The New York herald., 1873-08-05

Reform Still Moving Onions of Reeking Ref
use Carted from Fulton Market-Dr. James
Looking at Catharine Market-Nore
Work for the sappars-south Street
To Be Cleared-Vessy Street
Dumping Dock.

| ing opened Washington and Fulton markets to the
healthiul influences of light and air and stripped
| away the nois0me excrescences which had during
scores OF years accumulated filth and generated
stencil about them it will not pause till all our mu-
nicipal markets shall be purged of their nuisances
! and the wholesale poisoning OF our ioodby foul air
and noxlous exhalatons stopped. There is work for
| axe and crowbar about the minor markets STILL as
| well as for the busy broom and the Health Board
should not pause in its benencent abors till all our
| great food depots are thoroughly purified.
HOW THEY LOOK
Yesterday being Monday was not lively market
| day. washington Market was not thronged, as il
always is on Saturday, but business went on In
quiet, easy way, not apparently curtaied by the
lopping-ofI OF the gutter booths and the clearing
away of the foul deposits under them. Say that
we approach the great food reservoir by Vesey
street, as so many Of its lrequenters do. Hereto
fore we virtually entered the market when having
passed the tombstones OF our forefathers in st.
Paul's churchyard and crossed Church street.
There we met the domain Of the huckster,
who, for great portion OF the two
blocks thence to the market proper, had
hedged in the sidewalks by permanent erec-
tions, taking their point Of departure from
yard within the gutter and running thence
toward the middle Of the street some fifteen feet
In these booths were women. children and men
| importuning you to buy all sorts Of merchandise
except railroad iron and real jewelry. With few
exceptions these street stores are gone You can
see and be seen along the walk. There are
chances to buy still; but the cabbages and bonnets
hams and harbrushes laces and crockery, fresh
meat and vegetables are offered from the basket
| or barrelhead, or from board laid on some such
movable supports
MARKET ARCHITECTURE.
IN ctf,tn ho r6atv
structure which might madden an architect 1t
looks as though erected by hundred builders
who each furnished his own plans. But
reform, the latest builder has worked
on uniform plan. On three sides shed
roofs extended from the market walls
over the sidewalks and gutter, and from twelve to
fifteen feet OF the Streets SO as to cover the out
side stands. Reform has sheared of these roofs
directly over the line of the curbstones. Along
Vesey and Fulton streets the roofs remain as the
sappers left them, presenting a ragged edge OF
abridged rafters and curtaied roofing. Above
many Of the stalls were closed up oiices like large
hencoops, approached by ladders or mysterious
narrow stairways. These, in many cases, have
been cut in two leaving exposed portion Of a
miniature room, equipped with desk, chair or
stool, or something made to do duty for one; a
rack for hanging Clothes and perhaps grind
stone, on which 10 sharpen the long knife and the
efficient cleaver OF the dealer IN cut meats. Some
or these upper appurtenances OF the stalls still
left open as the reform saw left them. Others
have their privacy preserved by hanging tar
paun; while others still have boarded up the
aperture and present q blank wall to the admring
passenger. Along the market wall are stalls five
ieet wlde between the gangways which lead to
the inner market. These were not heretofore
uniform in width and those which projected more
than the prescribed distance were yesterday cut
Off to the line, by order OF captain Kettleman,
Clerk OF the Market In front Of these stands The
sidewalks are seven feet wide.
rIE
Outside of this is q strip two feet wide still oc-
cuped by those who before the raid held the gutter
booths On this narrow ledge OF commerce some
enterprising citizens and citzenesses beg the
thOrites to allow them to carry on the traffic by
fore conducted large transactions and turned
plenty of honest pennies. Here the tat ham wO-
men ana the ean % Irnlt women omen sun tempt custom
stay. Outside or them, both on Fulton and Vesev
streets the cutters are open, broken, filed with
uninviting fluids, and the pavements are full of
holes and breaks defying the skill Of the most
honest broom to clean. Still there are importu-
nate petitioners for the privilege to seek bread
this narrow edge OF sidewalk.
REFORMED WEST STREET
Since the raid the wholesale butchers who tres
passed upon the carriagcway some fifteen feet
nave found quarters elsewhere to display their
qualities OF beef or are waiting to do SO. There
still butcher stalls along the inside OF the walk
next the market WALL but beyond these the public
is allowed the walk and may there carry lis basket
into a coroner's case Overhead the stall owners
have covered the Jagged edge OF roof and rafters
by facing reaching three feet down, making pro-
lection against driving storms, and yet leaving
room for hight and air. row of new windows let's
them into the inner market-a marked benefit re-
suting from the destruction of the outside stalls.
PROMISED IMPROVEMENT.
Under direction OF the Board OF Health, DR.. Jud-
son. Health Inspector, and Mr.. Phyfer, an archi.
tect, have just made an'inspection OF this market.
with a view to It's better ventilation, and will soon
report plans for that purpose to the Board. While
the Health Department has this matter in hand 1t
is to be hoped that 1t will not allow the obstruc-
tiveness of any. other portion OF the municipal
the reform 1t has here begun. No lame argument
OF the full occupation OF all docks below
the market and beyond the danger Of contaminat:
ing 1t by the stencil OF dumping ground should
drive the Board to consent that vesey street pier
snail longer be used for this vile purpose; nor
should the poverty. OF the Public Works Depart
ment prevent the thorough repair or repairing Of
Vesey and Fulton streets.
THE sICKENING DUMPING DOCK.
There must be more market room. SO ground
must be found westward OF West Washington
Market on the space long used as dumping
build @ DOCK ior this | purpose urtneP
ana rooed SO that the discharge of the dirt carts
into scows shall be done in a building to protect
the market from dust and vile smells: This will
not satisfy the people whose food is bought and
sold in Washington Market. They demand that
the street dirt oral, ashes and garbage shall not
be handled in almost immediate contact with their
fruits, meats, vegetables, fowls butter and cheese.
II there is no dock at the command Of the city
surely be better to haul these vile preciptations of
city life to varick street pier, as at present, than
to allow them passage through West street, be-
tween Washington and West Washington lharkets
and then down the side OF the latter to be laden at
the same door where we receive our food.
FULTON MARKET SHORN.
large squad Of iaborers, with CARTS were hard
at work yesterday eXcavatlng and removing the
tons of filth which has slumbered so many years
beneath the coffee and fruit stands over cutters
and sidewalks. on Sunday morning, as the sappers
labored at tearing down the sheds, 1t had been
found necessary to use dsinieotants freely, to pre-
vent injurious effects from the nOXi0us vapOrs lib
Grated by the demolition. Sunday afternoons
pouring rain storm helped to carry away the
nuisance: yet there was an ample residuum yester-
day to employ large squad all day and to con.
vince all who scanned 1t that there was reason IN
the judgment Of the Health Board that the exist
OF the booths was an invitation to disease and
cause thereof.
Along Fulton street side the roof over the pave
ment had been repaired before the shanties were
pulled and there the market looks strangely,
though not 80 positively uncouth as when viewed
dislaured with nraiecilnQ hare iImnera