Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-08-07
SAY MARKET
NOT FARMERS.
Determined Effort on Part OF
HuckSterS to Have Same
Rights as Dirt Farmers
PROTESTS TO THE MAYOR
Friction at Market Between
Them-0riginally Planned
for Use of Farmers
PROTESTS TO THE MAYOR

A steady stream of complaints is
being received by Mayor Wilson
from persons in the city who OBJ
ject to the presence of hucksters at
the farmers market which is In op-
Grafton three days every week. These
people maintain that the market
was established solely for the farm
ers' to dispose of their wares and
that a person going to the market
does not wish to be forced to care
fully examine wagons and stands in
order to determine whether or not
the operator is a farmer or huck-
ster.
In addition to residents of this
city, visiting farmers have complain
ed of the presence Of hucksters, de-
claring that their presence is detri-
mental to the farmers business.
There are fewer farmers attending
the market this year than last year
and this dissatisfaction over the
present arrangements may be re-
eponsible for their falling to bring
their wares to this city any more.
Thousands of people go to the.
market weekly the days on which II
is open being Tuesday, THURSDAY
and Saturday. Many have been
patronizing the market since l9O9.
Ever since the farmers market
was first launched in this city there
has been a determined effort on the
mart of the hucksters to be permit
ted to have wagons and STANDS as
well as the farmers. various ar
rangements have been made. AT
one time the hucksters coulo pe
found nesting between the farmers
stands. making 1t practically impos-
Chile TO distinguish them from the
farmers. Complaints were so numef
ous that a change was made.
The hucksters were then placed IN
a section by themselves. They did
not like being segregated In TINS
manner and made a hard hight. Iney
were again permitted to estaollsn
themselves closer to the farmers
wagons with the result that COM
plants against their presence again
were heard. This battle OF farmer
and huckster has been going on ever
since the market was established.
Farmers maintain that the mar
ket is known as farmers market
and only those who bring their
green goods in direct from nearby
farms should be permitted to sell
Hucksters claim that they are all
Perth Amboy taxpayers and as they
are forced to pay hucksters license
fee in addition to the twenty y-IVe W
cents per market day charge at tne
market, they should be privileged 10
sell their wares at the open mar.
The visiting farmers argue that
they must depend upon the safes at
the farmers market. If they do not
-ns.
must cart it back to the farm with
them unless they get rid of 1t at
loss in order to go home with an
empty wagon or truck. The huck-
sters. on the other hand. the farm
ers say, can peddle their goods
about the city from house to house
and dispose of 1t in this way. AS
the hucksters have always made
nraetice of selling to housewives at
the house they secure the trade or
hundreds of people who do not pat
ronize the farmers market, the
farmersc claim, and by coming to
the farmers market also they are
Quitting in" on trade which ordln-
arilv would go to the farmers II the
hucksters would confine their ell
forts to going from house to mouse.
There is a falling off of the num-
her of farmers coming to Perth
Amboy's market. The figures show
ing this to be the truth can be OBJ
TONED from City Sealer of Weights
and Measures, Henry Toft who is In
charge of the operating of the mar
ket although the aldermanic mar
ket committee is the body which de-
cides all arguments and makes all
rules governing the conduct or the
,,arlxet Several reasons could be
given foa. this falling off in the num-
her of farmers attending but dis
satisfaction on the part OF many with
the liberties given the hucksters is
said to be one of the main reasons