St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-02

see retail dealers present at sale, be-
cause they may lose sales if the latter
see something they want go into the
possession of another jobber than the
one they habitually trade with"
When the piles of fruit have all been
sold the wholesale buyers cart it away
to their marts. There the retailers Sc
cure their supplies, and thus in very
brief time a large consignment of fruit
is distributed from the cars to all parts
of the city. Considering that all this
fruit comes from far away places and
must necessarily pass through many
hands, with chance for loss by spelling,
the price at which it is sold from the re-
tail stands is not eXorbitaDt.
ST. Paul as a Fruit Center.
Strange as it may seem, it is some
times claimed that Minneapolis is the
Notwithstanding center of this section.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. st. Paul handles and dispOses of
at least 1878 per cent more fruit every
year than the city up stream. Not only
that, but Minneapolis dealers almost
daily send cOnsignmeuts to this city to
be disposed of. ut seems an impossi-
bility to sell in Minneapolis even the
comparatively small amount of fruit
brought there" said an exceedingly
we'll posted man yesterday. The rail-
road companies often run cars back and
forward between the cities for Flour
City dealers, and our folks purchase all
that is brought over here"
The general movement of the fruit
dealers TO Third street, has proven a
good thing for the business. With the
fruit commission houses thus concen-
trated information is quickly and cor
rectly disseminated, quotations are
known as soon as made, and delivery is
greatly facilitated. From present ap-
pearances, it is question of only a
brief time when Third street will be
given over entirely To the commission
men. If this shall turn out to be the
case, the old-time retail thorougfaro
will have found its natural status. No
other street can be said to offer any
thing like equal inducements for such a
business. 1t leads directly to the rail-
! road yard and freight houses. with the
! Robert and Wabasha street bridges pro-
viding ample facilities for reaching the
West side. What South Water street is
to Chicago, Third street will be to st.
Paul
Large Territory Covered.
st. Paul wholesalers of fruits not
only buy up everything that is offered
for sale here, but they handle, as stated,
every thing that is too numerous or too
costly for Minneapolis. The Sanity
City jobbers not only supply the grocers,
fruit stand men and the houSeholders of
st. Paul, but they ship also to dealers
and private customers in district en-
bracing Northern Iowa and Wisconsin
and extending to Manitoba and Mon
tana, covering all the intermediate ter
ritory.
A better idea of the business trans
acted at the auction sales mentioned
above may be had from this statement
touching the doiDgs of only Il fairly large
sale. On June 80 at the Omaha depot
! there were seventy-one lots disposed of,
from twenty different fruit shippers.
Eleven hundred boxes or cherries aud
peaches were sold and nearly 400 crates
of apricets, plums and pears.
Neatest Thing for Boys to Wear.
A pretty shirt waist with fast-color
blue pants. Value of latter, 81. Red
figure mark-down price at the "Plym-
| outh" gets them for roc.
At the plymouth Corner" Seventh
and Pnborf