The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-17


In these human hives in the Eleventh and sever-
tenth wards mostly six stories high, where sworn
the poor, the wretched OF all ages, pure air 10
unknown during the summer season, as the sur
rounding atmosphere Is surcnareed with the noxous
efiuva and psstilential arising from streets
rcekng in nth This state OF affairs taken
into consideration. the wonder Is that the
death rate in those districts remains at
comparatively low figure. large proportion
oil the people who live and die IN those fever breeding
tenements have to content themselves with such air
us they inhale from the windows Of their squaid
apartments or on the sidewalks when driven by heat
out oil the housex. 1t Is The same with infants
and children OF tender years. many OF their parents
having no place OF recreation Tor them other than
the street. and in utilizing tho latter for such pur-
pose they are. to use homsIy phrase. escaping
'irom tryingpan Into tho hre" as the odors from
the streets are OF the most nauseating character.
A PLEASANT PICTURE
A tour of observation was made by HERALD re-
porter yesterday through several streets In the local.
NY Indicated ana every hand were evidences oil The
neglect OF tho street Cleaning Department Opposite
No 225 Second street, between avenues aud T. there
is in tho gutter extensive pool OF foul. stagnant
water while the street itself presents very dirty
appearance At No 229 in the same street boxes
Of decay ing vegetable matter stand the sidewalk,
emitting most offensive odor. In the gutter oppo-
No. 239 is another pool OF hlth, which extends
eastward Tor a width OF three TOUR houses Ii is
almost needless TO state that the atmosphere IN
the neighborhood is stia'ng. On the same
No 1856 to No. 173 tho gutter on tho south side Is
filled with foul water in which lie deconposing all
describably abominabe. notwithstanding this, bare
looted children were boisterousiy playing In the
NTH which iney were ~ up WIN .hsv w.s
In field OF clover. The writer was astonished 10 sec
watering cart passing through this street. On Third
street. between First anu Second avenues the SIDE
walks are hnec with barrels and boxes OF garbage.
Immediately east OF FIRST avenue and on the
south sido Of Third street Ia quantity Of
dark green liquid, emitting sicxening odOr lot OF
garbage is scattered on the sidewalk and IN the gutter
Of ms houses opposite this putrid mass, on being
asked In regard 10 the visits OF the dirt
carts, said ;-"rhe men only come around
The garbage, they seldom touch that at ALL" sim
liar pool OF fth was also observed In the gutter on
No. los and extending as far eastward as ~ iss.
where uudertaker's shop iDtervenes, showing
toward avenue A. the offensive matter had been rsksd
out the gutter into the street, and there LETT
10 perfume the neIgbborhood.
'.No STREETS WERE NEVER CLEANER"
On Fourth street, between avenues and q, two
barrels and u box Of garbage emitting the iouless
stencil were observed opposite No. 1872 The store.
keeper that number said that rule, the street
caris took away the contents Of the boxes and
barrels nearly every day, but that for some reason
the cart had not made It's appearance
thus week Opposite No. So, on avenue c, between
Fourth ana Firth streets pieces OF dilap
dated mats mating and old o,lcloth, together with
other rubbish scattered the west SIDE oil the street.
The party who Keeps store a. THIS number said
once Ds week As rule, 1. SAID. the aSenus sell
yesterday. mass OF putrd hlth assails the senses
from the gutter on the south side OF Fifth street,
this have been lot Of odds and ends including
heads WORKOUT brooms, old shoes and remnants o
rotten vegetables the whole forming decidedly ugly
sight, and which induces the pAsserby to
hold his nasal organ on nearing IT, Opposite
No. $40 Skin street, near avenue &, the gut
ter IL also reeking with nithy hquios. In which
decaying vegetable matter blends It's foul odors with
that a utisrous collection OF other snd not less
offensive refuse Before No. sos Sixth street, between
avenues and b, are two boxes oil garbage on the
sidewalk, and from one OF these there emanates the
most horrible stencil among the many revolving
stenches which the writer encountefed during his
CHANCE FOR RENDERING COMPANY
barber, who sat the door Of MS shop, and within
four foet Of the nuisance on being asked Inc
Of the deathy odor ut once explained by say
four dead kittens into the box last night"
and their decomposition was what polluted the
with their Contents had lain there Tor the past twenty
four In fact, he said That he had not seen he
street In the vicinity since last Saturday bar
rcI ana two boxes OF decaying vegetable
and animal matter were observed on the side
walk IN front oil No. 504 sixth street, ana It was
learned from the occupants OF the house that the
barrels and boxes had moi been emptied since Mon
day The CARTS they said, round but
seldom ami were very irregular In their
visits. Al No. 5o2 IN the same street
are q barrel a box OF garbage on
the sidewalk which a woman the store at that
number SAID had been unvsited BY Tho oartmen since
Monday evening. On avenue A, oetween second and
Third streets, quantity OF green t9tid hqu
floats near the sidewalk opposite NO. IS. The man
living on the ground floor said that in hot weather
0dor proceeding from ths miniature pond Of NTH
WIS sickening IN the extreme
Al No. " First avenue, between Fifth and Sixth
streets, and Immediately opposite u. sign reading
.Ladies and Cents Oyster Saloon, lay dead
cat, covered with flies, near the middle Of
the ugh and little lower down, inclining
tow ard side OF the avenue and opposite
No 81 was another member Of the feline family
stretched out In a little pool o. offensive liquid
THR AIR.
1t would seem that the Street Cleaning Department
are dong level best TO create epidemic tho
east SIDE and the observations made by the HERAL d
reporters yesterday and the day before far TO
that In the .miles Of Streets which the depart
ment claims that II cleans every week,
the streets wnere the poor are huddled together
swarms are included In the boastiul summary.
Said an attache OF the Health Board yesterday 10
tho HERALp reporter "Oi what use Is u Tor the
Health Board to send physicians from house to
house to give medecine 10 the sick poor II tho
Street Cleaning Department allows the air
they breathe 10 poisohedY 1t lis all very well to
clean Fiith avenue and Broadway. rney do that
because the travel there Is great that everybody
would notice apy neglect 10 keep the streets
clean. They aTe aware that the extreme
east side Is almost unknown country, SO
to speek, TO the rest OF the city, and The people
who there used to tho NTH la the streets
that they have idea the general condition OF
the entire city Broadway and Fifth avenue excepted,
ana 50 they lake II phiiosophically. Meanwhile the
poison from tho ntn IN the streets does Its deadly