Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — CUTS LIVING COST; JAILED [ARTICLE]

CUTS LIVING COST; JAILED

of Perambulating Restaurant Gets Into Trouble In New — r —'— w York.New York.-—Even the police are conspiring to keep up the high cost of living. Samuel Magufsky, who came from Russia two months ago with the idea in view of reducing the cost of existence for those in this country, was arrested. When Magufsky landed here he investigated things for himself and saw that one of the contributory items of the high cost of living was the rent food purveyors pay. So he decided that what was wanted was a perambulating restaurant. He bought a large-sized push cart, decked it over fore and it Resembled a houseboat on wheels, putln a cooking stove with a pipe extended through the roof, and in one corner a small icebox, containing steaks and chops. Outside be had a bill of fare. His specials were baked sweet potatoes, 1 cent, and fried eels, 5 cents. H Armed with a bell to attract attention, Magufsky was pushing the car through East 117th street. Children from school were baying the potatoes and housewives were getting a doable portion of eels for dinner when Patrolman Mahoney steered Magufsky and bis restaurant to the police station. “What charge do you mAjM,

honey?” asked the lieutenant. “Conspiracy against the high cost of living or maintaining a nuisance with a smoking coal stove? Has he got a license?" Magufsky said he had not, and so he was held for peddling without a license. Magufsky said he had been peddling through the east side for two weeks, but it was his first day in Harlem. /.