The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-17
SlDEW ak MERCHANTS
New Eork's Street Vendors and Gas.
Light Stores and Shops.
AAe AhTee Glasses Of Stree, uAr.
chanls-Tite Queercss neaIe,.
"' Ai!--g'he proAt ia.
she Eennies.
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New York Herald
| Everything marketable and known to the
stores and shops of civilization from naadlas
and hair-pins to horses snd cs,,rioc,os f,,,,,
bananas and grapes to old hats and canes
| from hot corn and lemonade IN oa,vsn.nors
and medals, from books and note nara, 70
chamios skins and candy, from sbnestri,o.
anu buttons to suspenders and garters can
he bought in the streets of New York fron,
early dawn until nearly the hour for the NOR
rows sun to peep above the horizon The
most vociferous and possibly the most pros
porous OF the street vendors oro tho how.
who sell newspapers, none of whom need oo
| home with less than So for his dov,s mott
while many who combine concentration ,,,;tb
industry proudly avow their ability To earn
from 80 to Sc Il day.
! One would think that nothing INIT the
direst need could impeJ sttfriv yvalI-la
veioped men to stand from ten to fifteen
| nouns Il day manipulating c1ltta-percbo tov
or blowing un baby balloons ierl,inc, p,oo, -,
figures, spinning tops, and exhibiting rim
cracks III General Yet all the wear tbr0urb
these men can lie found dojnp nreciseI,
these things, more especially now as the
| autumn winds begin to blow and tbope,b+e IF
| ChriStmastide I'll many minds The straat
| vendors can lie divided into tbrae c,osso,
| first, those who have regular stands which
| though not fixtures, are nevertheless norma
| nent such as the fruit, flower. newsnaner
| and general periodical stands. second flo,
| having sufficiently large stool, of Goods
necessitating hand cart or otha,. ,nov;n,,
vehicle, and, third. those whose stock in trodo
4, consists literally in a few boxes Of matchas
| some apples or pears. half dozen lead men
ellis, few envelopes. and n half scora of
! cigars. Some very wealthy people have
| started in lust this way.
Within the past ten years the flower trada
of New York has wonderfully increased II
| is within the recollection of our adult resi-
dents when there were not moro than half a
dozen substantially based flower stores on
Manhattan island To-day there are Inn
dreds whose sales, however. wonId NOT bo
| one-half the amount they now reach yvara if
| not for the system OF sending bows and airls
upon the streets and avenues and in oil NH
| lie martS and rlaces with Iittlo lunches and
| with large bouquets. At the ferries neor
the postoliice, at the stations of tha elevated
| roads, especially olono Fnurfeanrb and
Twenty-seCopd streats tbase 1;t,Io ,oo,Io
| partinacious f,ersis+npt -,rebi,c- o,,5 -,
Mating offer their ov,nisito cnIari,,c~,, +r :,
burrying- homo uuhlic whi,e Eroad,ro,, i.
- P"Dl'' "nilo l,roau"ay IS
-, lillo' ON ro'ii teei.'n 70 Lhir
Icy, wa, t'e llLll'' WIN nov"
saiI b,,d, S af l,le,l anu "',ei
-. - - n'5'
agents. who dart into cars end S+agas ma
~ d. 4i,a S,Ia 20 '.'"'
tbar,, - I,,,. to; - -, i,'''' Ut ''6
80 - ,, o..5 N'''' -
c,,iaJ '''' 'io,. VI
9"iN '"''''i''
e. So ''-',' So - iieHe are az
n-y13 so''0 o'' VI 'no S'iee' V'tiHe'
- 10 io''''i "Ni
llo'o - uIo anu ti''l9 VI an 'iii re,
f'.'''i'y "c0 i'o'Ss' ouU very i"ieiS: lhei'
t1'o' - i''l 49 o'''is are G'iiteiiioS'' seems
10 '''','ii Ny =" 'ok
p 81 - 3 'l - ""o no.
IT,. ii .1el.tisi,.' -,
o'''s anu anu WIN ele''V "
ICY 'iS" anu "oul' ps ue''F ~ "
eeil,S, a ltill.iet' az . e'li'S S'PitIe' Ine
f"''Li''S VI Si,e''P jo"eli "''i ~ 'i,e io"e'
t u US e'll'I.iull'S il'''So nc NHt5
'''-il ',o-l9 ~ ~ u"'i
,ioA,'li io.'.'i t3 "lSA Ui@yS' neIH y s'"tS
Si'iis "D"uV Tue ieeA, can Dc lo''nu oheriilS
breast-plhS, rings, collar studs, and like man
nor OF ge"gaws and ornaments for man,
woman, and child at fabuIously low rates
1t would seem as if an enormous trade mus.
be done in order TO furnish them romtortahia
Subsistence becousa if tho ,,l,ola st,,t, WORD
.aiI to ti,, a., 4,a,4,, ,..,,,,1
''i'' Oo' |i'''eH "''9 tiio u ''i "o''id
amount 70 a very small hSure'
me queefest dealers OF all are those who
traffic in Old clothes, Old hats, and old boots.
In the first place, they are always ready to
trade and aicker It doesn't make anv dif-
feraner what they hnvo in their bacs thor
,,.c ,,o,,ra,.r,- ,,,ilIi,e to t,sda tbcr, of Fnr
%, -, -
i'','h'i'5 'iSe' anu j. mas a'",'SH zee" Il
mystery 10 the ordinary man as 20 "hat was
done with these apparently useless articles
apnarrI As Il matter of fact they sell ey
Kind Of lov-nriceI article. from an
npv.papcr to a half-snoked cigar: from
par o. p'o1eh iea'Ie5 SHOES % a 'noIl-