Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-20

10 addition, license TO peddle clocks
COSTS $50, and license to peddle coffee and
tea $50. Those procuring licenses must
give bond for $500, to insure their COM
pliance with the law, and the penalties for
violation or for selling without license
are q forfeiture OF $500, one.half OF which
Shall go to the tnfOrmer, and such imprlson-
ment as the court may impose. The law,
however, does not extend ITO any manu-.
faoturer selling or peddling anything man
ufRotured by him in this State, or to any
persons selling or peddling grain, pro-
visions, provender or fruit grown, pre-
pared or raised upon tho land OF the per-
sou offering the same for sale, or to any
person selling or peddllng fruit or oysters"
TT WORKS A GREAT HARDSHIP.
Any one who has occasionally visited the
ONCE Of the clerk OF the peace during the
past two months has had ample oppor-
tunlty TO see the hardships worked by this
Law, simply by the provision that makes
euch large increase In the license fees
The annoying peddlers who go from house
20 house, selling writing paper and other
nie-nacs. and making themselves general
nuisance to householder, are not the ones
that the law will Affect. They seldom
bother about a license, only strike the city
for q day at O time, and get away before
they eau be served with legal process.
There iB class OF honest, hard working
people, many OF them eripples, who have
been making bare living by doing a ped
ding business, and some Of them find It
impossible TO pay the heavy license
fees imposed by the new law. 1t
was pitiful to see some OF them
as they eagerly besieged the clerk
OF the peace for Information and turned
away with tears In their eyes when they
learned what was required OF them. At
one time o couple of peddlsrs came to-
eether; one OF them young man with his
left arm on at the shoulder and the other o
bright-feeed young fellow on crutches.
1--WE can never par that much, /" both re-
marked, sadly, land don't know what to
do to make living now" Said another, In
trembling tones that attosted his sincerity
81 nave a sick wife and Ave children, and
for them. can't pay these figures, and
now suppose I'll have to steal or starye.
And 30 the story went. A few were able
70 scrspe Ii Q money together and take Out
licenses at the advanced figures, but many
men who formerly made q precariouB liylng
by pcddltng with a horse and wagon mos
ind themselves deprived OF this means o.
securing an honest existence. me many
people who depended upon peddlers fol
their purchases are also put to seriou,
Inconvenience, and will be forced to 20 Il
the BtUrsa, no matter whnL truuple anu luHl
OF time IL thereby incurred.
The extent and scope OF the law Is q sub
iect that Is now pugzling many lawyers ant
though several have given opinions u
clients, It Is said that no two agree. I'M
claim IL made that without first taking GU
4 peddler's license those who sell coal b.
the bucket In wagons will have to stop
that no one can peddle fruit, berries o
vegetables unless they are raised upon nj
own land; that the coal oil business b!
wagon Is knocked In the head; that an 10
company that permite It's drivers to sell
piece OF ice from the wagons, or even III
an order from regular customer unles
said order is first given at the company
office, by mail, messenger or telephone, J
a yioletor OF the law. That baker can
not serve bread except on order or
tobaceonist the weed. That even grocery
men themselves are prohibited from tbkin
orders from the residences OF their Gus
toners, as many OF them now do, haVln
regular routes over which the drivers 20
taking orders from customers and deliver
ing the same later In the day. In TACT, Una
vending goods from wagon In any snap
whatever except the selling OF stun raise
BY the seller on his own land, is MEGA
unless license is first taken out.
II is said that not few leading attorney
incline 10 this strict construction, and tna
opinions OF tlrst given to vendors OF gro
ceries, cigars, coal oil and other IKE CON
modities TO 70 ahead and sell as usual nav
been revoked and the parties notified I
move very cautiously in this business. ~ ~
peddiers are swearing vengeance agaiht
the erocSrs, at whose instigation the la'
was passed, and they declare that an y,
grocer caught taking orders through a.
driver at a customers residence, ana 2.
lIyerIng the same, will be switched nv
court In order to test the full scope o. "a
law. It is very probable that much litiBt
lion will be occasioned blythe new pedoiaf
license law darling the next two years.