The New York herald., 1866-05-08
McCuiioch Has an Interview
with JEFF.


Cleanliness the General Ordcr-Where
there is Room FOR Improvement. Sc.
The condition of the streets Of New York were never
cleaner perhaps as general rule than they are at ths
moment There are many streets which might be much
better they this regard and here and there
the garbage box may be filed and
the senses but in general the streets OF the
city cleaner al the present moment than they have
been for year at least.
THE FIRST AND SECOND WARDS
The streets OF the First ward though in a better
d,tion than usual might be a good deal proved, par
cularly the lower part of Greenwich street. Morrs,
Rector, Stone, Pearl, Bridge, Front and Fletcher and
the lower part OF Washington street, besides many
pac along the docke On these there here and there
good deal Of garbage and decaycd vegetable matter
strcwn around and they also contain, in many places,
pools OF stagnant water which emit unhealthy vapors
All those require be better attended to than they
particularly there many OF the poorer citizens
live .ore,her in crowded tenemens where health Is a,
all times prccarous The other streets OF the First ward
clean they reasonably be expected to b.
and the same may be said OF the streets Of the Second
ward without single exception.
THIRD AND FIFTH WARDS.
Turning TO the Third ward, there Is very little TO
plain Of in the condition Of streets cvccpt In the
neighborhood Of Washington Marse. Ire there s
more garbage decaycd vegetable and oer matter Of
n healthy nature in the streets there ought 10 be
The streets Of the Fifth ward are IN much the same con
dition those Of the Third, with the single
cepton Of Church street and parts Of Of the streets
THE FOURTH AND SIXTH WARDS.
The streets in the Fourth and sixth wards not
clean general thing, but they the The
population Of these wards mostly dwell in tenement
houses and are crowded together, probably than
that OF any other section OF the city The streets
narrower and more swampy, too, IN many places,
and require for all these reasons more attention per
haps than the streets o, any other wards in New York
There several Of the streets In these wards tolerahy
well cleared IL Is true but Cherry street. Roosevelt
street Batavia street, Oak street, James street, the
lower portion of Oliver street. near the East river,
D.-k Mtll.n na~s.
street, the eastern end Of Franklin street
and many others require attention from the cart
men and sweepcr The condition Of Park and Baxter
streets particularly, Is bad, and should not bc al
lowed TO remain at this season OF the year n single
pcstilencc in them or infectious disease OF any kind
would probably be more destructive 10 human life than
almost any other portion OF the city, because of their
tceming populations and the wreched manner In which
too many people compelled to dwell the buildings
which crowd these narrow streets While the streets OF
these wards are generally In need OF cleaning neverthe
less IL must be acknowledged that they badly
of have teen accustomed to zee them former
occasions.
THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH AND TrNTu WARDS.
The streets Of these wards arc generally toelably
clean but in the seventh ward there Is much for
Improvement ~ many Of the streets bordering on the
North river The streets OF the Eighth ward, well
those OF the Fifteenth, are In general clean, except
about the vicinity Of the foot o Canal street aud some
parts of Mercer, Greene Sullivan Wooster aud Thomp
son srets and the alley leading OF them par,icu
larry the latter The streets Of the Ninth and Tenth
wards and also the Thirteenth require to have
the broom passed over them to render them all they
ought 10 be- but there street them that could
complained OF ~ absolutely dangerously dirty at
present
Passing out Of the Thirteenth ward into the
eleventh ASD SEVENTEENTH WARDS,
there arc scvca streets in both OF them which rcquisc
at,cnon from the swccpers and among these may bs
noticed aycnns A. H. aud d. and several Of the streets
cross ng them a. also the tcrnni OF many Of tho num-
bercd streets bUri,ring ON the uycr
rnf UPrrR wANDs
Tho upper pant Of no city IN general very well
cleaned considering the q. Ia ir which has been