New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-13
A MONSTER NUISANCE.
& Editor Of The N. Y. Tyiluns

To the Edito, Of The NJ y Tritvn@
SIR: SEEING thst you prize highly the public health,
and disregard alike the hostility Of Stump.Ts Com
mittees and poison venders, / make bold to call,
through the columns Of The TRIBUNE the attention of
those who ought to take action in the matter to an
iasupportabe nuisance that exists in the upper ps OF
this city. That part which allude to lies between
the Crystal Palace and the Central Park, and -
fabked by the SIKH and Seventh avenues. Ihls IL
decidedly the most repulsi looking location which
ever before veDured to examine 1t IL Impossible
give anything approaches true n ,Sa peOer Of
crest city ss this fostering spot presents
cong, egated and still fast accumuahog squst'er
| pouuation have anchored their q" sh antics on a
| pa,slel,ogram bounded on the north by Fity nntn
street which is the southern boundary OF the Cent?
Park; on the south by Fortynnth street, and on Ine
east an We st by the Sixth and Seventh avenues Inc
eating pandemorium lie almost incredible, and II not
Immediately 8bated, disease ana It's consequences WI"
scon be scattered around.
There axe between four and five hundred shanties
perched on this rocky platform, numbers of mem pc
Il o the eorrest limitations of human dwellings, whch
can be conceived. These wre!ched novels, WIN t1ei
varied and numerous Gppurtenances OF horse-staoies
stump tail cow-sheds swill-boles, hog-pens, goat
cabins and dog-kennels interpreted with garbage,
carts, form 3 horrible and disgusting coup d@", ara
the xporer who is lucky enough to escape even ha
sthed by the oder Issuing from nnumeIaols ueposhs
of ,eeking rubbish may consider himself fottunste
After nv escape unharmed from my unenvsble visit
here consider myself nussDce-proof, for founi 1.
more difficult to resist the force OF combined senches
than even TO do succeseful Datte eganst lhe
ceuntlsss packs Of snsrhrg dogs which are met
with On every rod Of this villsinous spot aue
immense quantities of gsrbsge and halt.putrh'd
matter which are daily carted to "Silnkto"h
for the support of the Groves OF hthy animals tnere
COZ fined snd chained must become, under the action
Of fierce sum- terror TO these persons whom circuH
stances obhge to reside within such contagious IN
uence Superadied TO the causes described, VIII oe the
exhaations from sinks ard cesspoos which mustiniect
the air for squares around and make properly WORTH
less in the neghboIhood Almost every otner shahty
on the avenues that bound this happy resort as wen
as numbers in the interior, are fummls, whefe ptohs
are abundant and black guards anty on hand
wait ips for their victims. The iuky streams WATCH
after shower of rain, run down the sldes OF TINS ras
cslly rock ilto the streets below, remrd one Oh tue
description given by Macaulsy Of Snow hill and Ldd-
pate hill in London in 1885. This colony of squ .ttors
was extensively reeniorced at the clearing OF tue Cen
trsl Psrk, and the emigrants did not forget tneir
household gods-ihe hog snd dog-behind. a:ked
TO whom the property on Sixth avenue, fiom fuastn
10 Fifty second street. belonged. was informed ina,
portion Of it is held by or in the name of the Dry
Dock Bank, ard that 100 feet on the avenue aud Soo
feet on Feth street belong to our enterprsng feo v
citizen, George Law l will take leave to say here
that il Appeared rather remarkable TO me that these
ten squares Of iqustter ground should be e1cuaVey
occupied by two races-the Teu.on and the CeI Ahd
spsn that the clans factions into which these races
have divided, and who go unspaIiuRly and herceiy
make vsr another in other Ccaions, can a. rec
in such close contiguity here. And although the
Amsterdam Dutch the " Rotterdam Dutch, aud
numbers Of other Dutch mos. unmisskably are 10 the
majority on this neutral ground yet could see that
! the "Coko,isn" and the " Far-down," the " Long
| tell" ard the "Smoky. head" were numerously aud
sturdily represented. Would it not be well for the
authorte TO cause the vacant lots the streets and
avenues to be fenced and thereby prevent more OK
tenve muster of the tribes whose utter disregard Tor
! Gle sanhness is s.rikpgly manifested here
Let the bone boiling, hog feeding snt hog breed Dc
he be immediately Abated aud IN futurc
prevented, or the consequences must be widespread
| and fatal.
You will be doing the part Of the Good Samaritan
by asking the attention fhe Board Of Health TO THIS
roisome lccalty which contains an alarming nuisance
\ that must ere long generate disease and death.
1 PUBLIC HEALTH.