Evening journal., 1908-06-10
REPLIES TOTHE
MARKET CLERK
Hervey Walker Says lie Can
Show Conditions to Which
Objection is Made

Hervey Walker, master Of the State
Grange and chairman Of the commit
tee OF Pomona Grange of New Castle
county to appear before City Council
and request some reforms In the King
and Madison street markets, today
made a formal reply to the statement
Of Clerk OF the Market Cook concern
ing conditions in the markets Nj
Walkers statement is as follows;
Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.
In reply 10 the clerk of the markets
denial OF the conditions Of our street
markets, / wish TO say that all but
two statements in Saturdays issue are
correct, and l can prove them by cont
petent testimony. The one saying "the
clerk on his rounds collects 10 cents
from each farmer" should read: "The
clerk on his rounds collects Is cents
from each truclSster standing on the
curb" and not from the farmer. The
other mistake, "That when one farmer
could not attend on certain market
days he would give a farmer with an
adjoining stand, the right TO use the
unused stand" should read, when a
farmer could not attend. say on We'd
nosday. he would give a farmer that
his stand on that day"
with the corrections just stated,
made, stand ready with sufficient wit
nesses to prove the charge made in
Saturdays issue.
Mr. Cook lays great stress "on not
renting any space to any truckster in
any market" We have never claimed
that he did, but that the hlcksters
aNa faits
on the market days that they are no.
In. why, only last Saturday. / was
compelled to sell Strawberries, eggs
and asparagus. the product Of my own
farm, from a space only three feet
long, between the ends of two market
stands. while a truckster occupied a
distance above me.
In regard TO Mr.. Cooks other state
ment, saying. I'm regard to the truck
sters occupying two stands and two
farmers occupying one, is untrue"
wish to say right here that that state
mcnt is true and can prove il by com
petent witnesses when necessary anC
name the occupants of the stands
huclSsters and all Now the next one
"And # the man that told this had onl5
tried TO get a stand between Fourth anC
Fifth streets when there were stands
to get. he would not have tried sS
hard to get one at the present time
/ used every fair and honorable mea,i
to get stand in said squares but was
told every time there were no stands
to spare. N ow / can state why l d.,
not succeed in getting one, and prov'
the same also
Now the statement by Mr.. Cook tina
contradicts his other denial in re-
gard TO not renting spaces to truck
sters. IF the farmers would sell the
own produce and not buy crate eggs
southern peas. lettuce and beets from
4 the commission men. the markets woul'
not be two squares long, taking all o.
Madison and King streets together, AM
/, want to say that the party that pu
that piece I'm the paper did not knoN
what he was talking about, as the cler
of the market has not rented a spac
TO any truckster and no truckster ha
got a space in any market" Did yo
ever hear such a statement, chargin
the farmers with being trucksters i
one breath. and denying having rente
any stands to any truckster" in tn
next, when he knows his books wi
show that he has rented spaces to tn
ones he charges with carrying on sue
business. why does Mr. Cook ren
spaces to such people II he knows the
carry on such business and turn other
away who apply for spaces, who Sc
only the product of their own farms