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AN OPEN.AIR MARKET on THE EAST SIDE.

refuse, and these men, women and children
breathe it.
At the height of the trading hours in this street
il is a common thing TO crates of fruit bal
anced the top of overlooking garbage cans or
to see piles of clothing spilling to the
refuse. Il is here, too, that eggs bought by
the smell. A approaches small stand
one Of the many abutting from small shop or
tenement house entrance. On this stand are sew
eral boxes of eggs advertised at different prices.
The careful housewife picks up of the most
expensive. say "ten for 10 cents" being attracted
by the primitive eulogy of their freshness emery
ing in print from their midst She finds crack
in the she'll and then she shifts at il appraisingy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

their business In front of one store on the lower
East Side as many rs ten stands counted.
And some of these streets fire streets.
1t is the presence of the pushcart men which
induces the erection of these stands. The push
cart pedlers make given street their market
place, and consequently attract to that street
much larger than normal crowd of shoppers I'm
mediately the stands spring up to get their share
of customers in the crowd Let the pushcart men
make their rendezvous elsewhere and the stands
would most of them vanish too.
When Theodore Bingham Police Commits
soner he settled the problem for large part of
Harlem beautifully by corralling all the pushcart
pedlers in the region under the New York Cen
trail viaduct in Park av. There, unmoested and
in comparative contentment, they piled their
trades for two years, much to the satisfaction Of
every one concerned But shortly after Commits
sioner Cropsey took Office complaints began pour
ing in to the effect that in permitting these
to remain under the viaduct the Commissioner
was breaking the law, which provided that they
should be allowed to use the city streets only if
they kept moving constantly. Mr.. Cropsey found
it necessary therefore, to abolish this eminently
satisfactory open air market and scatter the push
carriers once more
But out of this successful experiment OF Cen
eral Binghams has arisen the recommendations
Of both the aldermanc committee and the COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
n, w. VI. HoUGHToN.

~ COR OLD FATHER KNICKERBoCkER is
- forever discovering that one sort of con-
gestiou begets another. Now that he has
too many people and too high rents and
too much street traffic, he finds that these very
things have bred great surplus Of street vendors
whose peripatetic trading defes regulation, OBJ
struets traffic and endangers the public health
II is just one thing after another in the life
Of our Justly celebrated municipal parent
II is inevitable, of course, that the streets OF
the richest and most crowded city in the world
should become market places. The purchasing
power represented by the restless multitudes
which throng them offers too great bait to the
trading instinct so dominant in New YOrk's pOpu-
lation. But even more compelling are the ex-
orhtant rents which storekeepers must stuff into
their prices. The horse and wagon, the push
cart the street stand the basket pay little OF
70 rent The street vender can undersell the
storekeeper. therefore. and hence he fills de-
cided economic want which will keep him in the
street Just as long the housewife counts her
pennies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

old man: Il wish--that | wished something"
For youth is desire. Perhaps the old
man hadn't wanted the best things in his youth.
Most of us don't.
Not long ago DIR. Eliot of Harvard, passed his
eghteth birthday According to my Boston news
paper he celebrated the day he celebrates all
other fair ones--by bicycling. | remember that
when was an undergraduate at Harvard-Presi
dent Eliot only seventy them used to meet
him returning from his matutinal bicycle ride at
the moment when / was making my desperate
dash to Memorial Hall in the hope of reaching
the door Of the college commons before it closed
for the morning between me-and breakfast. That
at o'clock 1t always gave me slight
shock of shame to think that this distinguished
elder of mine had breakfasted so long before me,
and had already done his daily stint of exer-
cises, and was returning now to take up the seri
work of the day at time when my eyes
still heavy with sleep. But then, thought
to myself am still young. There is plenty of
time left for acquiring good habits. | might
have known better! One grows worse instead Of
improving in this matter Of rising. My only COM
fort is to recall .old Sam Johnson's resolu-
tions. Almost every year he repeated them.
But lying abed his weakness to the very last
And he didn't live to Or. Eliots age, either.
II is curious how those who grow old ascribe
:her long life to some crochet of theirs which
they share, as matter of fact, with who
are booked for shorter lives, that may or may not
prove merrier. We all know the ancient teeto-
taller who ascrbes his preservation to his absti-
nence. Most of US know his contemporary who
has drunk whiskey every day from his twentieth
year and thinks mis- steady of distilled spirits
is what NAG kept him safe and sane. 1t is the
,.;.L -
wear taking exercise and wearing B DIS. But
if a thinks it helps him somehow to food
his insides with sour milk plunge himself
into ice water, and he survives this rough treat
ment, why dsillusionze him! He may as we'll
live short life and merry one after his own
perverted fancy, and he harms else unless
there are women and children dependent on him
for sustenance. DR.. Eliot has the right of IL.
however when he names as the habits most con-
ducve to long life and activity moderation in
eating full allowance Of sleep and no regular
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
TuEY HAVE LITTLE VALUE FROM THE
TRAFFIC STANDPOINT

Vow. there Is No doubt in the world that the
streets Of New York offer a much more pictu-
rescue appearance because of the presence OF
these highway traders scattered by thousands
throughout her length and breadth. But pedlers
do not help the progress Of the fire apparatus
plunginr 70 the conhagration, speed up the
congested vehicuar traffic, or, for that matter
add 20 the rest of the night worker, whose dreams
Of a summer morning are troubled with the blare
OF the scissors-grinder's bugle the nasal wall of
the ca.a-sh clos collector, the hurdy-gurdy's
metallic ragtime the hoarse sng-sonG of the
mon who sell vegetables fruit or flowers from
q driverless wagon. From the blind man selling
pencils and shoestringS up through bootblack,
newsboy. street faker, pushcart peder to and in
GLIDING the fruit stand armed with his
feather buster, it is a tribe which seems always
under foot because to be so constitutes its stocI
in trade.
Then as a menace to health perhaps the night
workers broken slumber should be mentioned in
this connecticut the pedlers of foodstuffs and o.
clothes occupy q shelf by themselves. Grocery
and butcher shops delicatessen emporiums, ice
cream parlofs. all the countless dispensaries Of
food which have roofs over them and pay rent can
be and are inspected from time to time by Health
Department agents Sweatshops and clothing
stores must submit to a certain amount of SUI
pe-yision in this respect. But nobody knows
waere the puShcart pedler keeps over night the
eegs or the FISH or the vegetables he has been
unable 10 dispose Of or where he purchased or
where he stores the garments he offers daily for
the minute inspection of woud-be customers. His
ability to move his store about at will also pre-
cludes any systematic inspection of his wares as
they offered for sale on his cart. In fact, the
city has to-day effective check either on the
numbers character OF its pushcart pedlers, on
nom hundreds of thousands of its poorer tone
nent jewellers depend largely for their supplies
1t is the pushcart pedler who presents by far
the greatest problem. The Bureau of Licenses
has divided the pedlers to whom it issues licenses
into three classes-hO horse and wagon, pushcart
and basket. To all three classes it has issued
total OF 6,417 licenses but Norris D. Wadman,
head Of the United Hebrew Charities, estimates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

that Manhattan has between $500 and 5000 push
cart pedlers alone, and Mr. Waldman knows as.
much about the pushcart situation as any one in
the city, This means that considerably less than
half The pushcart pedlers in the city have Licenses
1907, to be exact
MAYOR Mcclellan had the pushcart pedler in
Sestgsted in 1906 by commission. This COM
mission recommended allowing four pushcarts to
block u those eongested. streets in which they
naturally abound, these four 70 stand twenty feet
rom 'ns corner in each case. In the less crowded
<sss'ls N%as proposed TO let them stand all along
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

vanceG hurdy-gurdy grinder as well as the exag-
geratcdly pathetic old woman who leases forth
the "Miserere" from a little box on one stick
while she rolls her eyes to heaven and holds out
her free hand. The number of licenses for organ
grinders is limited by law in Nanhattan to five
hundred, but in view of the small number actually
issued it is safe to say your average serenader
finds it safe enough to set forth upon his con-
quests without paying his 81 fee.
But the basket pedler and the organ grinder
haven't yet become problems like the pushcart
man, and largely because they do not fill anything
like as large economic void The pushcart has
solved the high cost of living problem TO a large
degree for the tenement dweller. Despite their
responsibility, it is true that the fruit and
vegetables which these pedlers sell so much more
cheaply than the stores as a rule fresh, since
they usually dispose of all they buy from the
wholesaler each day, having facilities for their
storage over night. They sell. too the greatest
conceivable variety of household commodities,
purchased eheaply at auction sales and from SUR
plus stocks and sold way below the standard
prices.
In other words though they need regulation
the shsald not be harassed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
SOLID ROW UPON ROW OF PUSHCARTS
LINED UP.

This street, like so many the lower East
Side, is typical pusheart street. The roadway
is narrowed to a little lane in the middle between
solid rows of pushcsrts lining either curb. The
sidewalks are only wide enough for two persons
to walk abreast because of the nnumerable fmsy
wooden stands which nestle against the tenement
houses and shops and protrude forward as far as
their proprietors dare. Some of the stands are
old baby carriages and others simply boxes
perched on convenient garbage cans. 1t is said
that the proprietors of these stands pay rent to
the storekeepers or tenement house proprietors
in the front of whose buildings they carry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

Gaynor administration made extended visits to
the pushcart sections, to the lower East Side, to
Greenwich Village and to Harlem, to see, to hear
and to smell, and they saw and heard and smelt
what any normal citizen in the possession Of his
faculties could see and hear and smell to-day, two
years later, in those very regions.
Let take up first the Italian market which
begins at First ay. and 10th st. and spreads
northward. The sidewalk there is bordered with
dirt pathway, and this dirt pathway are
.sread all of second hand clothes and
cias Of dirty cotton wadding, taken from old COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
V1PMJNG PEDLERS FURNISH 4 PUZZLE HARD IT, SOLvl

..;..io, ,pnointed by Mayor Gaynor to study thu
ouestiop Both reported in the spring Of lass
vear and both favored the setting apart Of areas
like that under the Park nv. viaduct, where the
nusbcart trade could be segregated, the space
nrder tho Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges
for example; the Essex Market Court building
eie. Unfortunately for the inclusion Of the space
under the Central tracks in Park av in the
scbeme. the Corporation Counsel gave II as his
oninion that IL would be illegal 70 permit any
permanent occupation Of this thorouehfsre.
MAYOR Gaynor died before he had an oppor-
,unitv 10 pass upon the legislation based upon
those REPORTS. Mr.. McAneny, then President Of
tho Borough Of Manhattan, promised to take the
matter IN after the campaign, but he then be-
came President Of the Board Of Aldermen and IL
nassed out Of his jurisdiction. Borough Presi-
dent Marks has included the pushcsrt problem
IN the broader one Of markets in general and is
q. present busy trying to hit upon solution
which will harmonic with one OF the whole mar
vet situation. Mr. Waldman is one OF his adj
visers.
In the meantime, however, pedlers OF all de-
scrintiong continue to increase IN NUMBER de-
spite the restrictions which the Bureau o. IL
censes places about the granting OF license II
thew find II impossible to procure licenses they
launch forth without them, paying protection
money in a good many instances to those ever
nresent scamps who profess to have political m
Auence and who pocket the money. hr. Wald-
man thinks under the present system 1t would be
we'll 70 abolish licenses altogether and let the
street vendors increase at will, since the existence
Of licenses seems to lend itself so readily to THIS
partcular form Of petty graft. He exonerates the
police. who as a rule, he thinks, are too manly
lot to stcop to Shaking down" pusheart pedlers'
at increases our task of Amercanizlng immi-
grants tremendously" he explained, "if they are
continually confronted with this ability to break
the law with impunity if only they bride some
one. Coming from Russia, they shrug their shout
ders and say, 1T is Russia all over again
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
81. |

". 1 am lHlS udy lOuISCoit anu NV
80 years old. And yet | am strong
this day as | was in the day that
Moses sent me- as my strength was
then, even so is my strength now. for war, both
to go out and to come in" So spoke Caleb, the
son of Jephunneh-and DR.. Holmes quoted his
words in his "last paper old age" written
when he was himself four score years of age,
and named as nonogenarians who retained their
faculties Lord Lyndhurst, Sidney Bartlett and
Josiah Quincy. | am not perfectly sure who
Bartlett and Lyndhurst were, but we all of us
remember that Quincy president of Harvard
College and Mayor of Boston, and some of us
remember his marble effgy that stands in San
ders Theatre, Cambridge, dominating its acad-
emic stage. If Holmes were living to-day he
might name among his vigorous old men Glad
stone, Walt Whitman and himself-to say moth
ing of John Burroughs and William de Morgan
both of whom survive, Metchnkof holds that old
age is specie disease that can be put off to
one hundred and fifty years. and tells us that it
is "repusive at present because it is devoid of
its true meaning; is full of egoism and narrow
ness" According to him, "the physiological old
age of the future will be something very differ
ent. Perhaps it will be more like the hale an
tiquity of Caleb, son of Jephunneh
Inc Oh Ola lOlhS Is one OF the Things
that strikes visitors to New York, and 81 sup
pose there is no place in the country where
people have such a dread of growing old as
here" writes "Acide" to New York newspaper,
wonder. Old age has cer..:nly been dreaded
by the poets and prose writers, from the time
of the Greek anthologists down to Pierre Lott.
Sainte- Beuve scored Chateaubriand for dreading
the engulfng wave of years and for feeling en-
nui even in his mothers womb but this senti-
ment was no invention of Rene's-any more than
it was Guy de Maupassant's Morbidity about
growing old is very far from being woman's
complaint in spite of all the jokesmiths have
said; perhaps it is in most only reflex
from unwise living The Goncourts tell in their
journal Of white-haired patron Of the Cafe
Richie, in Paris. The waiter rected his list of
dishes, then uttered the hackneyed formula:
Monsieur desire --?" 81 wish" faltered the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
ighwayS, often to the Prejudice OF
Vendors Highways Often the Preuce
Health Traffic. Rather Regulated at Pen-1hey
Belong Categores and Comparatively Few of
Them ofher About Getting Licenses

through a strict sense Of duty a mixed heap OF
fish heads, watermelon rinds. decayed peaches ana
other debris lying at the curb, the aftermath OF
brisk trade. And swarming over the street IN
shrill play smutty-faced, half naked children
while their parents sit on the doorsteps or lean
from the tenement windows As far west as
Madison av. the gutter Of that street impregnates
tho evening with its fetid odor of accumulated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

forters, to be sold cheap to make new mattresses
The genial Italian woman who presides over the
display at the corner explains in dagoese that IN
tho winter she washes clothes and in the sum
mer she sells them, not necessarily the same
clothes, of course.
She points then with satisfaction to the grand
tumble Of dresses and shoes, bits of fur, tinsel,
old hats and at least one sample Of every gar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
FOUND WEIRD CONDITIONS IN REGARD TO
LICENSES.

Mr. Waldman, as president Of the United He
brew Charities, has had occasion often to recon-
mend needy pensioners, incapacitated for ordinary
labor. for pushcart licenses Under the Gaynor
regime he ran up against the bureaus policy
adoptcd in 1906 Of issuing no new licenses on
the ground that it must discourage the increase
Of such pedlers for obvious reasons. Mr.. Wald'
man. therefore, embarked on private investiga-
ton of the holders of licenses and in a short
time unearthed at least hundred cases in which
the lcensee was dead, was no longer using ms
license or was renting out string of pushearts
on the strength Of his one license or in some way
or other had disposed of or greatly abused the
privilege it conferred. He had these Licenses
transferred to his own worthy proteges.
Under the Mitchell administration there is in
clined to be greater liberality in the matter OF
issuing licenses, but still the number of street
vendors grows faster than the number OF
licensees. As proof positive of this, regard for
moment the total number of licenses issued IN
Manhattan to basket pedlers-s14! Under this
category come all the street takers, it must be
remembered, as we'll as the immigrant women
who sell big German pretzels the Armenian WON
IN who sell lace, the boys who sell flowers and
even the blind men who sell pencils and shoe
strings. every one in fact, whose street wares
NAV be- whether they are or not, included in
basket Sometimes there seem to be almost as
many street takers this alone on Nassau and
Ann SITS. in the hour or on Saturday after
noon.
The street takers point of view with regard 20
licenses may be apty illustrated by the remarks
Of one of their number, who explained recently
that if one had license and business was poor
he could easily become arrested and be sent over
to Blackwells Island for much needed rest and
a steady diet.
And in all of Manhattan there are only eighty
six organ grinders licensed! Here is one of our
most familiar types of street vender. The term
"organ grinder" includes. of course the more adj
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

the street. provided each changed its loea-
ton at twenty-minute intervals. But this law
was never enforced and the entire report of the
commission was pigeonholed.
Then, in the summer Of 1912, special com
nittec OF the Board of Aldermen, headed by Al
derman Brush used its microscopes on this
troublesome specimen of the human species, and
in December Of the same year Mayor Gaynor APP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

ment that human being Of either sex might
wear spread about the sidewalk for lack of'a
stand. Particularly well preserved garments,
some of the most intimate nature, are effectively
displayed line hung against the fence. >
II you exercised little patience in. bargaining
you could buy from her pair of shoes for FIVE
cents, coat for quarter bit of silk for two
cents And it would all be pure profit to the ex-
pansive propretress for she explains the
clothes are given to her in winter by the people
for whom she washes. She saves them up for the
summe rtme, and while her patrons away at
tie seashore supports herself until their return
BY selling their cast-off clothing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
IT EXPLAINS THE HIGH DEATH RATE o
THE QUARTER.

Picture to yourself the dirt of the street on
which these garments rest and try to imagine
the dftiest corner of dirty room to which she
trundles them off for safekeepng at night and
YOU may begin to realize why the foreign born
population is noted for its high death rate. And
il may make you wonder why the diseases they
contract don't spread with frequency into
those parts of the city inhabited by what we are
pleased to term the average New Yorker.
The scene shifts to one of the side streets just
above 10th ST., running west to Fifth av. 1t is
hot summers night. The pushcart proprietors
have pushed their carts homeward, but the street
cleaners have not yet arrived. One approaches
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
BY W. b. BLAKE.

o! | am this day fourscore and five
years old And yet | am as strong
this day as | was in the day that
Moses sent me; as my strength was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

We'll, both the aldermanic committee and the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-02-23
MANY WILLING TO BUILD
OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL

Oklahoma City. OKLA, Feb %
Fiffy-fiye architects have filed alp II
sations with the Safe Capitol Com
mission Tor the contract to drmt
plans and to supervise construction Of
Oklahoma proposed $l.5O000o state
house.
The successful architect will be al
lowed three and one half per cent fer
plans, and one and one-half per cent
for supervising the construction Ten
Of the applicants were given hearings
today, and the commission hopes -
announce the winner early next weck
Among the applicants are Cass Gil
bert Of New York who designed tAo
New York Wisconsin, Minnesota am
Arkansas state capitols E. t. lia
queray OF 9t Paul. who designed five
at the Louisiana Purchs
Exposition. g. Henri Desmond o.
Boston, designe- Of he Maine and |
{ tan STATE capitols. al Albert Ran
iolph Ross OF New Yor designer Of
The Missouri state house and the Ma
-ional Armory in Washin. on
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-02-23
ADA.R's WORK IS FRUITFUL


tccntinued From Page y
When you tell the truth you doat I
ave TO make al excuse for ii.
The aitern in service conducted
by Ar Wlit,sk,r was a religious
success for the young folks Mr.. Tay-
lor preached to yolys people at the
tabernacle Despite the wintry wealth
er a large congregation filled the tab
rrna le f7r The sunday evening sery-
see
a testimony service was held ami
the speaker in his preliminary re-
marks said There sill be hot times
in old Gatliie We've teen playins
around On the hanks we expect %
fsflsh on gsana up in Hell. Guthrie
s-,l cut 10 tle devil lcck stock and
rsi frna watch for tlc iarrsi-.
mother home and heaven. and WAY :
.l,cng io tae aurch Daring iesii-
many service. Rev. Alternately iesti-
gei that he thsnked God ;ha' tae re-
rival was nor only respfn. great
harvest lutarie. but That It ex-
ended lyven miles out in tae coun-