The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-27
THE PEST SPOTS ON OUR RIVER FRONTS.
"MOunt Matsell' and "Camp DiSbecker"
Visited and Fully Desert bed.
Garbage M9numrnts to the Memory Of the
Street Cleaning Department.
ASH. BARREL REFUSE AT A PREMIUM.


ings into scows on the river fronts has always
been attended more or less oy nuisances ana
abuses offensive TO the senses OF the people re-
siding In the neighborhood ana travellers on
vessels plying TO and iro beside Them At no time
have they been so badly managed as now. When
the work OF removing garbage ashes, &C.. was in
the hands OF the Board OF Health there was some
attempt to AVOID the establishment OF pest breed
ing depots on tae river fronts, py disnfecting the
putrescent nth collected from the sums OF the
city before It's removal to the dumping grounds.
They also partially succeeded in having the ashes
separated from the garbage, thus enabling them
TO take the dry ashes for nlling in pur-
poses. Under the management OF Messrs.
Disbecker, Matse and Thorne the WORK
0! collecting and removing this stun is an Infamous
outrage upon our people. No attempt is made TO
disinfect the rotten vegetables, decayed hsh or
other animal matter. No EFFORT worthy OF the
name Is made to separate the dry ashes from the
vILE-sMELLNG MASS OF CORRUPTION
collected from the kitchens. restaurants and mar
kets Ashes, nsh, ola rags, bones, decayed meats,
and in some Instances, dead dogs ana cats,
pitched promiscuously INTO the carts and dumped
on the dumping boards into the scows. Then this
mass OF death-givlng doors is towed away TO the
Harlem mats or 70 BLACK ellis Island and dumped
IN low ground TO oil it up to the level, or carried
yway to Jersey for similar purpose.
with view OF gaining an accurate knowledge
u the manner in which the refuse OF the city is
disposed OF reporter Of the HERALD yesterday
made an inspection or all the dumping boards on
the North and East rivers. His discoveries are
we'll calculated to cause alarm TO all who have the
health OF the people at heart and who do not de-
sire to see the city depopulated this summer.
Before proceeding to describe these dumping
places 1t is proper to say that chere are on the
North River six Of these disgusting places
and on the East River nine. They are located at
Twenty-nrst, Little Twelfth, Laght, Thirty
seventh and Forty-seventh streets on the North
River, and Market. Jackson, Stanton, Filth,
Seventeenth. Twenty-second Thirty eighth.
Forteth and Fortysixth streets on the East River.
The Department OF Docks set apart these slips for
the exclusive use OF the Police Department,
erect the dumping boards and keep them
in repair. The carts. scows and tugs used
on the East River belong TO the Street Clean
Ing Bureau OF the Police Department while the
scows used the North River are controlled by
Captain wynan;s, who removes all the rubbish 10
Communipaw where 1t is used as nning In by the
sew Jersey Central Railroad.
''cAMP DIsBECKKR.n
The dumping board at the foot or Laight street
IN one or the greatest eyesores OF that neghbor-
hood. IL is located close TO the Pennsylvania
Railroad passenger rooms and here are received
ana dumped ABOUT $50 cart loads per day OF as vile
a nature as is ls possible for the mind 10 conceive.
In 0 few minutes, while the reporter was on the
dump he counted forty-one cart loads that were
empued into the scows AT this pier the refuse
from the whole or part OF the Fourteenth,
Filth, Eichth, Sixth, First, Third and Second
wards Is collected ana consequently this
dumping place Is the largest one In the city.
Here they profess to separate :he manure, ashes
and garbage and dump them on separate scows
he arhn
with manure or street sweepings. on the right
was a scow partially filled win ashes, as the
,.trimmer'i claimed, but which in reality was
mir ure or ashes, street dirt putrid animal and
vegetable matter, bones and crockery ware. At
Inc head OF the pier was the garbage scow upon
which rubbish Is dumped. his mass OF foul
ness surpasses description. There was every
article imaginable including straw from vile
smelling BEDS rotten oranges, lemon peels de-
cayed nsh oyster and clam shells, old pants
shoes, boots broken crockery. rotten meat, hoop
skirts, dead rats, stlnking vegetables putrid
fruits, tomato cans old bottles, pots. pans. ket-
ties old mats, dtshcIoths, soup bones, baby linen.
bloody rags-indeed, almost everything but dead
babies and United states currency.
The inspector was absent, so the man wuo trims
the scows was questioned as to the disposition Of
the vile trash. He reported that the garbage Is
used TO MI In the low land OF the New JERSEY
Central Railroad at Communipaw; that the ma
nure is sold TO captains Of coastlng schooners,
who remove It and sell It 60 farmers IN Jersey and
on Long Island. The men say that they are so
accustomed TO tae dumps that they never smell
anything: but the people IN the neighborhood rep
resent mat on bot day t1e stencn Is sickenlng
in the extreme. From the character OF tue mass
OF pu,rid nltn tnat the reporter examined 1t was
too evident that tue doors on warm day must be
lntolerabie Luckily there are no tenement houses
or private residences In the immediate nelghpor-
hood or tue nuisance would De still more Obloc-
tonao!e ms oump whlcn sn s,n men Ipeecos
per day and sells large quantity OF street sweep
lngs To skppers OF vessels me puonc would,
enue goes into the police treasury and how much
into the pockets Of the garrison OF "Uamp DIS
beckec.h
LITTLE TWELFTH STREET DUMP,
or as the cleaners style IL. Port HaEock," IN
honor OF MIR. Edward Haiock, tue inspector In
charge, receives ABOUT nity carts per day, prnci-
pally from the Ninth and Fifteenth wards AZ
some seasons OF the year, however, as hlgn as $50
carts are dumped al TINS point Inspector Hallock
stated that tae captains OF scnooners go TO the
stree: Cleaning Bureau and secure an order IKE
Deliver 10 Captain samuel Mosquin seveniy-nve loads
Hmanure and return Ords5 y '2s Gs1BGeisS DEPUTY
Armed win this authority he goes 70 the dump
anu examines each cart. When ne sees load
that suits nm pc orders Il dumped INTO nls vessel
a small schooner, OF seventY-nye carts capacity,
would be worm rom SIS 70 $50. IT'S generally
cargo In TINS instance Mr.. OorIen mas forgotten
10 do SOL The reporter mace an examination OF
the garbage and rubbish on the scoWs, aud found
IL was similar nlth TO that ne had seen az camp
Dgbeckeru Two scows were neary loaded with
H. ana boy was "trimmng" them. This
little fellow, IL observed, picked over the
disgusting mass carefully and coiecteo Az me
rags, bones. oyster ana tomato cans rotten vege-
taDles, boots, shoes, mats and TIN vessels Inc
report er called aim up on The dock ana questioned
him rs 10 what he did with these articles.
well We see,n said he, 1--WE sells em. Iney
maze trunk corners out OF the tins"
"And what 40 you 90 with those rotten turnips
and Deets ~
1--WE feeds em 70 our cows.n
Mr., Hailock explains that these things are per-
quisttes belonging 90 the trimmer, VINO makes
all tue way from .2 10 $40 per week rom ne -ale
or them. Ineg sell al tne old scraps OF leather 10
man VINO makes 10 into polish Tor Steel anu
cells IL 70 tho general government for polishing
arms ana machinery IN the naval vessels. This
dump IS situated away out from the tenements,
among factories and mills; but In not weather ~
must give out fearful stencil.
WEST TWENTY FIRST STREET DUMP
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