The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-12
THE STREET CLEANING MIDDLE.

COMMISSIONER NICHOLS MAKES A STATEMENT
USELESS scows AND NOWHERE TO DUMP THE
DIRT.
Police Commissioner Nichols, with his executive
officer Captain Gunner, and tho other officials con-
necied with tho Street Cleaning Bureau. visited
yesterday on behalf OF the HERALD, at their head
quarters in Mulberry street.
ANY news from the street Cleaning Department
this morning." quercd tho visitor. NO; there
nothing new. Everything estate, fiat and unpront
able" as the garbage which the front yards
ut the tenement houses in the German and the Italian
quarters OF the city. Alter pleasant converse
lion Commirsoner Nichols made tho interesting state.
ment which is here given
PLEA OF THE STREET CLEANING BUREAU.
''Tho Stree. Cleaning Department." said the CON-
missioner, "has endeavored every day, wnen the
weather permitted, TO remove ms much dirt from tho
streets as the means at us command would admit A
great difficulty TO contend against is tho want or some
convenient place whercon to dump the asnes and
refuse as they arc removed by the carts The only
way that present be used send tho dirt in
scows out to the high The are unsea-
worthy, ana II Is impossible TO take them outside
erounis which tbs department could avail itself OF;
but when the work Of dcpostng there commenced tho
bureau was cnjoncd ny legal process from continuing
THE rhorbLs nEGAN LAST YEAR.
"Beiorc the month OF June last the department
not much embarrassed with regard to place OF do
posit Tor up to that time all the refuse collected
the west side was removed by the Central Railroad
Company OF New Jersey on boats furnished at their
own expense The complaints about dirt being piled
mp aud not removed from tho streets Is now prnci-
pay attributable 10 tho fact that during the prevalence
OF high winds the dirt scows cannot 60 TO sea- Tho
scows arc ra and unable to stand rough weather. but
when better boats obtained the refuse will be col
lecled and removed on them.
TiiE AMOUNT OF WORK DONE
"From the first day OF January last until the end OF
march, being tho rs quarter oil the present year. l4s
picked up and 2i2,6 loads OF ashes and refuse re-
moved "a sos loads Of street ART and 80 200 oi ce and
snow nave AL oeen carted away at total expense OF
Sl31l2l Tor the entire three month"; Slice The LIST,
with the TN of tins month inclusive, 81 600 loads OF
material have becn drawn away. There is no Commas
sioncr who Is not anxious TO keep the streets Clean
but without boats to carry away tho DIR, or some
place TO put i, the pubc must Tor The present SEQ
how inpossDlci II rs for tho department TO properly
discharge It's du.Ics and tho SHORTCOMINGS must Tor
tho present DO put up with. IL is hoped that In
appeared Refuse rs fertilizer has been offered FREQ
BY the department to anybody who Will take IL away
and furnish boats Tor The removal OF whatever portion
$1,000 loads during last month, ana now one
canalboat one schooner and scow are en-
gagged IN carrying street ccanlngs away gratutously
There about nvc hundred aUorers and art
carts at work daily. On Tuesday the Fourth ana Ff
and Ninth were thoroughly gono over. II would takea
little over $50 600 to got proper supply of the right
Kind OF scows TO go seaward In all weather At pres
ent the Commissioner Is compelled TO hire scows and
take whatever kind no can get These craft
have TO 80 about sixteen miles from New York
with their loads, some three miles southeastwardly
from The red buoy, near Coney Island Dur.
ing the months or March and April there
IS always larger number OF hands en-
p!oycd by the department; yet tho Comptroller Will
only allow onctwelnh part OF tho annual appropria.
tons To be drawn In these months. Tho department
might sell tho dirt TO agrculturiss aud others II
proper place could DO had to dump on; but Mt pros
ent the law viii not admit OF this, as tho clcanings
have all 10 be removed every twenty -iour hours.
now IT COULD BE CREMATED
"a responsible party offered TO crematc the garbage
and refuse but tho adoption Of this would In
volve expense OF $3.50, 600 for the erection of
proper furnace aud It's success could only be deter
mined after trial There is no place within
radius oil twenty-six miles from New York
on which street ccnnings could be dcpos-
tied, even with tho proprictor's consent, because
OF ckal cnaclmcnts which forbid IT, law which, IL
will De remembered, passed tho Legislature 1911
the instance OF tho Broo.yn authorities has smut tho
door on Long Island against the department.; and It
may also DO rccocctcd thnt the captain Of Of the
scows arrested and hold TO bail Tor trial by the
pie or Brooklyn Tho department rs also restrained
from gong up tho Hudson River with street ccnuings
In projected bill which sent by the Street Bureau
to the legislature asking that place be designated
pointed out that could be used. Tho bill went
into committee, ana remained there y
COMPLAINTS SENT TO THE MAYOR.
Mayor Ely Is constantly In receipt oil communica-
tons planning OF the bad condition Of tho streois
One bloodthirsy individual goes far TO hint
assassination IN tho P0hce Comm iss,oncrs con-
tinuc neglect the imports duly of properly clean
ing our thoroughfares. No formal charges have vet
been placed before the Mayor.