Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-28

This morning, in the Police Court, Thomas
s. end Robert Tibbitts appeared in auawer to |
llaf u charge of violating the new market ordnance
They were arrested last Saturday week for |
haeks,erng on Ontaio street The was |
dismissed Of without hearing, and Tbbtts 4 |
Son ann0unce that they shall 90 on selling |
. @ meat aud vegetables Ontario street, just the
same ever Plaindealer.
And why not! Our city has already suffeI-
ed a loss of thousands of dollars by the unwise
policy Of the Council, in driving the market
men from Ontario street to The miscaled Gem
trail Market Ever since the repeal of the old
val monopoly market ordinance, the number Of
producers and dealers who assembled on
Ontario street three times a week steadily in
creased, and the buyers also regularly iucreas
.tbJ ed. It had become a common mart where pro-
ducer and consumer met, and all were mutu
ally benefited and satisfied. 1t was convenient
Of access to both CENTRAL roomy, and comfort
a. r able, so far as sidewalks, planked street and
an out door market be. The women of
tho laboring classes do much of the marketing
for the family, and the throng 10 be seen each
forenoon OF the market.days on Ontario street
and vicinity evidenced the wisdom of the loca
ton and market regulations. The teams from
the gardens and farms in the vicinity of the
city, as well as from the surrounding townships
aud counties, frequently numbering from two
TO three hundred the numerous meat stands,
Whefe gOOu stCaki roast or JOINT cOulu De OO-
tanned al prices within the reach of persons of
h limited means; and the many small dealers in
vegetables, fruits chickens, eggs, DC, who
brought their truck to market by hand from
.i.--. the suburbs of the city were all commoded
and congregated on the old street market
grounds The privileges and the blessings
were enjoyed by the Masses and the comfort
and trade of the city were largely augmented
In an evil hour, and through evil influences
this state of things, useful and agreeable to
the people of the city and country, was broken
up. Tue majority ofthe City Council enacted a
dispensing ordinance, and the City police with
a zeal as unusual as twas disastrous, harassed
the nIarketers from their favorte stands. The
result is that Central Market is almost as bare
of producers and consumers market days as
it is bleak aud uncomfortable. At the hour
yesterday when Ontario street market used to
be thronged, the comparatively few sellers
congregated were generally whipping their
hands and stamping their feet to keep from
freezing, and waiting for customers. Not one
of the old gardeners who made Ontario market
tie pride of the city, to be found on the
Cuyahoga bank. Messrs. Hadlow, Shealy,
Kelley, Lodge, and the other extensive furnish
of Cleveland, absent. A few wagons
and sleighs, with potatoes, apples, aud cabbages,
from tue country, arranged around the
Market stable. The butchers nu-
merous, but thinning out with each market
return. One said, 81 used to sell meat
Ontario street in day than here in
three. l had good, regular customers there
but have not of them here" An
other, 1--WE should be glad to go back to Or
taro, but cannot so long the $50 penalty
hangs W.. We sell SO little here thst
shall have to spend the winter at home -
Such the unvarnshed facts Cleveland
depressed as is business, hard the times
for the laboring man, has great need to foster
trade and cheapen the necessares of life rather
-r than to drive away the first, and render scarce
and high the latter But folly in legislation
that has no parallel in muncipal history -legis-
lation entirely uncalled for and wicked as it ia
oppressive to the people, is already adding 10
theburdens oftaxation, to the inconvenience and
ccst of living to the middle classes we'll as
the opulent, and bears still more heavily on the
struggling poor, borne down as many are by
lack Of employment and the rigors OF Winter.
~ Sdch legislation is strange, passing strange,
and If perseyered in will consign the authors to
richly deserved public e1ecration.