The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-12
THE SHIPMENT OF FISH
Beets Are Now Moving to the North
ern Markets.
NEGROES SUPPORT LOCAL DEMOCRATS
The Result Of the Ell ction Shows That Every
Anti Thomas Man Was Defeated For City
Councilman. The New Board Of
Alderman Organize.
Alderman Organize,
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Alderman Organize.
Especial to News and Cbserver.)
Newbern, NJ c., May 11.--Between
the fish and trucking industry the time
of the hustling Newbernian is now taken
up. yet he will halt moment for
pleasant word with the News and OBJ
server man. am glad to advise that
the paper is growing in popular favor
here as well as elsewhere in this east
ern belt. Speaking of the fish and
truck industry, 1 am reminded of
visit yesterday to the dock and packing
houses Of Watson, Daniels and Gaskill,
where their forces were busily engaged
preparing for shipment numerous spe-
cies of the finny tribe. At Fernie Gas
kills / stood and watched the process
of dressing sturgeon and sturgeon roe
for shipment. The roe is put into
tub of salt brine which hardens the
eggs. This does not require more than
thirty or forty minutes The mass is
then taken from the tub and rubbed on
a wire seine, the eggs as black as tar,
passing through. The price this sea-
son is low, sturgeon eggs selling only
at so cents per pound. The average
sturgeon roe yields about forty pounds
of eggs The past season the eggs solo
at so cents per pound. The meat Of the
sturgeon is also shipped North and is
considered quite palatable. The fish
industry Of Newbern brings 3n a~laEge
amount of money annually and manW
are the families supported by this one
industry alone.
In obedience to an urgent
-
Newbernian's, Mr.. j. w. Stewart. :
was soon seated behind dashing black
steed and away we went on a hasty
visit to the pea and cabbage fields
around Newbern. The verdant fields
were a sea of black faces, there being
hundreds of the colored population en-
gagged in harvesting and yet many
others assisting the white folks pack
ing, making ready for waiting negroes
and carts to carry the packaged product
to the steamer wharf and railway depot,
| spent some moments at the dock and
twas a pleasant sight There were
being loaded some four thousand crates
of cabbage and some two thousand
baskets of peas. Among the largest
shippers of cabbage yesterday was our
old friend Mr.. c. r. Watson. He ship
ped nearly a thousand crates 528 Of
these being consigned to Boston alone
The narrow floor space then on the dock
was taken UP by truck hands and COM
mission agents Considerable quaint
ties of this stuff changed hands on the
spot many peas being purchased at
80 cents per basket. White cabbage
were sold at $150 to $1.60 per crate
notice light shipments of beets being
made. This truck industry is a great
source of revenue and when shipping
seasons arrive almost every one is hap
py The laborers pockets jingle vita
silver, the farmer smiles as the checks
roll in and the case of blues rests no
more with the busy merchant.
Yesterday morning a serious accident
befell Jno. G. White. While at work at
the mill of the Blades Lumber Com
pany he fell from scaffold and suffer
ed a broken leg The injured man was
given medical attention by DR.. N. Fl.
Street.
Secretary r. X. Bruner, who has
spent the day here taking views OF tbs
truck farms, left this evening for Raj.
eigh, having taken some forty views
The municipal election which was
held on Tuesday, May 7th, in the city ot
Newbern, evidences again the disposi-
tion of colored voters Of that city to
support local Democratic candidates
who are well known and residents OF
the CITY.
In the Fifth and Sixth Wards Of New
bern, constituting that part Of the city
which contains a majority Of colored
voters, and which wards include Bern
voting precincts, which Is so strongly
attacked in the Fowler Thomas contest,
and upon, which Mr.. Fowler's attorneys
lay so much stress in his contest the
results shows that every anti-ThomaJ
man( meaning those who voted or tes-
titled against him) was defeated for city
councilmen
no the other hand the supporters Of
Mr.. Thomas for Congress In the elec-
ton of 1900 were elected by safe. and
one Of them by a large majority The
councilmen elected include the present
councilmen j. T. York and w. II. John
SON. who were among the organizers
of the Thomas Club Of colored voters
advocating his election last year.
Nathan Cobb, colored, ex-deputy
sheriff of the county was also a strong
supporter of Mr. Thomas
The colored voters of the Fifth Ward.
which includes a considerable part OF
Bern precinct, supported very largely
also Thomas r. Mccarthy. ESQ.
prominent Democrats giving him the
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