The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-03
WAR ON COOK STANDS
WEST BROAD STREET DOTTED
WITH IMMATURE RESTAURANTS.
ALDERMEN HEAR COMPLAINTS
PUSH CARTS TRANSFORMED INTO
LITTLE HOUSES.

Red-hot Vendors Have Their Places
Incased in Glass and Make Them
selves and Customers Comfortable
without Regard to the Weather
ConditiOn-One EnterpriSIng Cook
stand Man Has IA Double Decker
and Members of Council Say Tint
Dwellings VIII be Built ON the
Public Streets Unless n Halt is
CnIIed-Push Cart of n Year Ago
Has Become street Restaurant
and Police Order Them to Move by
Monday.
A war has been begun on the cook
stands that are classed by the owners
as push carts and that skirt West
Broad street from Broughton street as
far south as Duffy street They have
multiplied until they have become a
nuisance and under instructions from
the Mayor the superintendent of police
has notified his men to order the cook
stand proprietors to change their base
before Monday.
If the owners do not comply with
the orders of the police they will be
docketed and arranged before Record
er Myrick in Police Court, and the city
marshal will be instructed to move the
stands as distractions. Certainly some
thing will be done, even though 1t
should be found necessary to have
Council repeal an ordinance govern
ing the location of push-carts.
Ordinance Meant Carts
When this ordinance was passed CIV
ing the owners of push-carts the
right to remain in front of buildings,
provided that they first secured the
consent Of the owners, it was not in
tended that small one story buildings
should be permitted to stand on the
edge of the sidewalks. The push
cart men, however. have been edging
up on the city as it were until they
are practically in possession of West
Broad street When the Union Station
was opened these vendors of red-hots
and boiled eggs began to surround the
railroad station and operate upon a
more extensive scale.
Little houses incased in glass were
constructed between the sidewalk and
curling ard the street became lined
ing of fish and eggs and sausage and
ham, in many cases all in the same
pan, became Objectionable as the num-
Der of the stands increased and the
doors that arose from them became Of
fensive. Frequent complaint has
been made to members of the alder
manic board and IT. seems that the
cook-stands that have, without au-
thority, been quilt in the public
streets, will have to go. These little
houses for they can be called nothing
else, are built on iron wheels about
the size of large biscuit. probably
for the purpose of making it appear
that they are push-carts in the sense
of the ordinance passed at a time
when push-carts were showed about
the streets and hot sausages were
sold from the street corners.
Have Become Buildings.
At that time there were only two or
three stands and they were hardly
ever to be seen until after dark Now
these modern stands are fixtures, CO.
ing day and night. located on the city's
property and marring the beauty oil
one of the principal streets. One OF
these places is equipped with stools
so that customers can sit down while
they are dining on the stuff that Is
served out at these stands. One Of
these enterprising cook-stan men has
built double decker and can serve
his customers in rain or shine and al
the same time be comfortable himself
both day and night. Members Of
Council say that unless some steps
were taken at once to abate the nuts.
ance West Broad street would soor
be dotted with two-story restaurant.
run under the head of "push-carts."
The complaint became so genera
that it got to a point where it reached
the ears of the Mayor With thu
chairman of the Streets and Lane.
Committee he went out West BroaC
street and made a personal inspection
OF the stands. The issuing of the ordei