New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-21
THE THANKSGIVING MARKET.
Turkeys Are High-Prices of Fish and
Vegetables.

on,v three more days, and then families far and
near will gather round the festive board TO ceie-
brate Thanksgiving. To the housewife these De-
fore days are filed to OVERLOOKING with prepara-
tons for the Thanksgiving feast must be person
oils, s1,ncrvlsed by the majority of housekeepers
The woman VINO enters the culinary DEPART
n,ent of her house during the rest of the year cam
not resist the temptation to invade the Kitchen IN
the Thanksgiving season. Dressed from tip to toe
in q big apron, she stirs the mincemeat, seasons
the turkey dressing, mixes the savory tnsreol-
ents Of the pumpkin pie; all the time her cheeSs
grow pinier and her hands fly faster. and wild
horses could not drag her from the fascinating
work.
But before this stage of the preparation comes
that important part-the marketing. It would
indeed be a woman lacking in sentiment who ooulo
order her Thanksgiving dinner by telephone or In
trust 1t to the cook. Therefore the great markets
In the city will be crowded to-day. tomorrow and
Wednesday with well dressed women. each intent
on her marketing. Naturally. her first pur-
chase will be the turkey-that most necessary part
of the Thanksgiving feast. She will find a variety
prices asked for the fowl. ranging from p cents
so cents a pound why do you charge
S cents q pound more than your neighbor for
turkeys%' she viii ask the marketman. who Is
charging 50 cents = pound. His turkeys amt no
good' the man win reply. They're old. They've
Gene away from Iowa, and got delayed on the way.
My turkeys the choicest in the market and
have come straight from Rhode Island and Mary
land" And in nine cases out of ten the housewife
Will purchase from him. as she wants John and the
children have the best that IS going on Thanks
giving Day.
Making her way down the sawdust strewn pas
sages between the stalls. she will stop at the fish
counter. where the scaly inhabitants of the
are spread II she should want Sleeps
head for her hSh course. she VIII lind that she
must pay 10 cents pound Red snappers sell
at the prIce wnIIe striped bass for boiling
Is 80 d pound. Oy Sters-cuIlS-dre 70 cents a
hundred While the box ones are 81 80. HOLSTERS
sr-Lng at . cents 4 pound, and shrinps and seal
Tops bring 80 cents d pound.
Ihe vegetable stalls piled high with delicious
looking produce, and the who goes a-mar-
kcting will have hard time to close her purse
here. First she will lay IN her supply of Gran
berries. which, made into sauce, always ac-
company turkey. The crop is rather light this
year, and the retail price is set 80 cents for
aSItf peck. Celery which IS fine and white is Is
cents bunch. Most OF it in the market now is
TEOm Northern New-York, the California crop
has not arrived YET. Boston lettuce is 10 cents q
head; hothouse tomatoes. % a pound; peas 60
cents half peck fresh mushrooms, Is cents q
pound: cucuinbers. 10 cents apiece: beets three
lunches for 10 cents; cauIiiower, Is and 20 cents
cress, cents bunch, and last but not least
housewife must buy fruit well yegeta bIes and
In this line also her choice is large Table apples
she can buy for 10 cents half peck; California
pears; 20 cents dozen; Malaga grapes 20 cents a
pound yellow bananas, - cents dozen; red ba-
naila3. % cents dozen: Florida oranges so cents
dozen; Florida grapefruit 10 to 20 cents each and
plunls' 10 TO ~ cents a dozen.