New-York tribune., 1905-07-01
PUSHCARTS MUST 90.
TO KEEP STREETS CLEAR.
SpeciaI Committee WW 4dUast
Building Of SeueraL Markets.

For nearly six months special committee ap-
pointed by Mayor Mcclellan has been investl-
eating the pushcart situation and endeavoring
10 find solution Of this difficult civic problem.
The committee included the department COM
missioners who were most interested ana Ineih-
bers of several civic reform bodies. Thelr opiii-
Ions as TO the right way out of the pushcaF'
difficulty differed widely in the beginning ouI
they have at last found a common ground ana
their final report viii be ready for the Mayor
on July 10.
The work of the commission has been most
thorough Sub-comnittees were appointed ana
went into every phase of the problem. Push
,art owners have been examined and their side
pf the matter given full attention. Commis-
Eioner Woodbury. OF the Department of Street
Cleaning presented forceful arguments in favor
of driving the pushcart men from the streets
entirely and putting them in markets in various
parts Of the city. These arguments he packed
up with reports from his subordinates, showing
fa detail the trouble which the pushcart men
caused street cleaners. DR.. Darlington, OF the
Department of Health. even went into the i'm
migration phase of the trouble, well as the
menace 10 public health through the sale of
vegetables and fruit from uncovered wagons.
Every effort is being made to keep the find
Ings of the committee a secret until the full
report has been presented to the Mayor for
action. 1t is learned on good authority, how
ever that the report will strongly recommend
that the city establish six seven markets in
different parts of the city. and that the bulk
of the pushcart men be forced to take up their
stands within the market boundaries. There
they can be regulated by the police and the
sanitary officers of the Department of Health
Major Woodbury. has favored this solution from
the beginning, and is said TO have finally won
over the others.
The exact location of the markets is a matter
which the committee will leave to the city
authorities. 1t Will be necessary to buy several
blocks of property in different parts OF the city
The market structures need not be expensive.
On the West Side it is likely that the COM
fnittee will recommend markets in the vicinity
of Thompson and Sullivan SITS, the heart of a
growing Italian colony; at 2ftil-st and Ith-
ave. where there is a large tenement settle
Inent of negroes and foreigners, and at some
point in Harlem west OF Sth-aye.
On the East Side the space under the new
East River bridge is already available a
market, and one section is being used by the
fish pedlers. Another market would be ad-
and still another in Little Italy, the most crowd
ed section of Harlem.
There is much evidence that in the
markets the pushcart pedlers will need watch
ing. Yesterday a roundsman detailed to the
Street Cleaning Department discovered a Gu
rous practice in the fish market under the Will
lamsburg Bridge. He caught Anna WOlpert, a
fish woman, in the act of painting the gills of
the fish she had for sale. The fish were be-
white. She put rouge each gill, thus
storing them to their normal appearance. The
Health Department VIII make an examination
OF the paint she was using.