New-York tribune., 1922-08-29
Sick Peddlers
Mulcted for
Market Fees
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permits were issued he could have no
knowledge of what was going on.
"Who can tell what the Commissioner
knows?" he remarked. "You had it in
the paper that he said there was from
1000 to 5000 f1oaters on the East Side
who should have permits. Can you see
any? Maybe they are in the Jordan.
1t can be true that 5000 peddlers amt
got any permits, but they got stands
it's all right. and where is Commits
sioner 0'Malley ask you7"
Gave Up Dollar Day
The huckster to whom he referred
he added, also visited two other street
markets Mott Street and Market Street
and although he peddled his wares
at these places only one or two morn
ings a week he was forced to give up
a dollar. Under market department
rules transients are only called upon
to pay 25 cents a day.
"And this man has no permit regu-
larlv issued by Commissioner OMal-
ley ?" l asked.
Regular or not regular, he ain't
got a permit, believe me, and they
take his money and it's all right Say
who won't take money? Besides, this
peddler got license for Sd from the
city, the old kind of license which he
don't have to have, they say, but he
got it anyhow, and the lcensee man
says to him, "If you want to be a
damn fool and pay 81 a week besides;
go ahead and be fool Well, the
peddler thinks maybe the 81 week
thing won't be forever and he wants
to have a good license, and that's why
many other peddlers take the Sd
license, too Say.- It's no joke
Teckhaus then went on TO the next
case, that of an ex-service man, who
paid seven different supervisors 25
cents each in one day for permission
to sell his wares. "I don't know
whether he got receipts for his money
or not" he commented doubtfully
"You know, the supervisors are so
busy sometimes they forget those lit
tie things he winked.
Wanted Sick Man to Pay
Referring to another case he said
he didn't know all the details, but |
learned them myself from other
sources. 1t appears from this infor-
nation that pushcart dealer in Riv-
ington Street, the district of Supervisor
Gottlieb, who had been hawking his
wares from one spot for twenty wears,
fell sick one day last winter and was
confined to his bed for three weeks.
Gottlieb, SO the story goes, went to
the sick mans house and demanded
So for the three weeks the man was
unable to do any business "But I
was sick and l didn't peddle, and it's
only by the week and why should I
pay?" the poor man protested.
II don't care if you are away all
winter, you must pay just the same. y
Gottlieb is reported to have said
"Please wait until get out into
the street again! l will pay" the ped
dler begged.
Gottlieb insisted. The old man
went to the Tammany woman leader of
the I'd Assembly District and told her
he didn't have the money demanded by
Gottheb and pleaded that she help
him. She had it fixed up so that he
didn't have to give up the money.
Another in His Place
"But the funny part of it Isl" wound
UP the huckster who told me the story
with dig of his finger in my chest,
"another peddler was in the sick man S
place while the sick man was away,
and the other man was paying money
for the place. What is a man to do,
tell me?"
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