Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
.RAz|NG OF MARKET
TO BEGIN MONDAY
Many Dealers Now Adjusting
Themselves to New Stalls
at Convention Hall.

As dealers ousted from Center Market
by the Governments evacuation order,
which went into effect Wednesday mid
night, proceeded today to adjust them
selves to new surroundings in other
marketplaces, announcement was made
that the houSewreckers would take over
the Center Market Building on Penn
sylvania avenue at 4 pm. tomorrow.
Demolition work, it was said, will begin
Monday.
New Sites Considered.
At the same time, H. Herfurth, jr.,
head of the housewrecking concern
declared that as much as possible of
the material from the old building
would be Salvaged, with the idea toward
rebuilding the market on some other
site in the city, if sufficient funds can
be obtained. There is possibility, Mr..
Herfurth declared, that the old red
brick building between Seventh and
Ninth streets ON the Avenue, which
housed Center Market from July 2,
1872, to January /, 1881, may be re-
constructed in full or in part in either
Southwest or Northeast washington.
OF the 1859 dealers who operated more
than 300 stalls in Center Market, a
CQppention Hall Market, Fifth and K
streets, while others went to other
market places in various sections of the
city. No farmers. however, were to be
seen retailing merchandise in the vicin-
ity of Convention Hall today. Facilities
for their accommodation there are not
yet complete, it was stated. Some 400
retail farmers were located around the
Center Market conducting business that
intermingled conveniently with the
trade of the dealers in the market
proper. They were seriously affected
by the closing of the market, having no
place to go with its passing.
Traffic Shows Increase.
Traffic in the vicinity of Convention
Hall was considerably more active to-
day as a result of the establishment of
many more dealers in the building.
Police were giving special attention to
moving vehicles parked abreast and
trying to keep traffic flowing. There is
no parking limit on the streets sur
ent time, but police believe a time
limit period of parking will be estab-
ished in the near future.
With limited number of doors left
open, a few dealers today were still
moving property from their stalls in
the old market building, under the eyes
of Government inspectors and repre-
sentatives of the housewrecking con-
Germ, the latter of whom expect to
salvage sufficient from the market
building to remunerate them for their
demolition labors.
Rats Conspicuous by Absence.
Rats, which were very much in evil
dence before the market came under
Government control were conspicuous
by their absence when counters and
showcases were removed. There was
a report that one was sighted some time
New Year eve as he scampered from
beneath one stall to the shelter of
rats, to the end that hordeS of them
were eradicated, and the pests have
given market men little trouble since.
Always when a big cleanup or re-
moval of a store or market Is in progress
coins that have rolled into dark crevices
and inconSpicuouS corners are found.
and the occasion of the evacuation of
Center Market was no exception.
Although the official regulation calling
for the turning in of lost property at
the superintendent Office Melted but 65
cents during the moving period, it is
believed that quite an amount of coin
age was discovered.
OF the amount turned in to j. W.
inspector in the market Office,
one coin was a Canadian quarter and
another was a Spanish coin of small
denomination.
Disease Specimens Collected.
With the closing of the market more
than so Government employees We're re-
leased Mr.. Stewart, who has been in
the Government service for several
years and who was with the Bureau
of Animal Industry before he went to
Center Market, will be returned to the
former bureau. Supt. Charles H. Wal
leight, who has been in charge of the
market, will go to another branch of
the Department of Agriculture.
Mr.. Stewart, who is registered
trained nurse, has made a speciality
since he has been at the market of
collecting specimens of meat diseases
discovered during the careful govern
mental inspection of the market food
stuffs He will take with him to the
Bureau of Animal Industry bottles con-
tanning portions of meat preserved in
alcohol that are typical specimens of
diseases found in birds and animals.