 81 delaware grapes cost 30 cents. black
hamburg dollhouse grapes can be had for 90 Genus
pound, aOOnt low as they ever get. A i've
pound basket OF Tokays IS cents, and green
muscatcls from California be had for 20 cents
"a pound. Florida oranges and lemons and Jamaica
oranges are in market. CUBAN sugar-loaf pines
cost 20 and 10 cents each. There many varieties
OF apples In market, but the quality Is not stc Ass
They sell nom al TO 81 80 barrel. Crabap.
piles cost 40 cents a peck. Damsons ID be had
Tor 80 cents peck. Long Island gardens are send
ing elephants, which sold retail for 10 10 Is
cents. six ripe tomatoes from Long Island, three
inches In diameter can be bought Tor 5 cents. or
80 cents Oushei; Long Island caullhowers are
worth 10 and 20 cents each green okra T. 70 cents
hundred Delaware sweet potatoes bring - cents u
peck; Early Rose potatoes, ~ barrel cabbayes,
and s cents Il head; pumpkins for pies, 10 and
20 cents each marrow squash, 10 20 cents ;
Michigan celery. 80 cents bunch OF a dozen roots ;
eucumbers, three for cents, lima beans. 20 cents
half peck; string beans and wax beans, two quarts
for Is cents, and rilubarb. cents bunch.
Cooking apples cost 40 cents peck Native
Bartlett pears soil for al peck, and California
Barletts for 81 and 81 25 a dozen Pears Tor
preserving can be had for 90 ard 80 cents peck.