The sun., 1901-08-04
Turtles BIG AND LITTLE

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A COLONY Ar fTS BASE WHILE
AWAITING TEE sOUP TUREEN.
summer Csmfsrts fse shs Rzundred-Psno.
err at Faltsa Market --TAe Trade IN
Green turtles liner Accommodating
Nsture-resrsp(n snd Substitutes.
So many good things como out Of the sea
that they ought TO have gallery Of fame
all to themselves. The big sea turtle alone
would ornament . sood-sized niche. A
husky 7oo-pouhder. for instance. would
look well In a nautical gallery OF fame,
although the spectator might be saddcned
by the thought Of % much good soup gone
to waste.
The turtle trade Of New York city has
its headquarters ct Fulton Market. just
at present there are no sea turtles In sight
there, but the dealers show lists OF fifty
OF seventy-fve each. The turtles are
numbered. No. A weighs 200 pounds
and 10 q native Of Florida No. OF weighs
rs pounds and CONES from South Carolina.
The buyer selects from this list the one
he wants.
Then tho dealer sends man down to
the pier hard BY. behind the old market.
Here there arc sunken cars, a. tho dealers
call them. They are big boxes, as big as Q
cattle car and q good deal like one. with
their partially open side allowing the water
TO circulate freely. These are tho sum-
mer quarters Of tho turtles. One car often
contains an apparently happy family OF
fifty or sixty turtles, all numbered. When
No. % Ia sold the market man opens the top
OF the car fishes around until he finds
the turtle hearing that number and re-
moves him 10 q sphere OF greater useful
ness.
A so-pound sea turtle Is a good deal Of
. lump. but scarcely worth mentioning
In a family whose members sometimes
weigh 400 pounds and more The largest
turtle on record at Fulton Market weighed
100 pounds. II ten men had wanted TO sit
around turtle shell and dine OF IL they
could have satisfied their ambition with
this turtle.
With turtles a. with q great many other
Whan n cona. 10 .,oirh;nr ,oo ,'ounJs xss-
instsnca % "a tb"pe srs "djs ds.w ,o 10 poanas sn ,or
hundred pound turtle will make almost,
IN not quite one hundred gallons of soup.
Green turtle soup IL very good soup. but
hundred gallons Of it would satisfy a
powerful lot Of appetites. Nothing short
y. soup III o'. iac.ory cou'u looh
~ srs1..nu,.pn ~. r., PSu,'I .d',ie ~ uie 'a'e
aI ;.n as 10 '''' ~ ~ h"' All ecp''"n' On
''s na',un,
-, sea .nn',e ann y, olu,''aiy SIZE INA, " from
~ 70 ~ . ~ pos III "eignt, seh
lh lne 'la' nr,s r neIs 10, IIoln 10 10 20 cehls
podI'vW Wh. ~" ,,I,,a ILL., . a.paas ~, on M ,ne ue-
n,ahu l ""o" ,,a.;.I w.. 81. w 70 wv Pounus
st anu ih2Ie "a, spoV, .a',,o.i, osalh nlnue anu
.hcsc piS ,e'o san,s, go 10, ~ ceh.s
Pounu W '"e '"''o'"9 ana h'eahhsnip
colnpan' T,l,s ~ ,,..,s, , 49,, A., s,,
me o1R ,u'.ts on'" ,ro,n 'he ,oulhern
:. "y ",nss Sc .,oh ,ua W., WHO 'iahe
a puslnts o essn ~ 'hen, co,nr aiohg
am a,n .u,n ."eln ." v ,us'' nacss lhey are
shIPpcu 10 we" io'h ny 'he coast"ise
steamers.
me .uIl'e an sccomoua,ng peast.
very oi'en ne iakes "" weeks on from
sS;n Him 90 a,,ra h Turn '' hi ~, p,op,e'" io
snip nun ;,I, any, ~. 'n e,, MN over p on h,s
pacN' %, Jus. ,iS 's nnSprIS ,oge,ner on
each side anu t"at IL u" the attention ne
has 20 nave.
Mhen ne arIv~ IN Ne" orK ne goes INTO
summer quarters IN ,n@ East hiver or IN
winter ne occupies apartments on ne acc
ond moor OF lhe n'arket mouse ne par
taxes nperally " summer OF watermelon
rinos' cApoage ieaVes ana otner useless
green STUN. IN wlhter ne ooesn parteke az
al. ne soInet'nes lssts SIX weeks Win
on, pelng any ,he worsH ior u.
Inc sea turtles are called green because
OF the cnlor OF the meat. amazing
now nrte waste mere u IN turtles Inc
the animal IL poilen dowh lnto soup stock
strange as !, may seem, is the best OF the
that ~ really served IN the soup Inc
meat d1esn appear a. thc table IL Is
useh only 10 maze the s,ocs
10 sa iar cry rom I-foo, sea turtle to
I-inch ulamoho Dack ,efraPn. ms isn y
the season lot ter,apin, ou, 'nere are marple
tanks run OF o.her sniali turtles az the
market feai !errapih are caught from
Long isiahd 70 hey West, put tlelr cniei
haunt - the lower 'nesal~ake pay, Inc
market men say INA, the Long Island terra
pm are the best. Ihe chef AZ one OF the
leading notes expresses preference Tor
'hesareake bay terrapm. iou can take
your cholce' you nave the price
ieiIap'n IL solu Dy measure not by
welght. "hen .ne under smell measures
6lnches IN leng,n the terrapih Is oi average
SIZE ana Is called a count, Below that
SIZE !. Is C"ru shor, coun', ana over
di,a,, d,,r;no ,ho snasn, Io -,