New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-28
EAST SIDE STREETS REEK.
ALDERMEN SEEK TOTES.
Conference to Consider Pushcart
Problem-Ordinance Tampering.

AS result OF twenty days suspension of the
pushcart ordinance by the Board of Aldermen.
the congestion and filth of East Side streets
have become almost unbearable. The excuse for
the suspension the necessity of caring for
the increased trade Of the Jewish holidays
Yesterday officers OF the Street Cleaning De-
partment heard that there was to be a further
suspension of the pushcart ordinance by the
aldermen. this time until after election. The
votes of the pushcart men and their friends
Will not be given as an excuse for further tam
pering with the ordinances of the city Alder
men interested in the pushcart vote say that
the little merchants Of the narrow wagons laid
in too heavy stocks for the holidays and that
they must have a chance TO unload.
AS a result Of the action Of the Board of
Aldermen. important work of three city depart
ments for months has beer overthrown and
brought to naught. The ink of the order sus-
pending the pushcart ordinance was hardly dry
when the pedlers deserted the fine marke. which
the Street Cleaning Department laid out for
them under the new Williamsburg Bridge. 1t
took weeks Of judcious effort to get the pedlers
into the market. The heads of all three depart
ments concerned favored the plan and helped
WORK II out In a single day the work was un-
done and when the election is and the
aldermen are no longer interested in vote get
ting it viii he harder than ever TO get the push
cart men under control
The puehcart men hsve been abusing their
temporary privileges under the suspension. and
it seems likely that the boards action viii prove
a political boomerang. They have dlsregarded
every regulation OF the Board OF Health to
the condition Of the fruit and vegetables offered
for sale, They have laughed al the efforts Of
the Street Cleaning Department to keep them
from dumping refuse In the streets The police
have been powerless in their efforts to keep some
streets open for traffic
So intolerable have conditions become that the
East Side Civic Club has taken up the matter.
\ conference has been called for Friday evening
at No. 2J+ Grand st, meeting place near the
Bowery Commissioners Woodbury.. Darlington
and McAdoo have agreed to attend the con-
ference and Magistrates Cornell and Crane have
been asked to be present The head workers Of
several settlements and representatives OF the
half dozen organizations OF pushcart men will
speak at the meeting The members Of the
civic Club hope that some solution Of the prob
lem Will result.
The pushcart problem is most important
one" declared Healta Commissioner Darlington
yesterday TO a Tribune reporter. Il expect 10
attend the conference called by the East Side
Civic Club for next Friday evening. The COM
missioners OF Police and Street Cleaning will be
with me. While will probably have nothing
to say that evening. we Will have stenogra piers
there and at conference between ourselves.
which will be held later, we ought to agree on
some solution Of the problem"
julius Rloomberg. Of No. 262 Grand-st. who is
chairman OF the local needs subcommittee
pushcarts of the Civic Club signed the call for
the conference which has met such favorable
response. He said Yesterday:
IF the men who have agreed to confer with us
on this pushcar. problem cannot solve II. don't
know who can The club has no solution to
offer. We know that there must he radical
change of some kind. Present conditions are In
tolerable Perhaps permanent markets will
prove the solution. Perhaps the puShcart men
must be forced from the streets entirely"