The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-19
FEW LICENSES TAKEN OUT.
HUCKsTERs NOT FLOCKING TO CITY
TREAsURER'S OFFICE.

They Can Secure n License for Six
Months-Few Vendors Have Had
Licenses at Any Timc-Ordinance
Requiring Ii Might as Well Have
Not Been Passed-Poiice Are Busy
Looking Out for Infrnctions Now,
Hovever-Housekee Deeply
Regret the Enforcement of the
Ordinance-They Liked the Old
Way of Having Truck Brought to
Their Doors.
Hucksters seem to be having difficulty
in getting enough money together to take
out the license required by ordinance be
fore they can sell their wares on the
streets. The city treasurers office has is
sued only five licenses since the police be-
gan making arrests for violations of the
ordinance
1t was said at the city treasurer Office
yesterday that the hucksters are proba-
bly, waiting until July l. when they will
be able to take out a license for six
months, instead of for an entire year, as
would be the case if they were to invest
in this necessary adjunct of their trade at
this time. AS soon as July has come,
it is expected that the business of issuing
licenses for the hucksters will take on a
decided impetus, and soon there will be
something like the old number selling on
the streets.
A license of $40 year is required of a
huckster who sells from a basket This
is considerably more than all OF them can
produce without some trouble. If one OF
them sells from a wagon, unless he has
himself produced the truck he sells, ne
must pay a license of $50, as his business
is thereby placed upon a more pretentious
plane and he comes into closer competi-
ton with the green grocers, who have 10
pay a license of 500. In cases where
f uit is disposed of from a wagon, the
license required is 800.
No EFFORT has ever been made before
II was safe in the city trf asJIer's office,
a. enforce the ordinance hat requires H.
c@nses 20 be taken out Dy the hucksters.
j; has heen on the books for a long
while. but very few of the hucksters have
paid it any attention That only very
small proportion of the many WHO were
on tho streets UP to a few days ago still
reuain can be seen any day, Tor the dis
cOcdcnt cries with which they are won't
to proclaim their wares are heard hut
seldom.
Superintendent of Police Reilly has s.
sued orders to his officers to arrest all
hucksters found selling on the street dur
ing market hours, and the police are do
ing as they have been hidden The in
structions given the officrse are that all
hucksters must have licenses and must
stay off the streets until after 1920
O'Clock. receipt showing that a stall
in the city market has been paid for by
the seller, answers the purpose of
license. according to instructions given
the police.
The hucksters are beginning to realize
that it is folly for them to venture on
the streets during the morning hours
and the housekeepers are suffering 1t is
impossible to make purchases at the door
step, as has been the custom, and house
keepers are up in arms. Many of them
cannot go to the city market, and have
found it great convenience to buy what
they want, in the vegetable line, at the
door. Under the ruling, given to the po-
lice, even should vendor pay a license
for selling on the street the wares can
not be sold until the bell in the city
market has sounded for the last time
At that hour it is time to put dinner on
the stove, and If the hucksters have to
be depended upon. the hour Of the second
meal would have to be changed to some
thing like 4 o'clock.
George r. Yonge, Rachel williams
Mary Hall and Christina Smith, all col
ored. were the unfortunates arrested yes
terday morning They were sent to the
police station by Patrolman Buckwald,
and will be tried in Police Court this
morning, for selling on the street with
out a license, and, too, during market
hours. All of the prisoners are vegetable
vendors.
Elias Goldberg, a white lemon seller,
also appeared before the Recorder on a
charge of selling on the street without a
license. He was found guilty. but was
dismissed with the understanding that he
would pay the proper amount into the city
treasury for a badge.