Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-04-01
WARRINGTON MARKET.
A LIBERAL PROPOSITION By TIE DrRro-
TORS TO THE RENTERS.

At q meeting of the directors Of the wasb,ny,o,
Market COMPANY held at their Office Thur .dav
March ~, the following preamble and resolution
was adopted. reducing the rental on each stall an
stand fifteen u5) per cent.
whe ress, the present stockholders in tse Wash.
ineton Market Company, after q publicly acknow
lodged forfeiture in writing by the original incor
poretors, organ lied under the fifteenth section q.
the market charter granted 10y Congress and have
expended nearly four hundred thousand dollara
{S4U0, 000) in the erection and equipment of the
largest and the most commodious market buildings
in the country. of sufficient capacity to ac,ommo-
date M arly four hundred (400) dealers or market
men with stalls and stands, at rental OF fifty Der
centum less than the average rsnta, per square foot
Of space in the principal markets of Philadelphia
New York and Boston: and
Whereas, Under the authority of an act of Con
gress, the market company transferred to the Dis.
trict Of Columbia the land in front Of the market
buildings tnot designated in the charter for
market purposee), fronting on Pennsylvania
and Louisiana avenues, between Seventh aud
Ninth streets northwest, which transfer has
recently been adjudged to be legal BY the
full bench OF the Supr-me court OF the District
of Columbia, whereby the market company is re-
eved from the payment of portion OF the original
rental fixed by Congress for the use of the whole
ground known As Market Space and
Whereas, The market company hopes to be re.
eved in part at least, Of the heavy legal expense
GUS vexatious suits and legal controversies which
have bf en- forced upon it through the influence of
certain wealthy dealers de string to keep control of
the most centrally located and best paying stalls
and stands in the market. at the same monthly rem
tai which lie paid by the poorer class of dealers who
happen to have secured stalls the Sides or less
frequented portions Of the market; and,
Whereas. The directors of the market company
are DESTROYS to avoid hereafter all itisations an
roversies and believe to be for the best interests
OF the stock and bondholders whom they represent.
to cooperate with the honest and airminded mar.
ket men in their efforts to the public with the
best market products, at prices corresponding
with the times, and to offer adequate inducements
for prompt payment of stall rentals:
Resolved That the clerk Of the market be autbor.
lied during the remainder of the year 1879, com.
mencing the first day of April to make discount of
fifteen per cent on rental thereafter accrung to all
occupants Of stalls ard stands no comply with the
rules and regulations of the company, by paying
all arrears and by paying to the market clerk their
rental monthly in advance; which discount for
prompt payment will make the net rental, after
April l, to all who avail themselves of it. as follows
per month Butcher ftalls, ell 80; bacon stands
$765; butter stands, e574; ish stands So 10; huck
sters' or vegetable stands. SAG These rates in
clude gas and " alter taxes, and the expenses OF
cleaning the aisles and policing the market.
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