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Show N. Y. East Side Will Push Pushcart Markets Indoors licensed peddlers in the area. Not at all sentimental over consigning con-signing the malodorous pushcart marts to oblivion, they said the move would save $173 a day in the cost of cleaning streets of the lower East Side. The new red brick Essex street market will house about 530 peddlers, who will pay S4.25 a week for their stalls. NEW YORK, Nov. 21 JPl The famous pushcart markets of Manhattan's lower East Side for generations portable shopping shop-ping centers for the teeming tenement district have been doomed. City Market Commissioner William Fellowes Morgan Jr. aaid curbstone merchants in the area would be banned from the streets January 1, when the city will open its new -J5 25,900 inclosed in-closed Essex street retail market Although officials said the change would cause "the greatest great-est revolution in the life of the lower East Side in its history," the pushcart peddlers themselves showed no enthusiasm for their new quarters. Morris Reinberg, 69, a pushcart push-cart clothing merchant for a quarter century, summed up the feeling of his fellows when asked whether he would move Into the Inclosed market "What else can I do?" he said. City officials estimated there were 600 licensed and 400 un- |