The sun., 1897-11-16
COAST ALIVE WITH COD.
GALIL EE's SUNDAY CATCH OYER
FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS.


RrInR Up the Hrul-New York supplies All
the Fish Markets mt Rates Away Down.
1t was just o'clock yesterday afternoon
when the Fulton Market, the big iish express
boat, loomed up out OF the fog and mist ana
with shrioking whistles pokod her way in'o inc
lower pier Of the wholesale fish market near |
the foot of Fulton street. -,
Here she isl Here sho comes! Ihat ner'
ran from end to end of tho market.and then down
to the pier piled every man who had TWO legS
to walk or run. They were shouting and yen.
ing and pushing and showing, every man oi
them indulging in horse play and occasionally
bawling, "Codl Cod! Codi" For two hours
before the arrival OF the Fulton Market there
had been q good deal Of excitement there ana
everybody was talking Goldfish. But tor tnaI
matter, everybody in the wholesale hsn mar
ket for two weeks has boen talking codhsh.
Cod had been running along tho Jersey coast
| as they had never run before. Tho nshermon
had been piling into market with then' anu
| with q scarcity of fish Of other kinds that al.
most warranted an impression that the COD
had monopolized the ocean, BeRinning with
tho price at . and 8 cents q pound, and all cod
| caught with hook and line, tho business had
| boen jammed down by halves and quarters until
| so cents hundred weight was considered
| fair price, and all cod were caught in pound
| nets. All cod and practically nothing but cod.
| The arrival of tho Fulton Market with toot-
ing whistles and $4,000 pounds Of cod was
sort OF climax. The price Of cod had dropped
| from 80 cents hundred weight to nearer 49,
| and there was como talk of their going begging
at that.
The Fulton Markets trip was most un-
| usual one. She belongs to the Centennial Ex-
| press line, aud plies mostly between the Bos-
ton market and New York. Not once year
does she get away on other business: But
yesterday there came call for help tr from ns6 Gase
the boxes that could be bought for love or
money were in use Freight and express, cars a,lS
uncared for. They had all come up in the nets
OF Capt Lockwood on Sunday. Early, and late
pulling in the nets. and with every net the
load Was greater. The fish were packed in al:
hod more sh merely there was
room inside of them and when night came and
wood was almost beside himself. He was tele-
graphing here and there :and everywhere for
@STs S it's FSs F%sfh Ia sh
there were no boxes to be had while yet the fish
four feet deep on 1trSmiv sh9rs bot Cant Lock-
Fulton Market He must charter the h. boat "a, he
Tslies se fss fTsspondsa sis anS woe
market waited, The marketmen said at first frat
HaR RSs beat ike ha They 's
at his estimate, of $4,000 pounds. But grad
SH amd hen on they aske
become Of 10000 pounds Of cod that got to
This was the second stage. The third stage
came when these marketmcn got down to the
work of disposing OF tho catch with the S other I
that were coming in by other boats. Then the
pes tSe R not haa and
, been paying a dollar a hundred weight. To Bos-
ton ali men turned. They offered to let Bos;
, thousand tho sal pounds Of cod for SO cents. then for
' SO cents, and back came the mercenary Boston
sn some %n of Pe the Sh for sailing then
0 then of 10 cents. all for sailing; Philadephiaa
n CINCINNATI and Pittsburg and Cleveland and
Buffalo and Syracuse and Rochester and"Ai
Q wanted Goldfish and they all wanted them cheap,
prices ran no man & could e last naa might sod
4 when the whistles Of the Fulton Market were
y heard. and the rush for the pile was begun
5 curiosity hustled down. The Fulton Mar
Of sSat soss il choicest Enssh s1PFefsssd hi IL
tinued his expression until a twenty pound cod
came sailing through the air and % hit IN him in ths
Fulten. Market scratched their heads and won
/ argument, for 1t fine fish they had
Q peed him with,
of the pier with little jar, and then there was
h a cheer and a confused babble as the men on the
. jammed to the gunwalcs with cod. From stem
- to stern cod were three feet deep on her deck
g Her crew swore as they foundHred waist deel
y in the mess. At an average weight OF thret
!; pounds a fish there were 1866 fish in the
t boat, and how that many ny, fish look look in luml
r the Full ton Market. and he alternately bawet
y back ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the congratulation
up s' n unload SOS kin kin git back and pull II;
, It Was dark before the Fulton Market wa
rid Of the load OF cod, and by that time most o
4 had had be been sent for them, for they we're packet
:, in ice and shipped the moment that they wer
1t 1t landed. The unloading was watched by a gap
Is Capt. Lockwood hadn't time to talk, Tn
A, market men sad they hadnt seen + rain ha,c co..
s. further up the coast than New Jersey This |
y believed to be so because usually New Yorl
of buys cod from Boston, and now Boston buyin
?t cod from New York makes it look as II ther
scarcity of catch in her she5es 5dsG es.
Fulton Market brought was disposed Of is
sample Of the way an over supply Of any fl fish ! I
=. tremendous run of cod for two weeks there ha
=, been no ,glut. and there have been no fs
20 regular cod fisheries one Of the most valuabl
products Of the fish the liver is utilized l., an n
hf b I'll Is sra o @e SPkes
IN wasted. They are thrown away even befor
10 10 the fish gets 10 market.
~ ~ While cod were selling on the east side O
70 East street at Fulton for 40 and so cents hur
NJ NJ dred weight THE SUN reporter stepped acros
nv the street to the west side, where tho reta
fish market is. lie priced cod there at a doze
stands. Eight cents pound was the cheapes
t' price quoted, and some OF the dealers wante
I. II cents.
" This was called to the attention of who'll
rt saler. He said, "Ycs. that 5 always the cas-
g. The retail fish dealers of this town make fish
at luxury. They keep the price up no matte
" what they get the fish for tor In T, that Wy Way, the
o o the people who dispose OF most of the fish, The
n. get 1t here at wholesale and sell It from the
a big profit. II any body offered to sell you Rs
at cents pound you'd Sos, SIX h.cSns. It. was Sa
,s have been educated by tho retailer OF who
". 70, you buy to think tish luxury. These dcale
re have stuck to their prices SO long that they
Nv more money by putting down the price OF fiji
Va Va to what would give them reasonable instead
ms an exorbitant profit, because IL they did tn
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