Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-29
FISH MARKETS
GREAT SUCCESS,
TO Be REPORTS
Result of Study by Civic Bodies,
Housewives Leagues and
Improvement Ass'ns.

and members of improvement asso-
Citations throughout the city are maxi
ing study of the result of the sales
OF fish in the three municipal mar
kets established by Mayor Hausslins
and their reports are about ready to
be read before the members.
These reports will show that 100000
pounds of fish has been sold TO the
people of Newark at cents a pound.
F'ifty-three tons of fish were handled
and sold at the markets within
short space of time, saving to the
people of the city $4,000 in three
months.
Municipal authorities of other cities
claim that the mayor of Newark has
awakened in the people an appetite for
seafod that will in the future save
them thousands of dollars, as fish will
become regular part of the weekly
meals instead Of one day week as
heretofore They also claim that
twenty-five municipalities in the
State have followed the example of
Mayor Haussling by starting fish
markets, and every one of them has
4. proven a success.
conservative estimate of the
number of customers at the three
Newark markets, placed by an in
vestigator of a civic body who had
counted them from time to time, is
$4,000. His report will show that the
100000 pounds of fish was sold to that
many people and the report will also
show that not dissatisfied customer
can be found among them.
The $4,000 saved to the people of
the city represents the amount of
money that the fish trust of New
York would have added to the cost
for use of its name. 1t represents
the amount of money that the st to
of New Jersey would have made had
the fish been taken and sold under
! State con rol as has been advocated
by this paper, as every pound of the
fish was taken from New Jersey
waters,
Wanted Markets Closed.
The fish trust sent its agents to this
city for the purpose of trying to in
duce Mayor Haussling to close the
municipal markets, but they didn't
succeed They left their cards be-
hind them, but only u few are play
ing them in an effort to discredit the
mayor. A government official who
has been watching the sale of fish in
these municipal markets remarked
that the hundreds Of thousands of
satisfied people were q monument to
the efforts of Mayor Haussling that
no disgruntled few could destroy.
1t Is stated that a report of the
sale of fish in these markets will De
shown in a coming government re-
port that will dwell particularly on
the fact that the six cents paid by
the people fer the fish included the
four cents paid to the fisherman, the
cost of transportation by boat, the
cost of clerk hire and store rent, ice,
paper and Irvine all of which came
out of the two cents difference be-
tween the original cost of the fish
at the nets and the price paid by
the consumer. W a.
This same official stated that his irl-
vetigations showed that the pound
net men at Bedford were well paid and
that they got square deal; receiving
pay for the exact amount of fish they
shipped. They also received their
money promptly. What has been
done by Mayor Haussling can be done
by any other executive personally.
The city of Newark cannot carry on
such an enterprise, because the law
forbids, but there Is always q way TO
help the man with small salary, II
one looks for that way. The sales
have convinced this government off,
cial that Newarks mayor knows
How"
There is only one fear in the minds
OF the peOpl6 VIII nave pceH DuyiHG
the fish, and that is the failure, IL
such happens, to keep the markets
open during the winter months, when
the price of beef goes up again. City
ef the three markets as Well as the
purchasing of the supply of fish, Is
making arrangements to get his sup
ply elsewhere when the New Jersey
supply gives out, which will happen
when the last of the summer fish
migrate to the South.
He knows that during the winter
months the people expect to find a
shortage in the varieties of fish to be
had, but he positively states that If
any one can buy supply, he can
through the good offices of Mayor
Haussling. He has been making
plans for the winter supply far in adj
vance, and even he has been surpr sed
at the eagerness shown by fishermen
4 70 become a customer of the city of
Newark.
Fish for the Winter.
Beginning about November /, there
will be q run of whiting and ling
along the New Jersey shore, large
enough to supply the entire State and
y this will be taken advantage of by
the city sealer. During the past, many
hundreds of barrels of these fishes
has been shipped to the southern mar
kets, where 1t brings from 81 to SO
barrel of 200 pounds, and the greater
amount of these shipments can be
turned this way.
1t was feared that the people
would tire of fish. but the way they
bought up the last shipment Of 5000
pounds proved these fears unfounded.
In addition to the 100000 pounds of
fish sold at the three municipal mar
lSets, 400 bushels of CLAIMS and 253
bushels of crabs were disposed of.
Thousands of the small nutritious
CLAIMS were purchased by people for
sick relatives, who had probably
never INDUCED In such a luxury be-
a. fore, but it was not O luxury, as
the clans were sold at six cents
dozen and forty cents a hundred.
/, The crabs we're eagerly purchased
as they came into the markets alive
and were sold for few pennies
All of these facts will be presented
to the members of the next Legisla-
tture for their information by inter-
ested housewives through their COM
nlittees for the purpose OF enlighten-
ing them as to the methods of the
people who control the supply of fish.
That 1t will be interesting reading is
assured, as many of the Housewives
League members have spent consid-
cradle time at the markets talking
to the people who purchased the fish,
as through this means they could get
line on the real conditions that exist