New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Force Peddlers
Up Town to Pay
Soc. w eek More
Extra KALI Dollar Is for Re
naovaI of Boxes, Official
Excuse, but Vendors Say
All Must Render Tribute
Truck Driver Is Collector
Park Ave. Hucksters Tell of
Yielding $50 for Stand
Despite O'Malley's Ruling
BY NJ. lay Racusin

The peddler in the Park Avenue
street market below 1I5th Street con-
siders himself station in life above
the huckstess on the lower East Side.
de doesn't make any more money, and
the fruits and vegetables he sells taste
about the same. But he pays more for
his little plot to dispose Of his wares,
1t pinches him, he says, but then so
long as he has bread at home he will
pay.
The fact is that the venders in the
Park Avenue market have to giYe up
$1.50 a week for their stands, instead
of the 81 fee exacted in the other
street markets of the city. Why this
should be is not satisfactorily ex-
planned by Joseph Shaughnessy, who
assists his brother James in supervis-
ing this area. It is one of the largest
markets in the city, containing on the
average $50 pushcarts daily.
O'Malley's Ruling Violated
The peddlers, it appears, have been
given some queer explanations as to
the necessity for the collection Of the
extra fifty cents, although Commits
sioner of Markets Edwin j. O'Mailey
has uled that no peddler is to be
forced to pay more than 81 a week.
aHow much do you pay for your
stand 2" asked a bearded old man
selling pears between 113th and Hath
Streets.
II give $3.50 a week. he answered
with q shrug.
"Why do you have to give UP $3.50
wksn the peddlers in the other mar
kesh only have to give $1?"
&aybe we are q little different,
yea know, little better peddlers,"
he replied
a5ut you sell just like the others
and the fruit isn't any different and
you can't do much better business.
How do you mean better?"
Believe me. ! don't think we are
better. The supervisor maybe thinks
so."
And 80 you have 60 pay $1.50?"
well, it's paid funny. One dollar
we give on Monday and fifty cents on
Thursday"
aWhat does the supervisor say the
money is used for? %
si.50 Split Two Ways.
"He tells me, the callector that
81 goes to the government and fifty
cents to clean the streets"
what government p
Listen. | don't know much about
the government, but it's some gov
ernment, they know, and they take the
money and that's all"
"Don't you know that money for
cleaning the streets should come out
of that dollar, that Commissioner
O'Mailey has said that was one of the
reasons why the dollar was collected
to pay laborers to keep the market
clean and remove all rubbish and
things like that?'
The old fellow shrugged his should
ers and lifted his hands questioningly.
IL don't know from Commissioners
O'Malley. l know from collector.
that's all. There he goes. Go and talk
to him about O'Malley."
contractor" Gets so Cents Weekly
approached Joseph Shaughnessy,
assistant supervisor, and asked to be
enlightened about the extra 90 cents.
He said that neither he nor any other
assistant connected withssthe market
got the so cents, but that 1T was col
lected by contractor who had the
right to remove "boxes" from the mar
ket, for which the peddlers gave him
80 cents week. The money was ex-
acted only from those hueksters who
used boxes in their trade, he said.
"Can you give me the name of the
contractor" / asked.
Sure" replied Shaughnessy, "It's J.
Butler
whats his address?"