The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
Voice Of the eople
The Cry OF the Vendor.

Editor Of Tho Times Dspatch:
Sir.--While West Grace" has no de.
sire to curtail the means by which
the honorable merchant who signs
himself "R. p H. disposes OF his wares
through street peddlers, She must yet
take issue with him on the manner of
that disposal
II he would spend weekday at
home and would undertake to do some
specific work recurring close atten
the day at the bedside of some one
who was i'll and suffering for lack of
sleep and quiet perhaps the fact of
ten or twelve lusty-lunged youths call
ripe bananas. at the tops of their
voices under his windows might upset
! MIN to the degree of making a frantic
appeal to any one who had authority
then he would speedily find that per
sons living in comfortable homes on
the best streets" have actually no in
fcentlxe IT. to 5, SIT down In the quiet calm
] probation of their own blessings"
/ One inducement to live on best
/ street is the assurance that ones sur
roundings. are also to be the best that
can be obtained for paying for such
residential privilege. II the best
street" is to be made testing spot
for the lungs of those who have wares
| TO dispose Of 1t has lost all claim to
its title.
The honorable merchant fancies that
1t is no pleasure to the stree; peddler
| to shrek his wares aloud, Well. per.
maps 1t is none to the peddler himself,
but If the honorable merchant will OBJ
serve. the peddler has always with him
one or two or even three. boys, who
/ Vie with each other in shrieking and
who. when demonstrated with. Shrek
/ all the louder to show their utter in
difference to remonstrance.
Now, to be personal. West Grace
therefore much sympathy for those who
are forced to do likewise. and she is
quite we'll aware that no species OF
wage-earnine is a nowery bed Of ease
moreover in, the adage live and let
4 live; but when the liver proceeds to
live SO vociferously as to make NUS
ance Of himself to block after block of
/ good people, then she is wise enough
/ to see that he also must be taught to
! respect the adage.
1 The honorable merchant wished to
i put an. end to the skating nuisance
/ Now, this was thing that gave pleas
ure to hundreds of people, besides be-
/ ing Of immense profit to a number OF
good merchants of this city. 1t is just
possible that he sent for an officer
4 that IF ne had thought less of his
own selfish comfort and had taken a
i broader and more humane view of life
perhaps. even though he was nervous
4 the nuisance SO maddening," but would
have remembered that eve are all
i members of one body" If that body
chose to skate he should have taken
pleasure In their pleasure.
i 1t is not possible to Judge for each
other either in the matter of taste or OF
nuisances. Perhaps If West Grace
had wares to put on the market the
yells of those who peddled them would
be as siren strains to her ears; while
! If the honorable merchant had ever
known the eXhilaration of skating, the
hum Of The little wheels would have
. been like music to him. But West
Grace" defies the honorable merchant
to say that he would not endeavor tt
4 put down anything that he fanced en-.
: and All inhabitant Of "a comfortable
home in the best street,
.. WEST GRACE,