DISTANT SEAS SEND
VAST STOCKS OF FISH
TO FULTON MARKET
NEW YORK, June 30. (^—Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith, son of New
York’s east side, once was asked if
lie had a college degree, according
to a favorite story of the town. He
replied gravely that he had and,
when asked what it was, said: “F.
F. M.”
This lie translated with a broad
smile: “Fulton Fish Market.” The
governor had worked there as a fish
packer in his youth.
Fulton Fish Market, now in its
second century, continues as in young
“Al” Smith’s time to be the coun
try’s greatest crossroads from fishing
smack to dinner ta.ble.
Located in the lee of Brooklyn
Bridge, it annual business is estimat
ed at $30,000,000. It handles from
350.000,000 to 400,000,000 pounds of
sea food year in and year out, which
it receives all the way from the At
lantic to the Pacific, Great Lakes
to the Gulf, Bering Sea to the Grand
Banks, the fishmongers say.
The market sends this tremendous
poundage forth again over a much
shorter radius, however. So dense is'
the population in the eastern area
which Fulton Market supplies that
the bulk of the shipments scarcely
gets more than 100 miles from East
River before it has absorbed, it is
said.
When Fulton Market was open in
1S22 its 340 original stands were
taken largely by butchers. But ear
ly defaults on saw and cleaver leas
es, together with growing business
among the hustling fishermen and
oystermen caused the city authori
ties that October to set aside the
east, or Beekman Street, wing “for
use of sellers of fish.”
Wholesale activity developed, and
six years later the fish industry mov
ed to a shed of its own across South
Street, opposite the main market, on
the water. Ice, then, was unknown
commercially, and fish were kept in
floating “cars” which were suspend
ed in the slip below, bobbing against
the hulls of the smacks. Today, ice
is used in thousands of tons. Save
for the period from 1843 to 1869,
the same site, with different roofs,
has housed the wholesalers to this
day.
Much of the deep sea tgng of Ful
ton Fish Market is felt to be lost
with the passing of the old time fish
ing boats. Craft like the old Glou
cester smacks have largely disap
peared. Power engineering with
blasts of gas and smoke carried away
the rigging that endured a hundred
storms. Magneto and carbura.tor,
throttle and firebox, have routed the
old sinewy heaves on jib and sheet,
topsail and staysail. Fleets still fol
low bluefisih from Hatteras to Mon
•tauk, mackerel from Cape May to
Nova Scotia, and haddock and cod
off the Banks. But Fulton itself
admits they are diferent fleets.
Dr. W. M. McGovern, the explorer,
will try to tame the fierce natives of
the Amazon valley with jazz records
and radio.
HOTELS PLAY SAFE
PARTENKIRCHEN, Bavaria, June
30 —In a local hotel a placard
mauifecting admirable forethought,
announces in large letters: “Tour
ists undertaking to climb the higher
mountain peaks are respectfully re
quested to settle their accounts in
advance.”
A. V. Ladue of the University of
California is the inventor of an in
strument called an automobile stethe
cope with which any ignition trouble
may be readily located.
Sturdy Boat Celebrates
Long and Useful Service
SOUTHHAMPTON, June 30. (TP)—
The little ketch Bee, built 124 years
ago and still in service between
Southampton and Newport on the
Isle of Wright, completed recently
her 38,000th crossing of the Solent
channel. The Bee began her sea
duty in 1801 and is one of the very
.few ships remaining from whose
decks men witnessed a British naval
victory at sea with Nelson on board.
During one period of her career she
was commandered for 48 years by
the same captain.
The Bee has been on the Isle of
Wright run virtually al of her exist
ence up to the present time and, ac
! eroding to members of her loyal
crew, she is good for many years
yet to come. The little craft has
carried more than 500,000 tons of
cargo between the mainland and the
Isle of Wright, covering something
like 500,000 miles, although the dis
tance between Newport and South
ampton is but 18 miles.
Three younger sister ships of the
Bee have been plying the same route
for approximately 50 years.
Chas. Gay, who has a lion farm
near Los Angeles, uses the radio
to calm the beasts when they be
come nervous and unruly. They
haven’t static in Los xVngeles ether.
A new cigar container is arranged
to dry out cigars that are too moist,
or by inserting a wet blotter will
moisten them when to dry.
An automatic burglar alarm for
banks for firing a volley of blank
cartridges to frighten robbers has
been invented.
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