New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-22
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.

Brief Communications PsXblished-Long
Ones Invariably Rsected-Ihe Editor no.
Responsible for the Sentiments Expressed
IN the Communications.l
NEW ORLEANS, NJ arch Is, 1874.
EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
In your edition of the twelfth instant we
propounded couple of questions to Mr..
Turnbull, Administrator of Commerce,
which, up to date he has failed to notice
We, therefore, take the liberty to write a
few more lines on the subject, viz: Ord;
nance No. 2i43, Administration series, COM
monty known as the market ordinance. Sec.
ton four OF said ordinance reads as follows:
That all kinds of meat, fowl. game, fish,
vegetables, and all other articles of human
food, may be bought and sold at all the
markets, except that no fish fruit nor vege
tables shall be sold in the Beef Market of
the Second District, and no fresh meat of
any kind shall be sold in the Vegetable
Market of the same district.
Now what we should like to know is
what is the use of the above section when
such thinks as dry goods, tinware, crockery
and general merchandise are allowed to be
sold in the market!
Section twenty-seven, among other things,
devotes the neutral ground fronting the
Poydras Market to market purposes; but
we fail to perceive anything that grants
permission to erect booths, stands. etc, and,
furthermore, authority to sell articles of
merchandise in contravention of section
four of the ordinance. Admitting that sec.
ton four does allow the selling of notions,
etc, in the market and on the neutral
ground, do the parties not have to comply
with section six of the ordinance, which
says that the markets of the city shall be
open at the dawn of day and shall close at
Il NJ. all the year round, excepting coffee
and fruit stands.
Section thirty-two fixes a penalty of a
fine of from $40 to $50 ON any person found
guilty OF violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance, and section thirty three
makes it the duty of all market inspectors
to see that all the provisions of the ordi-
nance are strictly enforced. Notwithstand-
ing this. sections four and six are violated
every day, and that, too, with the knowl.
edge of the authorities.
We will now close this article with few
general remarks. We have the best au-
thority for saying that the ordinance adopt
ed on the ninth Of December last was never
repealed; at any rate Mr. Turnbull has
failed to show when it was repealed; yet
the booths, stands, ETC., are allowed to stay.
Parties occupying them had all been mott
fed to leave by the first of January, 1874,
and did remove, but by some hocus-pocus
arrangement they all returned. We have
been to see Mayor Wilt, but he says it be.
longs to Mr.. Turnbull's department, and he
does not like to interfere. But Mr.. Turn
bull will not enforce the ordinance. He
has been appealed to personally and by Pc
tition through the Council and all without
avail. Is is not, then, the duty of the
Mayor, as chief executive officer of the city
government, to see that city ordinances are
enforced, especially when his attention has
been called to the fact! Then why are the
ordinances not enforced
Mr.. Editor, there is something wrong.
We don't wish to insinuate, but it looks
mighty bad At any rate, we Judge man
by his actions. More anon.
POYDRAS MARKET.