The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-14

wnicn u mas fulfilled its alas y trusted promises,
a ap,y 10 s3oo,620 II the pocketing by the
Tweeds Legislature for extra or additional street
cIeanlng" was regarded as an outrageous swinde,
wna1 smai be SAID Of the concern that has cheated
tne people out or more than that and at the same
time obsructed their harbor and kept their streets
In far dltnier condition than Brown dared to
ask the contumacious gru%blers 'a at it's hgS
are you going to 90 about Are h tse
Police Commissioners with their inefficient Street
Cleaning Bureau more r, mpregnaa6le than Tweed
cary and the Treasury at his back The latter
went BY the board, out the former stick In their
themselves monuments OF 1t from river to river
and from the Battery to the confines OF Harlem,
unless the extra Joose Win
objectionable offences gives way to an honest in
dignat0n strong enough to force them to relin-
Now, how much longer win this patience last ?
VIII II continue until the harbor is rendered impas
SABLE even for light draft merchant shps-unti the
Guys commerce Is seriously impaired, not only by
harbor distractions, but by the disease breathing
NTH OF Its streets and until they are SO deeply
ana other decaying animal matter that the ques-
M0n wlil not be- can we pursue our ordinary voca
Is it not about time for TIE people to look after
their interests in this matter2 They have their
wants, the legislators and the charter makers at
Albany; and hos not the hour come for saying to
them, In q voice that Will secure obedience, Take
the Street Gaming Bureau away from these utterly
incompetent Police Commissioners place an honest
and otherwise well qualified man at its head, and
then put 1t under the supervision OF a department
distinguished tor integrity and efficiency uf such
department does not exist create One), rather than
Tor shiftlessness and fraud2
Mayor jacobs, Of Louisville, has applied to these
Police Commissioners for the plan adopted by them
in cleaning New York's streets. Now, 1t is to be
hoped that Mayor Jacobs desire to benefit Louis
vlle s as great as his Ignorance OF the results at
tending the adoption OF the plan requested for it
must DC assumed that ne IS entirely unacquainted
becomes Christian duty to tell him what he can
90 for Louisville by cleaning streets New York's
Street Cleaning Bureau cleans its streets under the
supervision OF the Police Commissioners.
F0St-He can make the people pay at the rate Of
$l4 per mile Tor street cleaning which should cost
but So per mile.
SecOnd-He can draw the entire amount appro.
priated for street cleaning and do less than three
quarters OF the work required.
1hiTd-He can sell the manure deposited in the
streets for several thousand dollars less than 1t Is
really worth.
Fo,vth-He can obtain an amount greatly In eX.
cess OF what should cost to carry street dirt be-
You'd the city limits and then injure the cty's COM
merce BY dumping 1t into its harbOr, from which it
Will have to be removed at an enormous expense
FWh-lie Gun provide places for political hangers
on, and pay them with the peoples money for
doing nothing
Sirth-He can adorn Louisville with artIstically
constructed mountains OF flth and proudly say to
Commissioner Bosworth, 81, too, have perfumery
containing -four hundred and sixteen separate and
distinct stnks.'" L-crr t0
But 1t would take too long to tell Mayor Jacobs
OF all he can accomplish for his city by putting into
plan OF cleaning streets If he would understand
That plan in all its various bearings he must come
anu see for himself
VETERAN STREET CLEANER. r.