nr. Charles Rice. 



SO as to occtip}'- fully half ihe street all around the market. This 

 was illegal and the conditions were highly unsanitary. The 



Board of Encumbrances refused 

 to obey his orders to remove the 

 stalls. The police 'ikewise re- 

 fused. The marketmen inquired 

 whether a purse of $50,000 would 

 "square the matter." Threats of 

 personal violence were also 

 made. Dr. Chandler was haled 

 into court to show cause why a 

 preliminary injunction should not 

 be issued restraining him from 

 tearing down the structure. The 

 judge declined to issue a pre- 

 liminary injunction, but said that 

 at 10 o'clock next day he would 

 l)e required to show cause why 

 an injunction should not be is- 

 s'led. On leaving the court 

 room his counsel said "this 

 means that what you do be- 

 tween now and 10 o'clock to- 

 morrow morning will be legal A\'hat you may do after that time 

 depends on wdiat the court may say." He found an old German 

 house-wrecker who for $2,500 would demolish and remove the 

 structure. ]5ut he could not pay $1,000 without advertising for 

 bids. He offered the wrecker $990 to demolish the buildings and 

 ofifered his foreman on a separate contract $990 to remove them. 

 He went before the Board of Police Commissioners demanding police 

 protection for the wreckers. The commissioners laughed in his 

 face. He told them that he would at once prepare and file an affi- 

 davit that he had made formal demand for police protection, for 

 his men, which had been refused. This affidavit would be j^laced 

 where it would settle definitely the responsibility for any rioting 

 that might occur. He went to his own offices in the same building, 

 and in a few minutes received word that the police protection would 

 be forthcoming. He sent sixty of his o\vn sanitary police to re- 

 move the contents of the stalls to the inner portion of the market 

 and 300 regidar police formed a cordon around the structure. The 

 work began at 8 o'clock in the evening and by 10 o'clock next 

 morning all of the structure that projected beyond the curb had 

 been demolished and removed and the pavement, which had not 

 seen the light of flay for forty years, had been washed clean by the 



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