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month, to which S5.00 must be added for shoeing. The truck- 

 men are paid about 320.00 a week, porters (those who load and 

 unload the trucks and move fruit in and out of the storehouses) 

 from $18.00 to $20.00 a week, and salesmen all the way from 

 $25.00 to $75.00 a week. The rent of a store in Washington 

 Street, consisting of a room on the ground floor 30 feet wide and 

 100 feet deep, is about $350.00 a month ; other expenses, such 

 as electric lights, are, of course, additional. 



To meet these heavy expenses and make a profit the com- 

 mission man must do a large amount of business without many 



Fig. 14S. New York apple market 



Drays waiting in front of the Erie Railroad fruit wharf at New Vork to take away the apple 

 crop after being sold in the covered dock 



losses. He generally opens his store before midnight, and keeps 

 it open until about five o'clock the next afternoon. He is as 

 ready to sell fruit to one man as to another if the price is good, 

 and it is for his interest to do the best that he can by every- 

 body. When the market is crowded with a certain kind of fruit 

 and the prospects are not favorable for good prices, he may 

 decide to put some of it in cold storage, but this is not advisable 

 unless the fruit is of first-class quality, because the city rates for 

 storage are 25 cents a barrel, whether for one month or for three 

 months, and it is therefore not profitable to store goods for only 

 a short time. 



