The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-25

time, but rather Is IL MS duty TO speak Of thy ouo
unfortunate Thomas, which cries aloft 10 the
immortal gods for instant removal or immediate
burial AS you lie there with your entralis,
the brcKbat Of some rufifan BOY, one Is tempted
30 think OF the moonlight nights that heard you
as you cattered boldly over the tin roofs OF the
city, or from close ensconcemenJ behind some
prick chimney caterwauled gioriOasly TO your
bonnie Jean But now, ike the MerOvlngian
kings VINO RODE long-halred on bullock carts
through the streets OF pre-mediaval Paris, you
nave as Carlyle says, passed into night and all
that remains OF you Is that which Is rank and
Thomas away to Barren Island and be covered
up for see these natives OF sunny Italy, whose
odor Is as bad in life almost as your own Is in
death, pass you by with neglectful contempt.
''oHl THAT LIABURGER cHEEsEW
While musing over the dlsgustng ana loatn.
writer could not help noticing an Italian who
Jumped on cart TO give impetus to morse tnat
was q magnificent one, the profile IKE that often
seen on q Roman CON- and his body was wen
splendid fellow one's mind went away 10 other
scenes and other rivers IMAM mat WIN zen aa,e
to MIND and dissolved the gaseous fabric as II 1t
was struck by magician's wand.
wa: t in Greece Il was the ed hour Of . noon,
agme aaa E sna ia sr tq huns Isles
Like clouds upon the bright and breathiess sea-
Suddenly this picture faded away as the tail
board oil the cart dropped down ana the cart shot,
a disgusting and reekIng mass OF rotting Limbur-
ger cheese, forth upon kindred heap OF garbage.
In presence OF this smell all fancy must die, and
poetry no longer can sway the senses. Even In
its natural and healthy state Limburger cheese Is
an lndlsputable fact the very apogee OF realism.
But such stencil as now arose would have routed
even . Prussian army corp In full UNIFORM with
SteinmetZ at itB head. Descend 10 thy proper
plane, as the Pantarch would say, o, decaylng
onion and torn tom catl your frankincense and
spices cast In the Inferior shade by Llmburger
cheese. The Italian as he jumped from the cart
PHRASE, he .'squashedn straight into the cheese,
and 1t exuded in thick liquid under the hot sun.
nAA nal AAla and faA
could not have washed IL away. Lie there Linz
burger cheese ana asslmilate and amalgamate
brewerles, and you VIII nnd substance almost
brotherly for the aroma that the July days will
engender
Tomatoes when fresh and ripe are delightful
and toothsome vegetable for the breakfast table,
and the little rosy radish Is Q Joy forever But
here are myriads or these rotIlng and fostering
and sporting the heaps OF garbage with desolate
and faded yellow leverish spots. They make
you think OF the yellow nag floating over hospital
AND there Is watery c.ammy smell from them
that suggests quinine pills and not Turkish baths
Little, wrlggling things may DO seen crawling in
and out OF these tomatoes, and ants are Us
numerous and as industrious as operatives in
Lowell factory. the pestiferous remains OF scores
OF cabbages are nerded together among the slam
refugees OF the household economy but the odor
OF these culinary bouquets is not nearly bad as
the stencil from the tomatoes; and yet tomato
Is nothing but q rind enclosing some pulpy seeds
and a globe or water The carcass OF debaucned
uog. whose life, no doubt was tnat OF hummer
hes mere too, and the stencil from his body resem
hot day from the puriieus or slaughter
house bordering on river where the entrails OF
masses. The tail OF the dog Is the saddest OF all
things III this Gehenna OF filth and slime. Is is
eyer il is that this unfortunate canine during mis-
brief space OF life had no home. habtatton or
heartnstone. He, IKE the tom cat, was prob.
dung brick, perhaps followec up by blows from
cruel cart rung and now this Migrants carcass
Is made by the dispensation or the dumping con-
tractors TO serve rs O contribution TO the III
health of the citizens OF Harlem. Many such dogs
abound in these garbage heaps, and their sepul-
chre ls quickly made and soon forgotten.
AN ABANDONED WATERFALL.
But most curious and most difficult OF all the
SINE lis here concentrated 70 describe is the smell
! which noats upward like the smoke from the fires
OF 40 Indian camp, ana which has lis birth IN the
| from the heads OF ladies' who have become en-
amored OF new conures. some OF these may have
/ lain under the bonnet OF Murray Hill belle and
others may have come rom that cemetery OF tne
slums OF the household economles-the Baxtef
Ioafnsome waterfall with a close, musty odor
| resembling that OF bale OF hemp that mas
raigs ana the burning rays OF the sun
WI the waterfall OF q motherIn-law who
apron belt sf thrown fortn BY "a Indignant wife
secretly ana at dead OF nigntf Was It the water
fall OF sister dear abandoned after the Jury and
l IL torn nom the head OF youthful BRIDE. who
was engaged In shedding all the feminine para
the lost unfortunate whose Dody lay In the Morgue
and Afterwards served as Q subject for the dissect-
lions that can never resolve themselves, Tor
the proof and eviuences have passed away
and these different and noxious capillary nag
tomb OF the skull OF a dead horse whose brain Is
as clean as the handle OF an ivory tooth brush
Cologne itself Is as nothing 10 tnis combination OF
smells, and yet the Italians dig away right
were stencil proof and plague proof and ready for
work at each mornings return. And yet they die
last enough, for the fatal seeds OF these horrible
masses OF putrefactlon and corruption will never
leave the lungs OF these unfortunate beings, who
McGowan's creek and the beds OF the desolate
Harlem marshes.
WHO IS TO BLAME FOB THE NUISANCE?
I TO rus EDIToB OF THE HERALD:-
Your expose OF the quality OF the ''ningn used
At the Harlem rats deserves the thanks OF every
man, woman and child in this community. Bus
what shah be said OF the police authorities, who
furnished this material 70 the contractor, and or
the Health Board, VINO allowed II TO be usedi By
section chapter 6T7 OF the Laws OF 1872 1t Is pro-
vided shat the ashes. dirt, garbage and rubbish
shall be removed rom the city fast as collected,
exceps such dlrt and ashes as In the Judgment or
the Board OF Healta may be suitable to Oil low or
sunken lots.n
Did the Board or Police notify the Board or
Health that they had sold certain amount or
street refuse TO Contractor McQuad, TO be used
IN nlling In Harlem Flats, ana ask that Board TO
inspect the same and see II Il was, Ia their judy
ment, suitable for the purpose II 50, VINO was
the inspector and what his reportf
Is 1t not q TACT that this material Ia the same
that mas accumulated IN the city during the whole
of the past winter, and which the Board OF Police
at one time designed sending down the bay aud
out 20 sea because that was deemed the only NJ
dumping place for so putrld mass OF stun
Did not the company sell this stun to contractor
McQuald for the sum OF $40 per scowload con-
tanning 1000 cubic yards, the contractor receiy-
ing therefor from the city sixty-three cents per
cuDc yard or S126 per scow loadS Whatever sum
IL was sold for must have been reported 70 the
comptroller Tor section OF the act alluded to re-
quires that where any such sales nave been made
they shau be reported 20 the Comptroller semi
monthly
Your admirable expose, together with the fact
that the people OF the upper end OF this island are
thoroughly aroused In Lnis matter, Will probably
deter the authorities from furnishing and the con-
tractor rom using the nltR further. But IL Is said
that the commissioners OF Charities and Correc-
ion have set apart the upper end OF Backwell's
Island as at dumping ground fer this stun. The
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