The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-03
THE FILTHY STREETS.
An Had OF Garbage. Muck
and MU9h.
BROADWAY KEPT CLEAN FOR SHOW
Preparations for Pestilence and
Malaria.

.'Now that the days are 50 me and the sun 50
warm, why do they not clean the streets, offcerY"
asked middieaged lady az a dirty street crossing
in West Broadway yesterday
away Ma'amu SAID the portentous-looking
man OF the blue coat and brass buttons, II wish
10 be polite, but / give II up and Ia rather have
an easy conundrum u answer.n The lady took
her car in sad silence and passed away with con-
siderable mud her skirts THIS interesting ques-
uon--WHy are the streets 50 diriyi-is now being
asked IN all the alleys, where heaps Of ice, gar
bage, Nth ana concealed snow are gathered or
rise up in long INES before dwellings on the side
streets not lar distant from the roar or Broad
way East or the Bowery bur little mas been done
to remove the disgusting di.n which bockades
every mans door, resembling, more than any
thing else, the earthen breastworks that covered
the State or Virginia during the winter succeeding
the war.
AN IDYLL OF FROZEN MUsH.
Ifany curious person should desire 70 get faint
IDEA OF wat Paris was IN the Middle Ages before
sewerage was accomplished TACT let hlm go
down 10 Cnerry street. which reeKs 70 heaven
with solid fortlncauons or iltn. Here the stencil
is simply terrible and the oHal and garbage ac-
cumuated practically Indicate that the author-
ties who nave control or the street cleaning 90
net believe that Inhabitants Of tenement houses
have any rights that a Police Commission should
respect. Keep Broadway clean. because the
solid men and their families walk through II every
aay and let the out-ofthe-way places 20 70 the
DEVIL SAID street-ceaning ofclal to the writer.
"That's our racket be added sentennously.
"But 40 you nor keep any other streets clean
besides Broadway the next question.
"Why Of course, we are not 50 soft as all that
You see that work on all the streets leading
10 i ferry-that il, II il Is Dg Terry, like Cort-
landt street Fulton, but you can bet your boots
in "A
Tenth street Catharine street or the Forty
second street ferry lOoksn
An honest confession is sometimes good for
bruised heart, and the inspector, VINO was direct
ing large gang or men, spoke with a iervd emo
ton mat was creditaole 70 his knowledge or the
world ami OF pedestrians, particularly American
pedestrians. VINO are tne best abIsed, best taxed
and most forgiyiug Or any CLASS OF people on the
surface o. the globe.
THE BEsr SIDE or.
Broadway looks splendid to the eve, and the in
dustry displayed on lts granite surface long after
midnight ana wnen theatre goers have gone home
TO their beds 81 ows what might be done in
secluded streets But It IS patent that Broadway
is an arisocratc infant that have its soothing
syrup in the way of sturdy Italians and thirsty
brooIns that lies up aust aud slime with myriad
tongues, while tne back streets and slums are
foundilngs, 70 70 speak, 100 Wnom NJ street
cleaner drops a tear or displays broom. West
street., below canal street, i great business
thorougnlare, ana thousands OF persons are COM
PEELED py business necessity t. visit IL day
By day Among these are many women
carrying baskets laaea with provisions and the
orher goods That ~ Is MAKE up the details OF "a
happy nome and well iurnIsHeo taSle, but there
cannot be more GtsgrQceul lOOSIpg aud ulrty
street in the world than III ~ Tne mud and slush
Of West street varies from mat Or any other
Ia New YORK. WIZ the exception ~ couih street,
winch i next 70 y ln nitn and odor fnere =
smell or the salt air about West street mud,
and connoisseurs declare that u would not keep
so well Il Il We're not picked. The orine
mn IL nnNEG
seasons West street mua, ana late at nigat
the oelated aud intoxicated mariner lies down IN
with "io-heighn ana 4 ''heaye ton that assures
the passer BY that the marlrer i ~ an element as
nearly AKIN p his ofue water a. may re Iound II
tue First Assembly district
THE ETHICS Or DIET.
The most odorous street n thc metropolis for
nltn Il Mulberry, below Sprlng. II has not It's equal
anywhere. ana even llme-honored Baxter street
must hide its mead before prolific Mulberry. Bax-
ter street IS neaped with mua aud snow, DTS ~
glass. broken bottles that once contained soda
water or lager beer ana sooy ana greasy rag
ments o. old clothing.
BUT Mulberry street Il a clOrced or animal matter
and compost vegetao.es' entirely different ron
It's sister street A. reeks ia the noonday sun and
smites weak stomach with = bolt o. terror ana
disgust.
spots, a quarter ousnva1Hg Montmartrs Or the
seven Dials, the region n tne seventeenth WaFl
east 81 Frst avenue ana below lhlrd street l.
noticeable. Here there l. an odor d dccayin2
cheese aud -proutug spring vegetables tiat
would delight the heart VI idrme- rom ~cn0A1fie
county ia search 81 phosphate deposits But tae
poor people who i've Fix story tenement
dow anG air hole. ana WOO occasionally
are visited WIKI fevers ami smallpox. % not leel
any sense OF pleasure IN looking daY day, a.
these seeds 81 pcstence. Having ID work early
and ate Tor bread and butter tncT cannot SPARE
any time 70 clear away rubhlsh, ana I tney did gg
up tue refuse matter they would not Ne permitted
% remove IL. Fancy Ear1 WUrking shoemaker Or
tanor sh0yenng III MS oNn particular dust heap
he would next have 10 nlre cart, ana then, per-
earoaes. ba5 the Police CommIssioners object to
rr4Nf n
very meddesome manner.
Business men WHO are occupied below Wall
street ana east III BrOad street during the day
speak tneir minds very PLAINLY a. u me conai-
zion OF tie nelQhbOrnOOd IN winch their stores
located owing a. the heaps Of ice and mud
fronting their places "a business Il u very DIM
a arm loses 500 or 600 wHen norse's leg
breaks, caused ~ an attempt % the part q the
honest aud weiimeaning brute 70 scale one "
Mr. DlsDecker's preclpices
Greenwich street, extremely crowded thor
oughf8re. and ullcd NTH provision stores l. "a
very bad condition. and needs immediate atten-
flDn. Ii sIugu ar 70 observe toe tuckMeH'S
horses doing the wattz step ia their endeavOrs 70
keep tneir feet ~ thick paste 81 oieagln0us
mud. ana 10 would pain the heart Ola anchorte 10
listen 70 the angry di-cusslons maj occur luIing
these cheerful spring Gays buI a. IL usuat
with the New YORK tfuckmen, blows are
never exchanged. Attorney street Essex stree,
and other 81 ects In tne nelghOOrBo0d Of the
Tenth aud Thirteenth wards are ~ a Dad state,
and hundred athletic Italians could hnd yeomen's
service 70 be done we're tney 70 receive the happy
dispatch 70 20 eastward win tneir Drooms and
itis mourrful To look AZ the heaps or ice and
ashes stored m West Twenrv-lOurtn street,
tween Nintu ana Tentn avenues, and me cargoes
Of garbage located ia seventeenth street, west Of
x VEGETABLE GARpES.
The Fourth ward "a sOldy enriched Win ma
nure deposits, and some streets me heaps sur
mount the slde walks, particularly IN Rose street,
three am TOUR ieet. Looking az these heaps y II
suggested 70 the mind that tne able bodied police
men, VINO stroll around the ncRhDornO0d win ~
ar resembling mat worn by an ARTIST ~ search II
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