New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-20
READY TO OPEN THE NEW MARKET.
TROUBLES CONCERNING THE LETTING oil
STALLS Still, FAR vpoM srrrrrn

TROUBLES CONCERNING THE LETTING OF
STALLS STILL FAR FROM SETTLED
meeting OF the Market Mems Association was
heid &C NO 100 Vesey-st yesterday for tho purpose
oi nsenlng to the reports Of the various committees
appointed at the last meeting 10 make arrangements
Tor the ceremonies attending the opening OF the
West Washington Market on Saturday. The commit
tees VIII make their final reports Friday at
~ r. Doe who will be grand marshal In the parade,
Presided Tho COMMITTEES arrangements reported
that all branches Of business in the market could be
represented and that they had decided TO assess the
standowners in the market IS each stand they
rent This VIII net the committee 50 200 to defray
The expenses of the celebration The committee on
badges reported that they had ordered 1915 owners
badges and 500 employees badges. motion was
made and adopted that the committee order 900 OF
'he FORMER badges so that all would be alike
proposition was made TO permit the wagons of
IL T. Eastman and other wholesale butchers who are
not occupants of the market TO take part in the pa
rade' 1t was referred to the committee having charge
OF such matters 1t is understood that the represen-
tanon OF outsiders VIII be limited. The invitation
committee received full power. This was
done because some members desired that
me wholesale butchers who are not in the market
should be guests Of the association at the opening.
Charles Phiiipsen representing the North River Fish
ana Game Company, the only FISH dealers in the new
market offered TO buy. thirty extra tickets II the
association would recognize the Fish Mongers Asso-
citation and invite its officers the celebration sThs
was agreed 10 and also 10 invite the officers Of the
Oyster Dealers Association i.
statement was published yesterday that Con-
roller Myers still had 1875 stands unawarded in the
new market The announcement without the
slightest foundation and was probably made uninten-
donaily. but about 500 anxious citizens did not find
this out until they had visited the Controllers office
10 make application for some OF these extra stands
Controller Myers and Deputy Controller Storrs
Kept busy until the hour for closing yesterday ex-
planning 10 the crowds that came that the stands
were all awarded last year.
The manner In which the stands In the new market
have been distributed continues to be tho subject Of
grave complaint An AFFIDAVIT signed by p. Burns,
ID. M. Durell ana c. T.. Frank, who have been
dealers in the old market. was presented at the
Mayors Office yesterday. The signers protested
against what they torn their unjust eviction from
the old market, charge favoritsm in the manner Of
distributing the stands in the market, and ask
the Mayor 10 order searching investigation of the
matter. The names Of prominent County Democracy
politicians given in the affidavit, and also those
of citizens OF NewJcrsey and OF sub-letters In the old
market as among the persons who have been specially
benefited. TIE two last named classes the signeis
point out were originally marked for exclusion BY the
rules made by the Controller In settling upon the
grounds for declaring the awards. Mayor Grant was
not at his Office yesterday, having spent the working
part of the day in inspecting the quarantine arrange
ments In the Lower Bay, so that his action upon the
affidavit will not likely be known until tomorrow.
The application made by DE Lancey Nicoll on be-
half Of numerous West Washington marketmen Tor a
mandsmus compel the AUTHORITIES TO give them stalls
In the new west ashington Market at GansevOOrtst.
and ahe North River corresponding 10 those used by
them IN the old market, and for permanent fn1unc
ton restraining the defendants from allottng these
accommodations TO others, has been denied by Justice
Patterson, Of the Supreme Court In decision handed
down Yesterday, the Judge says: 81 fail ~ lind any
reason justify the nterposltlon OF the Court The
mere fact that the market house Is 10 take the
place OF the old and is called by the same name
cannot impose OF itself duty upon the Controller
with reference the occupants Of the structure which
has been Vecated All the conditions are entirely
different and II tho plaintiffs injured by the re-
sirictlona OF their rights in the Old market, they
hsvo remedies which may De enforced IN another