New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-12

ANS OF THE WASHINGTON MARKET PRO-
TECTIvE ASSOCIATION.

p,o,rcr To RFrNvEsT THE OLD THOROUGH
FARE WITH MARKET PRIVILEGES REM
xGscENcEs OF EARLY NEv-YoRK
SUPPRESSED feeling Of excitement b-oods over
arcent Vesey-st The three hundred or more mer-
chants whose stores crowd It's restricted Confines
arr stirred to action They have formed an organ
,zot,on known as the Washington Market Pro-
tect,ve Association and Vesey-st is 70 De reclaimed
from the dull life OF mere routine mercah'ile
street 10 become an o.d-fashioned market street,
with booths and stoop-lne displays and what not II
the men composing this organization can oring II
about In a wandering visit among them yester-
dav rho astonishing fact of their perfect unanmi'y
was revealed The speaker by common consent
FOR the company OF interested dealers Is W. j.
LaRoche whose ancestors FOR nVe generations
have lived on Manhattan Island. and who mas
been in business all his life In Nesey-st'' as was
his father before him.
Mr. r.aRoche is the owner OF the business or the
METROPOLITAN Hardware Company a; Nesey and
Church SITS ard his building. put up IN $40 was
the first structure with an iron front erected IN '"s
city He il the historian OF the street ana ne SAID
Yesterday: II am interested In Nesey-s, anu IN
me preservation OF It's traditions. II has always
been a market street. and what We want now IS 20
have the market limit regulated and 70 have Nesey-
$. receive a market privilege extending Tor 10"
wards 10 the street.-The same thing in TACT that Is
in vogue in all European cities and in all metro
nol,,an cities in the United States and In Canada
Tina, Ga The platform OF the Washington Market
Protective Association winch Was O's"'s- ~
October ?"
Mr. LaRoche grew enthusiastic when speaking
Of MS favorte street. and. continuing. he said:
Why DO you know the age OF this street? WASH
lngton Market claims IT'S existence before Church-
ST became a street. when In fact il was lane.
no vou know that St Paul's Church. which Vesey-
e. passes contains to-day the pew once regularly
OCCUPIED By General George Washington? One OK
the thirteen police officers OF The city OF New-
York used 70 be stationed at fence at Church
Lane and Vesey-st 10 keep the COWS from enter
ing the village That in 1900 and my father has
told me- about II many time. Some sixteen years
later the corporation line vas carried 10 Chambers
ST. In those early years the best people or the
city lived below Vesey-st. The principal residence
street al that time was State-st. on tae Battery
There was where my father was born In those
days rich as well poor took their market baskets
IN hand I'm the early morning and went to WASH
ington Market. that being the only place IN New:
York CITY where fresh meats ana vesS, ,, ano
malned as a landmark and was patron. zed by me
children OF The heel Sad Wsf washinsf6n Marke, 20
Gansevoort-st. and rebuild the OH Washington
Market Tn.s was the death blow 70 Washington
Market proper and the immediate nelghborhood
The farmers who came IN Their. wagons ana took
, NJ 70 sell produce were compelled by law TO
move TO Gansevoortst much against tner wishes.
market was lined on both sides with venders'
wagons selling chickens. ducks, vegetables and
fruits AT fully - per cent less than the prices
IN upper New-York markets rae clerk o. the
markets had supervision over these men, AID was
particular 10 that they sold good stun and gave
good weight.
Then ordinance came into effect compelling
these vendors 10 seek other places. Thus another
blow was dealt to Vesey-st and the new market
Now the object o; this new Organization. as have
said claim more latitude IN cons sequence OF me
street being adjacent TO the market II Is intended
10 have a committee call upon the Controller ana
place the matter before him IN the proper ignt
4 delegation has already called upon Commissioners
Brookheld who Immediately LEFT MS desk 70 ihNes-
t.gate the grievances OF t.e organization. re
agreed that more latitude should De gwen 70
Vesey-st and promised 10 do all IN ms power 20
further the interests OF the market ana the AL
accent storekeepars"