New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-28

Send Committee of Protest to Mayor
Investigation Promised.

TIL, lo7.ost between East Sida pushcart ped
Iers and the street Cleaning department. as 70
whether or not the pe!Iers shall occupy the mar
kct which Commissioner Woodbury. has staked
out under the Williamsburg Bridge started on
D,arrtIv Yesterday with d not at Attorney and
Rivington SITS 1t was necessary TO call out the
reserves from the Delancey-st. station 20 protect
the special policemen who were making arrests
from . mob Of two hundred angry pedlefs ana
their wives.
The patrorea Of the Oah-st station began
campaign against the pedlers in the financial
district who are persistent violators of the
law. They had the effective though unsolicited
assistance Of several hundred messenger boys
who spent the noon hour in chasing pediers
Loud cries Of oppression are coming from the
smaller politicians in the districts where the
pushcart men live. The interest of the district
leaders would be greater if more of the pushcart
men were voters. The majority Of them have not
taken out their first papers. and are of ne in
terest 70 Tanmany.
After some forty pedleys had paid 81 and s.
fines at the Essex Market court Yesterday. they
persuaded Congressman Henry NJ. Goldfogle to
lead a committee of protest to the City Hall
Mayor Mcclellan received the Congressman and
Louis Zeltner lawyer. bat the excited. jab
herring rc,.leIs did not get beyond the public re-
ceptjon room.
The pushcarI men were told that the Mayor
would begin an investigation, as he said no
one had the right to force them into any market,
and that they could not be arrested unless
they violated the law. Commissioner Woodbury.
maintains that nothing is further from his in
tentio1 than persecution. and his special police
men have The strictast orders to make arrests
only fer Violations They are keeping q close
watch i'm the conEested districts, however. and
pcdlers arrested q second time aye likely to lose
their licenses
1t was Jacob Levine, of No. "a Canuon-st.. who
was responsible for the Rivingston-st. riot. He
was arrested by Policeman Cavanaugh. who is
specially detailed to the Street Cleaning De-
rartment, for standing at corner. instead of
twenty-five feet UP the block as the law re
quires, Levine broke away as they We're start
ing for the station dartcd into d tenement house
and hid under bed.
There Cavanaugh and Policeman Spencer
found him. He refused 10 walk and they
dragged him downstairs. a mob bad formed in
the mean time. and. under The leadership Of
sam Lesstine youth % nineteen, OF No. 122
Attorney-st.. attempted TO free the prisoner. The
officers tried to beat off the crowd with their
sticks and finally when corucred against the
building drew their revoIvers Some one turned
IN riot call. and the Delancey-st station re-
serves responded
me mon TOOK fresh start when the reserves
appeared. and il was ten minutes before IT gave
mp the fight Then Levine played trick that is
as old as the Last Side. lie fell To the sidewalk
crying that tn" policeman had beaten him. and
'r"ceeded To have most realistic hit.
send for am ambulance! The doctor for a
dying man" cried the crowd.
"BriuC up that pushcart." ordered the rounds
man IL charge OF the reserves.
Loaded on his own pushcart, Levine truu-
died To the station. the police forming a guard
around him, At the station Dr. Dosch NJ Gou-
mouia. brought Levine OF his tit I'm about ff-
the pedler could stand Lesstine was charged
with interfering with officer.
Magistrate Whitman warned the attorney who
appears for the pedler that he would impose
heavier fines if tn" arrests kept up. These
men, he said. must be made To understand
that they must obey the law, even though they
happen To think IL unjust"
Meantime the new market under the bridge
rs rapidly filling up with pcdlers who are CON
WINGED that IL is to their best interest TO have a
permanent stand. All Of the 2lG places in block
10 | We're filed yesterday. There were perhaps
nifty pedlerS I'm another block
Next week the Street Cleaning Department Will
look over the pushCart men I'm Brooklyn Their
carts practically fiji Seige and Moore SITS from
Broadway To tirahaW-dvc. There is little pre-
tcnce OF oheyiuE the law as To moving every
thirty minutes and standing near street corners.
IN effort viii be made 10 find "A suitable site for
permanent market into which they may be
gathered.