The New York herald., 1878-11-24
DIRTY STREETS.
Indignant Citizens Vahly Looking for
the Broom Brigade.
FOUL SMELLING POOLS
What the People Say of the Street
Cleaning Department.

The east side of town appears to be even worse on
In the matter Of clean and we'll paved streets than the
west. larger tenement house population Is fouhd
Oh the side and the streets too are narrower.
The sewerage also is interior to that of the west
SIDE and If epidemic arising from lack OF
antary precautions breaks ont this city will be
most apt originate in portion OF the terri
ory lying east of Chatham street and the Bowery
nd between Madison street and Houston. Above
douston and far Twentieth street there are many
horoughfares to be found present in flthy con-
ition. aud except that the streets are wider ana
more open than those III the section OF the city
below Houston, they better of in point
Of cleanliness Clinton street as il looked yesterday
in very unsavory condition In front or the
houses Nos 81 III and I33 the garbage receptaces
overlooking, and the surplus was dispersed half
way the sodded into the mud by the
wheels OF the passing vehicles. At No. 40 pile OF
shes mingled with household refuse of different
tnds had been spilled the curbsone into hole
made by the excavation OF several cobblestones and
little boys and girls from the neighboring tene-
nent houses hounderng about for want OF a
available play ground. woman with bare and
rawny arms. who looking at the capers of ''the
hildher," shecalled them. being asked when she
thought the street had been cleaned last replied =
INDIGNANT cITIzESHss.
Il was iver claned. seen two min here about week
ago purtndin' TO take the dirt away; but it
only "A lick they give it. an now it's as bad as
lyer it was. That's purity nice smell. savin yer
presence. to have undher our nose for Sunday
pointing to the liquid mass of matter by the curb,
md it's willin' Id be to stick the nose of these
,madhauns of sthreet claners into it an tsche em
heir business.
PLAGUE sroTs ABOUND.
On Rivngton street, opposite Nos. 1s4, 173 and
u9 were neglected heaps of backened garbage
which had evidently lain there time and got
distributed up and down and the street.
At No. 70 Ridge street, in front of a high
tenement house in which there must have been
twenty families living there mass of domestic
sweepings saturated in deep mud puddle and look
ing very offensive to the eye. Opposite Nos. 49, 80
and 1os, in the street, ridges OF mud black
tar were drawn the street, and i'll front Of
alleyway, between Nos ia and l26. pond OF dirty
water had collected which exhaled unpleasant
effiuNa.
So1 50 BAD IN WINTER
Third street. for four blocks, unpresentabe.
Jacob Erhch. beer saloon proprietor at No. 242, III
front of which pile OF unsightly looking rub
bish sad:-..Dhas iss dc way ool dc tonne,
summer an winter. but it don't shmell SO
ley tam bleases, but I'll pet my bottom
haler dey draws der pay all de same anyhow. tole
ioin dis ting and why in de dyvil don you do it, an
says says he, 'ef you don shet Your mout well
sort . Shuy an dake siiine of it. It's peter nor
Lmburger cheese by u tam sight In front OF Jake
Horak's at No 40, and Carl Schumachcrs at No.
2l2 there were numerous mounds OF mud and de-
cayed vegetable matter blended together Fred Hos
tenic another beer yender in this Teutonic region,
said. .Dis sthrcet peter any oder dime. Dey
sweeps it and by shiminy ISIS pad tomorrow.
Dey don't know how to sweep. Dey should bring a
hose and wash 1t out because II IL full OF holes where
;he dirt stays NIT us all the year 90 round
OVERLOOKING BOXES GARBAGE
Fifth street, facing Nos. 5is. 43, i72, 4l4 and
sos boxes Of garbage entirely inadequate
comnodate the household refuse OF the lasge tens-
meuis behind them, and the consequence was the
sidewalk and street Uttered with garbage max
ing disagreeabie display. Mrs Hurley, tenant of
days ago but don't they did much good. It's
hard street 10 keep clean, because the pavement IL
old and crooked and the men don't tcare to work any
more than they have mind to-"
but how Is il these garbage barrels and boxes
allowed TO overflow"
emptied every night but they not, and people
don't want to be keeping their ashes and sweepings
in the house. and them barrels get rllod with twice
much az they can hold. and that's bekase people
have place TO throw their refuse. In Sixth street
III of Nos 327. 373. Al, $40 and 54i the
was thoroughly dirty. II don't know when l saw
the sweepers down this way, said Mr.. John Cannon
Perhaps they come in the night when we're all
asleep but it don't make difference when they
come. for the dirt is there all the while. II
wouldn't be hard for them to keep the street
clane because the people dacint and respectable
but this onld pavement IL the diyils own job keep
in order" seventh street facing TompkIns square
is badly in need OF repairs and of cleaning Ii
full of stagnant pools OF yesterday owing TO
the irregularty Of the street pavement. Eleventh
street is another of the unclean thoroughfares No
ticeably dirty spots along in OF Nos 322
$50. 800. 4s2 and 544 Masses OF decaying straw
hthy a. manure; cabbage leaves, horse manure and
other refuse were conspicuous the length of three
CURB AND ROADWAY LIrrEEEp
On Twelfth street, opposite Nos. .T2, 5l9 523 and
OBJ. heaps Of garbage were strewn the curb and
roadway. Thirteenth street. with Its evenly laid
square stone pavement, presented refreshing con
rast 10 Twelfth and save few overturned barrels Of
ashes there was little in its condition to provoke
criticism. Fifteenth street in bad way east of
First avenue. Before Nos. 40i 4l2 ila 4is and i5i
every kind. The street is lined with big tenement
houses, and children may be running and
tumbng in the cutters aud covering themselves with
filth.
TIE HORROR or ASPHALT PAVEMENT
Eighteenth street laid down a few years ago in
asphalt pavement, but like all other streets in the
city that submitted to the experiment IL Is suffering
from conglomeration Of tar, gravel and cobble
stone, and the result rs countless succession of ruts
aud holes in some ~ which the wheels of vehicles
buried almost to the hub. Before Nos 4n2 4UG
40 and 43i regular little lakes of decidedly un1hol
water To be yesterday. Into these
akes much Of the household refuse the street had
been precipatod, and the compound 10 the last
degree uninytng to look At.
Ia Twentieth street, opposite Nos 3is. 40 slG and
t32 were neglected mounds of refuse. which a resi-
dent Of the neghborhood stated had been there for
week. aud on Nineteenth street facing No. 4D6
nasty mess Of rubbish had evidently been collect
ing for several days. Between Fourteenth and Tween
teh streets First avenue many spots were noticed
that called loudly the application of the BROOM
ciearnaker on the avenue on being asked when he
saw the swecrers around last replied at s some
time now. You they have been putting down gas
pipes the other side Of the avenue and that sup
pose is the reason they keep away"
But why don't they sweep this side Of ths
nue. 2:
'Ahl that's so; but putting down gas pipes is
good excuse 10 stay away altogether and don't %.
month"
How often did they sweep it before ?"
EDI GNa and 40