The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-26
: PULLING . THE PEDDLERS.
POLICE Raid ON THE SATURDAY
NIGHT TENDERS.

The Newark Avenue Torch Wagons
with their Wares Taken to the Police
statfon-Trying 60 Evade the Law.
Newark avenue on Saturday evenings
presents an Eighth avenue spectacle. The
basketed crowds that swarm the street and
surge in and out of the stores are one
element of the picture But the more
noticeable feature of it is the famboyant
display of the peddlars whose vehicles,
filled with oranges and lemons and vege-
tables and fish and meats, everything
under the sun, in fact line the sidewalks
Big lunged boys and men noisily shout
their wares and are not always choice in
the language in which they advertise them.
Aud VIXEN the busy night has flown, the
streets are filed with the debris and refuse
of their goods. The store keepers, before
whose doors they plant themselves, COM
plain of the noise and confusion they
create, and of the harm the interruption
of patronage does to their business.
Sporadic attempts have been made in times
past to drive them away, but the moment
the officer who delivers the warning turns
his back, the peddler drives his wagon
back, lights his torch afresh, and makes
the air resonant with the stereotyped
s'Hid- day-ar."
Last evening, with the aid of Captains
Farrier and Edmondson, Chief Murphy
planned concerted raid on them. TWEEN
ty-two officers, under the lead of Rounds
man VIM. Coward and Sergeants Cox and
White, went out from the Gregory street
station and gathered them in from the
highways and the byways In half an
hour proce ssion of wagons of all hues.
with horses in all stages of leanness and
decrepitude, stood in the street in front of
the police station. The line extended on
both sides of Gregory street from old
Washington Hall half way up to Hender-
son street. They resemb1ed a congrega-
ton of farm wagons at a country funeral.
Crowds of boys and men were on the |
street. Inside the station were score or |
more of loud-mouthed vendors. They had |
been arrested for blocking the streets. A |
peddlers license privileges them to 60 |
from door to door with their wares, but |
not to stand at any point. Some could |
not produce their licenses; others hadn't |
their tags on their carts; in other wagons |
youth under 81 were selling. In these |
cases additional charges of violating CITY |
ordinance were made
Captain Farrier allowed them to 90 on /
concluded that the movement against |
them was only First precinct farce, and
they drove their wagons after their release
into the second precinct and resumed their
noisy selling. 1t wasn't long before squad
Of Second precinct officers swooped down
on them second time and gathered them
in again. Then, when they had been a
second time released on parole they went |
into the First precinet limits AGAIN On tho
that the vigilance of the officers
there had been exhausted with the first
raid. But the officers from that precinct /
were still on the alert, and five of them
were arrested Tor the third time. They are
Ill out on parole, however. The names of
hose booked at the First precinct are as !,
.ollows:-
John Ferio, 40 Montgomery street; Salvar-
Tor Papiro, 80 Railroad avenue; Frank
Jolaby, "a Railroad avenue; Bryan King.
1886 Henderson street; Leopold Frey, 265
Grand street; Thomas Constable, $50
Fourth street; Henry Edwards, Al Sussex
street; John Hanley, 255 Henderson street;
John Fallen, 10S Sussex street; John
PSI Grand street; Alfred
King, 1877 st. Paul's avenue; Joseph Nc
Jann, 1893 Railroad avenue; Jacob Witter-
;cheln, 283 Newark avenue; James Luker,
Wayne street; Patrick Rely, 443 Second
street; John Cullen, $50 Second street;
Nicholas Farley, 426 Second street, Thomas
Howe, 1856 Railroad avenue; John Bence;
Tohn Donlan, 1873 Essex street; John Wit
emeyer, J. c.; George Harsel, 343 Fourth
treet; Edward Broderick, Westside ave-
Tue; Martin Breen, 1914 Jersey avenue;
Bridget Brown, no residence.