Daily Republican., 1879-02-01
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY, 1879,


Market CnonGes'
We are informed that there are petit
lions in circulation asking the City
Council to remove the curbstone market
from King back to Market street again.
Who the leaders in this movement are
We have not been informed, positively,
but il is said that the butchers having
stalls exclusively in the market houses
generally favor the movement, and the
reasons are said to be that on Market
street there would not be room for so
many meat shambles as are now loca-
ted in every vacant and available spot
on King street. The butcher business
seems to be one of the things difficult
TO settle to the satisfaction of every
body, and as compromises have to he
made anyhow, they might as well be
made on leaving the market remain ON
King street. 1t is true that the street
is becoming lined with butcher sham
bles, but we cannot see how this is to
be prevented as long as the property
holders along the street will rent their
property for that purpose. Every bust
ness man knows that Market street is
not the place for curb stone market,
the city railroad which was the great
objection when the market was remov-
ed from that street being Just as obje c
tionable now if not little more so, and
it is indeed very doubtful If one fourth
of the storekeepers on that street would
want it removed back. 1t is generally
conceded in all we'll regulated cities
that curb stone markets ANYHOW are
detrimental to the true interests and
prosperity Of city, and hence there
is a general forward movemen, in towns
where they have prevailed TO get rid
OF them and confne the markets to mar
ket houses. This it seems to us would
be the true remedy to settle the ever
recurring disputes between butchers
and SINNERS, truckers and farmers,
and it would at the same time he the
means Of saving the lives of great
many of our country people who attend
our curbstone markets in the most in
clement weather. 1t is no unusual
thing to see delicate ladies from the
country exposed to the most pitless
storms, standing in the market, and
the great wonder is that such rash
exposure and imprudence do not re-
suit fatally in more cases than we hear
of.
If anything at all is done with the
King street market, it should be abol-
ished altogether and no more curb stone
markets should be established. This
would bring things to focus very soon
and either the farmers and citizens
would have to club together in stock
companies and build market houses, or
the City Council would have to do it.
Out of the three market houses of Will
mington two of them have been built
and are kept up by private individual
enterprise; only one, and that one OF
the best regulated being kept up by an
organized company. EnterprisiDg as
Wilmington generally is in manufac-
lures it must be said that she is far be,
mind her sister cities of Lancaster and
Reading in organized market facilities,
and stock company market houses. An
impression seems to prevail that the
prices of market produce would be en-.
HANGED were the curb-Stone market
abolished, but we cannot but think that
this impression is an erroneous one as
the same competition would he kept up
and the general bene..t to health would
more than cOunterbalance any advance
in prices. With these views on this
yeXed question we are inclined to hope
that when he curb stone market on
King street IS abolished, it will only
be to remove into market houses.