The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-31

man OF cocktails ASIDE WntspeTeQ TO nm, ana tDeu
approached tho writer, saying, "pil take my oath
that this street was cleaned yesterday; this Is my
post aud ought TO know something about IT,"
"welL l don't know anything about that; but, az
said, I'm willing to take my oath that 10 Vas swept
AT No. 2ol Greene street the gutter is filed with
mosphere Of the in Its vicinity nausealiug in
the extreme The lager beer saloon keeper
that ssaS how repss
'Pretty mucn all do time Smelsi guess IL does
de don't take II away da's all bout r. see Dc man
sweep dirt IN heaps and den not take It away" "A
young man said that when they laid pipes IN the
street depression lett in the gutter that all
the water that ran into tho hole lay there.
WHAT coLoRED LADY THINKS.
On both sides oil Greene street, between Bleeckcr
and Houston Streets the cutters are in terribly neg
sced condition. while The street Itself Is not a. all
SsaV by n wr i1o a
trui don't know muffin bout bow often dey comes TO
clean dis yer street, as emily moved 10 here few
weeks ago II smells bad enough 10 give folks the yaa
fever. the choery, so does" Further south
Greene street the same hthy condition of tho gut
opposite No. 1885, where the stencil from tho gut
ter is almost overpoweriDg Seeing the reporter
pause before tho cssspoo In front Of her residence
porly madam came to the door OF No. l55 said,
"Dossnt II smell badly; you ought to smell that
gutter here in the MORNINGS SO fearful tha,
around often, but they leave the smell behind them
when they 60 away" Here nymph In pink dress
adjusted the blinds to display the outlines OF
very pink face, and exclaimed in tones that wore In
tended at is.st TO be very sweet, vi think It is per-
fsctiy horrid,' sentiment to which the writer
sponded briefly and ihsn passed on.
FEEDING THE FLIES.
The southwest corner oil Greene and Houston
streets presents very dirty gutter ned with decay.
ing vegetable natter on which the 1es fed swarms
That side OF the street was also Uttered with pieces
and other unsghty things. An Italian fruit seller
the said, at come out Of tho house,
sure Yes. the sweeper he come round every day
once. l no put any dirt dere time; that's so,
mister" The cutters on Houston street, between
Greene and Wooster streets, might be mucn i'm
| proved by being swept.
sIxrkEsrH WARD.
This ward Ia bounded on the west by the Hudson
River east by Sixth avenue, north by West Twenty
SIKH street and south by West rourleentn street.
II has th'rty-thres street cleaning sections and
seventeen laborers the officer in charge, Jonn d.
OBrien looks alter the enlire ward win Inc exeop.
those portions Of the sixtu Eighth and Ninth
avenues that run through IT, These portions are In
charge oil Ulcers Grove aud Lindsey
HERALD visitei portion Of the district
yesterday. with the following results:-
10 twentieth street, No. 304 near the Eighth avenue
is butchers shop, kept by Schroeder Gray As tue
street looked bad the reporter opened tho following
conversation with member OF the nrm:-
show often do the street cleaners come round 7"
81 don't know; sweep my part OF the street myself
keep tho gutter clean The street cleaners come
wnsn they can make pc, which they sweep up and
leave. dead cat lay in front OF here for several
days, creating horrible stencil all the time Com.
plant made to policemen, and thoy said
they would report The nuisance, but nothing
was ever done about II; How one ., man seventy
see He can't do any moro than q
boy ten years old Disintec.snts were distributed
In the cutters the day before yesterday aud
about three weeks ago There's hydrant over there
which might do some good II they would only let it
alter the sprinkling truck has been supplied, which
does more harm than good, Tor the stun ios in the
1D III. Isl You
modsstiy replied that tho HERALD was endoavoring TO
into some OF the abuses OF tho street
business and II possible correct them "Good luck
the HERALD Tor doing IT, was the hearty response.
swEEPERs VISIBLE SOMETIMES
being ransacked by children; No. 3i2, ola shoes In
gutter and on old horse comb among garbage and
other stun; NOS 316 3Is and 500 cutters uncisapIy
Al 1874 the HERAI<1examnsr inquired Of L. Len elen
grocer, how often tho garbage man came there. The
reply was ''Ths ashman and garbage man come along
stuff We dom. care. Ss don't have much garbage
around here anyhow" But the frontage OF adjacent
bricks emptied in the street, fsnkea by huge dead
cat, furnished refreshing view for the students in
the seminary located im meuiately opposite.
In West Twenty second street thero masses OF
accumulated attn Nos. 800 and COS, garbage IN
the cutters and middle OF the street, Az tho corner OF
Eleventh avenue the HERALD examiner received tho
following reply to an nQuiry;-"fhe street cleaner
comes around oncs in while. Whom no doa't We
have 10 clean Il ourselves"
In West rwsnty.ourtn street tho Erie Railway
stable people try TO Keep everything right In front
ONO 5l5 Tho street front OF No. 344 10 nall
pied by building materials.
Al the corner OF West Twenty nth street and
Tenth avenue there was cause for the usual curry
OF 'J0hu Moran, successor to K. Beatty" Mr.
Moran averrcd that no didn't want 10 make any com
plan but the fact was that the street cleaner hadn
been seen form fact, he couldn't tell how long q"
don't want to psss any remarks" said Mr.. Moran,
down, but the authorities don't show US the alten
tion they do on the other SIDE OF the town. There
localities, but they act toward Us as II We didn't
pay any taxcs 1t all over here. All we want 10 clean
hness Tor Tue benefit OF ALL"
A NEGLECrED DISTRICT
little further down, alter passing through moss
OF old rags slush, smashed horse collars and bsasty
garbage In the street anu cutters, abreast OF Noa
SOC aud sos, An Improvement was found going
In the promises No. 6l0. Tho rotten old cellar
way was being repianKed and rsnaiIed. The walls
oi tho house were being handled by plasteror.
The ricketty old s,aircascs were being brsosd up,
tho pAssassway 70 tns rear being renovated,
the rear itself being ceansed and the cell
lar ventilated. It was . curious sight 70 see this
work Of Improvement going on IN locality appar-
emily lily cared for by the authorites The HsKALD
examiner spoke TO an apparent oitsrsr IN the door
way
along hsres 9" DON'T think they kill themselves at ali
In streets ike ,hm But We are poor folks and they
don't consider US OF any account ~ all"
GENERAL INSPECTION.
visit TO the east side wards OF she city showed
that the cesspoois, garbage heaps and ash mounds
lately pointed out the columns OF the HERALD
many bo,s the surface OF tns iar city are begin
ming to disappear Indeed, many OF tue streets and
some Of the avenues passed through course Of
a pretty ienghy expioratiOn showed that ne broom
brigade had already operated successfully In large
number Of places where few days ago tue presence
In Clinton and avenue b. both OF which places
are donscly populated. recent marks OF tue broom
were found, and small deposits that appeared to be
quite newly thrown on the ground furnished 80 many
proofs Of sbe difficulties To be contended nth In Try
ing keep the streets clean. rather bad place
found IN East Fourteenth street. In front OF The Dry
Dock Railroad Depot aDd Tor block
to tho ana west OF H. there
being deposited tho curosone In front Of buildings
full Of lie ana lsxinsss, the usuii amount Of dIr
Up FIrs, avenue aud along the streets lying immedi
atcly to the east aud Of It. all tho way Forty
second street, the roadwsys, cutters and sewers
observed 10 be clean, aud several OF tue peop living
along the line expressed themselves much satisGed
with the change, which they attributed 10 the HERALD
exposures.
sPoT TO LOOKED AFTER
On the east side OF First avenue, between Forty
third and Forty eighth streets, there Is oil large
slaughter houses, or places that seemed DO SUCH
beginning with that OF Huntington Co at the corner
Of the former street, and Oh The west side Of tho
avenue, fronting these, 10 a long row Of thckly
peopsd tonements tho smell from the slaughter
houses is something irigbtfu. and requires
tho earliest attention OF the Health De-
partmsnt. fifty eigntn and Fiuy-ninth streets,
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