New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
R6sh PARIS PUSHCART MEN. dSaA

last fifty years. replied. Il am waiting for my
| money! Policeman GA, getting angry. says. II
did not tell you TO wait for your money; told
you to move on!' Cabs. carts, omnibuses. mo-
tor cars and foot passengers now entangled.
The shoemaker's wife is attending to Of her
own customers Policeman ga gets red in the
face. Crainquebille reiterates that he is waiting
for his money, and at last loses his temper So
does Policeman "a. Cranquebille is finally ar
rested for having uttered a seditouS cry
Mort aux vaches"-and is taken off to Jail.
where the episodes begin that constitute the pa
thetic Dickens-like tale of Anatole France.
Similar scenes may be witnessed almost every
day in the Paris streets. Henri Rochefort. in
his paper. the "Intransigeant," started a cam
paign in favor of the much maligned Partisan
pushcart hawkers. A commission of city al
dermen was formed. The popular Prefect of
Police. NJ Lepine. studied the matter Last
week an ordinance was issued regulating the
status OF all the pushcart men and women of
Paris Hereafter licenses be given. In
limited number only to persons in need. and
VINO nave to support families They
granted only to men women over thirty years
old, and who have lived for at least three years
in Paris No family can have more than one
license. Pushcart hawkers for the first six
months must confne their operations to the nine
comparatively new outside ACCOMPLISHMENTS Or
wards adjacent to the Notifications. The more
crowded and more lucrative quarters of central
Paris are reserved for expert pushcart pedIers
Each pushcart man is provided with a nickel
medal bearing a number and with a notebook
with the vender's photograph.
Authorizations for hats of more than fifteen
minutes duration may be granted to pushcart
hawkers after medical examination establishing
the fact that they are physically unfit to con-
tinue their vocation of pushing their carts with
out such periods of rest. Permission may be
given for elderly pushcart hawkers to have
assistant to accompany them, but this assistant
must be previously accepted by the police
thorities and must bear a nickel medal and
photograph. Pushcart pedlers are not allowed
TO ply their calling within the limits of the
tral markets.. nor within hundred metres Of the
local ward markets. nor within forty metres of
shop selling the same goods as are carried
in the pushcart. They are allowed In case of
illness, duly certified to by a city physician, 70
have other persons replace them. but such per-
sons must be accepted by the police ana must
each carry special license. which is Provided
free of charge. The new city ordinance seems
to work satisfactorily, but the pushcart hawkers
complain that the fortymetre limit is too severe
because there many greengrocers now
esta blished in the city that little range is left
to them. This complaint is under consid-
GRAFTON at the Prefecture of Police. The Paris
ian pushcart especially when laden with hum
dreds of neatly made bouquets of flowers is an
exceedingly picturesque although somewhat
noisy element In the streets and thoroughfares
Of the capital.
1t is interesting TO note that the pushcart
is comparatively a institution in Paris
dating from the opening of the nineteenth