Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-10-02
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. ,, Is5s-


The folly of the City Fathers in labOring SO
industriously to establish misnamed Central
Public Market out on the bank of the Cuyaho-
ga, has eliminated in one good act, which, If
they Just stop further legislation on the subject,
will 90 far to make up 10 the people the sums
uselessly expended on the new Market project
1t is the repeal of most of the-market ordinan-
ces, and throwing the sale of cut fresh meats and
all other market stuffs open to free competition
on the streets and from wagons wherever the
seller and buyer choose to meet, subject only to
few necessary regulations to prevent frauds
and the sale Of unwho,esome provisions. The
change gives great satisfaction to the masses
who purchase in small quantities., for it has
cheapened fresh meats by the piece two, three,
four and in come cases five cents per pound,
and enables many to eat beef who, unJer the
former monopoly enjoyed BY regular butchers
in cutting up quarters, had to keep themselves
and families on short allowance. And we think
no member Of the Council who has for the past
year paid ten 10 twelve cents pound for steaks
and r1asts will vote to revive the market law
Just as good for six or seven cents. Free trade
in meats as well as in breadstuffs, fruits, and
vegetables, may be regarded as fixed fact in
Cleveland hereafter For this the Council have
the hearty thanks of the full stomached.
The location of the market for teams on On
tario street round to and up Pittsburgh street,
is on the whole the most central, convenient,
and best adapted of any locality to accOmmO-
date seller and buyer Ontario is broad and
plankeJ, the sidewalks are wide, buildings shell
ter the people measurably from bleak winds and
storms, property owners and buEiness establish
ments generally are pleased with the present
arrangements, and the country and city have
become used to meeting there three times week
as a common mart of traffic. Police officers
keep the street from being blocked up by mark
ct and other wagons to the serious detriment of
travel, and casualties by runaways are well
guarded against. That the marset on the whole
is considered an advantage to the street is evil
denced by the demand for business rooms and
stores, aud the Improvements made on both sides
of Ontario street since the people began TO con-
gregate there on stated market days. While in
most business sections stores may be found ten
antless, ''To Rent" would be 4 new sign this
season on Ontario.
We regret to sec that an ordinance has been
introduced in the Council having for its object
the dispersion of the market wagons from their
present locality 1t should not pass. The
NJ -. - ,,,t;t;on.1 f,r ~ Thav are
content to let well enough alone. They have
no speculation in lots or tipping shops around
the site of the Old Market House now standing
alone in its glory on the bank Of the Cuyahoga-
They will not have it for their market. Wa
gons from the country will not stand on that
bleak waste-men, women, and children from
remote portions of the city will not resort to such
an uncomfortable Out-of-the-way-plac to buy.
The neighborhoOd green and provision grocers
will multiply, and people will from necessity
pay them profit as the least of evils. Former
attempts to remove the market fom Ontario to
Pittsburgh street have been failures, and all
others will be. Our country friends who three
times a week come in to trade and be traded
with may be annoyed and driven away; garden
ers and meat dealers from wagons may be COM
PEELED to quit the standsaof their choice by un-
wise ordinances and to seek private property for
market places, but they will not as a body Oc-
cupy the Pittsburgh grounds. These are fixed
facts
The new Market may be put to good use. As
the CITY Fathers have fitted up the Old Market |
building with doors and windows, 1t has been |
suggested by taxpayers that slight changes in
the internal arrangements might convert it in
to a suitable Council Hall, Mayors Office, &c,
thus saving the people cool thousand year
rent for luxurious Chamber overlooking the |
Public Square, and reaping some profit from an
investment otherwise wholly worthless. If the
locality is central and convenient enough for
grand tri-weekly market for fifty thousand PeO-
pie it certainly is for the less frequent Councils
of their chosen servants, who have expressed
their unbiased opinion of its eligibility, and
profound admiration Of its cOmmanling Cuya-
hoga view, by dedicating the notable site of
drifting sand and solemn solitude to the use of
mullitudinous Mr.. Public.