The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-20
1T MAY BE AMENDED
COUNCIL MAY GIVE SOME RELIEF
TO HOUsEKEEPERs
BY CHANGING HUCKSTER LAW.
HUCkSTERs WILL HAVE A PETI-
TION SIGNED BY PATRONS.

Aldermen Are Impressed by the
Many Protests That Have Been
stirred Up by the Enforcement of
the Ordinance-They VIII Consider
an Amendment at the Next Meet
ing-License May BE Taken Out in
a Monthly shape, If One Plan Is
AdOpted-other Changes Suggest
ed-Permits From Clerk of Market
Do Not Serve Same Purpose as LIZ
censes.
The City Council will take up the ques-
ton of vegetable vending on the streets
at its meeting next Wednesday after
noon. The aldermen are talking the mat
ter over among themselves, but it has not
yet been determined just what action will
be taken. 1t is proba BILE that discussion
know just what they want to do when
they meet in the Long Room.
From many sources the complaints of
the housekeepers over the new order of
affairs have reached the members of the
board. They have learned that the en-
VI IliS WAANh w
mands that licenses be held by the buck
sters and that they sell on the streets
only after market hours, was not a pop
ular move, and they will seek some means
through which the rights of the green
grocers and butchers, the hucksters and
the housekeepers may be recognized and
the convenience of the last conserved.
Alderman Canty has been prominent in
the movement for an amendment of the
ordinance that will please everybody, with
the possible exception of the green gro
GERS, better than the present system. A
remedy Alderman Canty has thought of
is to make it possible for hucksters to
take out the licenses on easy terms. They
are now required to pay $40 down, but AL
derman Canty thinks if they were per-
mitted to pay 81 a month they would find
it much easier and would be able to meet
the demand that is made by the city.
Another alderman takes an even more
liberal view The many protests from the
housekeepers that have reached him have
induced him to believe that there might
be one of two things done, either of which
would serve to relieve the situation. One
is to allow hucksters to sell on the streets
at any hours, provided they have licenses,
and the other is to allow them to sell
only after market hours, the license re-
quirement being removed. He said, how
ever. that he had not considered the mat
ter deeply and that he might reach diff
ferent conclusion
The hucksters will circulate a petition,
addressed to the Mayor and Aldermen,
among their patrons, asking that their
twill ~
working in their interest and helped set
the movement afoot yesterday. There
can be no doubt that numerous signatures
to the petition will be secured, if the
hucksters make diligent efforts.
The ordinance prohibitive of sales on
the streets, it was pointed out yesterday,
does not apply to fruit, Ash, shrimp and
crabs. The only mention is of vegeta bles.
Other wares may be hawked, it is claim
ed. Other ordinances may exist in which
the same inhibition is placed upon other
commodities that prevents the sale of
vegeta bles during market hours, and
without a license. but an inspection of
the record failed to reveal them.
Clerk of markets permits will not be
accepted in lieu of a license. The Re-
corder has fined several hucksters who
appeared in Police Court with such per-
mits as their authority. He told them
lndL IL mas long Deen custom Tor the
police to recognize and accept such per-
mits, burt that there is no law under
which they can do so, and that the ordi-
nance demanding a specific license must
be enforced.
The war on street vendors continues and
two more were arrested yesterday morn
ing, for selling vegetables on the street
during market hours and without a IL
cense. They are George Graham and
Abram Floyd, both colored, and will be
given a hearing in Police Court this morn
ing. The five hucksters arrested the day
before admitted that they .had unknow-
ingly violated an ordinance, that in the
past has not been strictly enforced. and
were each fined 81 or three days in jail
There was some talk yesterday among
the male members of quite number of
families, of circulating a petition In
which the signers agree not to purchase
vegetables from the green grocers. There
are many who are down on the green
grocers and hold them responsible for the
unpleasant condition OF affairs now in ex-
| istence. Just how the housekeepers will
manage to get along this summer, with
| the huckster situation as II now is, re-
mains to be seen, and every effort will be
made by them to have matters changed.
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