The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-26

Another Sanitary Visit Expected The Occupants
of Booths in West and vesey Streets Pack
ing Their Traps-How the Marketmen
Talk-Fulton Market Stand
holders ApprehenIve.

Time Is Strengthening matters about WASHINGTON
Market Yesterday morning the West street
butchers filled the few hooks which were left to
them, and 80 did what they could with what trade
they could command with their restricted space.
Along the other streets-vesey and Fulton--the
fruit, vegetable, poultry, butter and dried meats
dealers got along as they might with their Ice
boxes, barrels and baskets on the sidewalks They
oiled orders and made such sales as they were
able to do and cursed the Health Board for the de-
dcit on their books and In their cash boxes One
Vesey street firm, who usually sell two tons of
poultry daily, handled during the last two days
barely some two hundred pounds. A number of
the butchers have formed stands in Washington
Market, and others are talking of build
Ing booths there on the part still unused.
Groups Of excited men on the sidewalks, IN
the passages OF the market house and in the adj
acent public houses talked over their grievances
and bitterly inveighed against despotic power in
aRepublic which can, upon its own judgment, sub
ect to no review, declare any structure nuisance
and order its destruction. Calmer estimates of
losses were heard but still the aggregate claimed
looks large when compared with the amount Of
previous sales and the fact that most OF the deal
srs will find new places in the vicinity in which to
, carry on their business
H'.d EXPECTING ANOTHER VISIT.
In the afternoon q fresh irebrand added to the
heated discussions which engrossed the sidewalk
groups. An on1cial servant OF the Board OF Health
lett at some of the booths along Vesey street. OPP
pOsite The market, and at other stalls In the
vicinity notices. from one of which the following Is
HEALTH DErAarxssr. No; sl NOR :. sT Is
sln-Your attention is hereby called to the accom-
pa9yng extract from the minutes Of the Board Of Health
t%SVs stall Ss H%
r'.r GEO. S. HASTINGS, Secretary pro tenn
,vll,a,I 80. [ExrRAcr.l 49,
HEALTH DErAnrAEsr OF M Ess sS GI No OF NEW Yonx
al - ,n New YORK, July rs 1873 }
aeaith held July IS is7s % = H''''s INC 0o-'a 0'
a as u hs Ss
a again
lands yet remsma to the OF this Board for their n
and TO the necessity OF removing this nuisance
= ~ GEO. s. HASTINGS. Secretary pro tenn.
These papers, In writing, were enclosed In an
envelope. without being addressed to any persofI
by name, and left at various stands near the mar
mat he had run our OF notices and must 90 TO
Headquarters for more gave rise to the surnse
that it was intended TO take another step towards
me market ITSELF and clear the sidewalks imme-
aiately adjoining 1t. This soon grew to be rumor
and there was anxious canvassing among those
El2 stu OCCUPY stands on the walks as to what
ICY. siioa..aa Dc With their stock and as to the
ruth OF the report. Many inclined to doubt that
he Board of Health would or could clear the mar
Iet sidewalks, while enough to MAINTAIN an
argument held that the Board lacked neither
power or viii, and might in the end be expected to
ret as preindical to health and dangerous, in view
II the possible approach OF cholera or other cpl
iemic. All sorts OF wild assertions were made
,bOut the Board and the motives which govern it
n connection with street distractions and the in
ierests Of an unsatisfactory speculation. But as
sOnsoling reflection the gfumblerS 1el back upon
he opinion, which seems general through the mar
ret that as the city had taken rent for the stalls 1t
viii be answerable in damages for the losses in
1eeIn sufficient legal notification.
t.tGia CLEANING UP THE STREETS.
After the wooden structures had been demolished
10 vesey, West and Fulton streets there were lett
SItanding many gas pipes, issuing from the pave
and thence leading towards the market. Yester-
Say gangs OF men were tearing up the pavements
i to ay them M market the
paving stones. This work increases the broken
ind patched appearance OF the several streets,
making the side streets especially look as though
urgently needing thorough repaving IN
order. to make It possible to clean them
oul water and decomposing organic matter.
West street sidewalk Is lighter and Affords
more room for foot s 1nan wnen inc
Vesey and Fulton streets are more INSTRUCTED than
before the sanitary raid On the two SIDES how
The change, and an order OF Colonel Devoe to open
yliding windows in each stall toward West street
reer and better inspection Of the
commodities for sale.
FULTON MARKET. .
Carpenters, with tlmbers, Uttered the sidewalk
Leaning to the ferry through Fulton Market yester
day. They were busy at raising the roofs and floors
Of the venerable coee and fruit booths, 80 as to al
low sanitary peep into the gutter, and in hopes
to avert a halfanticpated order OF the Health
Board that all these distractions shall follow the
same road as those at Washington Market--to the
corporation yard. Along Beekman street, too,
some OF the clam-soup houses lifted their floors .
trine, though not enough to draw on the Stops
damned in the gutter. On the east side no Thought
OF sanitary Improvement seems to have entered M
the heads OF the coffee and fruit sellers Their
doors are laid upon the pavement, but as they do
not cover the gutter they are apparently con-
sdered not liable to be meddled with by the Health
Board.
POLICE MATTERS.