New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-10

BTRFFT-CIEANING TO BE BEGUN TO-DAY
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MEN ORGANIZED FOR
TIE WORK-ECONONiY As WELL AS CLEAN
LINESS TO BE LOOKED AFTER-GOOD PROS
Poets OF SUCCESS.
Superintendent ThOne of the new Street
seaniDg Bureau and his deputy, J. W. Ambrose, will
begin today the ceaningOf the streets of this city under
the supervision Of the Board Of Police. The new super
ntendent has had long experience as an inspector and
captain Of police and brings the organization Of the
Bureau great experience in the discpning of men, butt
is easy 70 conceive that he will have greater difficulty in
managing an equal force Of aborer the streets than
Of the guardians OF the same, inasmuch the regu
auons for the latter, established by law, are more
stringent than can be enforced among The hired aeorers
he and Mr. AIubrOse his deputy, who has had several
years experience IN street cleaning, and who is acknow
edged by Old associates 10 be well acquainted with
The details Of that business have completed the organza
non Of 800 ablebOdiedmen whom they propose to work
until the streets this city far more thoroughly reno
waited than they under the old contract system
MI. Ambrose, aud many physicians who have given
the subject careful attention, say that amount Of
street cleaning viii have the desired effect upon the
heaih Of the citizens Of certain localities unless the
Board Of Health bv the exercise Of the plenary power
vested in IT, performs the imperative duty Of forcing the
owners the occupants Of tenement houses, to keep
them IN a more tidy condition so far relates TO the
temporary storage and final disposition OF swil AMI
garbage and, in many cases, OF sun more OneislVe
ana disease breeding matter. These gentlemen say
70 almost universal for occupants or Uene-
houses 70 Keep open pals boxes for the recep
ton OF the above matter, These receptacles
stand n the houses ana Oentlmes in the cooking and
sleeping apartments, and enptied, on an average
once IN - hours. II they emptied IN the morning
they hed again before dAd time and are
allowed 70 stand untll the next morning, 10
poison With their foul eXbaa6ns the air breathed bv
Che crowded sieeper II neS4 reoeBtacles are emitted
ia the evening, they are Scldom dsinfeced and they
conheqQeMiy InpIe<dGtt the night air with yapOrs
hardly les UanF o0s than they would be If not freed
from thep SO eoHts. The law prohibiting the throwing
mtg i1t sr6bfS Of ashes, sWl garbage drtOf any
and not enfOroed and tie result is that though tbs
streets lined with these tenemenhOuges may be thor
Cughly cleansed during the night and before the next
mOruugtbey will be befOued with offensive mixture Of
shes and filth Of almost every description, which has
lie there and and breed disease for at least
hour They claim that n y the duty of the Board of
Health 20 make a regulation and then see that II Is
TiRidly enforced, compelling landlords 10 furnish their
tenants with separate receptaces for ashes aud sW
garbage those for the latter 10 be water
aud ar tight, and provided with closely
hitting covers, and 10 be kept IN the most
convenient places outside Of the cook
ing, sitting sleeping apartments When thus fur
nsbed all necessary measures should be- TesOrted 70 by
and garbage into receptacle and their ashes iptO h'
other, and ~ stop them from eptying either into h'
ttrosts Dut 70 allow them 20 stand where they are
placed until the for tben BY 20 doing, TIT
health Of the occupants Of crowded tenementhOuses vii
be greatly improved the streets viii De kept compare
lively clean during the day, and considerable revenue
Viii W GeJiyed from tic 1llhLauon 81 the swl, or gaT