The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-24
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was struck at ten minutes to nine, and what
seemed IN the beginning rather weak invention
Of the enemy soon proved TO De perfect tempest
IF sound The crowd which had been gathering
m some what threate nng attitude ever since
O'Clock around the booths, streets and stands, IN
N ali manner OF language at the Board OF Health
aud the powers that be, rather weakened
arm Sus auies mauner put h the croWd
back to the sidewalks and assumed position
completely around the market. There was much
growing and dissatisfaction, but not club was
Faised nor q particularly hard word spoken. 1t
was evident from the first that business was
meant, and that any resistance which might be
mace to the peremptory order oil the Health
Board would result in no good so far as
while 1t might do an indnity Of harm In the
way OF cracked skulls and bloody countenances.
tents that nothing which bore the sembance OF q
xio., whatever may have been the previous inten-
ton, should be carried out, Quiet submission to
When the workmen arrived In their carts, armed
with crewbars and other equally destructive in
and no small amount OF private swearing, soto
u0ce, but they passed on IN triumph. not even
sevoted heaGs. with such Condition Of afrairs
some people felt ANNOYED, but the police felt quite
happy. II was too hot to DO any nghtng or club
jumped the wOrkmen from their carts and seized
thelr crowbars before the attack, as mentioned
above. The onslaught was made on the corner OF
West and vesey streets, from the roof, and in
moment
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yesounded, the stiffness OF the night being broken
In upon in o surprising manner. In moment the the
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the grinding OF the saws the breaking OF the wood
the falling OF the rarters, the cQuets OF the I'm,
The breaking OF the glass, the scattering OF the
skylights windows, beams, crates. bins, fce-boxes
and the thousand and one articles which go to make
1t was surprising. the whole had its sad az well
1t its comic side. It was no doubt side-splitting
TO save what they could oithe debris Of livelihood
IT was Infinitely funny to see booths and lumber to
the value OF 100000 destroyed with such vim and
spirit. IL was rresstably comic to see men COM
plain that they had invested their oil In these
wooden shanties and that now ruin stared
"s srne sad to watch the workmen with the crow
bars tearing away, not only at the wood but scat
winds and obliterating many an honestly earned
debt 1t 50 happened that not one In fve OF the
had M e IN e
ana it was religionsiy adhered TO- Indeed the work
men on the roofs seemed to have conceived
2 perfect mania OF destruction, for along
West street they not only tore down
but bravely went to work tearing down the roof Of
Washington Market ITSELF Not q few owners Of
seeing their places Uttered with the cnlppines OF
their own property. ABOUT half an hour after the
some terrible hurricane had passed over, destroy
ing everything IN Its fatal course. And still the
deriul ardOr, and the noise was BabylOnian with
out a moments cessation. In the meantime the
august
BOARD OF HEALTH.
headed by It's President DR.. Chandler, sat in state
swells and q posse OF policemen. Now and then
some unfortunate owner would appeal for aid,
pray for moments s grace TO ALLOW him to remove
lady, weighing some three hundred pounds, and
the very picture OF health, broke in upon the dig
IL want you men to understand she exclaimed,
in a voice made peculiarly shrill by anger, "that
what you're doing. Here have been in this
market thirty years and Pm healthy, guess. I've
and i DEFY you to find any cholera as ever hap.
pened In this market You want to take the bread
ont Of d., the Widows mouth don't y1u; Don't come
IT'S lot you care Tor that You aren't satisfied
with killing your patients-yo1 want GO KIN DECENT
'em," &c.
rather angry when delegation waited upon 1t to
make the statement that this was an arbitrary act,
BEEN ofcslly nptied OF the Clearing swsy o Of their
stands. DR.. Oleander insisted that every one OF
them had been personally nOtifed, which the dele
All at once Inspector walling came up to ask If
the men were obeying orders In tearing away the
roof OF the Market. The Board said certainty not
and gave the order that work should cease for o
time. After consultation it was then decided that
the rafters on the curb stone supporting the roof
should be lett standing. but everything outside
cleared This was not before great deal OF the
market property had been destroyed, Tor which the
owners intend 10 sue tie city.
The work was then resumed with the old en-
thusiasm, and the Nesey street stalls began to
gated on the sidewalk watching their property
disappear. One owner said to the HERALD re-
reform. guess they've got u bellymll OF II now.
%o0n havs zone 1n" o another see
81 paid $40, 600 last year for the good win OF these
two stalls and the Board Of Aldermen guaranteed
that both my places were legally erected" AS he
was speaking down came his roof to the sidewalk,
and both he and the reporter narrowly escaped.
The work up Vesey street progressed rapidly, and
the stalls which are closely built than those on
West street, succumbed rapidly to the blows Of the
worKmen. In many of them provisions were stlll
stored and in some instances were DESTROYED.
The Board OF Health came up to see this part Of
the work, and in answer to prayers OF owners gave
some humane orders TO respect property. What
ever could be consistently saved was saved here,
and the Board repudiated the idea OF wishing to
strict letter of the law. On West street the
owners OF stalls which were demolished were
Haipin Tease, L. Biohm Co.. James s her T
y. Costello. Davis McQuade, Ferdinand
k kSs,r Thomas as M Rsa ra 9owg waes
Z: l.. Leach, II. Ecksteln $. Eckstein, Dwyer 4
Warts. All these were butchers, and the esli-
Tilton& Hon Henry Combe / Son. George v.
seymor 4 Iichtenstein, owen Grove, James
Farmer, Patrick DooDan, John Meehan, X.
Dnnnger, Walter Long, Michael O'Brien,
John Crosy Jack CAVITY, john Tralnor,
Charles Cohen. John Tooley, Mrs. O'Don.
nell, Charles ODonnell, Amos Stookcy, Martin
Marius Harrison Delaney Garvy, James Nc
Grath, John Coughan and Jungh 4 Co. The esti-
mated value OF the goodwin OF these stands IL
4250,000. During the operations OF the workmen
she olfactories OF policemen IND populace
attacked in . most violent manner by the stencil
rom o swil cart OF extraordinary proportions,
which stood IN Vesey street, loading with all
manner OF rOttfng garbage. IL was only at the re-
peated and persistent solicitations OF Inspector
Waling, the Board OF Health and Captain Copeland
Ahat the swtll cart man was induced TO aban
HIS OFFENSIVE POSITION
'By jabers an Its all wid yer, was the
'0ry raised by an Old market lady OF Milesian de-
scent last night, a. she heard the measured tramp
pf the police approaching Washington Market on
she Fulton street side. The old womans invoca-
zion was doeiuly re-echoed by a crowd OF by
standers dressed In market costume who