Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
"Self-Advertising Tombstones

There are several cemeteries in the CEN
ter of the town and they seem to be well
populated. There is a good deal OF self
advertising on the tombstones, which al
most invariably bear the name of the per-
son who erected them carved in larger
letters than are used for that of the per-
son buried beneath. For example, they
read:
Erected by
ROBERT JONES HENDERSON
his beloved wife
Hannah.
who died September .. 1852.
The same form is used for father or
a son or q husband and the name of the
dead is always in smaller letters than
that OF the remembrance. Here is an
other illustrations:
Erected hv
ISABELLA BEVERLEY
in loving memory Of
her beloved husband
James Henry Beverley;
also her father
Rev. George Beverley. AN.
also his wife Georgiana
who died in Africa.
The first Episcopal bishop of America,
whose name was Seabury was conse-
Grated in Broad street, Aberdeen Novem-
Der. 1884. The church was swept away
with other buildings to make room for
the splendid new university and a tablet
has been imbedded in the walls to remind
poSterity of the fact.
Greatest Fish Market in the World.
The people of Aberdeen claim to have
the largest fishing trade i'm the world
They send out go rawlers into the North
sea. who scoop out fish to the value of
more than $3,OOO,OOO a year. About half
the catch is shipped to London and other
great markets The remainder are cured
and packed here in the town-chie1y her
ring, cod and haddock. That almost uni
versal breakfast dish. finnen haddie. takes
its name from the little village Finden on
the outskirts of Aberdeen, where almost
the entire population are engaged in
catching and curing small fish of the
haddock species selected for that pur-
pose.
The fish market is the greatest in the
world and occupies two sides of Albert
basin in the harbor. which is walled up
with granite from the hills of Aberdeen to
receive the trawlers and their cargoes.
The fish market occupies a wide pier
paved with concrete. sloping to the
waters edge and guttered so that the
drfppings shall run Off The roof is of
corrugated iron. and the sheds, about
thousand feet long in two directions at
right angles. are always open to the
basin. The trawlers come one after an
other and unload the fish from the tanks
hulls. There is very little individual fish
ing nowadays. 1t is all done by COM
panies with large capital. who have their
business headquarters up town and own
he traWlers and employ the fishermen on
sd lares. The boats are built for the
purpose and cost from $4,000 to 500 900
each. They are fitted with pumps so
arranged that each kind of fish will have
it's own tank and be kept fresh by con-
slant inflow and outflow of salt water
&c tn he 10
of preserving them as the use of ice.
Thirty-Two Companies in Business.
The market house belongs to the city.
Each of thirty-two companies engaged in
the business has its allotted space. for
which 1t pays a fixed rent. and each has
an outfit of boxes. delivery wagons and
refrigerator cars on the railways that
run out of Aberdeen. When the fish are
landed. the larger ones, the halibut, had
dock, cod. pollock, etc, are stacked in
piles OF even size. so many fish to the
pile. The smaller fish, the herring.
whiting. sole, mackerel. etc, are placed
in boxes. so many fish to the box. and at
o'clock in the morning two auctioneers
begin, one at either end. and sell the
fish pile by pile and box after box to
the highest bidder. He places a printed
slip bearing his name upon the fish that
he had purchased and. when the crowd
OF bidders moves on, MS employees COfpe
and transfer them To the delivery wagons
backed up against the curb of the street
outside and haul them away to the freight
yards, where they are placed in refriger-
ator cars, or to the packing houses, where
they are cured and packed in boxes or
tins by stalwart looking women.
The gentleman in charge of the office
told me, in answer to my inquiries. that
the daily sales of fish in the Aberdeen
markets were twice as large as those
at Bilingsgate, London.