The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-08
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

Nae rcI,ee-Thp claim of the Rev Orleans
and sarroIlten Railroad Company.
Mayor pilsbury and the City Admin
istrators continue to be harassed by APP
nlieapts for positions on the police
who. in very many cases, obtain the
personal intereession Of some OF
our most prominent citizens. The
answer which every one gets
ia that all vacancies shall be filled
and selections for supernumeraries
made from among the best men Of the
ninth of January, and II anything is left
after that, then the outsiders may come
in.
It being claimed that among the new
appointees there are men who have not
been in the State long enough to make
them citizens thereof, the Mayor says
that such cases will be investigated and
acted upon according TO law.
THE SMALL Pox APPROPRIATION.
Mr.. Edwards. the Administrator of
WaterworlSs and Public Buildings, says
that within the past four months the ex-
penses of the smallpox hospital and ex-
penses incidental to the diseases have ex-
ceeded his budget twenty-five hundred
dollars, or an average OF over six hun
dred dollars month. The deficiency
will In all probability be provided for in
the amended budget, which the city Is
authorized to make by legislative enact
ment.
poYpRAs STREET HuCKsTERs.
The patch Of ground in front of Poy-
dras Market promises TO give rise to
something Of a controversy between the
Carrollton Railroad Company and the
city of New Orleans.
THE HIsToRY
of this piece Of land, which is about 40 |
feet wide by 20 in depth, Ia as follows
1896, the New Orleans and Carrollton |
Railroad Company (who had acquired |
the same from the New Orleans |
Canal and Navigation Company sold
to the city of New Orleans the parcel
Of ground on which the Poydras Mar
lSet now stands, aud through which the |
Canal Gravier ran at the time. The act
refers to the patch alluded to above,
which Ia specially described in the bill
of sale, wherein Laurent, Millaudon,
president Of the railroad company,
obligates the company never to
erect any buildings thereon. Since
that time the patch has never been
used by the company. Within a
few years the spot has been nicely
paved with flags, aud has been a place
OF rendezvous for flower and vegetable
vendors who pay q small sum daily for
the privilege to the lessee OF the market.
This, however,
DIDN'T SEEM TO PLEASE
the market men and women, or some
of them, and very recently they have
made move to have these hucksters
from this patch, In order to
compel them to occupy stalls In the 4
market
Mr., Cavanac, the Administrator of ,
Commerce, declines to interfere in the
matter.
In an interview with one Of the off,
,ials of the road, Mr.. Cavanac learned
hat It was the purpose OF the railroad q
to derive q source OF revenue a
rom the ground through the same @
lower and vegetable vendors who now
ray small pittance to the farmer OF the )
market for the privilege OF occupying 1t. ..
The inference at the City Hall Is that
he market men have led the company
o believe that the revenues to be derived
rom this lagstone market are very W
arge, their object being to make the b
igures correspond with the price Of the X
tails In the market, and thus practi- a,
ally drive the hucksters away from the -,
leutral ground. %
The matter will be brought before the
committee of the whole of the City &c
Iouncil. and the probability Is that the
futIs 0ltO will he main tanned. al