New-York tribune., 1922-08-29

Space Rented in Their
Absence TO Others, but
Collectors Force Week
II Toll From Them
Transients Bled,
Poor Prosecuted
Men Failing Once to
Meet Demands Barred
Forever From Business
By NJ. Jay Racusiin


worried-iooking little man who was
orce allowed to make a living as a
peddler, goes down to the Orchard
Street pushcart market and fingers at
lat empty space here or there at the
curb with the wistfulness of boy
dreamiis watching the disappearance
Of ship beyond the horizon.
He was once happy, too, he told me.
ard used to drive his penny bargains
with the housewives from behind cart
just like the ether peddlers. But one
day, about seven months ago, he didn't
I have the weekly dollar when the
( o.chard Street supervisor came around
and he was arrested and driven out of
the market Department of Market of
fcials told him he would never be al
i lowed to trnndle q cart again in this
market.
1T amt so bad If person is just
allowed to live he said, "but when
they take my place away, my sunshine,
eh?" he concluded, with a shrug.
Il come here every day." he went on,
aand ind cut who left q place. / look
around, and think maybe nobody will
come right away, and | see Louis
Friedman, the supervisor, and ! ask
him maybe he will take pity on me
end give me the place. For four months
i i ask him, and for four months he says
no. Maybe God will tell him to say
yes some time. Who can tell?
No Dollar to Give
Sure, Friedman knows all my
troubles he replied to my question.
lrn nne I r,nf fu.o rsf taxy axtyy, H..
6ren and two orphants from the other
side. / got my license from the city
md my permit One day / don't have
the dollar to give him. What are you
S going to do? A man hasn't got doll
lar, that's all. Friedman amt poor.
He collects enough, and he has butter
With his bread. No, it don't matter. He
cant wait, not one minute. He arrests
\ me and | have to borrow So and paV ~
are. Ah,. If he would only give me 81
nand he would be a good man"
s It was another Of the tales Of injus-s
.ice which met me on every side in the
Course of niy Investigation Of the bur
slens imposed upon the street vendars
by cfTicialdom ] recommend his case
esta Commissioner Of Markets O'Mallcy
and TO the Investigating Commissioner
OF Accounts, David Hirshfeld, for evi-
@dence Of the wrong doing In the Mar
the latter seems to doubt.
The case of Hcckhaus is Of such q
fragrant nature that Solomon Suffrin,
counsel for the League OF Citizen Ped
dlers of Greater New York, has made
1t the subject of test case in the Su-
prenie Court to prevent the collection
Of the dollar week from the heck
sters by supervisors, who are not really
city employees. A decision is expected
germ ~ aho,.
Many "Funny Things Going On
Heckhaus, like ali human beings,
vas glad to have some one listen to his
story, and told it to many q peddler,
and many . peddler told him his.
'0h, if you want to hear about funny
things what's going on, it can fill a
Talmud,' he eagerly broke in. "You
kntw, l was arrested second time,
too, but ] didn't have the heart to ask
my friends to pay another S5, so paid
& y myself by staying in Jail You know,
I'm good man-I'n no robber or mur-
derer.n
He was glad to go into the troubles
q his pushcart associates. The af-
lars of one of his brethren of the
cart brought laugh.
I'm laughing" he remarked; "it's|
8 bitter laugh Commissioner O'Mal-
isy laughs too, and Assistant Commits
slerer Molloy laughs, but it's differ
ea..a
Heckhaus then detailed the expert
ences of some other peddlers in the
matter OF weekly collections and per-
mits, pleading that the names of the
senders involved be withheld for fear
q further persecution.
Has No Permit
There's pedeler named in
Klvington Street." he recounted, "who
gives dollar every week to Super
visor Gottlieb or his assistant, but he
has no permit. Gottlieb never told him
e get a permit. O'Maliey says every
body must have permit. Say, so long
Gottlieb or his assistant gets that
dollar every week, who worries 2"
called the attention of Heckhaus to
no significance of his disclosures.
: pointing out that the Commissioner
sauld only keep tabs on the receipts
q the peddlers from the numbered per-
'nlts issued by him, and that where no
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