Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-02
THE FISH MARKET
PLAN A BLESSING
TOPOOR AND ILL
Nutritious Food at Small Prices
ProcurabIe Under the City
System.
NEWARK IDEA A SUCCESS,
is GENERAL VERDICT
Editorial Comment, by All Ex-
cept Local Newspapers,
Approves Work.

That the municipal fish markets Ct
Newark are a decided success is
vouched for by the editorials written
by editors of papers of many cities
other than Newark. Their success Is
further vouched for by the thousands
of housewives who have been able to
secure fish and clans at a reasonable
price at a time when every nicket
counted in the family pocketbook,
One has to visit any one of the
three markets established in this city
to see that the people of Newark
appreciate the efforts of Mayor
Haussling to cut into the high cost
of beef. At these places will be seen
men, women and children tightly
clasping a few pennies while await
ing their turn to purchase. 1t has
never been known in any other mar
ket in the country to sell as small a
quantity as six cents worth of fish
or six cents worth of CLANS.
The remarkable demand for clans
in this city has brought forth the
fact that thousands of invalids are
taking advantage of the opportunities
offered by the municipal markets to
purchase few CLAIMS from which to
by many physicians.
Attention was called to this situa-
ton when the Evening Star writer
questioned a woman purchaser at so
Ferry street as to why she asked
for but six cents worth of clans She
stated that an invalid daughter was
ordered on a clam broth diet, and that
she could not afford to purchase any
greater qauntity than the dozen cf-
fered, as she had but six cents to
spare and had walked from distant
part of the city to make this pur-
chase.
This one case led to an investiga-
tion on the part of the Star man,
and many purchasers were inter-
viewed on the subject. A prominent
physician, who was passing at the
time, when asked about the nutri-
ment to be found In clam broth,
stated that hot clam broth and milk
formed one of the best foods for an
Impoverished stomach. and that no
greater charity had been known in
this city than the addition of clans
to the sale of fish in the municipal
markets Seventy bushels of clams
fresh from the water of Sandy Hook
bay, were received by city Sealer
John H. Sullivan this morning and
they were put on sale at 80 Ferry
Rtreet SO zBe1ieyilleT avenue AID in
the store at Bank and Norfolk
streets today.
An additional shipment Of 1000
CARDS and a number of turtles will
be sold, and the Belford boat will
also bring $500 pounds Of weakfish,H
butterfish, lafayettes, fiuke and
snappers to the city markets this
afternoon.
Tha ott,, .ac1ax L.. -. x.,,..-ts...xs
1,600 crates of eggs that he proposes
to place on sale at thirty cents
dozen, beginning at o'clock this af-
ternoon. These eggs are No. /.
candled by experts and will be sold
In cartons of one dozen each. The
egg sale Is an experiment on the
part of the city sealer and future
sales depend upon public patronage
today.
The sale of fish, which has been
steadily conducted In this city for
the last two, months under municipal
protection, has excited the people
throughout the country. Congress-
man ]. Charles Linthicum, of Mary
land, the introducer of the migra.
tory fish control bill in the House of
Representatives, has been watching
1t most carefully. During the past
winter representatives of the Evening
Star worked hand in glove with Con-
gresham Linthicum in an effort to
pass this bill, because this paper
claims that IL all migratory fishes
were under federal government con-
troll they could be sold to the con-
sumner at price far below that de-
manded by dealers.
These representatives appeared be-
fore the House committee on COM
merce and marine fisheries and stated
that If the Fish Trust could be wiped
out and the local dealers make their
purchases direct from the net own
ers the consumer would save at least
six cents a pound. The municipal
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