The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
OUR FILTHY STREETS.

Jackson =. Schultx Testi6es to tie Frnudu-
lence Of the Street Cleaning Contract-The
Crying Abuses Of the Present System-The
Enormous and Mysterious Profits-Da
60 Health.
ALBANY, N. Y, March q, 1872.
The House Committee on Public Health held
session this morning TO investigate the system OF
cleansing The streets Of New York city.
JACKSON 8. SCHULTZ TEsrIFIED:-
portion Of year 1857 President Of The Board Health,
sa' ksspe
deemed .'s:;1s sS'''a:sS$s,
to warrant contractors providing horses and
deemed contract
years The contract .paaes that al The paved streets and
SWEET AND THE DIRT CARRIED OFF
consid.rsSle deu'y esDsri:nssd IN drawing
% d s
had been properly guarded and cared for but political
dusnco was hronsn' 70 pear an, the n,rv sr,,,r.
and the Sinking Of a , IN the plain ,S Of their
tractors evadcd spirit OF their
ns wa of re SSa
sell called 10 the fact pointed him.
but be led %sSs. s~'' decided
this % snay the The Ss nSe
e s sss are d the 1s
The system in use for ,he cOnt,actor gather
aps 'oss
used to IN the Oats All the streets pc horoughy
%ade ds
tract at lime s from re % any moment
REFUSES CLEANSE THE STREETS
PEELED so and the perheads and slips have been
cleaned for montas sucn'pectors for districts are sp
tractor that # the expense ct cleaning his district
once, expected to grumble a. receiving
% saar This n biz And
der the Old administration Of the Board OF Health Of
for no attention was paid to them sabSouracor made
affidavit that he had done the best he could section
THE REMOVAL OF orrAL
e The are NOW the
the lower par Of the cy.han to allow the 70
the city in cang the stun through the streets and down to
Mr. Schultz contractor receives over one
hundred thousand dollars per anrum for removing this SOIL
REMOVING DEAD ANIMALs.
TO 20 E New s f c
each dead animal But all this was the result Of political in
he BrowH did get Of the IN
the contract and until Sn Mr. or sTSw xs, got into
he was an honest man. o,.o..
lnes obliged pay removal OF ashes. The
carried out properly as .hSre would be emulation among
the different precincts keep streets cleaned any
would their duty, police would not
attend to seeing the work done then indeed all lost;
per duty. he alone in the Health.
and fast he order for work be DONE the next
meeting OF
TIE BOARD WOULD REsCIND 1T.
The ia worth Sba0, COO annually well: was
worse present mode paving
the task OF cleaning them much easier and less expensive
rs
was all n fraud residents the parks the city
disguised with the whole thing and preferred have
the work done by private contractors.
DIR. ELISHA HARRIS
then examined and said The streets posi-
10 cleanse them, the weather had been unusually
to the unusually unclean condition of the streets
Msw 9e ee msae esy ua
a contract for the removal of nth enforced thor
onsay The provisions q the present con,ras. were SUM-
under Mayor balls government the work was neglected and
PASSED INTO soNrBoDYe POCKET
At the time Of the cholera the then existing Board OF
res Of coal tar which we're thoroughly used
and the streets ceansed at an extra cost OF $4,000 and yet
@ year s s no was vosd Tor that
Things had been growing worse from day to day. II
NOT matter OF sprss TO MN That SIC n to
trics where garbage had been thrown to GIL up and
wtcn houses had been erected hotbeds OF disease
been asserted theory that sufficient to de-
stroy the eGuvia and deleterious effects of that
DECAYING VEGETABLE MATTER,
experience had taught him that lapse OF forty wears
would not be sufficient to insure person living In those
from the ground IL asserted that Mr. brown received
$4,000 annually from individuals for removing ashes and
contract.
The committee then adjourned, with the under
staDcing That they would report in the shape OF q
bill 10 remove the abuses complained OF.