The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-31

Sour Iooks Of the Coffee and Fruit Sellers in
Tuk n and South Strssts-Taking Away
theVessy Street Dump Letting Air
Into Washington Market.

Curses loud and deep we're plenty about Fulton
Market yesterday Cesr sidewalks are to replace the
doomed coffee stands under the resolution OF the
Board OF Health. and the stand holders can see no
reason for the change but great hardship therein.
The booths, numbering fifteen ON Fulton street.
seventeen on South street and six on Beekman
street, were valued at from one thousand to four
thousand dollars each. They were mostly held by
persons. men and women, who depended upon
their profits to support families. Some had within
q few mouths paid round prices for the good will
OF booth in which small capital could be turned
ever day with large percentage OF gain and no
risk OF bad debts or unstable stock. One had re-
Gently been offered g. 500 for his coffee stand. He
said he ''saw no way in which he could 80 well use
that amount Of money as to continue in the coffee
ana cake selling business" Now sanitary reform
sweeps his livelihood away, and instead OF the
value Of his stand he has an empty bocketboOk.
Others told similar tales. One gray.halred mau
lately refused fair offer for his stand. He thought
he had o SAFE steady trade for his old age on
which he could without risk or very hard work
keep his family while he lived. He is now sorry he
did not SELL So are they all. Many left-handed
blessing they bestow upon the Health Board for
their loss
WILL THEY MOVE THE sHAHrTBsf
Not move They say the sheds are not worth
the labor Of tearing down or removal. 30 they
content themselves with carrying away ice-chests
and fixtures, ana will leave 70 the Health In.
spector the glory and the gain Of pulling the old
lumber down and taxing 1t 10 the Corporation
Yard. No business has been done In the half
dozen or 30 stalls along Fulton street next to the
ferry for several days, their floors having been re-
moved in order to raise them up In the balance
OF the condemned stalls trade Is stin kept up ana
apparently there Is more doing In them than is
usual SO that they are likely to finish with good
week: Some Ave or SIX stands II south street
gutter as well as crowd the too narrow Sidewalk,
win share the late OF the booths joining the mar
struction OF the footway along the south side OF
Fulton street by merchants who use the walk as
place OF business Will be corrected without fail
AIR FOR INSIDE STALLS.
No one can doubt that the occupants Of stalls
within the market and rooms In the Easements
will be great gamers by the admission OF air and
light when the booths are cleared away. Already
on the south side decided Improvement is noted.
the sidewalk, as Is also the case on tho small por
ton Of the east side where the roof has been
To- ct the
SIDE With the many fires inside the market for
cooking oysters and other FOOD there IL need Of all
the air which can be introduced, to allow the
proper preservation OF meats and poultry, and the
retention Of the east SIDE shed roof at its present
altitude will tend to exclude air even alter the row
Of booths on the sidewalk is removed.
DEHoLIsHNG TIE vEsEY STREET DUMP.
Reform about washington Market Is progressive.
crescences which kept the air and light from its
recesses, the Health Board has just taKen action
erous stencil which could not fail to poison the food
gathered in the great centre OF metropolitan sup
street, Immediately adjoining West washington
Market, has been made offensive to the most
~ Of q tne az aup p
bage from the First and Second wards. 1t
was not an unusual sight to see twenty
hirtu In f1pl
of NTH biocsng 10 West s.reet bs
tween Washington and West Washington Markets,
into the waiting scows. In all weather this rank
otience loaded the air with nauseous smells, and
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to itsorporate itself with the food Of all: None
ssea ae Of
quota alike But this has passed. Yesterday Ia
borers, with saw and axe and spade, were busy
nuous SOIL preparatory to converting the site Of
THIS ANCIENT NUISANCE
notation Of those who nave been oUste ed By the
recent raid upon the gutter booths on vesey, West
AS the Board OF Health has resolved that It en-.
dangers the city to continue the dump at this
1t is to be inferred that this monstrous abuse has
definitely come to an end, and That hereafter we
addition of street dirt dust or the mpregnaton of
the fetld odors Of garbage.
LETTING IN THE AIR.
windows are being placed In the west end OF
Washington Market, one or more In each stand,
some four feet above the noor to admit the fresh
air and make needed addition to the light where
neither has been oYerabundant.
Nothing further appears to be doing about clear
ing the outer edges OF the sidewalks about Wash
tngton Market No more rent is collected from
those occupying the fractions Of the old outside
stands. They are used by the old tenants but az
the accommodation is entirely too cramped for the
business 1t Is apparent that dealers Will nd stands
and then II used at all, the outside line
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probably in the end the public will gain the whole
sidewalk for the accommodation OF passengers.