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

an income OF $4,000 year. Nor Is this all. Mr..
| Brewn diSposes or the manure taken from the city
! ut the rate OF fifty cents the cubit load The
manure at present In the city, one years accumula
ton, cannot be worth less than $4,000.
\ NOR Is THIS
{. The contractor some time ago purchased num-
Der OF waste marshes on Second avenue, between
| Nnety-sfxth and ll0th streets. He has converted
these into a dumping ground, and the property has
| become immensely valuable Nor is this all. He
has received the privilege OF nllng up certain
/ cant lots, which have since become valuable. But
as these last two items comparati lively insigni1-
annual yield of the contract for last year and the
| SIGNIFICANT TABLE.
Original amount contracted for. $685. 600
Extra appropriation. ..................... 800 600
"Private stun money" .................... 10000
Sale OF city manure ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0e00
Total ss3s. 500
WHAT WAS THE PROFIT
Or In other words the contract has during the last
two years nearly doabled in value under Mr..
| Browns able manipulation. The late Judge Whit
| appropriation OF $40s, 500 year. Query. What Mr.
| Brown must have made IN year out OF $S3s, 500
ing that he laid out nothing and allowed the streets
| to become as filthy as they are nowS
HOW TEE WORK WAS DONE
SO much for the worth Of the contract Now how
| has il been performed No one has ever heard OF
a bell on an ashcart; the ashes and garbage have
! not been removed free OF charge from hotels and
factories; the streets below Chambers street when
| over cleaned are cleaned under the MONDAY sun ;
the extra money given by the Board OF Health has
streets in the city have been thoroughly
cleansed, though the contractors foremen We're OBJ
| lged to make afdavits that they were, that he
could get his money; 1890 men IN ali were
ployed to clean the streets last summer, when
the streets have not been cleaned since last Nov
ember qntil one month ago, and the contractor
strange that the original contract should say every
day. Twelve men was the greatest number chi
ployed last year upon the most filthy wards IN the
PRIVATE srrpef,n tprInNa
And ~ hust be added 10 all this that all the
ABOVE Fourteenth street ana below Thirty
between Second avenue on the east side and Sixth
avenue III the west.
The contractor has been making a vigorous effort
lately to rid the streets or some OF their filth; but
what he has done up to the present Is scarcely ap
preclabe. The neglect. OF years has produced the
efforts than he Ia making before they can be made
what they should be.
The extra appropriation has not been passed this
year by tho Legislature ana the contractor has no
longer very much interest in his contract. He
had TO go to Albany for his money and the trouble
he has had lately In getting his money has Disguised
him. It is said that ne s anxious to sell his con-
| tract four years Of which are to run, to any one
who win buy 1t for $4,000. He now has to work
| hard to hold u OF I'll.
| now To 10 THE WORK WELL.
! Mr., Brown lately employed an active snperlntend
! ent, Mr.. George Middleton. 1t was at first thought
| that he had made over the contract to the latter
that e has no ae
knowledges that the streets are now in the most
filthy condition. but he adds that until the streets
| are properly paved with uniform pavement, which
cannot be disturbed without permit from the city
and deposit that the damage be made good; nnt
the Board OF Health compel the people to collect
and put outside their doors In barrels boxes the
ashes and garbage which accumulate In their
houses, the streets cannot he cleaned thoroughly
THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS.
One Of the most just and wemerited Of the innum-
erahle rcproaches against the vile government to
which the city Of New York has been subjected for
many years past is the shameiully filthy condition
OF the streets To be sure, our great thoroughfares,
like Broadway and the fashionable streets and
avenues lined by the stately dwellings Of our
| wealthiest citizens have always presented a COM
paratively Clearly appearance, the exertons OF the
| dwcllers and property owners thereupon being
casionally aided by spasmodc spurts Of awakened
duty on che part OF those who to take
| the peoples money for cleaning the people
s''''' 'I THE nss SCANDAL c..isn.i AND THE GUILT
| are only deepened and intensified by the contrast
| presented between the attention paid to the 're
! Spectacle neighborhoods' and the horribly neg
lected condition Of the streets and by ways where
the broom and shovel arc most sOrey needed; where
the poor and the helpless crowd and sweltcr in filth
forming and lOathsome contiguity, and where the
| necessity OF O pure atmosphere Ia consequently
so many thousand times more imperative The
| cleanliness Tor, rather, the freedom from grossly
offensive nnisanccs OF the more public and arts
tocratic portions OF the city-even II 1t due
the vigilance OF our sanitary authorities and The
iaithfnness OF their too well paid servants which
artice-would only prove that these parties have
been wilful and deliberate cheats, who have know
s an attempted though extremely transparent fraud
on the general public, and, taken in connection
with the brutal and heartloss treatment of the inn
poverished and helpless majority in this regard il
Il very sad commentary on our boosted demo-
cratic republican institutions and the wonderful
remedies for abuse which the never sufficiently
bclauded ballot Is supposed to place In the hands OF
the poor man. II Is, therefore,
SOMETHING AKIN TO A BLESSING
that Nature herself, where she does not directly
provide a remedy, always takes measures for
sure. reyenge-however tardy IT sometimes may
hn IA
Were Ii otherwise there Is little doubt that, while
the immediate haunts of that portion OF our
boards and street cleaning contractors might be
in state Of ReEpetua sweetness s so and sa h
would never experience the enforcement OF single
sanitary regulation. The reekng odors arising
cuend the nostrils Of the dweeT On T;ith avenue
ana If the possible propinquity OF unpleasant smells
were the only cause Of apprehension TO our influ-
entail mliiionnalres OF br0wnstonedom the abomi-
nations which surround the human gregarnes in
fctid tenement houses would be very nkely 70 re-
main u9disturbed forever: Happily for the power ,
we[founded belief has gone abroad that the villa
nous vapors which arise from tho fostering heaps
Of corruption that accumulate upon povertys very
Threshold win not content themselves with Offend
ing the poor workngmans senses, with nalse-
ating his stomach and spreading horrible
pallor the faces OF his wretched wife and clil
dren, with producing corresponding moral as-
coorlzation on the Vision Of the rising generation
OF the poorer OF lower Glasses, WITH spreading
disease and death among these thousands OF by-no-
means-to- considered people, and ''sicking Or
killing Them in scores and hundreds, all which
might of course be regarded compacenty enough,
and be borne with toerable resignation, but those
irreverent and
EycEEDJNGIY pIsREsPEcTFuL vAPoRs
aforesaid are known to take liberties which their
birth and breeding would not appear to warrant at
first sight When the noxious particles OF noa,ing
filth come to that terrible maturity at which their
disagreeable odor becomes imperceptible to th@
ordinary nosirl, they are not only dangerous
and deadly vsitants, but wonderful travellers
besides. They rise from their beds in the nowntown
cutters and sewers poise themselves in lie upper
inosphere during the sweterinS summer day, aud
there wait until they CO., ride OIL on the evening
breeze far away TON teir native air. Then they be-
come the living and fearfuy active germs OF deadly
disease, IN all the dreadful forms that are most 10
be shuddered at and impossible to be summed.
Triumphantly they float away from the slums
wherein they were generated and noseessiy they
pass the bounds which mark election districts and
wards and shut In respectable neighoorhoods."
Softly they are blown through the open windows OF
the brown stone mansion and the marble palace,
steathily they creep "up stairs, down stairs and