The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-13
was unanimously adopt.
TEE CARTMEN,S GRIEVANCES.
Meeting. Mt Hibernia Hail Last Night
Address By MIR. w. BOwles.

Meeting Mt HiberniA Hail Last Night
Address By MIR. w. Bowles.
The Cartmen's Association held meeting last
night at Hibernia Hall, No. % Prince street. to pro-
test against the action of the Street Cleaning
Bureau in reducing the pay OF cartmen (wno fur
nshed their own carts aud horses from 81 to S. 80
O day and that OF scavengers from 81 to 81 SO o
day. Mr.. James 3. Hackett presided and intro
duced Mr.. W. Bowles, who expressed the griev.
ances Of the cartmen In pithy speech.
Mr. BowLEs denounced the Street Cleaning Bu-
reau for using the corporation carts for carting
away private garbage from hotels and other estab-
lshments. They could do this more cheaply, be-
cause the private cartmen who did the work for
merry had to pay from fiteen to twenty five cents
per load at the dumping ground, while the corpora
ton need not pay anything. Now, where did this
money 90 tor Some Of the hotels, like the Fifth
Avenue, paid as much as $50 month for carting
away Its garbage. The carting OF this private gar
bage was worth $4,000 or $1,000 alone below
Fourteenth street STREET, ana who n,, got all the
ridicued the bill introduced in the Assembly Tor
aDotshing the Excise Board and incorporating it
in the Police Department AS If the Police Com.
missioners did not get tai enough Could they tell
HIM where the money paid to them by hotels went
to Ii they would deprive-the poor cartman Of his
livelihood, bis bread, whom would they not ROB ?
In tins very ward they had robbed four cartmen Of
their daily bread in this manner Ii the Investlgat
OF the Street Cleaning Bureau and compared the
wages paid with the sums received for
wages from the Comptroller they would unearth
enormous frauds The cleaning OF the streets
could be done more cheaply by private
contract than ny q public commission. The cart
men did work; why were they not paid regularly
once or twice a month"; Did the Commissioners
make any money by delaying the paymentss He
knew OF an individual who, when he had the
workngmen's money, loaned it OUT i0r twenty
days. and the commissioners might do the same
thing There was no lack Of money in the City
treasury for paving the cartmen and ashmen d.
recty and regularly. These poor, almost dest-
tute. men had to come under the iron h00f Of
tyranny called Board of Commissioners. Last
week they put the poor men to work for q
day or two. but alter they had toiled they
did not even obtain the bare necessaries OF
lie. He hoped they would appoint o committee to
wait on the commissioners to ascertain II they
would not return to the old prices. There were
far too many foremen IN the bureau ana TOO many
sinecure positions. Their wages had been de-
Quoted to enrich those VINO did nothing. The Po-
lice Commlssionerssh0uld only have control OF the
police and he would ask the Legislature to deprive
these men Of every junction except to protect lie
aud property ......... IL.
for one sunday, on which bus 200 carts were out,
the bureau charged $50 600 for cleaning This pre-
posterOus fraud could be proved by reference 10
o HERALD OF the succeeding day.
After appointing committee to walt upon the
Commissioners In order to present to them their
grievances the meeting adjourned.