The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-05-21

the gulf, yet they must be iced con-
stantly. With the exception Of the
time they are being hauled from the
hold, weighed and cleaned, they do not
leave the ice until in the consumers
hands. An ice crushing machine with
electric power, Is employed in the Gal
weston plant The ice Is lifted to the
hopper and a whole cake is taken
through the machine in less than q
minute. 1t falls into a shallow bin be-
meath. from whence it is scooped into
barrels or the big ice boxes where the
remaining fish are stored after the or
ders are filled. Ice, too, as stated, Is
used on the boats, so that it is very
essential part of the business.
The head Of a large redsnapper is
about a fourtll the weight Of the entire
fish After being severed from the body
and thrown into a barrel, the heads are
taken by another man, who deftly cuts
out the threats. These are said to be
the very best part of a redsnapper, and
are much sought after by connoisseurs
of fish. The beads are thrown into the
bay, and form food for crabs and like
denizens of the deep. If one knows
how to go about it fish head, we'll
cleaned and properly prepared, is said
to be one of the best bases for fish
chowder that can be found.
Shipping fish from Galveston beyond
the confines of the state is a new enter
prise. For good many years there has
been somebody supplying Texas towns.
The supply has been limited and as the
interior people We're accustomed to
grass-fed long horns there was not
much demand except during excursion
times when people came to Galveston
with fish hunger on them. Within the
past year the pioneers in the business
have engaged added capital and sought
far away points, but doing essentially
the bulk of the business in the trans
Mississippi country and in places where
little but mud cats had served to sup
ply the taste for fish. In such places
redsnappers had never been heard of,
and when the sound first reached the
native ear it is said to have suggested
a sea specimen Of their home grown
turtle This trade appears to
have justified the establishment of a
fish freezing plant at Galveston in order
that the supply may be better regulated
to the demand. AS much ice is used In
the fish business an ice plant Is being
constructed with the freezing plant.
Redsnappers are not alone the pro-
duet of the Gulf. Big June fish, or
warsaws, are brought in by nearly eve
~ boat Single specimens of these
reach three hundred pounds.
They are served as steaks. Spanish
mackerel abound in large quantities in
the Gulf. An attempt to catch these
with the aid of purse seine is to be
made soon, and as they can be frozen
it is expected that a supply can be
Many other varieties of
fish and crustaceans live and prosper in
these waters, and need but some good
commerciar hand to put them on the
market. Founder pompano, trout and
tarpon are among the most prominent
fish. Then there are orabs-and how
many people living away from the sea
shore have enjoyed the delights of gum
DO or deviled crabs and shrimp, by
whose eating how many landsmen have
enjoyed in dreams the dreful presence
If far away deceased ancestry? And
oysters everybody has tasted oysters,
aven If it was nothing superior to the
nfantile crustacean known as the cove
OYSTER. With the exception of the red
ended any attempt to place any of |
hese in distant Observation-Disclosures
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