New-York tribune., 1895-01-30
AFRAID or AMERICAN OYSTERS.
EUROPEAN ORDERS CoUNTERMANDED-IT IS
PROBABLY ON ACCOUNT OF THE
TYPHOID FEVER SCARE"

TYPHOID FEVER SCARE
Several shippers OF oysters from this port to
transatlantic markets have recently received
sage by cable countermanding orders for shipments
til further notice. +. c. Strong OF f. c. Strong
a. Co, Fulton Market, said to a Tribune reporter
yesterday:
The excuse given for the countermands from the
foreign markets Is an allegation that the trans
atlantic dealers believe American oysters TO be
unhealthy. That is all moonshne for all the oysters
IN this market perfectly pure and are exceed
ingly healthfuI food. | suppose that the European
oystermen base their scare the fact that some
students OF Wesleyan College. Middletown, Conn,
died from typhoid fever last month after having
eaten some oysters taken from bed at the
mouth OF the Qulnepiac River about one mile south
east from New-Haven. The bed from which these
oysters taken near the mouth of n sewer
and the oysters are supposed to have absorbed
typhoid germs and conveyed them into the systems
OF the students which may not have been impossi-
BILE. oysters may drink In impurities but they VIII
not retain them. While It is possible and perhaps
even probable that the unfortunate Wesleyan stu
dents contracted their fever from eating poisoned
oysters, every In the trade knows that the
oysters placed in that little temporary bed are all
consumed In New-Haven, and that not one OF theih
ever reaches this market or is sent abroad
"All OF the oysters that are brought 20 tns mar
ket for home consumption or for export come from
beds situated that II IS Impossible for them 10
absorb any dangerous impurities we get oysters tbs
from coves washed by ocean water az along gun me
side OF Long Island as far east as shinnecock
almost the extreme END or the lsianu On thc
north side we get them from pure waters Just De-
yond Wets Point. at the entrance TO the SOUND
and at other places as far east as Port JEFFERSON
Supplies also from the Shrewsbury River
Barnegat Bay, Marsh River cove and Little Egg
Harbor. in New-Jersey; and from Parker r
the sea coast OF Maryland. Princes Bay
oysters killed of long ago by the refuse from
the oil rennerles along the old XII Won kul Real
East River oysters are an unknown quantity .Ihe
oysters now known as East Rivers come from
points In Long Island Sound.
There are some twenty-five or twenty-tnree actual
oyster planters and wholesale dealers in this city,
whose average annual sales amount to about $lUV.-
90 apiece the range being from about $5O.VO 10
$4,000 That would make a total of from $2-2oVo
TO s. 300 600 but sales amounting 10 "a much more
are made OF oysters which come in on railroads
and wagons. and others which are gathered by
large retailers, some of whom have oyster beds OF
their own. The industry Is big one and OF
Importance to this city and State The counter
mands from Europe simply indicate an unwar, ar
rantable attack on our American industry. and
every oyster planter I'm the country Will appreciate
whatever The Tribune may do toward putting the
matter fairly before the people or the TWO con-
tInents The transatlantic oyster planters are
Jealous OF their American competitors and want TO
shut them out and compel the people on the other
propagated there. But they Will not succeed Tor
any considerable length OF time. for the Ameri-
can oyster is superior to the Foreign oyster.