Show I FIRSr RED BANANASIN YEARS I Eagerly Bid InBy Dealers at About I 1 Cent Apiedil New York TrIbune I Irn6rters of foreign fruit and fruit dealers were interested yesterday In the arrival of a small consignment of red bananas The consignment was urn ite to a few bunches but It his been such a long time since local fruit dealers ers have seen any of this fruit that many of them went down to the steamer and vied with one another to get a bunch or two I was first re porte thht the red banahas came from Cuba as it was supposed that they could only be grown there but I was afterward learned that they were apart a-part of the frt cargo of fruit shooed from the new lantatons In San Domingo Do-mingo This fact was of additional interest in-terest because i was said to be aroof that a new and prouctive fruit district had been opened and that its inluence on the banana market would be marked mark-ed In the near future Much had been saId about thIs new banana country but comparUyel little was known of its resources I was not until General Wcvler 1s suedhis edIct against the shipment oj bananas from Cuba that the lanters of that island began to look about them for a new plfice in which tO cultivate fruit Ont of tire planters who suffered suf-fered Joss by the revolution and the war in Cuba H Dumois of 4 South street thIs cJ r About two years ago lrr Dumols Llded that San Domingo would be a goo place for him so he ought 3 tract of land near Sousa The sprouts that he planted flourished and the consignment that reached this port sterday was the first shipment from his new plantation The bananas were plantaton brought by the steamer Premier of the American Fruit company and she unloaded un-loaded 3t pier No9 East river In the cargo were five bunches of red bananas They were auctioned off at the unusual price of 7 and 8 a bunch This was about 10 cents apiece The rest of the cargo of the Premier consisted of yellow bananas They were shorter than the common bananas but broader in proportion The fruit Is highly thought of by those experts who have examined i The officers of the Premier declare that the new banana district Is teeming with fruit but that there are no facilities fa-cilities fOr getting i to the coast The cargo of the Premier was carried on the heads of the natives down the mountain sides for miles Of course this is expensive and the American planters including Mr Dwois are thinking of building n railroad from the plantaton to the coast |