The sun., 1902-04-23
PASSOVER BROKEALL RECORDS
SUCH CROWDS NEVER SEEN BE-
FORE IN JEWISH QUARTER.


'The feast Of the Passover this year,
said Supt. F. L. Stearns OF the Second Dis
trict Of the Department Of Street Cleaning
yesterday, will be memorable In this
department. II stopped for about ten
hours the march Of industry through the
lower East Side.
sNever before since ! have been In the
department, and came In the day after
Waring took charge, was there such q crush
and jam In the market district as there was
on Monday. The only persons who could
do any business there were the pushcart ped
lers. Not only was the section blocked to all
other traffic, but a street sweeper couldn't
stave a hole In the crowd big enough 70
use whisk broom. 1t simply broke all
records
whats the market distrioti' asked a
Sun reporter.
The market district is In the Heart Of
Judea,' and the Heart OF Judea' Is COM
pretended in the district between Division
street on the south. Ridge on the east,
Broome on the north and the Bowery on
the west. c. W. Talcott Is the department 3
superintendent Of that section. and you
ought TO 60 through II with him. He knows
every foot Of the territory and he had a
tough time Of it on Monday.
you see, the Feast Of the Passover began
at Q o'clock on Monday night. For days
previous the Jews down here make great
preparations for the celebration. Their
homes and their bodies they trig out with
new furnishings. Therefore 1t Is q season
Of hayrnaking for the pushcart pedlers.
There is a city ordinance which provides
that pushcarts may stand, ten feet apart
in a street. remaining in one place a hall
hour. For two days previous to each
feast Of the Passover, the pushcart ped.
lers from all over town flock TO the mar.
ket district Of the Heart of Judea' TO sell
their wares. There is always big crush
| but this year the Mayor said that up "a
o'clock last night the pushcart mer
| should be allowed 10 sell without hindrance
or words to that effect. And they made
the most Of their chance. There was
never anything like IL seen in this town OF
anywhere else.
aThe heart Of the market district is along
| Hester street, from Chrystie to Essex.
Into that territory the carts, by the dozen
and score, were pushed way before sun
rise on Monday morning. There was
the merriest sort of scrap between the
pedlers for what experience told them
| were the best stands, but bloody nose
| then or a damaged eye were never bothered
about for minute. 1t was a battle for
| trade supremacy.
Mondays sun was not an hour high
| when every part Of Hester street along
| either curb line, between the boundaries
mentioned, had been appropriated by a
| pushcart loaded down with some thing
to sell. No man ever laid eyes on such
| a collection Of secondhand clothes as we're
| offered. Then there were carts on carts
| of fish and vegetable particularly onions,
and unleavened bread and shoes and shirts
| and suspenders and neckties for the men,
| and gaudy flnery for the women.
There was special and particular dis
play Of dishes. OF all shapes, colors and sizes.
| There is always a big sale OF dishes on the
| day before the feast Of the Passover. be-
| cause the Jews may not use during the feast
| a dish that has had any leaven in 1t or any
thing containing leaven.
when all the space along the Baxter
| street curb lines had been appropriated
| the carts still being pushed into the district
| from somewhere found stands in every
cross street. The lines of carts stretched
away from Hester street far 10 the north
| and south. Then came the buyers 20 I'll
and crowd and throng the street centres.
From sunrise, practically until o clock
| the streets of the district were so iammeo
with pushcarts and people that the entir'
police force Of the town couldn't have cleared