The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-08-15
NORTH YQkiT0 MQ|ke|S
New York Fruit Market.


The Herald cars of
California fruit arrived here today. The
shipment was in good condition and
the market is firm.
Pears are slightly lower. This is
due to the fact that the quality is not
so good as in earlier shipments Fancy
$3.15; second grades 81 to $3.50.
Liberia peaches sold freely today for
$1.10 to $1.G5.
The first car of Washington pears
arrived today. They were from Thurs
ton county, and were fine in quality.
They found ready sale at s2.15 to 1920.
Seeing the peaches piled high around
the commission houses reminds one of
the story of a box of peaches a minister
in Yakima bought last week to take
over to his friends in Seattle, and then
didn't take
| Rev. L. l.. Hayden and family are
spending the summer on the Sound,
and the doctor was called home for
to return he dropped into the Enter
prise grocery and had the proprietor
send nice box of peaches up to the
manse. intending to take them over
with him on No. is last Wednesday eve
ming. In the absence of the family,
a ncighbor, Mr.. Forman of the Cascade
Lumber company, had been asked to
keep an eye on the place ana see tina,
everything was all right About the
time the Enterprise deliveryman left
the box of peaches on the rear porch,
Mr. Forman thought he'd drop over and
take a look around the place, not
knowing that DR.. Hayden was at home.
He saw the peaches sitting on the
| porch and says to himself: "Now, some
friend has left these here for the doc
tor, and they're going to spoil; I'll
just take them over to the house.
which he did.
1t was about the time that the stores
usually close that DIR. Hayden went up
home and. the first thing he did was
! to look for his peaches They weren't
there Now, most men would know
| how to size up and describe a grocer
who would play such trick on
| friend and a customer as that, but
minister-well, all the doctor could do
was to say, ooh, dear That man has
forgotten to send up my peaches" and
then called up the grocery and made
| inquiry. Mr.. Matterson declared the
peaches had gone out in good time;
that he saw personally to their send
| ing, and knew the driver had delivered
them. Then the driver was called up
and he swore-er, that is, he affirmed
that he left the box where he had or
ders to leave it. So rs nobody seemed
]
| that the peaches were missing, Mr..
Matterson set about to get another box
and hustle it up to the manse. He dis
covered that he had sold his last box,
and as the other stores were closed for
the day, he concluded he was up
against it. Then he thought of Pear
| son, on the avenue, and remembered
the fact that Pearson is one of the
most accommodating men in the city.
SO he called him up over the phone.
finding him at home, told him what he
wanted, and asked If he'd come down
and get him a box. Mr. Pearson said:
"Why, sure; but you'll have to wait a
few minutes. I'm in the bath tub
now"
Pretty soon he appeared on the
street, got the peaches for the Enter
prise man, the latter sent them out to
the manse, and Rev. Hayden packed
them ready to take with him. Every
body was thus fixed out except Mat
terson. He doesn't know exactly how
to make out the bill. and says he will
wait till Pearson renders him a state
ment so he will know how much the
avenue grocer is going to charge him
for leaving the luxury of a bath and
helping to supply the want caused by
the missing box Of peaches.
Early peaches are hurrying up to get
out of the road of the later varieties;
they are much more plentiful than last
week. Early Crawfords, uniform in
size and temptingly ripe. are selling
for 60 cents a box Wholesale The AL
exanders are now quoted at 40 to so
cents a box. There will be plenty of
peaches this year. About the latest
thing on the fruit stands is the grape.
Only the black variety are seen so far,
but they are large and of fine quality.
The wholesale price is cents pound,
and the retail from 8 to 10 cents, ac-
cording to where you buy.
1t is with deep regret that we are
parting from some of our friends in
the vegetable market. Tuesday you
couldn't get a bunch Of lettuce big
enough to feed the canary. Rhubarb
is no longer obtainable for pies and
sauce. Celery is coming in. The price
would indicate 1t is nevis cents for
two lunches The quality is fair. Corn
retails for a bit a dozen. Catalogues
are So crate and watermelons 81
crate, wholesale. The former retail at
from l cent to s cents each. according
to size, and watermelons retail for two
bits each. It's a wise plan to have
the man plug the mleon before you take
it home yet awhile; all big melons are
not ripe.
The meat market men report an un-
usual scarcity of hogs and sheep. 1t
has become necessary to send away for
both. and the scarcity promises to be
more plainly felt.