In this article "canvasser" or "solicitor" means an individual who travels by foot,
wagon, automobile, motor truck, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place,
from house to house, or from street to street, taking or attempting to take orders
for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, personal property of any nature whatsoever
for future delivery, or services to be furnished or performed in the future. Such
definition shall include any person who, for himself, or for another, hires, leases,
uses, or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad boxcar, boat, hotel room,
lodging house, apartment, shop, or any other place within the city for the sole purpose
of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery; provided, further, that
no license fee shall be collected from a traveling salesman, merchant or dealer or
employees thereof.