The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-22
CAVITY AS CHAMPION
ALDERMAN WILL UPHOLD THE
CAUSE OF THE HUCKsTERs.
HAS AN ORDINANCE DRAFTED.
MAKING LICENSE SO AND PERMIT
TING SALES AT ANY TIME.

License May BE Paid In Quarterly
Canty Said That He Believes He
Will Get the Support of Practi-
caIly All the Aldermen-Says Pop
uIar Opinion Certainly Demands
the Amendment of the Present Or
dinance, Which Keeps the Huck-
sters OF the Streets During Mar
ket HOurs-City Attorney Says
Producers of Vegetables May Sell
Their Truck.
Alderman CAVITY will father the ordi-
nance for the relief of the hucksters and
the relief of the thousands of house
keepers who are complaining about the
state of affairs that has been brought
about by the enforcement of the ordi-
nance relative to street vendors that has
recently undergone a resurrection.
City Attorney Adams has drafted an ord
nance for Alderman CAVITY, amending the
present ordinance. Alderman Canty's ord
nance will provide for license of Sc a
year for the hucksters who may pay it
quarterly, in instruments of $3.50. 1t will
admit of their selling their wares at any
|. time on the streets. Absolutely no re-
strictions as to hours will be made. The
hucksters will be able to sell on the
streets during or after market hours,
just as they did before it was decided
few days ago to enforce the old ordi-
nance.
Alderman CAVITY was asked IL he
thought his ordinance would pass. He
answered in the affirmative. He said that
he thought the aldermen are nearly all
for it. Popular opinion in the matter.
he says, is strong, and he does not doubt
that the ordinance will become a law.
NIT Adams said that the city has an
unquestioned right to allow the license it
may demand of the hucksters to be paid
quarterly. 1t need not follow that the
same rule should apply to persons en-
gagged in other business.
President NJ. S. Gardner of the Butch
ers' Protective Associa ton said yester-
day that his association has the aid of no
alderman enlisted as its champion. If
any measure is to be upheld before
Council at its meeting next Wednesday,
when Alderman Cantys ordinance will
be submitted, it will be by either com
mittee from the association or counsel
employed by it. The principal reason
that impels the association. Mr.. Gardner
said, to make a fight upon the hucksters,
is their use of short measures and crimp-
ed baskets, enabling them to sell cheap
er because of the scant quantities they
give.
Country producers of vegetables and
truck are allowed to sell on the streets
without a license but many of them do
not understand that They are not even
restricted to certain hours, If a fight is
made. Such is the intent of the law, and
such has been the ruling of the Supreme
Court in a case carried up from Macon.
Many who raise the vegetables they sell
have been keeping out of the city, afraid
TO appear upon the streets. Some of them
have been in dread of the police, who
are not always in a position to know just
whether or not a huckster has produced
the truck he offers for sale. Mr. Adams
said that the producers cannot be re-
strained from selling their vegetables, in
formation that should reassure those who
have been allowing their produce to rot
in the fields. instead of bringing it to the
city for sale.
1t is believed one meeting will suffice
for the settlement of the hucksters trou-
bles. One of the aldermen favorable to
the measure proposed by Alderman CAVITY
said there is no reason why the amend
ment should not be offered and adopted
at the meeting next Wednesday.
1t is stated that the hucksters of the
city are forming themselves into a union
to contest their case in the courts.
Isadore Goldstein, white. and eager
Palmer, colored, were dismissed on a
charge of selling on the streets without
license. The white man was trying to
dispose of lemons, and the negro had a
wagonload of vegetables, when arrested.
They promised the court to pay the city
for huckster's license.
Julia Wright, colored, was not so for
tunate. and was fined So for trying to
sell without a license, The woman had
a basket Of peaches. which she declared
she had purchased for her own use. The
officer was quite sure that he heard the
woman trying to sell the fruit, and be-
cause of her story she was fined by the
Recorder.