New-York tribune., 1906-09-16

resolutions eulogizng Inspector Flood and showing
q picture Of the inspector.
Following the resolution bearers came six ped
lers srtired in dress suits and wearing opera hats
They carried & monster glass case which contained
g Big silver loving cup for Captain Murtha The
loving cup two feet high and pore inscriptions
telling ~ the love which the pushcart men had
for Captain Murths-
Then came the East Side EnEravers' Union. each
member - which had carved a. least one word n
praise On the loving cup After the enEravers
came the citizen pedlers al IN holiday attire. and
tr-n the Essex Street Pushcart Association. each
man wearing six hat and white tie.
After such a display one would not be surprised
70 learn that the investigations OF the commission
showed thai the average weekly earnings e the
pediers are from ~ % SIS.
one Friday an American who believed in treating
his stomach well vas walking across Seward Park.
The pushcart men we're lining up along the clrhs
f7- the mornings business in preparation for the
sabbath Fer tine he watched the stout
Jewish women pick over the fish IN the carts and
the bearded peders weigh and clean the pscatorial
specimens
Il think should not care to eat ash bought from
such 2 cart" he said himself HIS opinion and
that OF the investigators Of the commission and tie
officials OF the Health Department different.
Judging from what their sesrchlights have
vealeG. the food which is sold from the pushcarts
Is net of inferior quality. In fact one can do
well from TIE cart on the East side as from the
store. q not better.
Look over the food carefully and II you fnd
IL such as you would be willing 20 buy for your
family. mark IL good II you are in doubt about
r. class II as fair 7 you think you wouldn't
want your family 20 est il mark II BAD in
5urious 20 health the case may be. Ihese We're
the instructions given 70 the commissions represen
tatives when they sent out When they came
hack they reoorted that they had looked over
e-ss carts IN Manhattan and had found that they
would be willing 70 patron!ze 1852 of the carts un
hesratinEly and that they might be willing 20 eat
the wares q 59s other carts. while the fruit and
other STUFF only thirty-four carts vas such t-at
they would not have II IN the house on only nine
carts did they ind provisions that were 80 bad
they wouldn't leave them on the dumb waiter
over night. much less have them IN the kitchen.
In Brooklyn conditions were even better, FOR
there the food on 3 per cent Il the carts was
good a. compared with = Per cent IN Man
haitian. There were 10 carts on which the food was
injurious 20 health" IN the oginion OF these inves-
tigators.
Then the Board OF Health turned its inspectors
loose OF the lower East Side. covering an area of
thirty blocks Besides examining foods sold on
11is pusacarts found there they went into -
ihorinE stores and looked over $50 street STANDS
In is Of tie stores Was found food IN al unit con-
dit.on- The inspectors condemned and destroyed
1.055 pounds taken from the stores. on the stands
.25 pounds was found II the same oondltlon- -
met the same fate. on only a Of the l,-4s carts
WIS any unfit food discovered. ard only small
2 eurage was IN this condition. The amount 90
foodstuTs on the carts estimated 20 amount 10
"a a00 pounds. while the amount condemned vas
only 20 pounds, CT > pounds more than that found
o. $50 stands