The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-06

active and intelligent men, the work
should be carried on with comfort
and safety to the city's health. The summer
solstice should find New York city perfectly
clean and with system, if not perfect in every
detail, at least thoroughly efficient and labor
ing towards perfection. There should, there
fore, be no delay in at once urging forward the
cleansing of our neglected thoroughfares. 1t
seemed during the hot summer months OF last
year as though nothing but a merciful Provl-
dence stood between us and fearful epidemic.
We do not wish to have that experience re-
peated this year. The unsighty piles Of gar
bage left to poison the atmosphere under the
disintegrating influence of summer sun must
afford no temptation to the horrible diseases
which ask just such breeding places.
The heaps of builders refuse, which are
left all the year round to make the streets
impossible with mud when it rains and to
choke our parched throats with calcareous
dust when an occasional delicious breeze
comes to temper the heat of the day, should
no longer be tolerated. A strong measure
of hopefulness will be derived from the fact
that orders will be issued to the patrolmen to
arrest all persons throwing ashes and house
refuse in the streets This will form capital
supplement to an efficient broom and shovel
brigade The extreme usefulness of this power
will be better learned from the fact that the
poor themselves contribute greatly to the filth
Of the poorer and more crowded localities.
Shiftlessness and slovenlness induce them to
empty their ash barrels and garbage into the
streets, needless and often ignorant of the
malarious reckoning they are rolling up against
their very lives.
American Jockey CIub-second Day OF
the Spring Meeting.
Five races will come off to-day at Jerome
Park should the sun shine in the morning and
no rain interfere. The first event will be the
Ladies' Stakes, race very similar to the Eng
lsh Oaks, as it is exclusively for three-year-old
FLIES. There will be seven starters for this
race, comprising Mr. Belmonts chestnut FLIES
Polonta and Victoria, Brush & Parks brown
FLY Experience Oaks, Clark q Grinstead's
gray FLY Nema, Chamberlains brown FLY
Venetia, J. Hunt Reynolds chestnut FLY
Elsie, and D.. j. Crouses chestnut FLY by
Planet Experience Oaks was the favorite at
the American Jockey Club room on Tuesday
night, the others selling for about equal
amounts in the pools. Experience Oaks ran
six times as two-year-old, and won twice.
She has grown into n finely proportional race
nag, and ought to run fast and stay the dis
lance Some of the others were also well
tried in their two-year-old form. Mr.. Bel
mont's Victoria ran four times very credit
ably, although beaten in each race. Nema ran
once last year, winning the Flash Stakes
at the Saratoga July meeting, beating Victoria
Malta and Mollie Mcintyre. Reynolds Elsie
ran twice as two-year, but was beaten in
each race, and she has run this year at Lex
ington, showing fine form and fair speed. All
the FLIES that will start are well thought Of
and a capital race may be anticipated The
distance is mile and fve-eighths.
The second race is the Jockey Club Handi-
cap, which will have six or seven starters.
These will be Colonel McDaniels Tubman, or
Abdel Koree probably both), I. II. Doswell's
Wine Sap, w. w. Glenn's Quintard, Carol
4 Coar's Ortolan, 10 Donahue's Alroy and
Blandy's Tom Boston. McDaniel's entries are
strong field against them
The third race is called the Claiming Stakes
as the winner can be claimed for fifteen hun
dred dollars. This race will have eight starters,
and it is considered very doubtful affair by
many, although Messrs. Hunter Traver's
Alarm sold in the pools for three times as much
as any of the other horses. He won very
good race last Saturday at three-quarters of
mile and he ought to be able to 60 half mile
further. If he can keep up the pace that car
ried him to victory on his last appearance he
will win to-day.
The fourth race is another claiming race,
which is another name for a selling race, with
allowances for the price that is put upon the
horses. There will be six starters, maybe
seven, as boswell makes two entries. The
| distance is a mile and three-quarters. The
entries are Midday and Wine Sap, Doctor,
Gayo, O'Donnells Asteroid colt, Frank Swift
and Flora McIvor. 1t will be difficult to
name the winner before the race is over but
we think that Middays chances are the best of
the lot.
The fifth race is gentlemen's steeple-chase
which has three entries, comprising Jim lis
dale, Macintosh and Mary Hennessey. Mr.
Lawrence will ride jim Tisdale, Mr. Beresford
Macintosh, and Mr.. Clason Mary Hennessey.
Jim Tisdale is the favorite and will be very
likely to win. The disappointment caused by
the inclement weather yesterday will doubtless
add fresh zest to the enjoyment of to-day $
races, and the beautiful drives and grassy knobs
of Westchester will be arrayed in their brightest
colors.
The Street Car Cushion Question and
the Board OF Health.
So deeply has the mania Of reform taken