The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-01


last November, the people IN the houses say.
A little further down the street there
Is smaller heap ana between the ., tive
that makes the nelghhorhood anything but a
pleasant one 20 live In. The First avenue where
Fourteenth street crosses, Ia in neglected state
badly paved and dirty to an alarming degree. On
the one block OF this avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets there were yesterday no less
than nVe heaps or dirt. On the corner OF East SIN
teenth street and the avenue there is another
pool Of water similar in character to those already
described, but much larger and deeper than any OF
the others. East Nineteenth street. nom Second
avenue to the river, IL covered with
MISCELLANEOUS RUBBISH
At the lnncture OF TweEty-hrst street and First
avenue the pavement Is all tern up and the holes
IN the street are filled with dirt and filthy water.
Twenty third street, from Third avenue to the
river, Is perhaps one OF the lthest streets that
side OF town. On Twenty second street about half
a dozen houses below the Eighteenth precinct
az mans breast, held In by an edging OF large
stones, in front OF a boarding house. The people
In the vicinity have evidently grown so
presence, that they are taking to preserve IT,
III Its present location for the summer. The block
on First avenue between Twenty second ana TWEEN
ty-third streets ia tecmng with the very worst de-
scriptiOn of house Oifal From Twenty-thir to
Twenty-fonrth street, on the same avenue, there
There were SIX men at work Yesterday afternoon
sweeping ~ on Twenty-ffth street, between First
and Second avenues That part OF the street Is
wen and evenly paved, and that liz one reason why
that part OF the street was selected to operate upon
The. uneven ana broken pavcments are made recep-
tacles for the dirt taken rom the smooth surfaces,
and 1t is permitted to lie there until
EVERYTHING AROUND is INFECTED.
inc block on First avenue, between Twenty-afth
than any other block on that disgusting thorough
iare. There were a number of men at work sweep
ing IN East Twenty eighth street, yesterday, hut
they handled Cfie br0oBls In such gingcrly manner
that they might just as well have left their work
alone. Prom East Thirty-fourth street to Fifty
ninth, the filth IL made up OF two distinctly de-
Htracttvc elements The fine Sand disturbed in the
roads by the passing vehicles which fills the
mouth aud nostsis, settling upon the lungs, and
only wanting the deadly odors emanatlng from the
vast piles OF house filth IN the street to successfully
hurry on the victims who partake OF IT, Third ave-
nue. at Fifty-ninth street. is covered with heaps OF
rotting vegetables, house refuse, stable manure
r2tt'ng straw ard almost every description OF de-
ssructfve .dIt. Ine first two or three blocks OF
FIFTY ninth street, going west from the junction
YItl Third avenue is In similar condition. To
fully carry out the characteristics OF the east
side of the city the street contractor, some
at Ninety fourth street, which he has ever since
been filing in with all the nth Of New York. that
the tainted air getting up In that direction may be
DoUBLY CHARTERED WITH FOUL ESSENCES,
and sent back to the people to breathe with every
change OF the compass. This property, which ex-
tends nom Nineyourth to loSth street, was origl-
with the most Offensive oiful gathered from the
slums Of New York, ana is now est, est
dirt ana rottenness are carted from all points
OF the city to the different wharves from which the
boats start with the fostering qoes TO this hot
bed Of disease. Boats are regularly flied evory
day at the examinations of Catherine and Ganse-
WORT streets, and the river with this vile stuff
t0wed up to Ninety fourth street by steamers
where the filling In materirl Is discharged There
can be 10 doubt OF the filing in qualities of this
compound, for 1t undoubtedly fills more graves
Fourth, Sixth, Seventh ana Tenth wards arc not
usually considered healthy or pastoral localities
while for dirt these localities could hardly be APP
preached by any populated districts In the world,
and when IL is borne IN mind that all the street
swecnings and Nth sent up the river from the foot
of Catharine street is collected In these wards the
eject upon the people living in the crowded streets
along the riverside and at the upper end OF the
island may be easily conjccturcd The poor are not
only exposed to
THE DEADLY EFFECTS OF THIS STUFF
while II Is being transported up the river, but also
is settling, and a the different elements Of the dirt
are combining for powerful attack upon the
health OF the neiehborlng population. The streets,
from Fourteenth street to the Park, between Sec
ond and Sixth avenues, are comparatively clean ;
but the present street contractor has nothing to
with that The work is done by private contract
ana In some places 1t Is rather well done. Each
house pays about one dollar q week to q firm that
undertakes to clean the neighborhood and In TIL 8
way the people themselves arc able to have the dirt
taken away. These private contractors have the
dirt swept into heaps at the street and avenue cor
ners and the sends his carts along to take
up the drS and ashes, because IL IL valuable to him.
Many OF the uptown blocks pay az much as $l0l
and $3.50 month to these private contractors for
the sake Of health and cleanliness while the city is
paying public contractor $4s0,0o0 year for
poisoning the population. The west side OF the
city, from Fourteenth street up and between
Seventh avenue and the river, makes an admirable
companion piece TO the east side. From Fifteenth
to sixteenth street, on the Tenth avenue, there are
HEAPS OF HARDENED FILTH
that emit Odor that makes the street almost i'm
passiblc. On the Ninth avenue, between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth the same kind OF mischief exists.
The entire course OF Nineteenth street. from Eighth
avenue to the river IL almost unbearable. Twen-
ten street Is in similar condition. Twenty-sXth
street Is laboring under combination OF torn up
paycments, dirt, wet and rottencss From Thirty
ninth TO Fortynrst street the same sort Of thing IL
met at every footstcp. Forty-second street
pavements are torn up ana dirt is
piled up until 1t has assumed the magnitude OF
small mountains From Fifty-thiId street up the
same thing meets the eye ut every corner. The
streets surrounding the Manhattan Gas Works are
extremely nithy, ana me stencil arising from them,
blending with that sent out by the gas works is
most deadly in its effects. The very walls Of the
houses are
BENG EATEN AWAY
by this biting noxious atmosphere. On the corner
OF Seventeenth street and Tenth avenue sewer
was laid last fall anu the pavement has not yet
been restored. Sixteenth street from First avenue
to the river, outdoes any torouphfare on the east
side for accumnatons of fifth. The Tenth avenue
Is In an alarming state; all the length or the ave-
nue. from -Four tcenth street up, Is disgrace to the
city. The pavemcnts are neglected; the dirt has
been allowed TO accumulate and the dust raised by
the street cars and passing vehicles make the thor
ouglliare deadly one to live on. For blocks upon
blocks ut the upper end OF the thoroughiare there
pies vi rocks On DOIH sues o llit way
have been there nobody knows how long. in many
places there has been thrown upon the rocks ashes
and garbage from the houses into the streets This
has been going until 1t has been impossible to dis
tinguish where the rocks begin or the rubbish ends.
The block from Thirtythird to Thirtylourth street
on this avenue Is particularly bad, and so are those
on TO Forty-seconl street. The Eleventh avenue Is
something In the same condition, but there are
spots on the Twelfth avenue that are equal To any
thing TO be found on the Tenth, and that street has
certainly reached
THE supERIATIvE DEGREE OF FILTH.
A number OF cattle were being driven up the
Eleventh avenue last evening, and they We're so
ensbrouded IN the dust made by their own locomo-
tion that at the distance OF block the drove
looked like moving body of dust. most remark
able Illustration Of the theory
crow NOT 70 DO TT"
was given 10 reporter OF the HERALD by the chief
OF a gang street sweepcrs last night The re-
porter seeing a lot OF these men at work went over
to watch The operation, and noticing that they left
n great deal more dirt behind than they swept up
he asked the controlling spirit the cause VI the
phenomenon.
'.You see,' said this interesting individual, eve
has so many carts employed every day, at "a %
apece.n
'Yes but don't these carts belong TO the con.
tractorlr
40, MOI Tic hires 'em. Wen, they gifts 81 50
a,1iac nd boa IN ka pip Or