The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-11-02
DEALING WITH
BEGGARS AND PEDDLERS

The following condensed report on
QUESTIONABLE sent out by the Florida
Development Board is made up from
replies received from city officials in
Daytona, Fort Myers, Gainesville,
Jacksonville, Lakeland, Miami, Ocala,
Orlando, Pensacola, Tallahassee, St.
Augustine, St. Petersburg and West
Palm Beach.
What privileges, if any, are ex-
tended to the blind and cripple to
solicit aims on streets or sit in promi-
nent places in wheel chairs or on
cushions to sell pencils and trinkets?
None except in Gainesville, Jackson.
vile, Ocala and Pensacola on permit
by mayor; and in West Palm Beach
allow them "a hours, designate their
stand and charge license fee of $3.50.
What license fee is charged for sell
ing goods from house to house by tim
Grant peddlers? Jacksonville, s25 ex-
vegetable and fruit peddlers, $75;
Miami and Ocala,. $50; Gainesville and
ST. Augustine, SIS; Daytona, Fort
Myers, Pensacola and West Palm
Beach, 500; Lakeland and st. Peters
burg, $500; Orlando and Tampa, $40
lper day; Tallahassee, $75 per day.
What license fee is charged for
solicitors who go from house to house
taking orders for goods to be deliver
ed later Lakeland, $25; 0cala, $50
Daytona, Fort Myers, Miami, 500;
Tampa, SO per day, Others do not
charge license, and both Daytona and
Fort Myers make exception where
satisfactory credentials are shown
that solicitor is working under inter-
state commerce act
Do you charge itinerant magazine
subscription solicitors any license
fee? Lakeland and Pensacola, $25;
Fort Myers and Ocala, 500, and
0cala requires $3.50 bond; Tampa,
SO per day; others do not require IL
! cense, but try to discourage patronage
of itinerant solicitors
Tallahassee has recently enacted an
ordinance requiring itinerant merch-
ants, even with temporary place of
business, competing with local merch-
ants. to pay $50 per day.
West Palm Beach charged $500 Ii
cense to peddlers or street vendors of
medicines, drugs or other proprietary
preparations purporting to have me-
dicinal virtues
The first Sanitation to every un-
known. solicitor or peddler should be
to see his or her license for doing
business in your city. If license is
not shown promptly notify the proper
city officials. so they can apprehend
the party. An investigation made by
the Florida Development Board shows
that nigh license fees are provided in
! the various cities, but the solicitors
confdentially report that few of the
cities collect the license fees, for the
reason that the solicitors work large
lly trough the residence section
where the housewives seldom ask to
sees license, and those making such
inquiry rarely take the time to report
to the city officials that there is an
unlicensed solicitor in their neighbor-
hood. There are only three or four
tcities in which the blind and manned
are permitted to solicit aims or sell
trinkets on the streets.
The Florida Development Board
warns all who are solicited to buy
wall maps of Florida, to examine the
maps before making payment as a
large edition has been printed by one
firm in a northern city which do not
Ishow Union county, that some agents
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