The morning times., 1895-11-23


and sidewalk stands at Center Market;
| about forty in number; the other was made
up of some sixty leading commission mer-
Chants from Louisiana avenue. All came
TO protect against being refused further
use OF public space which they have CON
sidered at their service because OF long
continued custom.
The market men are relieved from the
Immediate force of the order against them
by temporary injunctionin in Tie case before
Judge Bingham, but the commission men
are daily subject to arrest and the police
are to be held responsible unless arrests
are made. Accordingly Tie commission
/ men were urgent for an Immediate susDen-
! sion OF the order which will practically be
/ granted.
CAME TOGETHER BY MISTAKE.
Tie arrival of ibe two delegations at
| the same time was The result of q mis-
! understanding. When the markctmeu failed
! 10 appear ON November 10, as tIIey had ar
I ranged with tie Commissioners, they made
| AN appointment AT Il meeting or their Own to
| be heard yesterday instead. They failed,
| however, to make arrangements with the
| Commissioners to that effect. There was
| early inquiry AT Secretary Tindalrs Of
! flee. whether they would be heard and
! whether Representative Wellington of Cum
! beriand, Md, world be resent, as expected.
/ The reply was that nothing was known Of n
| hearing for the narketmen, no hour had
| been set and no meeting was expected.
About ] l a. III. Capt. j. S. Miller and Mr..
| j. +. Saum came from the louisiana avenue
| merchants, against whom the police moved
| yesterday in response to the letter ad
! dressed TO Major Moore, by the Commits
sioners, three days ago. They were as
| signed for an audience at neon.
A few minutes after the hour the market
men, headed by Representative Meredith OF
Alexandria, and Iheir committee, accord
! ing 10 the programme they had arranged
] with themselves, marched into the board
! rOpIn, by chance few minutes In advance
| of thc commission merchants.
Mr.. Meredith briefly Introduced his consti-
! tuents as farmers and dealers WHO for years
had sold ON this market and given resi-
! dents here the advantage OF fresh country
| produce.
Mr.. Wells A. Sherman, OF Jenna Va.
/ read a paper urging that for u century they
ana their fathers had used the space from
| witich they We're about To be excluded and
under acts OF Congress had acquired pre-
scriptive right to it.
He pointed ont ttiat B street is so wide that
four teams and two electric cars can pass
| along il abreast even when marEc; wagons
are backed up against the curb on both
sides. But produce dealers who have no
curb-spacc stop out in the miCdic OF the
street, sometimes unhitch their teams and
block the whole street. If the Commits
sioners want to open the street they only
need 10 make this class Of dealers move on.
Tile men who have spaces al the curb viii
be glad TO see il. Tie street thus cleared
viii then be as wide as Seventh or Ninth
streets without disturbing wagons at the
side.
ONLY ENFORCING THE LAW
Col. Trucsden replied that the farmers
themselves had 4 sked for the establishment
of the wholesale Tna rkef and the wholesale
dealers aSked that the men on the street
about Center Market be moved to the new
market. The Commissioners were simply
enforcing the law iii complying with the
request.
Mr. Arthur stable of Sandy Springs,
Md. representing hay producers, con-
planned that they were charged l . cents
a load in addition to the fee for weighing
if the wagons stood at the hayma rket fif-
teen minutes after being weighed.
Commissioner TrueSdell said they were
Informed this charge had been made n l>n 10y
the Washington Market Company when in
control of the haymarket, but no such
| charge hal been made in many years.
Col. TrucSden then told the delegation
| if they would get Congress to appropriate
| money to maintain the wholesale market
no charge would he made there for weighing
hay or anything else. but until then the
plans made must he carried out. The
market place had been much improved at
considerable expense and roof wouNu he
provided as soon as possible.
MI. B. Bryan of Anacostia. said it was
! an unendurabie ariship to be driven out
into the rain and snow. II shelter were
provided he was willing to go anywhere
the Commits sioners desired. He cared
nothing for Center Market.
N ii hs.lf shA .1rsa a1ar-
could get under the Center Market shed.
Mr.. Bryan replied that all who came
on stormy days found shelter there. To
exclude them would cut off the market on
such days.
Mr. Meredith reminded the Commission
ers that retail men deserved as much con-
sideration as wholesale
Col. Ross said the board would consider
the matter carefully and would receive any
papers submitted. Mr.. Sherman left the
paper from which. he read his argument.
The Commissioners have never shown
any PURPOSE To recede from their order to
clear b street.
COMMISSION MEMS PROTEST.
Capt. j. s. Miller spoke for the COM
mission merchants. He said they had
used the walk on Louisiana avenue for
many years The sidewalk was forty
four feet wide aud there was room left
for passers. The place was more market
thoroughfare than an ordinary street.
The goods they handled were perishable
and it would he impossible to do business
II they were required to keep within their
stores. He had been in the bu siness
twenty-four years. but If the order was
enforced he would have to try something
else.
Mr. ]. F. Saum said he had been here in
business twenty-three years He remem-
bcrcd the time when such goods as they
handled were all brought from the markets
of Baltimore, and were necessarily less
fresh when sold here than they ought to
be. The gentlemen present and represented
had established a market. furnishing
goods sold direct from farmers from all
the States, Including fruits from Cali
fornia. This produce was presented fresh
and good by them.
The Commissioners had just heard the
farmers who came from the country but
these gentlemen, deserving of consideration
as they were, sold only 10 per cent. of the
country produce used here: the commission
merchants now before them sold the other
80 per cent. The Commissioners ought to
consider the protest the people would raise
IL this market were cut off, as ii must be, if
the order were enforced.
HAVE TO TAKE WHAT COMES.
He made the point. that, as commission
men, they were not able to control the
quantity of goods they received. They must
take what shippers sent and being over
crowded, must use the walk.
Mr.. W. S. Hoge called attention to the
fact that if they were Obliged To carry
goods into their stores within an hour
from it's arrival, the sidewalk would be
worse blocked than now, because there