The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-29

wooden pavement would not last long or be ms
but they had nothing TO do in the mat.
teri the Common Council ordered the patent state ord
the business than see it laid down Last year the
Commissioner OF Public Works asked OF the Legisa.
ture of $500 600 for the paving and
repairing OF streets, but only received $500 O0O IL
would have taken $3.50, 900 to repave Seventh ave.
nue., Gum which, II 1t had been laa in this way
would have parayzed street work In other sections OF
the city, where repairs are as badly needed. This
year the department received an appropri-
proportion will be expended IN improving
the roadway OF Seventh avenue. Between he middle
is usually done; but this WINTER on account OF IT'S
openness, considerable amount OF work is carried
IN this direction. On Seventh avenue nothing has
been done outside OF hllng In the dangerous holes
there win Belgian pavement. and laying oelts OF
bridge stone at the Intersection OF OF the
where the trafiic Is greatest" =
trip along Seventh avenue showed that the cross.
Ing is bad at Fiy-thrd street ana the roadway full
OF dangerous holes here and there to Fttleh street
where is sunk both sides of the street railroad
track as far down as Forty seventh street. From
thence to Forty,hrd street there is good strip
OF stone pavement Between Forty third and Forty
second streets tho deep drains which are being sunk
for the purpose OF laying pipes make the avenue I'M
interrupts traffic between Twenty first and Nine
streets. The crossings at tho latter ana Eighteenth
street are very bad there being number OF large.
ugly holes IN the road.
VEHICLES LEFT IN THE sTREErs--LETrER TO
MAYOR ELY.
The thousands of vehicles standing In tho streets
without teams attached have, for long time been
serious Inconvenience to the Street Cleaning Bureau
and, In order to bring tho matter before Mayor Ely
proper shape, the number of such were counted
Friday night and Sunday afternoon last by order
the Police Commissioners. The first count made
between the hours of twelve midng ht and six o'clock,
and the Sunday observations made between tho
hours Of one and O'Clock. The reports show that
the streets are utilized by OF vehicles when
unemployed, to greater extent than supposed.
though has been generally known that the Common
Council has been granting, right and lett
;or years, permits of this kind Tho ex-
ira labor the moving OF these vehicles imposes
upon the street sweepers such that the Police Com
missioners think that remedial measures should be
adopted to lessen their number Many of them
main for weeks aud months without being used, and
In scores Of they out OF repair and cannot be
called else than an encumbranco and nuisance,
which should be abatod.
II was found by fridays report that between the
hours named there stooc without in the
the extraordinary number OF 1s,765, vehicles, dis
trbuted as follows in tho different precincts First
2s7; Fourth, 297 Fifth, 5s4; Seventh. 7o6; Eighth,
Ss4; Ninth, 2,224; Tenth, $50; Eleventh, 1875;
Twelfth, 225 Thirteenth ,241; Fourteenth 1885, FiL
Ieenth, 900; Sixteenth, LOOT; Seventeenth 81;
Twenty -nrs, 6Sl Twenty second, l,2oa; TwontytnId
all; Twenty-seventh, 24s; invent y-eighti. AIS;
Twenty ninth sGo' Thr!io.h a. Thr.y:ars l7e
ID; Nineteenth (sub) IL. Total 1S 765.
sundays police observations resulted in finding
is, 600 vehclcs-only seventyhve less than counted
alter midnight on the Goth INST. The difference IL
easily accounted for by some OF them being used for
this is OF no consequence, the figures given show
c0nclusvely to what extent vehicles whose owners
have no place to house them occupy the pubic
thooughiares
LETTER TO THE MAYOR
The Police Commissioners fully considered this mat
ter AT thor meeting yesterday afternoon and AS Oh
OF the Board had long been familiar with the draw
back It has proven to the satisfactory cleaning OF
streets, empowered President smith to call Mayor
Elys attention TO the subject, which was done later
in The day in the following communication:-
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
NO. 3Ol MULBERRY STREET,
The Honorable SMITH Ely. Jr Mayor OF New York;
and which occurs to the business
standing the paved streets Of the city WITHOUT
a Is nns, and not
to them for the of cleaning the
vehicles cleaning and the restoration of them to
their former positions w9ad cali for large increase Of the
large expenditure for street cleaning The vehicles
Is 7e5 They again counted sunday during the
will exhibit the location and distribution vehicles by
precincts.
with by the Bureau of Street sho"" DC ae"
You respectfully consider the after rs
affecting permanently the interests the city and 10
suggest such legislation and modification the ord
nances OF the Common Council shall be- In your judg-
ment. calculated to afford remedy, and to cali The
Bureau OF Encumbrances o mitigate
this nuisance exists in violation of the city
ordinances Very respectfully, and order of Board
W. II. SMITH, President
THE CITY ORDINANCE.
The Common Council has gwen permiss to tho
owners OF vehicles allow Them stand the pub
lie streets, when unemployed, under the authority
conferred by section 81 chapter 81 OF the
ordinances, wnIch Is as follows:-
Fvcr WIN shaIh e v.ul,
New York shall be permitted place leave his cart
when unemployed in front OF the house premises
he shall ut the time reside front of the stable
he shall at the time stable his horse provided that such
cart shn DO placed the upon carriageway
thereof In close proximity TO the curbsone said
residence stable and shall extend beyond
stone dis than the width
beyond the line of the lot which his residences or
Is situated and provided thai place
stable shall BIZ specified upon the license