The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08
An ARMY OF WOMEN PEDLERS.
FULLY 5000 OF THEN IN THE
STREETS or NEW YORK.

Ihsy Are Healthy. Mako Money and Enjoy
Their Life-eome In the Ghetto Keep
nsuse-TNey Nun Put carts, Manage
stands and Sell on the sidewalks.
Fully 5000 women work - psdlers on
the streets Of New York every day, In fair
weather and foul. 's 90
The sidewalk is their shop, the curb
stone their counter, They know nothing
appointed store. They stand or walk about
thu whole day long.
Ysa they are strong, they enjoy life after
their own fashion and they lay up treasures
in hanks Of whose stability they have the
begt assurance.
This steadily incFsaAing army OF street
sslsswou,sn does not include agents who
make Q house toulouse canvass. nor beg
gars Who wear the guise OF pedlers. II
reprsssnts only those who have placed them
selves In open composition with the male
peddlers who CRY their wares and the fakirs
who otfef anything salable on the street
corner.
Among them are numbered the pushcart
women Of the East Side, the newsgirls, the
proprietors OF vegetable and fruit stands
from the Battery TO Harlem. the clerks CON-
nectsd with the dry soods stores on the
upper RAst Side. the body snatohers' on
Division street, the women who haunt csfr
and theatre entrances to sell smokers'
suppliss. and the women who infest the
fashionsbls shopping districts with so-oallsd
handmade laoes.
AZ the m ijority. perhaps rs per cont.
Of thess woman live on the East Side, u 10
worth while 20 hear the opinion Of q Ghetto
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and IL also connected with one Of the
leadins dispensariss.
'Ssvsr waste your pity on these women
Who Org their wares on the strest They
are more healthy than you ever dreamed
of bslng. and infinitely better on than the
women who shut themselves up IN stuny
fais
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