The sun., 1893-07-29
NEW YORK'S FARM In TOWN.
ITS TEE VERY BUsT MARKET PLACE
UP IN OLD 9REENWIOH.


o'clock In the morning. That is sufficient rea
son why 30 few people who do not have bust
ness there visit the farm. although 1t is. on
OF the most interesting spots In the city.
To great many people 5 o'clock in th
morning is a fsvorte hour for the end. rathe
than the beginning. OF a day. Away from tn,
markets. especially on the west side avenuei
between the farm and Broadway. most Of thu
people you meet have the look OF Just ending
rather than beginning, q day at that hour
Many of them puzzle you, too, when you begir
wondering why they are abroad. or course
one understands tho battered beings, men and
women. who drift aimlessly UP and down
Sixth. Seventh. and Eighth avenues. between
Fourteenth and Thlrty-third streets. Night
with it's possibilities Of prey or plumber. oom-
| prtses their working hours They sneak and
| shufle. RlowerinR like a dog with stolen
| bone as they pass the police: or. II drunk
enough. strut along with poor assumption
| OF bravado. They are easy enough to un-
| derstand as one is on his way to tho
granlte-paved farm in Greenwich village.
There are other types and classes that do
| puzzle: groups OF negroes separating at some
corner. their banjos and guitars telling in
what way they have been earning their bread
during the long hot hours Of the night But
whereof Not halfa dozen. but twenty or thirty
of these troubadours can be seen returning to
their homes at that early hour on and between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
few young men, boys almost their faces
very strongly suggesting opium pipes: some
| respectable-looki old gentlemen belonging
to that not very small number OF people.
usually elderly men retired from business on a
moderate income, who do what little sleeping
they require In the day and find o'clock in
the morning an excellent hour for a stroll;
occasionally members Of that army OF ALI
night workers who are returning home to eat
their suppers at the family breakfast tables;
these you can always see. with numbers OF the
unclassifed. II you 60 to the farm at s o'clock
in the morning
The farm Is that certain piece and parcel Of
land bounded by Washington. West. Ganse-
WORT. and Little West Twelfth streets. Its
habitu6s are as much unlike the people you
pass In getting there as is possible to imagine.
There is nothing mysterious about the occupa-
tions Of the people on the farm nothing creepy
or suspicious in their appearance. The great
majority OF them are the market gardeners.
Germans. most Of them. from Long Island
and New Jersey. and the city vegetable veil
ders. italian almost to q man. There are some
buyers for hotels and restaurants. but they
make little impression on the Iumbled mass Of
people whose occupations are to grow and to
vend the vegetables required for practically all
OF Manhattan Island above Houston street.
1t is tremendous trade. and has drawn
about 1t number Of allied ira flies: the meat
business OF the big West Washington Market.
between the farm and the North River: the
adjoining blocks Of fruterers on Washington.
Gansevoort. and Little West Twelfth Streets |
from up the Hudson unload on Thirteenth
avenue at the foot OF Gansevoolt street. So on
and about that farm there gather hundreds OF
vegeta ables. meat and ice to supply the dc.
mands Of hundreds OF thousands. As some of
these demands are for that days breakfast. |
The irst to start in ali this movement @ which
OF Iced melon Tor breakfast. is the market gar.
dener, He begins his work the day before.
Grimmed top with fresh. Gathered 'in produce. ot
loaded in time for start In the cool Of the |
Wh9 by thS Long
esreiulIH ppoteeisd rom dust by tsSesdin Seeos
midpIeht to 3 in II, the morning; When they
tive tnsy dssh Poy the prxese e
place. and those who have come the longest
distances give their horses over to the care OF
weary beasts arc fed and watered and may. il
INCLINED. take a mar. while their masters barter.
any street and His is divided '' into hall fIa dozen zen
long vide dysWayf BY raiseh stone walks
J ne tn0OTy OI tIllS division IL tnht. WIN q line
space ace will be iett between the wagons ms on the
for S to
also, for foot buyers to make their way. This
would do very we'll II anything like order pre-
holds sway over that particular farm from day
light until after I o'clock; a thousand
with two buyers. and each buyer III POSSESSED % d
BY dehthly dsterminatton to be the first to
Rafpra tha ha fuir Tod |
himsel over in the direction OF Madison square
here is an ineYtriceble lam OF wagons between
French. German. and Italian. are struggling
egetables. and farmers. The harteriila in
hal! a dozen languages and patois becomes
pd tbr faSu the city tnat
10 get out: and their drivers add their shouts
% the cries OF the venders and buyers and
The most experienced Broadway pilot. even
the apds at stree
you'd be lost in that maelstrom on the farm
@
off to their various centres long before you are
.roused for your breakfast even yen Il i 10
confusion become comparatively quieted. and
he buyers have become 80 reduced In mum ber
wagons can be allowed to go to breakfast. -
The restaurants around the farm advertise
any roast Oh meat, Win potatoes ana vege- |
a bles | 8 cents A roast seems a trife strong
or break but 4 one has Eidden in over
,renkfast something more than chocolate and
oils Is required.
When the buyers and wagons begin to thin !
ut you notice tor the first time that scaven-
,ers are darting about the walks, driveways,
nd beneath the hoois OF the, horses. They !
airy soft. greasy sacks over their shoulders, I
nto which they thrust whatever the hurry OF
he trading has scattered on the pavement
'hese scaveDgers. old men and women, snap
p actually everything u single pea !
With these bits OF vegetables they fill their big
acks poddy-full. and carry them-well, there
re people who, are anxious for vegetables
ome OF those little east side eel ar estaurants
lust look sharp for bargains in vegetables to a
Q able to sell big bowl OF soup for five cents.
The Ganseyoort and West Washington mar !
cts were established to relieve the pressure
hich few years ago bulged tho market +
agons out In tho streets adjoining tho old =
'ashinGton Market until all other traffic Was | =
Opped In the neighborhood. y
LHIN W. NICHOLS STILL MISSING.