New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-10
TEE FINALE OF BOOLE.


II is as we feared, not as we hoped. AID
Boole, our new City Inspector, ia in the field
for Mayor or Register at the next Charter
Election. OF course, be must intrigue and bar.
gain and use the patronage aud influence OF
his Office to pack delegations in defiance OF the
greedy swarm of competitors for the coveted
nomination. His sweepers, being required to
do extra labor at the primaries, will not more
than half work at the hoes and brooms His
local assistants will understand that they may
slight the streets and neglect their official
duties so that they make sure that "tbe dele
CATION" is call right" In short, Boole
squanders his magnificent opportunity, de-
sends 10 the level of the vulgar politician, aud
leaves his fellow-citizens only the remembrance
Of their blasted hopes with Keen regrets for
what he mil ht have been.
Yet let us thank him for what he ha, done.
In his brief administrative career, no has
shown US that a City Inspector need not be
equity nor imbecilc. He Las proved beyond
dispute that our streets may be cleaned as
well a, those Of any other city. After the eI.
perience Of the last two or three months, 1t
seems impossible that we should ever return
TO our wallowing ia the mre' as under the
Dclaynn- Hackley regime, and in fact through.
out most Of the last twenty or thirty years.
Bu, We need something more than spasmodic
energy. The City had been pretty thoroughly
cleaned before it ever rrjoicod over the bosom
Of Boole To show that it can be Kept clean
not IN Summer merely, but substantially in
all weathers--tbnt it is in fact easier to keep
| il clean than 10 unbury it from dense GOV.
ering Of reekng iilth-this is the next step.
We need the assurance that old brooms may
sweep clean as well as new-that the City
may keep its streets as tidy as a gentleman
does his face and hands. And this Boole can
not give US If be achieves translation TO an
other Office on the let Of January next.
Nor is this all. The next step is to make
n, garbage n our Guy pay for MS orn remorG!.
This can be done-will be done-mua be done
but not BY n Cit, Inspector who is fishing for
moro genlecl or exalted position. No man 10
fit to be- City Inspector who would exchange
that for any other municipal station. The man
who was made Tor 1t can save 10 the city Half
Million DVilart and at least Two thousand
lives per annum. Should not that satisfy
reasonable ambition
Since railroads following steamboats,, have
rendered the wide diffusion Of our City's ex-
uyB easy and cheap, 1t ought at least to pay
for its own collection. Pekln and Yeddo do
a. Of "a md
more populous than New-York, with no rail.
road facilities and little or no advantage from
steam; they are benighted barbarous, heather,
and all that; yet each Of them contryes to
fertilize vast area beyond anything known on
this continent with what We pour into the
adjacent waters to corrupt the air, repel tho
fish, aud render those who st visit our bay
unfit to DO eaten. What if we should era.
ciously condescend to let these barbarians
teach US They seem, at all events, to possess
knowledge that we sadly need.
Within the last twenty years. this City has
bought and sold millions of dollars worth of
Guano at $50 to 800 per tun. Meantime,
We have poisoned the waters Of the East and
North Rivers and our glorious Bay by pouring
into them fertilzing matter worth at least five
times as much, which We might have saved
aud utilized for less than the cost Of tho Guano.
Here are the arid sands of Long Island on one
side and those Of lower Jersey ON the other
millions Of acres now purchasabe at $40 per
acre or under and not paying an interest even
on that-which might be made richly worth
$500 per acre if the Sewerage of our City
were poured over them for few years. We
have spent Twenty Millions to bring water into
our streets, and that is wise and well; we
might speedily quadrupe tho population, pro.
ductiOn and wealth of the circumjacent region by
deyisng and creating the means of cheapy
carrying tbither the filth and feculence which
We must somehow excreto; but We stand
moon struck and dazed in the fsce of this
grand problem, which China and Japan solved
centuries ago, but We have not yet, for want
of brains and deyotedness in our municipal
Offices.
Well: let BOole 60 his way, since no will.
If he prefers to DO Mayor or Register. no is
clearly unfit to be City Inspector for this Office
is worth both the others. Even if public SER |
vice had no higher end than money making,
this ahOuld be- decidedlv Dreferred Sbou M |