Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-08
FISH FOR EVERY ONE
Fine Three-POund Mackerel for
Quarter in New York.
Founders Go mt Same Price ana Hue
fish Bring z Cents, while Beef
steak Is 30 Cents.

fish in New York, says the New York /
Times. No fishing smacks are serving
the men in the trenches and catches of
fish such as seldom reach New York are
being brought into Fulton market every
morning. This is the height of the fish
season.
While steaks cost 80 cents a pound
and more, thousands and thousands Of
perfectly good fish are to he had In Fulton
market at from two cents n pound up.
The fish are good and fat they are so
good that the commission merchants and
other men around the market eat little |
else these days. They have a favored
restaurant near by and send over blue
fish, halibut, or founder 20 be cooked !
for lunch and they wonder why other
people pay big prices for steaks.
A canvass of the market showed that
Holsters, which two months ago sold for
50 cents a pound can now be had for
p cents to % cents; sea bass were to be
had for six conts a pound; big choice
bluefsh, which often cost 20 cents n
pound were SO plentiful yesterday that
one could get all he could cart away for
seven cents and eight cents a pound as
they were brought from the smacks. And
then there were the brown tilcfish, the
IlSn lIdJ tdlllt Dath, So DItHlIlul liIott
the dealers were glad to get two cents
and three cents pound for them at
wholesale. Founders brought only two
cents a pound; Goldfish were worth six
cents a pound; wcaknsh sold for 10 cents.
because they were a little scarce. There
were big fat mackerel Weighing three
| pounds to be had for % cents each, and
smaller mackercl for is cents. Porgies
| fn, { Of ,1bila
whiting brought only SO barrel; herring
sold for s. for n 2r0-pound barrel, and
halibut for 10 cents and y cents a
pound.
| But the prize bargain of all was king
fish, the choicest of all of the iinny
tribe. kingnsh usually brings fancy
prices, 80 cents a pound being not UNI
usual. But kngfish now are to be had for
six cents pound-all YOU want.
| It's all because it is the fish season
and good one. Sort of fishermans
luck. smacks that usually take eight
days to load are coming in in three and
five days. Captain O'Neil OF the smack
Rose Standish was in after loading in
three days with tilefsh. He said one of
his men got paralyzed in both arms
hauling in fish fast. Fishermen are
finding not only schools of fish, but uni
versities and colleges as well.
The tilctish, the fish that disappeared
| fifteen years ago and has come back
| this year, was IN the market in tens of
thousands of pounds. Great schools are
| cruising along the Gulf streams TO the
south of Long Island and being easily
caught, the fishermen bringing in
unprecedented numbers. 1t has firm meat
and the fish dealers like to handle it be-
cause it does not spoil easily.
w II. Cornell, proprietor of the fish
commission house of Wallace e Keeney,
knows all about the fish business be-
cause he's been in 1t all of his life. lie
is one of the Fulton markets economists
who study the high cost Of living be-
cause he likes to talk about the sub
iect and because it helps him in his bust
ness.
ut Is n downright shame that the poor
people of this city don't eat more fish, ;
said Mr. Cornell, after he had cleaned
up the days work. "lf the people of New
York ate fish as the people Of the Eu.
ropean cities do it would mean an i'm
mensc saving in their food bills The peo-
pie of the city should eat all the fish
received here. Instead Of that thousands
Of tons are shipped West. AS matter
Of fact the people of New York eat fish
on Friday and for the rest of the week
the average family forgets all about fish.
Why should tilefish at two cents "A pound
be shipped away from here while poo,
people have up to buy enough meat for
a meal? That's poor economy.
Il don't believe there is any one thing
the settlement workers could do of more
benefit than to teach the poor people Of
the east side and other parts of the city
to eat more fish It's cheap and it's
good. Modern methods of handling the
fish protect them. This wouldn't mean
so much to the dealers here, They sell
their fish all right now. But it would
mean a lot to the poor people, think
it would also help for the city authori-
ties to be more lenient with the fish
peddlorS. Where there used to be ten
of these poddlers there Is now one. This
is because of oppressive restrictions i'm
posed upon them"
| OF course. the prices the Fulton
market We're wholesale prices and the
nature of the business makes it neces-
sary that there be a large margin of
profits. But Mr.. Cornell pointed out that
If the mddlemen made 100 per cent.
profit on founders and tlefish, the price
| WOulu SUN ne uUueT I'VE cents II lOuTu.
Fish is the best eating in the world,
vouched Mr.. Cornell, who has a fleet of
six smacks catching them all the while
: "Men who come to work here in the mar
ket who used to eat fish on Fridays
alone, now eat them every day"
| There was also an abundance of crabs
and clans at Fulton market.
Local meat dealers saw nothing but
higher prices ahead, Manhattan resi-
5 dents have been paying 80 to 81 cents a
. pound for porterhouse steaks % to e
cents for sroin. II to 20 cents for chuch
l beef, and % to q cents for pork lons and
! chops. There have been recent advances
! of from two to five cents pound al
5 along the line. While n year ago spring
lamb sold for 2 cents a pound it was 81
cents yesterday Butchers freely predcted
e further advances in price, and some OF
them are talking of going out of bust
ness.