The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-20
M'AD0O TO ROPE IN The CURB
AND SENTINEL THE BROKERS
WITH MOUNTED POLICEMEN.
Pushcarts with Thorn. So That they Needn't
Lack Food or ShoestrinEs-T0 He
Treated ~ Part OF the Tramc Problem
and tho Center Of New Tramo Zone

Commissioner McAdoo thinks he has
found the solution Of that knotty problem
Of Wall Street. What shall he done with the
curb? Hereafter, he announced yester-
day, the curb brokers will be treated as
part Of the tratfio problem, along with tho
pushcart pedlers and cab drivers, and all
will be under the mana cement Of the Conn
missioners traffic squad, mounted and
afoot. Under this arrangement the brokers
will have to obey the rules OF the road and
stay where they are put in the new traffic
zone which will be formed in the financial
district. They probably will not be re-
qulred to stand starboard side to the curb.
The Commissioner said yesterday that
a~oommittee OF the curb had approved his
plan. The committee, consisting Of three
OF the brokers. had long talk with the Com
missioner yesterday afternoon. The Com
missioner has maps showing just where he
is going to put the curb. but he didn't let
the brokers see them. It was inferred from
what he said later that IL he had the curb
would have found that it had been moved
down Broad street and away from tho
Broad Exc hange Building The location
won't be announced for several days. or
until the new traffic zone is established
ana the mounted police appear.
The new traffic zone Is east Of Broad
way and south OF Maiden lane and will
take In Nassau, Broad, Wall, Beaver and
New streets. Broad street in its widest
part is to be roped of in the center, allow
ing, as Mr. McAdoo explained yesterday.
without showing his maps. fourteen feet
on either side Of the roped of area for north
and south vehicle traffic. The curb brokers.
II they're good, will be allowed to do bust
ness inside the ropes. Some Of the push
carts may get place allotted to them, too.
The traffic squad. however, are to see that
hoodlums and freelance messenger boys,
whom the brokers blame for most Of the
noise. are kept outside the ropes, feature
which the brokers approve of.
The problem which / have undertaken
to solve" said the Commissioner, was
how to free the whole region from its pres-
ent congestion and see that all its inter-
ests, however great, were subordinated
to the larger interests Of the public. Tho
hackmen, pushcarts and curb brokers
must be treated al part of the same problem
1t 10 my duty to see that the rules Of the
road are followed in Broad street as much
al in any other street in the city. Here
tofore it has seemed to enjoy immunity
The police will allow the brokers to do
business inside the ropes and this Will free
the sidewalks. Some Of the boys who
hang around there will he arrested for
trusnoy. At the Same time 1 don't believe
the boys make all the noise. A broker
has fine lung power himself when he wants
to sell something"
According TO Mr. McAdoo. the ropeci OF
area will he at the widest part OF Broad
street, where it is 1fty-four feet between
the curb lines. The curb will he some
where near the curve"
Il haven't showed my maps yet" said
the Commissioner, pointing to a bundle
of blue prints. because | didn't want the
brokers and the pushcart men besieging
the building here in the next few days, but
shall be much disappointed il Wall Street
isn't glad after the new plan goes into
effect"
1t will go into effect in day or two,
Before the cool breeze came in from
the north yesterday the brokers didn't
seem to care what Commissioner McAdoo's
decision would be. The sun was beating
directly down upon the street
Il wouldn't mind the enforcement Of a
traffic ordinance said one, III they'd
furnish us with the sunbonnets they give
to cart horses"
I'm going 10 find some shade" said an
other, and departed for an outrageous
grove Of mint beside CLASSY pool. After
absorbing the pool he wrote:
When the secthng, sizzling sun
Smiles each swetcrng son OF gun
TIL he swcats and S,cams into a smear uncouth.
And he got no lambs 10 do
Wha, cares he for McAduo.
or for EHgers or the ordinary SleUih'
Business picked up in the afternoon.