The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-24
ALL STREET PEDLERS MUST GO.
DRIVING Off THE FISH CARTS
ONLY A BEGINNING.


Major wsedbury Would Have Markets
Provided for All street venders-A'
ces,scd Pedlers Enough In Manhattan
and Bronx for Parade - Miles Leng,
An event which will mark the progress OF
the movement TO abolish the street-pedler
nuisance In New York viii DO the opening
OF the fish market at Attorney and Rivington
On and after Monday no fish viii be sold
from any wagon or cart or BY any pedlers IN
Manhattan except at that market. Ihereare
Il 10 estimated. aso fish pedlers Who have sold
their goods from carts In the past, creating
snuissaoe and being In themselves menace
70 health. At the new market there will
be room for l1s to $50 stalls. For the privi-
less Of selling there the pedlers may draw
lots. The surplus will have to 60 out Of
business, for they viii not be allowed TO
hawk their STUFF through the streets.
The market will open at I O'Clock In the
morning and will be closed at . In the
afternoon. Then the Street Cleaning De-
partment will flush 1t out, and by o'clock
Il ought to be dry, clean and sanitary.
The sale OF fish In the streets has been one
Of the unhealthful things which New York
has permitted In violation Of the health
ordinances. The sanitary code forbids
the sale Of meat or hsh outside OF shops or
stores.
New York can mover be made q clean
and healthful city until the street pedler
Ii driven out Of existence Major John
McGaw Woodbury., the Commissioners OF
Street Cleaning, said yesterday. the estab-
lishment Of the hsh market Ia only one Of the
measures which the city ought to take to
protect itself. The pushcart pedler must
60. He has no place In progressive munich
patty. His business threatens the health Of
the community. Even under the restraints
which the police. the Health Department
and the Street Cleaning Department put
on him. he IL an eyesore and cause Of filth.
II we ever have an epidemic Of disease on the
It u the source Of filth and the breeder Of
bacilli New York must be rid OF the
pedler.
Our streets are Uttered With the garbage
from the fruit and vegetable pedlers. and
the eternal vigilance OF al authority cannot
out OF the streets.
East River bridge the city has abundant
space for public markets for the East Side,
where the pushoart pedlers can be rounded
up and allowed TO sell there and nowhere
else. The fish market, which takes that
sbomination the nsh pedler from the
tenance will cost practically nothing. Let
the city establish markets for all such
dealers-places where their refuse can be
cleaned away promptly and not be allowed
to menace health. That Ia the only solu--
ton ton, q s, the problem Of clean and heathfui
eff public markets at the bridge ap-
proach will not suffice, then the city can
well afford TO establish markets In other
parts Of the city rather than to continue
The pushcarts obstruct the streets,
occupy the sidewalks and the stoopline
and disgrace our city. There is no excuse
for IT, No one will suffer by the grouping
Of theee vendors In public markets. where
viii be able to buy as cheaply, and lit means
. slight Inconvenience 10 a few that they
are not aba to buy at their DOOR. they will
have the oompsnsetion OF mors sanitary
DR.. Woodbury. said that the pedlers
had begun TO sell meat from their carts.
and the careful watchfulness OF his men
was necessary to prevent this violation
Of law. Meat and poultry oarted about
town exposed TO sun and dust have been
Side. The offal has been cast into the
CUTTERS 10 breed bacili and the flesh has
been sold In q tainted condition.
In the spots on the Fast Side where the
pushcarts are most abundant DIR: Wood
bury's investigators have gathered bacilli
In colonies OF alarming size. These are the
growth from the putrescenoe Of the garbage
from the fruit. vegetable and fish carts.
To rid Manhattan OF this constant danger
the pedlers Of all classes must be kept
from the streets.
Men and women whose lives do not bring
them cloee to the life Of the lower East Side
have no idea Of the extent OF the pushcart
business. In three years the number OF
carts and men employed In the business has
creased In the same way.
There are now II 600 locpsed pushcart
pedlers in Manhattan and The Bronx.
Fully 200 more manage 10 do business
without taking out lioenses. Each licensed
pushcart man gets badge and a document
as we'll Sometimes one peder uses the
badse. whiIs another Is equipped with
the paper.
OF hcrse and wagon pedler- The mum
her nov licensed IL eoI. while sysss men
makes ~ $50 actually hc-n-,-d I-diers
doing business 10 the streets every day.
IL all the lioens~d pushcart men were
formed In q single line, allowing ten fes-, for
each man and his wagon, the .prooes.ipn
ton would string along shout two niles
more. while the basket n,en, each occupy
ing four feet. would make -four hfths Of y
mlls, o parade ,w-bt -four mlles long.
ard s.s., every foot Of 1t "'""o'ns public
.Mh.n the moyem@n, against the push
cart I-dler 10 discussed som~ Irr-J,.s 60
. fsl-r ides that IA abolish the p.dl.f siii
10 70 dspfiv- Q loi ~ men 81 q msaBs ~
livelihood aid 0snersl InsI--ctof hlAh-
ton ~ the hirs-.' tisenlhS D-paft nrbi,
10 . ni-ssss. Mos ~ the nen are si,ls
l.sal.d And eosila mako ~ kssi o. . dsy
a. manual iAisof. which 70 mofs Than Tia
ssefsSs n ,h.if pnsn,s ~ tlils bsisiness
Iissy so1ild ihus earn iisofe lVr thru lam
,ss and sould 10 isilsT ~ thse-rl,ss,
Tho I-f-sss sho ~. hay ,i.ss Of ~ ~ould
60 i-'is' ssssb ~ si,s fS tho s-ins
10 la~,ls tho .siis is.ass ffssI eiasnsI
si..si.nssils AID slsSs. ,l.si 10 10
.......s'y " t..p.s ,l.. '.,s.s i,a'a ~
y s.I.Iay ,aiIlls mssA.,s a. ils ,-u.llsss
o. ~ -gslisAsis L'..i..-.. sis.'s lisy
A. sss,,.sJ " ,s.s,sJ ., ~ asi 10 h.ssss,ss