New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

and make them take out permits" !"
Commissioner O'Malley told me- My
own experience, however. convinced me
that the supervisor did everything pos
sible to discourage permit applicants.
Harry Friedman, assistant supervisor
of the Orchard Street market, told me
fatty there were no stands in the
street, not an inch" and that it was
useless for me to come around any
more. Benjamin Gottlieb, the Living
ton Street boss, kept telling me to
come around tomorrow; come around
tomorrow" on three successive days,
and when l suggested that had to live
and had to do something to-day,
stormed out "Who said anything about
to-day? We can't do it to-day. To-mor-
row; tomorrow.
Finally Starts to Make One Out
Simon Israel, the Suffolk Street car.
also puts me off for a few days, but
finally, after the second day, started to
fill out an application, probably after
he had no good excuse for further de-
lay. "A @
The applications, however. once
reached, are ponderous things and must
contain every detail of your life, your
previous addresses, employers and so
forth. Israel even asked me why l
wanted to be a peddler and required
references for the mere permission to
sell few dollars worth of fruit
in the street. A slight suggestion
brought forth storm and the destruc-
tion of the application with the fiat
refusal of permit.
| was convinced that the permitles IS
hawker was more to the liking of the
best, as do many of the peddlers.
Ninety Per Cent for Market Expenses
What would happen to the $500, 900
or S600,00 collected from the venders
According to Commissioner O'Malley,
90 per cent of it goes into expenses
for running the street markets, and 10
per cent into the city's sinking fund.
In other words, $270,OO0 to $4,000
goes to the supervisors for expenses,
and $4,000 to 100000 into the city
merely offered his statement that the
10 per cent Surplus" went to the city
treasury. At the Office of the City
Chamberlain | was told that all moneys
from the Department of Markets came
over in q lump sum and there was no
specification as to what had been COL
lected from closed markets, peddlers or
other sources.
The expenses for conducting the
markets are declared to eat up the in
come as follows: The supervisor is
permitted by the commissioner to re-
tain $50 week from his collections.
There is usually an assistant who is
supposed to get S35 week, and a
laborer to keep the market street clean
at about $25 week.
Found Only One "Laborer''
I can say, however. that if such
laborers actually exist. they are rare
or do not perform the duties they are
said to be hired for. In my weeks
wanderings about the lower East Side
market area, l found only one person
who showed any pretense of being a
street laborer employed b. super
visor, and he strutted about in a
white collar. clean shirt and creased
trousers, with broom over his
shoulder which never touched the pave
ment.
On TIE other hand, there were indi-
cations that this work was performed
by regular employees of the Street
Cleaning Department, as / learned
from the aforementioned Harry Fried
man, before whose Office had anchored
my cart one day, when a white wing
ordered me away so he could clean up
the spot. Friedman told me the street
cleaner was not an employee of his.
Commissioner O'Malley asserts that
the number of venders in a supervisors S
district averaged about 100. | counted