Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-05-09 | Page 6 | "Lemon Man" of New York Sells 150,000,000 a Year

LEMON MAN OF NEW V YORK SELLS A YEAR I- I p S 'S 1 1 v H 1 P 1 NEW EW YORK YORE May ar 9 From O From a scarce half million a year in 1555 to more than lemons annually is the reCord record rec rei ord today of K New cw Yorks York's Lemon Man At present the man who hands out more lemons in New l York than any other man in tho the world is Charles H. H Phelps of Phelps Brothers Co general a agents here herc of the tho Austro-Amer- Austro ican Steamship company Fifty years oars n ago ugo o Mr fr Phelps' Phelps grandfather conceived the tho idea that lemons would bo be good for this country so ho be established a small fleet of sailing vessels from the edi and rou h tho yellow fruit to these shores about half a million lemons bein being consume consumed on this side sido of the Atlantic in a year ear The Thc Austro line liner including thirty modern steamships of which the latest to arrive in New Kew York has been named after the mother of George Washington today brings lemons to Now York and here herc they arc are distributed to all nil parts of the country from the thc big piers at the Bush stores South Brooklyn