21 



Oarp 



Buffalo 



Cat-fish 



Bull pouts 



Sun-tish and ring: perch 



Striped Bass 



White perch 



Crappie 



Black bass 



Number of turtles, 202,900. 



Total 



Pounds. 



6,332,990 



3, 143, 154 



241.000 



499, 100 



252, 050 



92,931 



459,580 



114,490 



70, 221 



11,205,516 



Value. 



$189,980 70 



94,294 62 



9,640 00 



19.964 00 



7.561 50 



4.646 55 



13,787 40 



6,869 40 



7,022 10 



8,471 50 



$362,246 77 



Grand total: Pounds, 11.205,516; value, $362,246.77. 



M. D. Hurley, President, 

 John A. Schulte, Treasurer, 

 Alex Sargeant, Secretary, Peoria, 



Hi. 



THE FISH MARKET OF CHICAGO. 



Ttie City of Chicago is unique in many ways, but it stands alone 

 in one thing, viz., the Jewish fish market, where the Bohemians, 

 Poles and Hebrews go to buy their fish. There is nothing like it in 

 the United States. South Jefferson street, from Twelfth to Maxwell 

 street, on one side of the street is lined with small, dingy buildings 

 one story high, in which the retail fish merchant displays his stock 

 of fresh water fish. On the outside is a stand on which the fish of 

 all kinds are piled and mixed indiscriminately — black bass, black 

 fins, bullheads, crappies, herring, mullet, pike, pickerel, perch, rock 

 bass, suckers, sheapsheads, sunfish, trout, whitefish, and white bass. 

 On the inside of the store are tanks, where the live buffalo, carp and 

 dogfish are displayed, and the customer selects the fish, it is caught 

 in a net, then wrapped in newspapers (a large pile being always on 

 hand), and given to the customer, who takes the live carp and walks 

 out of the store feeling sure of its being fresh. After the fish is 

 wrapped in the paper it is perfectly quiet, although just previously 

 it may prove highly pugnacious in its efforts to escape from its cap- 

 tor with the net. Possibly its new surroundings may numb its 

 faculties or maybe it is smothered in the close wrapping of the paper. 

 This is all the more strange as the carp will live longer out of the 

 water than any other fish. Its tenacity is proverbial. The buyers 

 are of all kinds, from the poor woman that takes two or three small 

 suckers, to the prosperous merchant's wife, who brings her basket 

 for a mess of black bass at 14: cents a pound or live carp at from 8 to 

 10 cents. 



All go through the same routine of buying, selecting^ the live fish 

 or taking up the dead fish in their fingers, examining it, smelling it 

 to test its freshness, then handing over to the salesman the quantity 

 of fish selected, who wraps it up in old newspapers and hands the 

 fish over to the customer, taking pay for the same invariably in 

 silver. The whole transaction is free from wrangling, for the cus- 

 tomer selects his own fish and is to blame if it is not satisfactory. \ 



