Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Huekster yutsaoee

The Huekster Nuisance.
fo.sor S'oT'-Please allow me in your paper
10 make complaint against q most unbear-
worse. refer TO the street hucksters ven
ders OF potatoes and other vege tables who
not satisfied with the privilege of bswling
through the streets, have taken TO them
selves the liberty and fully insuguratei the
practive Of ringing every door-ben. IL there
is anything more unpleasant than for lady
70 answer the bell from ten to twenty times
each day only to ind one of these pirates at
the door with his hands and pockets
filled with samples of his merchan-
disc, then don't know what 10 IL.
IL would be more endurable IL they would
lake no for an answer; but, not content with
that, many of them will put their foot inside
the door, thus preventing its being closed
until they have exhausted all their arcu-
ments in favor of their claim to patronage.
These acts, accompanied many times by the
most unprovoked and Snbearable insolence,
and at a time OF day when they feel salts
fed that 1.-The man of the house is from
home, have become so common as TO demand
charge. A few months since the courts
decided against the municipal authorities OF
Baltimore when the latter attempted
10 protect their citizens. and during
session OF Congress, when so much
time must be devoIed 10 the manufacture
OF political capital for the approaching pa-
litlcal contest, ii is not likely that any
measure could be gotten through Congress
for the protection of the citizens OF this city:
and that being the case, / appeal 10 ali
housekeepers, who agree with me as 20 the
nuisance, 10 pledge themsel yes to maze no
purchases OF that class Of piratical bucks
tiers, as well as to use all their influence To
prevent any one from bestowing their pat
r ms ge upon them. and thus put an eni 10
IL, that we may again be happy and I'M
molested People. A SUFFERER.
The lfth.strcet Railroad Grt eyauce
EdHoT StGr:-Tne communication of IF
street relative to the manner IN which the
1ith street railroad is misconducted is unite
e, facts n a SO a
asperating / wonder anybody can even
smile AT the race between car on that line
and moving building, though said bufld-
ing did arrive at the boundary first Let MS
nave an Improvement In the matter by all
means, and thousand people will echo NV
request, when they think OF their daily ex-
per1ence trying TO get ont l4th street or TO
come down that great thoroughfare. The
Iong-Sunering residents of 18th street and
vlc!nlty want some effort made to promote
thelr comfort by laying double track on
mat branch and by running cars more fire.
luently and with some degree OF regularity.
To miss car now on this road after the
SHADES OF evening fall is TO wait from twenty
minutes 10 half an hour for another, and,
meantime, two or three may pass liz an op.
poSlte direction. Then, too, il is not agree
aDle or conducive TO an exalted state OF
mind TO he one OF a crowd packed and
damned into one of those ut-short" cars,
ana when slowly moving around the first
curve meet car coming down on the same
track, compelling us to go back To our start
ing point. When we finally do start we must
be switched of three or four times, or our
driver stops to change horses, or TO swan
reins and chat with some lounger on the
street. Hundreds OF people walk now who
would prefer TO ride, but will not risk life
ana health waiting for half or three quarters
OF an hour at the junction. n STREET.
II is understood that the president OF the
Washington and Georgetown Railroad COM
paDy Is now perfecting arrangements TO AZ
ford the residents out 1ith street and there
abouts increased facilities, and that he eX-
poets MS new programme TO be cartel out
shortly viii remove the existing ground for
just complaint against the MANAGEMENT of
the branch road. In the same connection 10
may be mentioned that e new prOgr anime
for rapid transit, day and night, on the Ave
nUe, will also be carried ont shortly, greatly
increasing the facilities for travel GA the
main lie Of the road.-ED.l
az McGlinchy q o hers d Co, dry COOS
alers Of Calais, Maine, awe suspended.
with 100000 of Indebtedness.
H5There are IN Illinois, according 70 a
late report of the board of education fifty
four colleges for males, six FOR females, aud
thirty five academies and Seminaries.
RIA colored i-iZen, living in the suburbs
OF Cincinnati, has sued me school trustees Of
his district for $500 damages because they
refused 10 admit his daughter into a public
school Oh account OF her color.
r. The proposed banquet TO Gambetta at
MaTseilleS has been prohibited by General
SerVall, acting commander, by virtue OF the
power conferred upon him by the state OF
siege, which has never been dissolved.
81 Carpenter & Co.'S woollCn mill, at North
HoCsick, New York, was burnCt yesterday,
causing loss OF $4,000. The TrOy and BOs-
ton railroad bridge, near the mill, was also
burned.
D-The British council OF law amendme.
society announce that they have forwarded
Inquiries 10 each OF the United States with
respect 10 the operation of laws admitting
the testimony OF accused persons.