Show COFFEE AND SUGAR now how bolna solna of gotham S solid men nimbly hunt hant tho the spry sixpence Six tience part of wall street is not will wall street it at all down by tho the fer ferry ry i around front I 1 aront and water streets thero iber 0 1 is 3 no n 0 stock st OC k and bond flavor whatever filings down there smack of china of java of brazil and of cuba but of nothing nearer home down there the lic las big men in tea lm coffee sugar and molasses rule the roast if there is tiny arty boarding couso keeper keeber who wants to buy tho the bablo luxuries by the ton or the cargo just jm t drop around but otherwise stick to tile tho cot comer nor grocery there is where the dolid men of now nov york and brooklyn nimbly hunt tile the spry epry sixpence lit at homo home these heavy citizens aro are never asked to do anything ing but down LIONI 11 there on oil tho the market they skip ship around lilo like valets to mammon with a of green coffee bears beans in one land hand and a little piper paper of bolon oolong 9 in the ho other they jump to servo their masters whims it seeds ec ains timna to ye kee the millionaire pum pumping P L n a long I 1 0 n g flat stick up and down drough the bunghole burig hole of a hogshead lio ohead of molasses on tho running his diamond studded fing ors along it and aad scooping lr tile tho saccharine saccha iino into his hia gold mouth iio ho is q qi an i expert but ho he carmot cannot 11 lick c lib fingers any better than the rude nido antu uncured 1 red urchin who a lesson N at it when 1 tho lie export expert tuna tums his back over anthe on alie office stops steps elands a man v hoso trotters will by bv mid and by bo spurning tho the dust of central avenue from their hoofs look at him sifting coffee how complacently lie rattles the tha sieve look at hint him watt waft it from sido side to side and toss Is contents up and down liko like a pancake pati cake what is lie ho doing blowing 0 tile tho chaff out of it its a sar sample and tile tho purchasing jobber is at hand lie ile lias I 1 just roasted it a few handfuls hand fula in his own little attle roaster in tho the office for lie ho himself bought tho the coffee green four times a year in march juno june september and december tho the dutch 90 government vern ment sells cells coffee at public auction in cadang tito the dutchman Dut climan there measures res ili hid coffee by tile the 1 ISO a pounds und a and values it by the guilder fifty cents so tile kaw ncr just figures f agures out the equivalent of say twenty cents a pound and cables his limit to his gents agents and aliey bill bid mhd dutch auctioneer so much and no more the day after the rale cale everybody in ia the trade rado knows who bought how much lie bought and what I 1 ho c bought bou 0 ait at tito tho conundrum conundrum then is what profit is lie sa with what will ho he sell belt ono one tunny funny thing about the java coffee business is that there ti C r C are 1 re about fi five ve ti times in e as many many pounds of it sold over tho the grocer sf s counter as 33 there are grown on tho the island As stark nark twain says this would look liko a discrepancy or hiatus ant bevo got to accept facts as wo find them coffeo coffee from padan to noir jacw york ors after a voyage of days arrives more or less sweated thu nib part 13 all sl dimmed off ou in brooklyn warehouses and afterward sold is as to jobbers at a reduced P price ice it was never known to go any fuit ful lier than that because Ix causo the retailers never neve sell you grything ary airy thing but pure old 0 government it ja java va in the bastine ta stine room of a largo large firm or of tea brokel i in ia water street half a dozen men of ezi critical palates sit around a revolving vol ing 0 table tabla sipping ten tea from delicate china cups cupa its a tea party but what a tsa tea table no cloth no milk no sugar no A Acir ci r clo of cups outside of or a L ring rin of callist canisters eis c P copper of boiling water and an all strictly busi f Ss they dp and they smack and zey faey spit A brass spittoon as bagh lu gh as the table ind and looking like a german trombone straightened out receives receives all the ejected liquor some time ago 11 0 0 new york started tea auctions every week and chicago is following auit but tea is a commodity that loses its flavor very easily and chicago Chi cagos s u unsavory savory n origin probably has a good deal to dewith do with her failure to rival n val the ho metropolis tro polis as a tea mart tho the wall street auctions have become quite a social affair coffee sandwiches and napkins ire are passe passed d around among the guests when they sit down facing the auctioneers auctioneer a rostrum pencils pencil and sand catalogues cataloguer catal in hand you in might ight easily imagine them a group of reporters sitting in execution on the latest imn arted lecturer it is an ordinary for half chests to be sold tills this means pounds and when a couple of spoonfuls make inake a nice cup of tea look at alie delight in store for our grandmothers new york sun |