Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-20
MARKET REPORT
IS CONFIRMED
Aldermanic Committee Inves-
tigate Charges of United
Business Men; Long Report

BUSINESS wen, Long hepOrl
Following an investigation by the
public market committee of the
Board of Aldermen of the complaints
against the Perth Amboy farmers
market made by the United Business
Mems Association of this city, the
committee recommended to the al
dermanic board as a whole that the
petition be not granted. The report
of the market committee was con-
hrmed and spread on the minutes.
The market committee answered
in detail each Of the complaints
made in the petition TO the aldermen.
The original complaints and answers
as given in the report of h commit
tee made last night follow:
Complaint No. 4.
Whereas the ordinance creating
the market In section No. I. states
THAT there will he and hereby is. es-
tabiished a public market, to be
known as the farmers market
This committee reports hat they Wis
tied said market on W different oc-
casions and at no time did they see
farmer nor resemblance of one."
Report on complaint No. /.
Section II reads as follows:
ANY huckster now paying a IL
cense fee to this city upon agreeing to
comply with the condition of this
ordinance may in the discretion of the
superintendent of weights and meas
ures have a space set aside for him
for selling vegetables and fruit pro-
ducts, flowers or ornamental plants up
on the payment OF the fee herein
stated"
SO that q huckster has a perfect
right in the farmers market as long
as he observes all the rules OF said
market.
Complaint No. Q.
Whereas section No. 2 Of the or
din,nce stated mo goods or produce
shall be offered for sale on any street
or near public market other than In
the place so assigned and set apart
by the said superintendent under
penalty" The committee finds that
stands are erected on the
streets and around the corner on the
sidewalks on Elm street. blockading
etc., selling manufactured
goods which is directly contrary not
alone to section Nc. 8. but also to
section %. which prohibits the sale
of factory goods.
Report on Complaint No. 2.
Section 3 provides that no person
shall sell or expose for sale any gar
den produce or any things whatsoever
at any street or near said public
market other than in the place so
assigned or set apart by said superin-
tendent under the penalty of $40 for
such offense.
The dry goods stands on Fayette
and Elm streets do not come under
the jurisdiction of the superintendent
of weights and measures. They are
outside the market ground so II the
sidewalks are DISTRACTED 1t Is the duty
of the police to have them cleared.
Complaint Nc. 8.
Whereas Section No. 16 states that
all fruits and vegetables shall be kept
in baskets or on platforms elevated
at least eighteen inches above the
ground. The committee reports
that there were innumerable viola
lions of this section n also found
cheese and eggs wrapped in paper
that were lying on the wet and filthy
ground.
Report on Complaint No. 3.
1t seems to us hat an egg wrapped
In paper and placed on wee ground Is
not particularly as to Its qualities for
culinary purposes providing not left
ON the ground too long, as to the
cheese there has been pot cheese
placed on the ground, put said cheese
was in a granite ware dishpan and
was covered with a clean white ia
blecloth.
Complaint No. 4
Last but most important of all thu
committee finds the poorest grade o
produce being disposed of in said
market, to the foreign element NOR
so than to any other class of people
at prices as high as good produc'
| would cost. At n stand the com
mittee found one huckster who ha
purchased some rotten potatoes a
$3.50 per bag and was brazen enougl
to collect S1.25 per sixteen-quar
| basket for goods not At for pigs t
| eat, not alone people. Samples o
| these were obtained. At another stan
| the committee found another huck
| ster selling apples at 65 cents pc
small basket, said apples bein
wormy and rotten.
Report on Complaint No. 4
We find the produce sold at h
market of good quality, comparln
very favorably indeed with good
the market Is inspected regularl
every market day by the Inspector {
the Board OF Health or one OF n
assistants, and they certainly do M
allow any decayed produce to be sol
or any food products to be handle
or displayed in an ~insanitary manne
Complaint No. 5 :,
In conclusion, most honorap
Board of Aldermen, we wish to sta,
that the huckster does not hand
near as good a grade OF goods as 10
rent-paying and the taxpaylng me,
chants of our city and If n shoul
happen TO have a high grade of goot
(Which looks almost impossible) I
Gets as high if not higher price fe