The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-29
AVENUES AND STREETS.
Filthy Condition of Some of the
Principal Thoroughfares.
MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.
The Mayor Asked to Abate the Cart
Stand Nuisance.

Yielding to tho urgent necessity Of the case, as
pointed out In the HERALD for several days past the
Street Cleaning Department at last awoketo the fact
that It was necessary 10 clean Third avenue, even
though the Elevated Railway be still at work the
thoroughiare. Orders were given. preparatory to
sweeping those portions OF the which not
encumbercd with tho rubbish Of unfinished excava-
lions. to cart away the dirt and sand heaped up p
piles; but owiag to the wet weather, which quehed
the lth, the of the order until
this morning. Captain Gunner says that II will re-
qurs at least hundred aborers and forty carts to
move the rubbish left by the Elevated Railway their
finished foundations, and estimates the thus rcck
lessly inflicted by wealthy corporation upon the city
~ $780, II the stuff can be carted away day,
which will be an undertaking OF no slight difficulty,
be says the pay Of 100 men, at 81 60 each, will amount
to $780, and OF iorty CARTS at So % each at $780, CIV
Ing total OF $780, and this does not include the
Enumeration OF the forenoon and their assistants The
amount appears small but for all that the street Clean
iug Department officials little exercised
the shameful negligence OF the railway company,
which ccmpcls tho city to remove, at its
cost, the dirt lett by Its careless workmen upon Third
avenue. At first the depar lment, as announced in
the HERALD, intended to do nothing toward cleaning
the until tho Elevated Railway had OF its own
accord removed the rubbish with which 1t has en-
numbered 1t. II having been pointed out how.
and that public cleanliness required the work TO be
taken at once in hand, Third avenue Is now to BIO
thoroughly cleaned by "gangs." Captain Gunner
hopes, unless another rainfall ntervenes that by 10.
night this important thoroughiaro-s0 lar It
torn up by excavations still in progress OF compile
tlon-wll be in much better condition Wcunes-
day the avenue is to be embraced in the system
and divided into sections OF tour blocks each. Two
officers fourteen sweepers and four CON-
pose the force detailed Tor Third avenue.
ANOTHER NEW SECTION.
University place Is 10 form another section
which Will 30 into operation tomorrow One officer,
two sweepers aud cart will be assigned to II.
Other new sections Will be formed In the eastside tone
ment district during the latter part OF this week In
reference to Irving place. the Bowery and
tiles where the now system rs shortly to be ried tho
Police Commissioners have as yet come 10 no deter
minaton
Yesterday morning at six O'clock Captain Gunner
dence TO "knock o' tho entire sweepers Tor
the day "You can not cart away liquid mud, - he
to the writer in explaining his action at would ony
drip along the streets and matters worse" An
inspection OF the streets cleaned last week the
block system showed the following results-The lead
ing cross NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Blocker, Fourteenth
Twentythird, Thirtylourth, Forty second and Fifty.
hinth-were fairly clean in all but few places where
dcep ruts In the pavement had filled IL with slush
Canal street IS supposed TO have been clean
gin with, and 1t has remained a canal OF mud and
BLUSH. Yesterday Canal street still Allied
with pudales OF mud in the middle OF the road
anu carts and the bad pavement como inc
TO render perfect cleaning almost Impossible
Along the pavements, however, the street was iairly
clean, and evident that il faithfully carried
In the future the street may redeemed Dy the new
system from Its condition OF chronic Ithness
Bleecker street was better, and showed evidences
moro careful sweeping Fourteenth was Ia an
acceptable condition. except at certain places wnere
the wood pavement places obstacles IN the way OF
perfect cleanliness Both Twcnty-th and Four
teehth streets require rocking alter In the
regions near the East River. The irequented
paro OF Twenty tnird street and OF the principal
thoroughiares above would seem to speak tolerabiy
well TOR the system.
THE CONDITION THE AVENUES
The avenues were apparently in improved con.
dition. Ninth avenue still wants mucn cleaning.
Eighth avenue Is better Seventh avenue is abomina.
bic, but Is virtually outside the pale Of street clean.
Ing on account OF It's vian0us pavement: Sixth
MAds0n and Fourth avenues particularly spruce
just now. Lexington avenue Is also clean. Inird
avenue mas already been spoken or Here end all
favorable epithets. Second and First avenues though
they have been included in the ~ STEM are still
very dirty indeed The sections these two avenues
must either be shortened or gangs be put work
remove the heavy quantities OF mud and fh. Now
as to the condition Of the streets generally which
are not cleaned by the system Filth
avenue and Broadway are lair, but that Is
about all Nearly all the other streets would
seen TO tho lover Of cleanliness, cry the r.
ID. bfoons In the Twenty -hrst ward, presided
over by Foreman McDevtt, and the Eighteenth
some OF the foulest pest holes IN New York. Take
such blocks us Twenty.seventh and Tweny.sixth
streets, between First aud Second Iurtuer
east stili Seventeenth street, near Third avenue;
seems evident thai the system cannot Soon he
tried here also the loremon, at least require shak
ing up.''
me FIRST should also receive the special alton
ton OF the Police Commissioners. Tor many oil our
downtown streets are far from being clean