The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-31


things be 70 ers Cd for q instaat; bak II New
York suiferingis our normal condition and pa
thence our oi.tingui hing virtue. n requires the
terror inspired by the prospect of the return
Of the cholera or the yellow fevee to
arouse the authorities to the necessity Of putting
an end to this, The most dangerous of the shams
connected with the internal administr alton of the
city. We should probably, however, have gone
on in the same rou inc course, allowing the con-
tractors like the doctors to fatten on our mise
ries. had not the plan Of the City Inspector and
slip in the new city charter offered the oppor-
tuni,y of an experiment which seems likely to af-
ford us relief
Mr. Morton does not set out With the promise
that the system which he is about to carry into
execution will be more economical than the old
one On the contrary, he tells us fairly that it is
impossible to execute the work asst should be exc
cuted to meet all the conditions of sound sanitary
regulations without adding considerably to the
present expense. He sets down $500 900 as the
amount which We must expect annually to pay
If we would keep our streets in the same c0ndi-
ton Of cleanliness as the European cities. Aud
the work, he says eau only be accomplished for
this sum by the enforcement Of ain economi-
cal arrangements, by which the manure produced
by the streets, and which has high agricultural
value. will not be mixed with and deteriorated
by inferior substances, such as coal ashes. He
will have carts traversing the city daily for the
removal of these distinct accommodations, and thus
he will be able to insure TO the market gardeners
and farmers who contract with him, the manure
in an unadulterated state, which, under the old
system, was never the case. He will have Broad
way and others Of the principal thoroughfares
where the traffic requires it. swept daily, while
with little less labor, the subordinate streets
will be kept in an equally irreproachable state
These are fair promises, and if faithfully observed
the benefits that we shall derive from them will
be worth all that we shall pay. Mr.. Morton. in
any case. may rest satisfied that we will not
gIumble at the expense, provided we see that tue
money is conscientousy laid out An annual
expenditure of even half million of dollars
would be cheerfully submitted to to obtain the
luted atmosphere. 1t was only the conviction
that we paid our money for the pleasure OF being
hunbugged that made US FESTIVE under the old
system. Let Mr.. Morton do for US what the health
inspector of London, Mr.. Simon, has done for
that metropolis, and there are no rewards within
our gift to which he will not fairly be entitled
why do People 90 to the Watering Places.
The country press seems to have found a mine
of editorials in the few suggestions We threw out
the other day in reference to the fashionable Wa
tering places; and while the organs Of the hotel
keepers at Newport, Saratoga, Nahant, &C., seem
TO consider that hanging would be a very made
quate penalty for our impertinence, and that we
ought at least to be drawn, quartered and leftuu-
buried besdes the respectable journals Of our SIS
ter cities and the rural districts generally concur
with US in denouucing the bad fare, atrocious dis
comfort, rascally cheating, and ignoble snobbery
which are the ruling characteristics Of our ia
nous watering places during ''the season" Some
of them 60 far as to urge their friends to set
good example by staying away this year; others,
like the Boston Traveller, while tacitly admitting
the justice Of our remarks seem to think that the
Old fogies and the young fools will continue to
patronise their old haunts In spite Of our admoni
tons.
Well, it may be 80. The crop of fools is large,
aud to them II is folly TO talk reason. But there
are, we apprehend, very many persons who do
not belong to the category Of fools, and who
nevertheless yield to the general fashion, and
suffer annual agonies at the watering places; up.
on these little common sense may perhaps be
piled with possibly beneficial result.
Let these worthy but weak persons only think
of their last years experience Let them recall
to memory the horrible meals they made at Sara
toga aud Newport; the tough beefsteaks, the
dishwater tea, the leathery toast, the leaden rolls
the lean fowls, the half cooked potatoes the sick
ening smell prevailing the dining room. Let
them remember The despair with which they tried
TO procure q dinner: and the overwhelming help
lessness with which they discovered after they had
given a waiter dollar, that there was really
nothing eatable On the tables, aud that even cor
ruption could not better their case. Let them
dwell on the bed too. that memorable gridlron,
on which they groaned and tossed the lvelong
night. between severe conflicts with mosquitoes
and frightfu, Nightmares about the rack and other
tormenls. Let them give thought, too, to the
society for whose sake they underwent these tor
lures; the silly women without an idea in their
beads knowing nothing Of the world or Of books,
unable 10 sustan conversation On the most ordi-
nary topic, unable to cut decent figure in a
drawing room, and apt fer no other use bat to be
toyed with; the young men, foppishly dressed,
priggish in manners, empty in head and mean in
heart: the old fogies, thinking and talking OF
nothing generous or liberal OF manly or candid,
but the males engrossed In sordid considerations
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