The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02


fully as good in quality.
If one objects To the charges al the high
priced shops he dealers simply shrug their
shoulders and say that you cannot get the
same grade of foods any lower. but this is
not true any more than the impossible
market rates which they quote.
inder these circumstances marketing
Is no longer an easy task. Housekeepers
who are allowed 80 much each month TO
furnish III, table, boarding house keepers
and restaurant keepers, all suffer.
The hotels and restaurants AZ rule
do not fare ~ badly, a they send their
stewards down 10 the large markets and
purchase in quantity each day. II IL the
small buyer who suffers and above all the
marketer who is not willing or cannot at
ford the time to look alb )ut and find a
market where moderate rates are asked
and where the careful, and above all the
early, marketer can obtain fair dealing
and excellent foods
These she ps are to he fourd a. far east
! as Lexington and Third avenues down
town and sometimes IN the side streets
between these avenues, while Seventh and
Eighth avenues have excellent downtown
markets
-Futher east or west Of this the markets
downtown are poor. Tho Fifth avenue
market shops, like the Broadway fruit
stores. are conducted az rates that are pos'-
lively paralyzng. Sixth avenue IL little
better and in the case of the French markets
tie charges are invariably excessive
These French markets are picturesque
aud Clearly. furnishing cuts Of meet not
obtainabe elsewhere. hut the charges
are glarinGly eXtortiorn'e
Yet ttey find their custC mrs aud keep
Them. Many people who leave their mar
keting to servants keep no account what
ever Of their household expenditures
and II they pay ~ cents for butter when
Il Is listed AZ 30 they remain in happy
. tlas
food that comes TO their table Is of good
quality and that IS all they inquire into This
class of marketers l. extremely large and
from them the high priced shops make their
profits
In the case of people of moderate means
and large families, though, this question
OF market prices is one Of more importance
and II studied out, household bills can be-
decreased wonderfully. The Harlem mar
kets. or all those above Seventy-second
street on Columbus and Amsterdam avenues,
are splendid places to buy and az these shops
deliver downtown many persons prefer
TO patronize them.
Care in mar kcting can make one days
visit each week or perhaps twice week
to the market suffice for most families in
this sort Of weather and through the winter,
when foods keep nicely. Supplies laid III
in this way and not ordered each day from
the local tradesmen without regard TO his
charges but with a view to hurry and con-
renience only, always cost much less than
the easier purchases.
But the average hou-ekeeper learns
from her cook that eggs, butter, potatoes
and -four are needed and dispatc hes an or
der to the nearest grocer. She asks for
the best quality and sometimes she gets II,
but the tradesmen know this sort of custom
and always make an extra profit from the
hurried or careless buyer.
When prices remain high, a. they have
Ia.
how the very poor can manage TO obtain
the necessities of life. While the papers
often relate sad cases of act ual want of food
usually combined with illness. the very
poorest wage Garner who manages TO keep
employed can always find cheap markets.
Along the streets OF the far East Side
and the western avenues there are various
wagon pedlers and Italian dealers who
sell their wares from stands and have not
the expenses Of rental to contend with.
These sell at Wonderfully cheap prices.
There are also the butchers shops
where roasting pork, charged for at 20
cents pound in the fancy markets, can
be bought for 10 and even cents a
pound. Corned beef always supposed TO
he one Of the very cheapest of foods. sells
for Is cents in the fashionable markets,
and they do not trouble to make any
difference in cuts.
cartridges in the fancy markets just
now bring 50 pair, but in shops of less
pretcnsion can be had, Just "a good in
quality, for 81 each, These differences
III price are so great a. To CaUs" astOnish-
nent among people familiar with the
marketing requirements ard advantages
Of comparatively small cities like Balti-
more, Philadelphia and Washington, where
prices never show this marvellous range.
Careful buyers here In town Will always
do well To purchase from the markets,
where there are number of dealers, and
therefore, a competition a. to price. The
big downtown markets are always ad-
Vantageols in this respect, but many
holsekeepers do not find II convenient to
travel such distances.
Fish dealers have tho same peculiar
methods of arranging their prices in ac-
| cordance with fabulous market rates. A.
| some shops raw oysters on the haif shell
are always charged for Al Is and . cents
| a dozen Al Others and a. all the large
markets in the Harlem districts they are
| served nj II cents a dozen
| 'Scallrp- last week were charged for
| a. some of the shops q; s cents and ) a
| Quart Al others they were 10 be- had AT
| 50 cents, the difference IN quality, if any
| existed. being too slight for notice Fifty
! cents Is high for scallols, hu' the moment
| the market prices 60 high the price a. tho
! fancy shop becomes mountainous and the
| dealer merely tells you that scalops are
| very high
1T never pays 70 buy fish from any hut
| the best markets, hNt Il would I've vol il
| housekeepers became Cogni2anr of the
fact that they are paying Git-edged rate,
| simply for the pleasure IN be derived from
| the presence Of fashionable delivery
| wagon al their door, each morning
| A woman patron of one 81 the fancy
| markets had . Uair Of hrOilinC "hiCllon,
| sent home one day recently, the price
| charged being 80 Ccn,, a pound. Hel
| economical maid declared that she coulC
| ge' jus, a. coed chickens for 20 cents TC
! prove her assert ion. which had been con,
| tradicted she brought TO her mistress =
| chicken which she had bought a. that price
| II proved in every way a good AZ ths
higher priced bird
| The interest % the head of the house
was awakened in this marvellous difference
| In price and ho Inquired whore the serVan'
| had bought her CHICKEN. She explained
| hat she had pur'hlsod II from one Of ths
| SaturdaY afternoon and evening IN uppc'
| Ninth avenue, their Vasolcnc or'h"s Civ.
| inC q picturesque glow to the heaps al
! caDhages turlip~, apples, celery and nj hei
| VEGETABLES
| The class Of markatcrs here is Of IN,
| very poorest, and th, nurchase Of tn,
| Sunday dinner ON Saturday night j. al
| event with many Of tho women. They
| carry hom" their pm hlscS in m9rke
| basket Tho episode oi the Chiclon sue
| costs that they at fnod Of a. good quality
| romn'im"s al least, a. those who pat rouiz'
| the fancy markets n cNorhitaDt prices"