Evening star., 1935-11-17

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ters and game. south down mutton.
choice Of beef and lamb, and fruit and
vegetables In season" and. Of course.
the prices were o great deal less than
they are today.
INDEED. it is interesting to turn back
the leaves Of the ledger and see
Just what food, disqualification and
other things did cost In days gone by.
In 1866. II you were Ill and needed
hospital treatment, you could get
private room at Providence Hospital
for 81 to $40, according to the nature
Of the disease and the attendance re.
quired. A bed IN the general ward
would cost but 81. OF course, this ID
for q week
During the Civil War, when things
sold at Tennallytown, D. c., for
cents o pound; butter, 90 cents
pound; sugar, 1914 cents; tea, 90, an
ham, 1914, which shows that hail
costs today more than twice what u
did at O time when foodstuffs al
other commodities were sold at almo
. prohihitive figure. But, Of cours
pigs are not always pigs, regardless q
what some people say.
Take. for instance, the account 4
two hogs raised up in New York 4
1921, which says:
There are now exhibiting in Alban7
N. Y, at Winant's Yard. No. "a
Beaver street, two great national curl.
osities: A SOW and pig, weighing
2,0S3 pounds.
THE SOW Is one-half the grass breed.
and the other half Welsh. She meas
ures 8 feet, 8 inches In length, z feet
3 inches round the body, and weighs
l,137 pounds. Her age was years
and two months the 9th ult. Her pig
was / year and Q months old, the
first instant, and is every way shaped
and contoured as the mother. except
the legs are somewhat larger. He is
very elegantly built, and his weight Is
s46 pounds. It is believed by the best
judges, should he live to be as old
as the SOW. he will weigh at least 1900
pounds. These hogs were raised in
the town Of Nassau, county Of Rens.
selaer, by Robert Brown, who Is an
accomplished farmer"
Nor were pigs the only things they
could raise large In those days, for
In 1885, an OK was sent TO the old
Center Market, where now stands the
United States Archives Building,
which the Intelligencer said was the
most magnificent animal Of its kind
lever seen in this city, or in the
United States" It was exhibited In
the market, and item goes on to say:
It was "for sale by our enterprising
fellow-citizen, Mr.. John Walker, on
Saturday, last, and certainly exceed.
ing in size and quality anything Of the
beef kind I ever beheld. The OK was
raised in Rhode Island by Mr.. Joshua
Peckham; cost S400. and, although
only years old, the four quarters
weighed 2,4s0 pounds. Great credit
is due to Mr.. Walker for gratifying
our citizens and others, with sight Of
such meat as in all probability will
not be seen again for many years. The
skin, ETC., is preserved, to be stuffed,
and will be valuable acquisition to
any museum"
Though Mr.. Tibbet sold mutton. as
his advertisement states. yet 1t Is quite
likely he never handled the kind they
used to raise and send here in Andrew
Jackson's day, for another article says:
"The finest haunch Of mutton that
has ever been seen In this city was
yesterday exhibited In the Center
Market. It weighed 100 pounds. and
was raised by Mr.. John Bradley Of
Chester County, Pa, and was sent
here as Q present to the President Of
the United States (though the donor
is no Jackson mani. Thus 1t Is In this
case, as we have seen in other cases Of
greater consequence, the Presidents
political adversaries treat him better
than his processing friends"
RUT 50 much for tn. mammoth
~ animals OF the past, for the ten
dency now Is to grow them smaller
ant to sell razorbacks.
lIext to the Palace Market, on New
York avenue, as many will recall, was,
in the early eighties. Bert" Owens
riding academy. where he exhibited
his wheels and taught purchasers
how to ride them. Mr.. Owen died
about four years ago. and The Star
at that time said:
Born In Hartford, Conn, May z.
1882. Mr.. Owen came to Warrington
when he was 81 to establish himself
In the bicycle business. He imported
the first safety" bicycle--the type
now in use, with two wheels the same
size. Then he invented the bicycle for
women. For long time he maintained
his business where the Bond Building
now stands on the corner Of Four
teenth street and New York avenue.
He had o little frame building there,
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