Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-25
NEW MOVE ON MARKET HOUSE
GFOcsrs and Commission Men Spring a
Novel Combination.
WHOLESALE AND RITAlsTANDs PROPOSED
Present Location % he Retained for
JoBbinE of Green stun and CapitOI
Avenue TO Get Little
Stalls.

According to present Indications, there
are TO be two market houses in Omaha,
one on the proposed Capitol avenue site
end the other where the city market has
always been, on Toward street between
Tenth and Eleventh and on Eleventh street
from Howard to Harvey. The first will be
a retail market and the second a whole-
sale market.
A. committee Of eight commission men
from the Eleventh and Howard street dis
trict called at the city hall Monday and
for an hour we're in session with the gen.
erai committee Of the council. They had
an ordinance drafted by the Produce ex-
change. which they wished to have passed.
IL defined the Eleventh and Howard street
district and asked that 1t be set aside as
a Wholesale market, to be maintained SUBJ
feet to the same general rules as will gov
ern the retail market.
Mount. Karr, Trostler, Hascall, Lobeck
and Zlmman we're present as members OF
the general committee, and as all seemed
20 take kindly to the new measure and as
they constitute a majority of the council,
Il rs supposed that the ordinance will be
introduced in tonight's meeting without
much trouble.
Demand from the Trade.
THE purpose of the new ordinance is,"
said Grocer Robert Smith, who acted as
spokesman, ito create a wholesale mar
ket where gardeners and farmers can sell
their stuff by the wagonload and where gro-
GERS can have a chance to buy OF the COM
mission men. To take away all of the
market privileges from the commission
men who own their property in the Elev-
enth and Howard street district will be a
great hardship to them. We, the petit
tioners, want II made legal for a farmer
TO back his wagon up to the curbstone at
Eleventh and Howard streets and stand
there for an hour or SO without having to
take out a license"
A councilman said: "We'll have to give
the commission men credit for having
Matched up a pretty clever scheme. They
naturally want to retain the market priv
fleges where they are and the effect of
this ordinance they propose will be to ac-
complish that end. If the Eleventh and
Howard street market retains the whole-
sale privileges it will also retain the re-
tail privileges, because every truck grower
wants to sell his stuff in as large lots az
possible, so he will go to the wholesale
market first and then, il he has anything
left over, he'll go to the retail market.
Thu the retail market, II it gets any, will
only get inferior goods. Still, I'm not will
ing to go on record as opposing the COM
mission men,"
Bond Ordinance Lays over.
The only other matter OF Importance
taken up by the general committee was the
ordinance introduced at the last meeting OF
the council providing for the issuance Of
$3.50. 900 of ~refunding bonds to wipe out the
city's floating indebtedness. 1t was decided
that this should be laid over until one
week from tonight, as Members Hoye and
Burnley are now out Of the city and will
not return until the latter part Of this
week.
While this question was up City Treas
urer Hennings and Councilman Hascall par
ticipated in a heated discussion as to what
constitutes the floating Indebtedness Of the
city. There seems to be considerable d.
yersity OF opinion on this point and the
matter probably will be further discussed
at the council meeting one week from to-
might.