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and inch by inch reduced the water to the
level of the spittoons.
In one quick lunch stall the water rose
SO high that the flies had to scramble to
the top layer of the strawberry shortcake
TO save themselves. There was no real
property damage to the proprietors. how
ever, because after the flood the short
cake was labelled strawberry pudding
and sold at a slight advance.
But the strangest things happened III
the fish markets. The wholesale market
is on the east or shore, side of South street,
and the retailers stalls are right across
the way in the Fulton Market building.
The flood rolled between and wioieneo out
here and there into the markets them
selves.
-You'd hardly believe some of the goings..
on there was around here just about flood
tide said one of the oldest deal rs in the
wholesale side of the street, who has either
caught or sold fish for the last forty years.
and is known to be perfectly reliable,
You sec that little market across the
street. A regular Gust omer Of mine keeps
there had mess of sea bass all ready
for delivering 10 him. You know rs often
AS not a sea bass gets to be alive and that
happened to he the way with that particu-
lar mess.
raise Peck slip and Fulton street run
just a trife down hill, and we 60, all the
lower end of Manhattan 1t swooped in
here two feet deep and I'm damned II It
didn't tip over he scoop with that mess of
sea bass and they all swan right out into
South street. But that wasn't what l was
going to say. That was natural enough
Any 'fish will swim If you put him in water,
but what do you think those pertic'lar fish
did? They kept together in school, and
I'm damned II they didn't swim right across
into that market where l was going to
MY customer got EN- all right. all but
one, and weighed EN-. Then he yelled
across to me through his megaphone, and
said the weight was short.
You're a liar | says, good-naturedi
like. because he's a good customer. I
weighed them fish myself and saw every
one of em swim over your Threshold Don't
take advantage Of the weather to get All
extra fish
You're another!' he yelled back, and
then went inside again. Pretty soon he
came out and said he was liar and that
he had just found the missing six pounds
in fish that had swum between the door
and the jamb and got stuck.
Nothing else like that happened along
the whole row, so far as l know. with real
fish. But, Lord, you ought to have seen
the cells that escaped from this market
during the flood
South street was just one long squirm.
They raised the devil with traffic, frighten-
ing horses and getting coiled round the
axles of the Belt line cars. But the only
real delay was caused by lobster: The
lobster got to going down toward Wall
street. but sidled into a frog, a railroad
frog, at the switch and stuck there, 80 that
the next car that came along was derailed:
All the passengers had to get out and
wade to the sidewalk; One poor. fellow
had been drinking little too much, guess1
around his legs there was just hell to pay.
When the Stamford boat Shady Side
tied up at her dock at the foot OF Peck
slip the water was pouring of the pier in
such volume that the passengers couldn't
get ashore without wading, 80 most of
them stayed on board for an hour to wait
for the water to subside
Over on the North River front along
West street things were almost as bad. All
the cellars as far back az Greenwich street
were flooded, and on the asphalted plazas
in front of the Cortlandt. Barclay, Christie
pher and Twenty-third street ferries the
water for a while was a foot deep.