The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-09
THEY'RE DOWN ON WOODBURY.
GRJEg ANGE or PVSHClRT MEN.
ABOUT TO BIZ CORRALLED
They Really Can't do Business In Market.
so Please Let Them Continue 10
Litter the Streets--s:Olng 10 Appeal
to the Mayor Display nj Cleanliness.


Hardly pushcart was TO be seen on the
Fast Side yesterday The CUTTERS and the
streets were as clean as if Commissioner
Woodbu-y's recent mandate, that by July
20 all of New York's 5000 pushcart pedlers
shalt be corralled about the Delaney street
bridge anchorage, was already in effect
Ii was discussion of this mandate by
most of the 1000 pcdlers that kept the
stre":s so clear The pedlers lined up
in i,ont Of Apollo Hall, in Clinton street,
early in the day. and in an army that eS-
tended for dozen blocks or so marched
for two hours through the Fast Side before
holding the meeting. Four captains and
forty cops guarded them. and Inspector
Schmittberger led the procession. II Baron
Max wants to run for Office at the next
election, he will have a following of 5000
from this day on Than whom President
Roosevelt is no nobler. is the way the resolu-
tlon Of thanks to him was phrased.
Major Woodbury. was not SO well thought
o. President Sigmund Schwartz Of the
United Association OF Pedlers of Man
haitian has been interviewing the Com
missioner ever since the corralling scheme
was proposed
Il don't care for your young women,
ia SchwartZ's version of what the Street
Cleaning Commissioner said, when the
picture of East Side maidens toiing river
frontward was described to him.
President Schwartz also had an interview
with Commissioner Greene a week ago,
He called with a committee on the Commits
sioner at Headquarters. and the Commits
sioner's SORRY l haven't enough chairs
for YOU" made him second only to Capt.
Max in East Side favor
President Schwartz told all this TO the
audience that packed Apollo Hall most Ct
the day.
IL got an order from Mayors Secretary
Reynolds 10 come up to him with COM
mittee,' said President Schwartz.
Commissioner Woodbury. was there.
You can't stay on the Streets said Wood
bury You are lot of pigs. Off the
streets for yours on the goth My
license had been taken away three months
ago. asked him why a citizen could not
get license He would not answer me.
Il don t care for Low OF pushcart men, he
When Schwartz finished, Lawyer Dittlef.
who defends most of the pushcart mems
cases in the police court, climbed on to the
platform He told the pedlers to organize
and appoint committee to insist on munich
pal recognition and favorable legislation.
Stop giving quarters 10 patrolmen and
street cleaners, he concluded
Secretary Granbartz, on the other hand.
said thai even furnishing lunch for those
vampires" was better than being penned
up in single market where only a quarter
OF the pedlers could be accommodated
and where the members of even that quarter
would cut each others Threats in competi-
ton
A committee of thirty will be appointed
at meeting in Forsyth street next Sunday
to present the pushoart pedlers' case to
the Mayor. Meantime resolutions were
adopted yesterday protesting against Com
missioner Woodbury's corralling scheme.
President Schwartz got an invitation
to attend with his cohorts meeting of
the Citizens Union Of the Eighth Assembly
district last night. Mayor Lows secretary, j.
b. Reynolds, who is chairman of the Union,
was booked to speak on How to Form n
Market for 1000 Pedlers." II was unani-
molsly voted to cut the meeting out.
"'How TO put 5000 pedlers out OF bust
ness is what that title means" remarked
President Schwartz.