MAKING FORTUNES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3141, 22 July 1881, Page 4

MAKING FORTUNES.

A writer in New York gives a ff-w facts about the " fortunes made in little chiugs" in that city. He says : " one man has pot rich in the oyster shell business. '■■>-: has a barge ready to receive all that are s-:nt, and these he takes to Long Island and burn? into lime. His carts call at. the oyster saloons and remove their shells to the barge, for which he receives 75 cents per load. Another man has made a fortune in the manure business. His carts call afc the livery stables and are loaded'without charge, the accommodation being a sufficient consideration. They dump into a barge, and the contents are floated to long; Island awl sold to farmers. The sand trade also reaches an immense extent. This article ia brought in barges a distance of 100 miles, and is stored in yards and is sold to builders as may he wanted. The traffic in empty barrels is also became a heavy item. Empty molasses casks are taken to pieces bound np in "shooks," and reshipped to the plantations. Carpet-shaking has also become a great specialty, being now done by steam. The beating is done in a large upper-room where the draft carries off the dust, and the result is so satisfactory that the old method is superseded. The steam carpet-beater reaps a rich harvest at this season of the year. Little things thus reach a vast aggregate in a large city, and fortunes are made in specialties apparently of the most petty character. Nothing is wasted here. The refuse of the market is bought by cheap boarding house keepers, and the chiffonier gleans the sweepings of the streets."