New-York tribune., 1902-05-25

housewife long ago learned the value OF the
gelatinous tissues which they contain and the
secret of removing the stockinglike outer skin.
The smallness Of the portions bought in East Side
shops is always surprise 10 the unintiated. one
wonders what be done with the dry end of Il
piece OF beef that weighs less than half a pound.
a couple of wings OF a chicken, or two or three
potatoes and little onion and carrot, yet 1t is
such purchases that make up the bulk of the
dealers sales
MARKET IN BLACK AND WHITE.
The housewives up in the nelghborhood Of one Of
the most densey populated blocks in America,
the blocks between Sixty-frst and Sixty-second
SITS. and Columbus and Tenth aves do their Sat
urday night marketing at the wagon market, in
Ninth-ave. There is a section of the market around
Sixteth and Sixty-first SITS. but the main market
is between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sxth sts
straggling up to Forty There, from early
Is a picture In black and white, for this is the
torches Attached 10 every " wagon e '''s s''Soiee
Lined up with open ends or sides to the pave
ment are wagons thick they can stand.
Some belong TO the farmers who have come In from
feSelaples' More peiong 10 pedierS VINO buy direct
from the farmers down at Washington Market.
fPheaPness of the market that makes il popular
WATERFALL cost 10 cents Potato wagons are the
most plentiful of all. Next comes a beef wagon
uniform price of seven cents pound. a wagon
With shelves 9ed With ham and bacHnHham mann aP aP
six cents. bacon at eight: Carrots five
a%nae % apiece hPae hFaP for 10 TO N sep ba
nanas, to 10 cents bunch; oranges, to twenty
for quarter The amount of fruit bought by the
tenement house people is surprising. The great
early in the evening, and take their stand at tho
corners heaped high with oranges and bananas,
and at ii o'clock drive empty. New golden
dates 3 cents pound for o." is frequent and
A sw9rthy son of Naples stands grating fresh
gr whose nos clean pupgent odor MS the
sells 1t, her shrill somewhat dolorous note, "Fi'
through tnc am CT cries
T. Things to eat. things to wear and things to put
edge Check by jowl with wagon full of crisp
ance fitted with shelves it's sides open to the side
walk and filled with an entcing array of pottery.
Near by stands a woman who makes her entire
variety Of the genns On sitd S al h ana t cute
fellow who has just arrived to the dignity of BIZ
iurcated garments all the same size and all the
barker She just holds them up outstretched in the
see how many little boys there must be lust ready
for trousers of that size in that locality. When
dozen pairs out Of the great heap before her when
the evening began
SIDEWALK ART.
Here at the edge of the sidewalk is a miniature
second hand store-stoves. rugs carpets and so on
At frequent intervals are large slantng counters
partitioned off into many compartments. heaped
with small articles of everyday use-darning cot
ton. a cent reel; vasene. four cents a pot;
quarter; Hardware counters almost
tack hammers and hatchets from fiye cents to a
quarter; reels of picture wire. nails and screws
tenement house dwellers liberal patrons of
art In proportion to their means. Here and there
are wagonloads of framed pictures artfully dis
posed in manner calculated TO enhance their
tractiveness. They are brightly colored prints
often OF pictures familiar to the observer under
different form of reproduction. They sell from five
cents TO a quarter unframed and from 80 cents to
81 framed.
PROGRESSIVE SANDWICH WOMAN.
Refreshment stands frequent. A certain old
colored woman has had her stand at the corner of
Sixty-hrst-st. and Ninth-ave for years. She sells
sandwiches-ham beef and chicken-and she stays
up till nearly daylight every night in the year.
Cold and stormy winter nights are her harvest