The morning call., 1894-09-09

croach upon the city thoroughfares. are
all doing business not only without the
sanction OF but contrary to the law.
Many of them have been served with
notice to quit. and the word has been
passed along until the sidewalk artists and
tradesmen have been seized with a panic
and are rushing 10 the City HalifOr permits.
Mayor ElleIt has been out of town for
several days. and II has devolved upon his
clerk and representative, Sam Newman, TO
breast the Tide and stand them off as best
he can.
The fact is that few of the no doubt
honest and equally industrious and de-
serving gentry can secure the right to
carry on their business, anu if lney do
continue to carry it on ii will be by suf-
teraDcP, as II has been In the pa t.
Inc Mayor, by an ordinance of the city.
has right to give 81 ecial permits to Ger
tain persons 10 occupy the side walk with
bOOtblack and other stands not to exceed
three feet from the line 0f private prop
erty, but 1t is specially stipulated that this
privilege shall be reserved to and for the
beneht OF such persons as are manned or
otherwise lncapacitated from earning their
living in the crush Of the general struggle.
Snch persons, of course, have to secure
the right from the owner or tenant of the
property before which the stand is TO be
erected. and it is especially stipulated in
the permit that said property-owner or
tenant Is not 20 receive any fee, rent, per-
centage or other revenue from the person
In whose behalf the permit is g,anted.
All this has become the most profound
Of dead letters of late years and that Mayor
Ellert has been in a measure alive 10 that
TACT is witnessed in a habit which has
grown upon him of inQuiring OF his oc Ca
siOnal bOotblack, How much rent do you
pay ?"
lie put the question to an industrious
0 el~FEN
day and the artist had his lips oDen to re-
ply, when his partner. from the same soft
spoken country, raised his voice and said
some swift things in his native tongue,
after which the sunbr6wned man, who
was engaged upon the Mayors personal
appearance. struck the executive hat sew
eral dett bliws with wisp broom, saying !:
Understands not Americana"
The fact is" said Clerk Newman yes
terdhy afternoon, ''most of these stands
pay big rent TO property-owners. Most of
them ara operating without either permit
or license. To the proper parties-the
| otherwise incapacitated who get a permit
| In the proper manner-nO license is re-
| Quired. That is aDOther special provision
| of the ordinance. Aad so these others
who have gone into business without per-
mits take advantage of this proviso also.
There are others, however, who have
permits. The way they get them is by
! is missing, perhaps. and the permit is is
sued Oh this showing. They go away, and
the man with the one leg is paid something
| for his trouble, and the other men with
two legs appear and do business at the
stand. The police seem to be after them.
| however. l had a man in here a few
minutes ago very much worried over the
prospect of having to give up a very
lucrative Market-street stand. He said he
had a permit, but lost it-an old gag-and
wanted me TO make him out new one. %
! and Newman laughed. "He'd have made
the same proposition to the Mayor- no
| doubt, and I'd like 10 have been in the
| building az the time
just here another case in point deyel-
| oped. j. L. Carne, a resl-estate agent and
attorney, who has an Office at 9l5 Market
street, wanted TO get permit for man
who occupied three feet on the sidewalk
there, selling spectaces. The man had
been warned to quit. Carne confessed
That he had subleI the stand for sir 2
month; that he formerly received $40.
Dnt insisted that the man paid a petjdler's
license and had also room of his own in
the oniiaing for MS stock, and that he mac
right to do business.
Not on the sidewalk" said Newman
| Ine Iac' that he pays you rent and pay.