Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-18
STREET vEND[RS ANGRY.
Say Their Business Has Been
 Seriously Interfered With.

Want the Privilege of Shouting Their
 Wares-Attorney Russell Engaged
 to Protect Their Rights-The Attor-
 ney Had q Consultation With the
 Chief Of Police and the City Clerk.
 The Hebrew and Italian peddlers of Waterbury have joined hands to test the legality of the ordinance regarding alleged shouting from their wagons. which has caused so much annoyance that residents of the South End kept protesting against the business until the police interfered and informed the peddlers that they must manage to herald their coming in some way without making their presence q null sance insthe neighborhood. The ven ders obeyed, but they are chafng un- der the order and declare that they lost half their best customers since they were denied the privilege of tell ing everybody what they had in their wagons and the price of the different articles. They also state that the Democrat and the remarks of the Rev J. J. Curtin destroyed their trade in the South End of the. city and that people who had been in the habit of spending a dollar 3 week or so with them do not go near them now at ali. They state that they believe that the law has been arbitrarily enforced and declare that if they are prevented from shouting they will fight, and as proof that they mean business they have re- tained Attorney Russell to look out for their interest MT Russell has called upon Chief Egan and City Clerk Ryan in connection with the matter ana after looking over the ordinance he feels confident that 1t is not broad enough to reach sober men who are disposing of their goods on the public streets. He has not yet decided wLal action he will take in the premises, but as soon as he gets through with the Hartnett-Moriarty tussle he may take steps to prevent the police officers, the Democrat and others from saying anything about the peddlers, no matter how much noise they make, so long as they confine their remarks to such things as they offer for sale.
 One of the vendors executed war dance over the question on Bank street today and wanted to know from representative of this paper why the English speaking dealers had not 5een interfered with. He said that a s'YaE- kee'' peddler drives all over town sing ing gospel hymns and that so far as he knew no one had ever said a word about him. The reporter informed him the question of nationality never entered the minds of those who hau found fault with the nuisance, the p1r- pose of the remonstrants being to put stop to 1t, no matter who WAS re- sponsible for It. s. He did not believe this and openly declared that 1t looked like an effort to drive them off the streets In the interests of the store Keepers, who, he said, charge big prices for goods which they sell for little or nothing. He stated that be- fore many moons the peddlers, through their attorney, will teach the police officers and the papers that they are within the law in proclaiming in their own way what they have for sale, but that until this fact has been estab- Hshed they had been advised ito make noise easy"
 Whatever the outcome of the case may be, it Is certain that people who have been annoyed by the unearthly believing of one or two of the craft are enjoying good rest, and if the case ever goes into the courts, which is very doubtful, more than one citi- zen will be willing to come forward and make affidavit that peddlers, no matter what their nationality may be, should not be allowed 10 so conduct themselves that whole neighborhoods will regard them as a menace to the peace. of their homes. Whatever has has been said on the subject in the Democrat was not used on hearsay, and the man who wrote 1t will be Hs~SH- -lA Is.- X II of it and great deal more before any court in the city.