New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-06

us,e are fbe titles Of seine Of these creatures:
Iospectors Of SoAvenger Docks, whose aIdueu'
function it is to see that night soil Is actually
dumped into boats, and that no one steals any OF
il: Inspectors of Slaughter. Houses, to sec that
no calf bleats more than twice while being ku'edi
C,ranters of Permits, to do the WORK Tor "hioh
regular clerks are paid; Preparers of Reports,
new dodge; Preparers Of Tables, another
dodge; Copyers and Filers of Reports an
other ditto Preparers Of Diagrams, ditto; Inspect
ora of Violations Of Ordinances, an imaginary
office, Granters Of Permits or Sundays, the duty
Of the City Inspector; GIanters of Permits at Sub
Office, never before heard of; Temporary Clerks
ad ill.,; Superintendent Of Removal Of Dead Cats
and Dogs, new and most important office; Super
ntendepts of Sweeping markets, very important,
AZ somebody might sweep the dirt the wrong way;
INSPECTORS and Deputy Inspectors of meats.)
Then there are First Second, and Third Clerks,
Burial Permit Clerk, Recording Clerk, Complaint
Clerkr, Ticket Clerks, Inspectors of Meats, Depu-
ty Inspectors of Meats, Street Inspectors, Yard
Keepers, Assistant Yard Keepers, Health War
dens, Deputy Health Wardens, Market Clerks,
ditto Deputy Clerks, Pay Roll Clerks, aid 80 on.
And for what is all this array Of new Offices and
new salariesl Why, to pay off at the expense of
the people at large the roughs who worked for the
election of the present Mayor and City Inspector.
The " contingencies" Of the City Inspectors Of
fee have more than quadrupled within four or five
years; every fair and unfair pretext has been
made to put on pensioners, until it has become an
Oyercrowded aims house for party paupers, whose
so-cailed services are not only of value, but alb
solutely detrimental to the people If the whole
crowd could be transferred to Blackwell's Island
and placed in the regular poOr-house there would
be much less complaint at supporting them. AS it
now is. "contngencies and salaries" four-6fths
of which are thus unawfully squandered on vaga.
bonds, amounted for the first half of this year, in
the City Inspectors Department alone to
So, sos g. in addition to the Board of Health,
cleaning markets and cleaning streets which
foots up $500 $50 49, making the rate of expense
allowing for the suspension Of street cleaning in
the Winter-about $500, 900 per year in this de-
partment.
Now, what becomes Of the money, and how are
the people served First, this Department has
with or without the cOnniyance of the Mayor
systematically willfully, and persistenty violated
the charter ever since the charter was adopted.
II is required to make contract for cleaning the
streets; if never has done 90 in good faith, never
meant to do so, and never will until somebody
beside suptrannuated party hack is put at
the head of it, Under the sharp, Wide-awake,
and interruptions Morton, there was not even a
decent attempt to make contract. He had the
Aldermen under his thumb, and every effort to
comply with the charter was promptly choked
in return for which Aldermen got friends in as
inspectors of emptyiDg night soil, and other desr-
able stations Meantime, there was great show
made Of cleaning streets, and Morton invented the
idea of publishing weekly statements, purPortng to
show how much had been done and how little it
had cost The array of figures representing loads
of dit and ashes removed was wonderful. Had
if been literally true, as to bona-fde good loads,
about half the soil of the city for foot in depth
must have been carted off every year, while the
losds of garbage ought to have made heap higher
than all the houses from which it was taken. This
figure system is still kept up, and those who are
stated with ordinary romance will be interested in
the weekly statements put forth by the Inspector.
Now, the whole concern is effete and worthless,
SO far IA any real benefit is to be hoped 1t has not
the energy to make decent record of births and
deaths, nor the honesty to confess its weakness.
1t mas no visible purpose beyond feeding its
long list of partisan paupers, and offering an
asylum to any yagabOnd too lazy to work and not
smart enough to steal (Out of ofice)-pro-
vided he has voted the right ticket When in the
hands of another party, it was VIGOROUSLY open
to bargain and sale, and it's officers kept their
places by giving up their power to a hostile
Board of Aldermen. When its political faith
changed, its antiquated Chief got and kept his
official head by the sort of trade. more
pitable branch of government never existed.
even in this shemefully misgoVerned city. The
only tOerably bright spot in its history for many
years is the war upon pig pens in lS5S-and
then the work was done by the police, while that
useless but noisy Superintendent of Sanitary In
spectiOD, by systematic Boosting to the reporters
got oil the credit of it.
Should we have aLeeslature unlike the last one,
which might rise to acts of disinterested benef-
cenc, should ask it to wipe out the City Inspect
ors Depar tment; furnish its pauper pensOners-as
the State does fellows discharged from State Pris.
ons-with mono enough to live upon for q week,
ard tell them to travel; give street cleaning to tie
Croton Board where t always should have been;
let the Police be Health Wardens and Street In. |
spectors; put the Register Of Births, Marriages,
and Deaths, in the Mayors Office, and save the |
city $500, 900 year-whichis atout the sum which |
naturally goes to waste as the City Inspectors |