Evening star., 1896-08-26
RACE FOR FAR ERS
In Order to Gain Position at Center
Market.
An Explanation by Superintendent
Tinker of the Market Company
The Street Cleaning Question.

At o'clock this afternoon the tri-weak!y
races at Center market will occur. 1t will
be free-for-all contest, with no regard for
handicaps and bad luck to the hindmost.
The race will be between hucksters, gar
deners and farmers the goal being position
for their wagons along the sidewalk of the
Center market where they may display
their wares at tomorrow market.
AS explained in yesterdays Star, a new
c1der of procedure for this class of dealers
is now in opera ton at the market All
dealers are required to present their teams
in the vicinity of the market before 4
O'clock if they desire position and to take
their chances, one with another. for loca-
tion 1t is case of first come, first
served"
This rule was adopted" said Superln-
tendent Tinker of the market company to
Star reporter today, after consultation
with the farmers. There was complaint
that hucksters were monopoizng the
spaces set apart for the farmers and tru TX
raisers. The hucksters would leave their
wagons in space for a week at time,
thus holding 1t against all comers, and the
farmers who drove in with their produce
from many miles in the country would find
no place vacant. 1t was also found neces-
sary by the market company to have the
place vacated so the street could be cleaned
daily. therefore went among the farmers
and proposed this plan of holding the
spaces open until o'clock and letting ev-
erybody take his chances of getting in
About seventy-eight Of the farmers agreed
to the O'Clock hour and ten or a dozen
wanted II o'clock in the morning fixed as
the hour for assembling"
Farmer Smiths Views.
Mr.. A. w. Smith, farmer from Mont
&c merry county, is dissatisfied with the
present arrangement of affairs, and says
that many worthy produce raisers who
bring their products to the market are shut
out from an opportunity to display by the
hucksters, who purchase garden truck and
pose before the citizens as farmers He
called upon the Commissioners today and
asked that an officer be detailed to accom-
pany the superintendent Of the market
around the country in the vicinity of Wash
;rgton to learn just who are genuine farm
ers, and thereby separate them from the
pretentious huckSterS. The Commissioners
told him that they lacked authority in the
premises. and Mr.. Smith did not succeed in
getting much satisfaction.
AS related in yesterdays Star, the Com
missioners ordered the Washington Market
Company to not only clean and sweep the
premises about the outside Of the market,
but to cart away the sweepings also. The
following reply to that order was forward
ed to the Commissioners today:
This company, ino-der to secure more
complete cleansing than would otherwise
have been accomplished, has heretofore,
without compensation, cheerfllly aided
your street cleaning department by sweep
ing much of this space and gathering the
sweepings into piles.
There has arisen in the knowledge of
this company no occasion for a change in
the practice which has 50 long obtained.
nor for the addition to this company Of the
task of removing and carting away this
refuse.
ITO this order, therefore, and so much
as relates to the removal Of the sweeping,
we do hereby respectfully but earnestly
protest as being manifes:ly unjust, espe
cially at this time, as it is task clearly
within the contracts of your street clean
ing department, to whose contractors pay
ment for the whole work of cleaning the
entire street and removing the refuse has,
we are advised, always been promptly
made-'