New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-10
CITY ITEMS.

"R,G AND Bo>F-PIcKERs' PARADisF."--In the
rear of Nos 50 and 80 Sheriff street in the Eleventh
Ward is located " Rag -pickers Paradise 1t il so
named from the fact that hundreds of rag and bone
pickers reside assert and sell their stock in trade at
that point Formerly this place and numerous Others
in this ward greater nusances than they are at
the present time. Parties doing business at these
places have during the past year, been under the SUI
peryision Of Health Warden Green. BY dlnt OF per-
severing daily efforts, he has partially succeeded IN
educating them in the matter OF cleanliness. Much
vet remains 10 be done. The entrance to Rag-pck-
en-, Paradise" il from Sheriff street, when you at
once approach a block of diapidated cottage build
ngs with narrow balconies, in which are hung large
quantities of oastoff garments rags, &C., IN the pro-
cess Of drying.
Til. block is occupied by pickers both male and
female. rs you pass you are saluted at once on en-
tcrins by regiment of dogs, and you may regard
yourself fortunate if you escape bite AT least hity
on sixty dogs are kenneed within the yards and houses
Some Of them have evidently in their day done SER
vice hainessed to the reg carts in the transportation
of the sickenng uuisanees in the shape OF deeayed
vegetables, damaged meat, bones, bread cheese and
numerous other obnoxious sundres, which are scat
tered promscuously in the yard and emit a stencil
almost uncomfortable by mortal men, who has never
educated his nasal organ, to relish such vie STINK
for the sake of boarding mp few hundred dollars
II ismid.d,v You enter the rooms occupied by the
pickers. Their rags and bones are mainly assorted
there In barrels, boxes, baskets and pans, on tins
table under the table in chair, and every corner OF
the room NAV be seen the most disgusting collection
Of matter gathered and garnered, awaiting the arrival
Of wholesale merchants with their twohorse wagons,
10 whom they are about to sell the sckening trash
You hasten 20 the street. The wagons are IN waning
The accuuu 4ted uasness 1t moving ron the yards
Progress is being made in transferring barrels bo1es
and tubs from the ward Municipal corruption corrupt
ed View what a smell At least a dozen carts
are being loaded in the street and this too at the ousl
ne,s hour Of the day. o'clock pm. Well would It be
If tbi. was Int once in lifetime II Is regular daily
transaction yet strange to say respectaDe '4e' re-
side and do business in that neghborhood and vicinity
These carts frequently remain in the streets Tor three
or four hours waiting for their daily customers VINO
nav have stroled too far away from Paradise with
heir heavy burdens 10 return in due time.
Orr renor+er. with Health-Warden Green, visited
several other rdred places in the Ward, and came
TO the conclusion that, notwithstanding tne "''usH
had made great improvement IN the sanitary eo"ui-
ton Of the pckers, they are still nuisance ue'ii
mental to the health of the Ward and Cityi anu the
business should at once be Discontinued ana uans
planted beyond the city limits Il that cannot oe
done certainly the carts should be placed under
the .uperin,en,epce of the City Inspector Depart
men, and the dsy..cavepgers compelled TO submit 10
al tie rples and regulations which govern night
sCayengers.
A., Isah