The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-16
FILTbY STREETS.

6IcKENIEG CONDITION OF THE EAST SIDE
GARBAGE AND FILTH LEFT UNDIsrURBtD
70. DAYS TO PROPAGATE DISEASE.
Under any rational and honestly administered sys-
OF street cleaning the the
parts OF the city would be carefully watched and
cleaned often as any others, II not oftensr; but,
under the existing system, the opinion OBJ
tain that II the more conspicuous thoroughfares
taken care OF the less conspicuous will
OF themselves Unfortunately however, these latter
DO not take care OF themselves; and, while little is
left in Broadway Fifth avenue Offend tho sight
SMELL many things are lett in Ludlow other out
Of the way and unconspicuous, though overcrowded,
streets TO breed discomfort, disease ami death.
HERALD reporter passed through Ludlow street
on Wednesday last, and observed, between Grand
and Division Streets along either sidewalk, at inter-
walls oil fifteen to thirty iect, piles, In a
foot thick, OF reskipg ermening ah-decay ing ani-
NAL aad vegetable matier-that gave stencil ike
that OF charnel house, stencil in which plainly
porceptbe the efuvia OF roltinr Hsh one the most
noxous OF all forms OF deoaying animal matter On
Thursday the same putrd matter was lying tbere,
angry buzz. Al noon yesterday these piles mad
been removed, and the atmosphere of the street,
though ny means pure and sweet, uoh more
tole rabls thaa the days previously named
DIRT REMOVED
The residents along the street when Questioned
said that the DIRT was removed ON THURSDAY evening
Friday moraing Of last week, aud that the strcet
cart" usually comes round to carry of toe garbage
about o week. The street, however. was far
from clean or In healthy condition In many places
the road bed covered with back, noxious look
ing mud, the cutters along the sidewalk chok cd
up with ashes decaying vegetable matter and the
sidewalks lined with barnsis. boxes and
doscript vessels ded rottng and sinking yeRe-
table matter and othor garbage The 90 tc pts OF
those vessels had sviaeniy been lying there
~ the broihng sun all the morning, and no doubt
longer.
The following Is u detailed statement OF those nui
In frnn al n treAt wa tlrao
barrels OF ashes aud DIRT and decay vegetable
natter vi No So Two n9 cans OF vegetable matter No
g. OF NO. g. two barrels VI gar bage,
OF feathers ola No - two barrels OF rottnX vege
table matter, Two barrels garbage; No 26 Que barrel
is, one barrel same; No. 10, one barrel box
OF garbage; NO. IA, Que barrel OF vegetable mat
70. ~, barrel OF same No. Que barrel OF same
NO. Z, barrel OF same: No. ii, one box, bucket
uu pan mater 81 Is one barry Of same souhwss
corner OF Hester street, one barrel OF same; No. &c.
one barrel Of Same ana one kcg Of esq shells snd ona
making total Q. thirty i've vessels OF garbage aud
desuying vegetable matter within two and hail
uocks, the fumes Of which are breathed hourly By
thousands OF grown persons and children.
he condition OF Essex street, between Grand and
Division, was worsc, because the piles OF Nth
swept up on tho last round OF the street sweep had
not been cartsd away; Ia front vi No. "a Was pile
OF lth No. 90 aitto No 49, ditto. also one barrel and
bucket OF snrbsgs No. Al, pile oi dh, barre, OF garb
aae Ne. As. barrel OF garbage No. Al, ooe barrel OF
Par6age No. 81, ditto; No. SO, pie Of nhh No 80 Two
80 - a. 1--we barrels OF garbage aud pile OF nih No
~ Two barrels OF garbage and pile OF nth: north
corner OF Hcser pile OF Atb southwest corner
No 23 one pile OF nth, ono barrel and Two buckets OF
garbage; No. q, pile OF trash anu nlth; No 20
co; No. 10. ditto and three barrels Of garbage; No.
H. pile OF hlth and ono barrel Of garbage; No. 49,
pile oil hlh No. To- pie Of nlsh No. H. plIe OF
nah and two barrels oil garbage; NO TO- pile OF Trash
and Nth loot thick ana Jour ieet long by Two
broad; No. IL, pile OF hnh. Ole barrel one basket
ana Two boxes OF garbage: No. ., apie Of 9Th and
two baskets OF gatb gs Nos 9, TX, and g. piles OF
Nth. TOTAL In Two bio ks and hail. twenty piles
OF filth and thirty-two vessels OF carnage.
ABoMISArToNs.
Ia Norfolk street. before Nos. and 8, were piles oil
ath, smelling putrid aud sour southwest coracr Of
Hester street, pile OF trash and 1I,h, barrel
garbage and one OF feathers ofia Nos Is and II
piles OF nth: No. 13, an abandoned garbage cart
ilthy a nuisance; No 49, two barrels OF garbage;
No. 25, u pile Of Tasn; No. 80, one bocKet hve
with pesiiIent pie OF nl,h alongside OF IT; south.
ana southwest corners Of Grand street, piles OF
trash
suffolk street. between Grand and D vision streets,
had twenty niue vessels OF garbage along tho SIDE
walks, CON psratively clear Of piles OF Nth.
At inc northwest corner oil Clinton anu Division
sickening pile OF siuso. Tho condition Of
Clinton streot, between DIVISION ana Grand streets,
WAS hthy, but u solitary sweep was nj work. seconded
by garbage CART the hfst that tho reporter had
couuIered The cart No. So Tbo uriver said
that tor the day comprised Clinton, Suf
iolk aud Two blocks on Hester street lie also said
that he had been the same division Tor DAY about
u week ago.
An OF lie streets between Grand aud East Houston
Ridge and the Bowcry, were ex mined, and
cleanliness and ,ivhIihlnsss. Ridge anu Orchard
streets the most nl:hy. Orcnsrd, IRON Hous-
TO RIvington. was Particularly nlthy. Chfystic
anu Forsyth streets wcfo the cicauest. Thro02h
streets tho second avenue cars up aud
oowp, and that iact probably has something TO do
with their being In better condition.. Division street
is Uttered and filthy IRON CLINTON street TO tho
Bowery.