New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-06
Increase Of 33 l-3 Per Cent
Revealed in Last Satur-
days Figures.
POULTRY DEALER
TAKES IN 5000
Six Farmers at Greensboro
Bridge All Sold Out
Before Noon.

According TO the reckoning OF Bor-
ough President Marks, the open mar
kets transacted fully one-third more
business last Saturday than on the pre-
vious Saturday and had by far their
biggest day. Eight stands in the har-
lem Bridge Market sold S3,4iI worth
Of meat and poultry. There are zen
meat stands IN the greensboro Bridge
Market and ten in the Fort Lee Ferry
Market. whose Saturday business mas
not been ascertained, although iIsher-
man. whose boat is at the Fort Lee
Ferry Market. reported that he sold
ZOO pounds of fish on Friday.
One butcher in the Harlem Bridge
Market sold 100 pounds OF poultry on
Saturday morning before < O'Clock. His
sales for the day aggregated 5000. ms
average on other days of the week was
5000. In the same market another
meat man sold / $50 pounds Of poultry
on Saturday and third sold 2,4Oo
pounds.
There were twenty-five farmers in
the three uptown markets on saturday.
One sold 5000 worth Of produce during
the day and the average was about
800.
A department store which has wagons
at all the open markets made the fol-
lowing report of Saturdays business:
Salmon two cases, 4S cans each; tea,
- pounds; coffee, 325 pounds; peas,
seven eases, - cans each; -four. three
barrels; tomatoes, three cases, ~ cans
each: corn, three cases, q cans each;
baking powder, ten half-pound cans;
cocoa, % half-pOund cans; chocolate
ten half-pOund cans; condensed mix
one case and half.
Half a dozen farmers who we're al
the greensboro Bridge Market on
Saturday sold out at retail before
room. One had 30 barrels of potatoes
and 200 cabbages; another 20 barrels OF
potatoes and 100 cabbages; another, II
barrels of potatoes and 20 cabbages;
another. barrels of potatoes. 10 crates
Of tomatoes and II barrels OF apples;
another IL barrels of potatoes, 500 cab
Eages. 500 punches of rhubarb. ID bas-
kets of carrots aud 100 cars of corn.
An egg stand al the Harlem Bridge
Market sold SO dozen eggs Saturday.
4 fruit stands sales for the day
amounted to 5000. one man sold $500
worth Of Concord grapes al 80 cents
for twenty pound basket.
This week. Borough Pre- Sident Marks
said. the most plentiful produce in the
markets will he potatoes. eabbages,
bccts, onions, carrots, apples, grapes
and ounces.
4 basket of apples came TO the Bor'
ough President by parcel post yeStcr-
day from II. {. Lytle. a West Nirg MIA
farmer. Mr.. Lyle said he was anxious
TO shin to the open markets, and the
applcs were a sample of his wares. He
is coming TO New York Saturday to see
the markets and talk shipments with
the Borough President. He IS one OF
many who would like 70 ship to New
York. if there were an Official connected
with the markets designated to act as
receiver. a problem is presented which
will be taken up at the next meeting
of the Omen Market Committee.
lido VI. Robins, Of the reinvestlgation
bureau of the Department OF Charities
wrote to the Borough President that
parents who had reclaimed their TWO
children from an institution SAID thsV
they were able to do so because OF the
cheapness of food at nearby open
market.
Trcnchant advice on meat buylng IS
contained in n circular entitled w nat
20 BUY" which the Mayors Food sup
rlv Committee will issue through the
nublic schools this week. The outline
o. a steer loEH N"N P"sN :,,,.
tributed on its anatomy locate various
cuts of beef. and beneath IS table
showing the price of each cut
"Do YOU know" asks the circular
chat the less tender cuts are more
rourishing than the more expensive
cuts ." and:
"Do you know that the less expensive
cuts, if properly cooked and seasoned
arc mighty GOOD eating
Alter descriptions Of the delicate
favor and nourishing quality OF vari-
cus horizons of the animal. comes the
sdmonjtion in capital letters: TRY it."
Borough President Mathevson yes
,erdav opened a wholesale market at
133d st. and Willis av., The Bronx"
which is believed to have future as
a terminal market, because of railroad