New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

ready for plunge from the pier Snow may cover
the ground and ice foes float the river but Tee
berg Tommy takes his morning dip despite the
zero weather After swimming under water he
will Chamber out. and address the crowd Of street
gamins gathered to watch him. as follows:
Go yer blokes. Can't / have me morning
bath widout yer rivitting gms me? take
me swim for me health got a paralyzation Of
me leg while back and I'm gettia' the blood inter
the old dead leg agin- It's doin me good Go on.
yer muckersr'
iceberg" Tommy. sometimes called Tommy
Fox, was an employe Of a fish concern some years
ago who became incapacitated by a stroke OF
paralysis. He took TO swimming as a remedy
and has kept it up all days Of the year ever since
He believes that IN time he will be completely
The bosom friends Of Iceberg Tommy are Lob
ster Charley and Sucker Bill" Both pick 10 a
few pennies every day at various vocafions The
chief Of which is cleaning Holsters The dsrk
green crustaceans are shipped here at the pres
broii their Holsters on Pier p. the north Of the
- HI - PiPe - I t oo~P 20 the bottom
Holsters have turned fiery red and then have
and Sucker Bill pick them gingeriy and
brush them off with whisk brooms.
How did me pal come by his name?" remarked
Lobster Charley to the skipper Of a Goldfish
with some hot Iobsters and sons one told hin
to pour cold water instid Of steam on EN- BiIT
picked up one he found ne pinched. There
Tommy hadn't come and took EN- off,"
whom every fshmonger knew as carp Carrie
She a fish and meat shop in Essex-st ana
GveTS T c Iorns sls OF tRe week sne was 70 pc found
rendezvous OF .he Hebrew fish pedlers She was
an especially Shrewd business woman and prOs-
pered so well that she retired from business a
short time ago. As example Of her keenness-
she discovered one day that fisherman was try
Of pickereI While his back was turned She s,I5
stituted another basket which did not have pick
erel on top and carp underneath but the reverse
changed her mind and would buy carp, 50 she
carted off the pckerel after paying for It at the
her OF swfndling him. whereupon she said: Vat
you say? 1 swi1dle you? Not much You wanted
After that she was known as Carp Carrie
There Is one Hebrew FISH pedler, who. unlike his
brethren in Peck Slip. often looks too long on the
earned the name of 'Shiker'' which Is Yfddish fo-
drunkard- On of the days OF a continued
that he trying to sell pork instead OF white
fish. This experience. IL Is said, served to keep
him sober for several weeks.
Many "olGtimers'' disappear in the winter time
from their accustomed haunts along the water
front and do not return until spring when there
schooners and soops. a dozen a day. will land
cargoes Of mackereI and bIuehsh. Then the Old
quantities Of shad instead Of the light winter con-
signments Of bass, weakfsh and trOut. And
then the fresh water carp. whtefish perch. yellow
blue and sawyer pike are being shipped IN heavily
from the Great Lakes.
One Of those who reappeer with the spring. ths
bluehsh and the shad is Shrimp Sammy a 1T
tie fellow, who frequents the srnacks and begs fish
That is his only vocation. When a smack filed
with Goldfish and halibut ties to Pier No. O.
north of Fulton Fish Market Shrimp Sammy fz
sure TO seek out the skipper and say:
Say pard. Civ me cod for a meal Hav'n't
Occasionally q skipper will give SAMMY. 4 fish
to hush his entreaties although he knows too well
is drinking whiskey from the bar of a South-st
saloon The saloonkeeper has the Goldfish.