New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-14
SUGAR RATE WAR OVER FISH MEN IN A RATTLE
Williamsburg Bridge STANDS
Picked by Wheel of Fortune.
PRENDERGAsT's NEW PLAN
Will Have Drawing Every Three
Months and Will Do Away
with Oldtime Pull.

Controller Prendergasts department ran
off a rattle yesterday afternoon, ana oiu ~.
FOO. under the eyes of Captain Hanoy' u
the Delaney street police station, ana d.
though the captain had dozen men Oh,
Ehand he didn't interfere. 1t was cohoucleu
in the collectors shanty adjoining the WIZ
iamsburg Bridge market
The police had their hands full, anyway
without bothering about the wheel OF iort-
une that Sidney Goodacre, deputy super
intendent of markets, was turning, pecdu9e
the results of the rattle intimately COLI
erned JOG noisy fish pedlers of the Williams
burs Bridge market. and being concerned
they wanted to argue about the matter.
In the nature of the business fish
nsd,er stands second as to his or her vocal
powers only to the bpiler maker Ana
Williamsburg Bridge market fish pedier,
forced by the roar of the trains above MIN
and also by the keen competition or ad-
Joining vendors, does not admit even the
boiler makers superiority of voice, so that
when they got to arguing yesterday after
noon over the reasons for and the results
of the drawing the famous roar of Nj
agara was completely outdone.
These pedIers talked glibly of the permits
for locations they had received from for
mer Street Cleaning Commissioner Wood
bury, and wanted to know why they should
be changed. They were told simply that
from now on the Controller intended to re-
allot their locations by the rattle system
every three months.
Morris Jacobs, the man whose influence
in the fish market is behind yesterdays re-
allotment and who is said to control the
market there looked on in a casual way
while the pedlers drew their numbers.
The stands from which they sell-counters
in any other place-belong to Jacobs, and
the reallotment did not disturb for min
ute the workings of his rental business.
whereby each pedler pays him dollar
week.
According to the complaints which were
received in the Controllers Office, Jacobs,
who owns a saloon at Hester and Allen
streets, had sort of miniature fish pedlers
trust He owned the stands, collected rent
for their use, supplied them with gasolere
for lighting purposes at cent or two ad-
vance over the regular retail price con-
trolled the trucking business which brought
the pedlers' supplies from Fulton Market
and was interested in the Commercial Co
operative Fish Company, which bought the
fish from the larger markets and whole
was such that the pedlers had>the idea that
they would have difficulty renting their
places from the city If they incurred his
displeasure. Jacobs himself, however
modestly declined to claim such powers.
II own the stands" he said yesterday,
but that's because / built them w hen DR..
Darlington and Commissioner Woodbury.
said the pedlers must stop using their old
pushcarts and get some kind of sanitary
counter to sell from. Also I take care of
the stands, wash them down and store
them when the days market business is
over"
He admitted that he sold gasolene to most
of the pedlers but said that his advance
on that ran only from one to two cents
gallon, and on the trucking business he
explained that the charge made by the
trucking company in which he was inter
ested of 20 cents for each case of fish
brought from Fulton Market was the
same as charged by other truckers, and
that there were at least a half dozen firms
engaged in the business. Jacobs denied
that he was in the Commercial Cooperative
Fish Company He is the president of the
Fish Pedlers' Union.
The drawing yesterday allotted new loca-
tions to the los fish pedlers now in the
market which places they will take up on
Thursday.