The New York herald., 1878-02-28

LIE SHEET.
ing OF the CARTS The garbage is to be re-
moved out OF the city, to be deposited cnly
where it will not prove a public nuisance,
and is not to be dumped in any waters where
it can be carried back within the city limits
by wind, tide or current. Provisions are
made for the separation of ashes and garbage
by householders, and any violation of the
law is to be a misdemeanor. The snow and
ice difficulty is met by requiring the streets
on which horse railroads are run to be par
TALLY cleaned by the corporations and au-
thorizing separate contract tor doing the
balance of the work on such streets
and on streets on which there is
no railroad. The police are required
to enforce the regulations Of the
bureau. The only difference in the two
plans is that the ''block system" provides
that the street cleaning and the collection
of ashes and sweepings shall be done by
the bureau, with force Of one thousand
sweepers and two hundred carts, while the
other bill requires that the cleaning as we'll
as the removal of ashes and garbage shall
be done by contract.
The Council OF Municipal Reform has pre-
pared bill, which is also based on the
small contract system, and which is in some
respects moro perfect and more desirable
than the bill offered by the commission. 1t
is, however, noteworthy that all are agreed
on one point-namely, that the street clean.
ing business should no longer be under the
control of the Police Department. With this
conclusion the people generally will agree,
and there can be no doubt that whatever
plan may be adopted it cannot Iail to be an
improvement on the present system, under
which the streets are scarcely cleaned at all,
the public health is disregarded, the city or
dinances are violated and the public money
is audaciously misapplied or squandered.
Police Changes.
It is desirable that when police captain
or any public official fagrantly fails in his
duty he should bo removed. II such
course was habitual we should have a re-
markable public service. The dismissal of
Captains Foley and Siebert by the Police
Commission was, we are willing to believe,
in the public interest but when we see that
the removal of the former becomes source Of
drunken rejoicing to the roughs and thieves
of his late district it gives us pause. Indeed,
it is asserted that the leader in some late
disgraceful scenes in notorious Bowery
groggery has had hand in bringing about
the dismissal of the delinquent Captain.
Such stories and such scenes cannot fail of
their demoralizing effect. The groggery
keeper gives notice in effect to all future
police captains that they had better let him
and his felonious customers alone or he
will have them removed. 1t may
be that the bragsome man of the
grogshop has had as little to do
with the dismissal of Captain Foley
as Falstaff had with the killing of Harry
Percy, although the fat knight stuck his
dagger in the dead rebel and vaunted that
he had fought him ''a long hour by Shrews-
bury clock" The story. nevertheless, will
do for the criminal classes, who will look
upon the Bowery publican as hero who
''wakes" if he does not kill police captains
This is something deserving of careful con-
sideration by the Police Board. 1t should
urge them to the utmost care in ap-
pointing superior police officers who should
be men not likely to give honest citizens
cause for regret or thieves cause for rejoic-
ing in their downfall There are surely men
in the ranks on whose breasts the captains
shield will be an incentive to reaching for
higher honors by legitimate service. The
curse Of politics and the'policy of spasmodic
raids have made it difficult for police cap
tains to do their whole duty all the time,
but good men, carefully selected, will al
ways do their best
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