Charcoals of new and old New York; . had the telephone simplified ever>-thing for her but certainstartling discrepancies and disclosures at the end of the month. This, too, was before the trade combinations of fishmen, butchersand green grocers made every housekeepers passbook common prop-erty at the weekly meetings of the Clan where prices for the day arefixed. WTiat are you charging old Spondulicks for porterhouse? Thirty-four cents. WTiy ? Oh! he blew in here the other day kicking at your bills and wantedto try me, so I got to be posted. It is not the fault of the Clan, it is ours. We ha
Charcoals of new and old New York; . had the telephone simplified ever>-thing for her but certainstartling discrepancies and disclosures at the end of the month. This, too, was before the trade combinations of fishmen, butchersand green grocers made every housekeepers passbook common prop-erty at the weekly meetings of the Clan where prices for the day arefixed. WTiat are you charging old Spondulicks for porterhouse? Thirty-four cents. WTiy ? Oh! he blew in here the other day kicking at your bills and wantedto try me, so I got to be posted. It is not the fault of the Clan, it is ours. We have not the timeto see our meat weighed, or to pick out a last weeks cabbage or a thisyears chicken at Gansevoort or any one of the other markets where theopen space is filled with carts loaded with farm truck fresh from thesoil, free to whoever will buy, and one third less in price than the Clancharges. It is the inconvenience, too, that counts. We dare not carrytoo large a basket in the Elevated, and none in the Subway, and the 110. GANSEVOORT MARKET expressman would eat up the difYerence on what we save or what wethink we save. Manhattan is blessed on two sides with a marvellous water two hundred feet from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil there is astreet running from river to river. Some of this water front is pre-empted and out of reach. Much of it can be bought. Were smallmarkets served by boats,— our normal mode of carrying food products— established on both rivers, say at every tenth or twelfth street,the Middle Man would be out of business. 113 EDGAR ALLAN POES HOUSEAT FORDHAM 115 XVIII EDGAR ALLAN POES HOUSEAT FORDHAM IT is exactly as he left it: a ground floor room and an attic with abox of a kitchen in the rear; close to the small windows lookingon the street a scraggly fence framing a garden no larger than agrave plot, and on the side a narrow portico covered by a roof sup-ported on short wooden pillars. It may have been painted since,probably has, and
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