New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-24
SIDEWALKS TO BE CLEARED.
BOOTBLACKS AND NEWsSTANDS TO BE
REMOVED BY OCTOBER l.
THE ORDER ISSUED FROM POLICE HEADoUAR-
TERs-RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT FROM THE
LEGISLATURE BY THE oUsTED


The fat has gone forth from Police Headquarters
that newsstands and boot5ackng stands must be
removed from the sidewalks by October /. Last
Saturday delegation of boothlacks as has been re-
lated visited President Roosevelt of the Police
Board He referred them to Acting Police Superin-
tendent COMM, who impaired the Information thar
he had no discretion in the matter. There was the
law In unmistakable characters. and he mad re-
ceive6 orders tc enforce t. While 1t Is true that
apparently ample time has been given In which the
sufferers may make shift TO accommodate them
selves to the coming order of things YET IL Is
fact that the majority OF them VII! hhd IL III.
possible to find quarters within doors al ren'a'
which they Will be able to meet some thousa'"S
OF bootblacks in this city awaiting the irst OF
the month with undisguised anxiety. III Is uhuei-
stood that ebot two thousand of them are cltlzcns
and voters and 1t is estimated that there are wv
aliens who are H. line for the dignity OF Citizenship
During the last few days Iribuhe rePoi'oi nos
asked numbers OF these men what they VIA uo
after October l. and he has been met ny p'ahh iooN
and more than one muttered malediction. lhey aie
combining now TO seek legislation on the question:
Of more importance still from purely commercial
viewnolnt Is the decision to enforce the law as
affects the various newsstands along the siue""'n
and under the stairs of the elevated Foau -,
No one has been found who can ten eAa@"' 49,
these small news stores sprang INTO eAis'ei,eo go
derneath the winding stairs leading 10 the eie'"
a a.o,,ons Thu effort of the authorities, SAID
policeman is to be directed 10 getting al hu'ioei
Of merchants grocers and the like VINO nave oee" -
the habit OF letting out sdewaih ~. q,
dealers In other products than their own
these chaps" said the policeman sageY' N'a. -"
Department Is after Tor there Ha'' WV
violations In the past ,os sa,d
A.. eioor In enc Of the big news companies salo
- Tribune reporter yesterday afternoon ~
not know how the question rests with tiie 80
stands that you speak Of IN aac weston only
Know that they are ono and all very coca eu 70
toners OF the companies. as they haye 'o tn the
dsv napers OF which they handle the BULK hUr
see the major portion Of them are aee's oS
Ssre and there within be called their IF
territory. have no DOUBT Una, mas Wound be glad
the s STAINS them m done away with The e stands
VIII be found packed fun OF all sGr tbe Vi handle as
we'll all OF the illustrated papers, 9o the nbiIc
sho9d De snSs have a1a become necessity may
remember that an effort was mace a lev ~ nyoets
to get the re city to psnnh as .t they have
and nv Company at once made an offer to lease
the entire Fe number md Teseyed e could have
for nothing better than this, for we couu AZ Pnce
hays su Question as What the majority Of the dealers
VIII do d fear or 'h se many hus adding to
army of the unemployed, and at INC me same une
hers Of business men now buy their daily papers at
these stands and are regular customers l'essta-
ton will undoubtedly DC sous"' ~ 'ee"'"'e ''''
last night in s. Cavagnaro's place, No 5Oi Pearl
C., was held the second meeting of the newly organ
ized United Bootblacks' PROTECTIVE League. The
articles of Incorporation for this body were ned yes
to-day with the Secretary of State. signed by g. p.
Caggiano and Pasqualo Lorenzo and eighteen
others The meeting last night, az IT was repre-
scntcd to a Tribune reporter, was Tor the purpose
of exchanging views on the situation and RECEIVING
new members About ssventy-nve were III attend
ance and thus far 100 have signed the roll nun
her Of presumably fiery speeches were maze, the
major portion of them being IN Italian.
Albany. Sept. 23-The United Bootbiacks FRO
tective League. with headquarters IN New ORE
but intended operate throughout the state was
incorporated to-day The League Is formed 10 pro-
mote social and business intercourse among Its
members to provide burial for its deceased mem
on any member in need and TO bring about CO.
operation among and protection to It's members in
the carrying of their trade AS bootblacks Ihere
are twenty d!rectors-four from BaXter-st -FOUR
from hottest. TWO from Mulberry-st. three from
Thomson ST. three from Park Row. and one each
from Elizabeth Sullivan, East Forty-nfth and East
One-hundred -and-eleventh SITS, New-fork. All OF
them have Italian names.