The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-08
AS BAD AS EVER.
Lapsing Into the Old Ways After
Two Weeks of Cleanliness.
WHERE IS THE BROOM BRIGADE I?

In their initiatory explorations OF the Nineteenth
ward under the cleaning charge OF Officer George
w. Fandrsau, the HERALD reporters found most Of the
streets between Fftieth and Eightieth and Central
Park and East River in toleraby fair condition. The
locality ID very fine one, and, II Murray Hall DO OK
cepted, the arist0cratc the city But, inter-
seoled as II Is by Third avenue In part OF which the
New YORK Elevated Railroad is still course OF con-
srucon and presenting the encouraging spectacle OF
buildings being erected in every and almost
every block Is surprising that II Is clean
as neighborhood which Fifth avenue Is the prin-
cpal thoroughfaro Still it is lthisr than it need be
and nlthier even than weeks ago.
man standing tho OF Third avenue and Fifty
ninth street said .I suspect that oil The labor
ers have been taken out Of the war and made to do
duty further down town. In my movements about
the neighborhood n l see any workmen at all II Ia
usually solitary aborer or single dirt cart"
AND A CART.
These remarks induced the reporter who visited
tho ward yesterday to recall tho men aud carts ne
had seen at during his explorations of the ward
In the afternoon he found this mans theory
ported by his own observations. In Finy-eighth
street. between Filth and SIKH avenues, there was
at sweeping the street little further on,
Fiy.ninth street, east of Fifth avenue. there
another sweeping the dirt INTO little heaps TO
wait for the carts. In Second avenue between
Slxtieth and Sixty-sxth streets. u similar work had
Already been performed. and the dirt heaps both
sides OF railroad track were close together and
IN lines straight as tue pillars which have been
for the elevated road tho adjoining thorough
fare. Between Sixty-nfIh aud Sixty sixth streets
there u cart marked "P d. removing these
little monuments Of accumulated 1lth. SO lar as the
reporters observation enabled him TO judge there
only sweeper or scraper and ono at work
n the entire ward, which, II must DO conceded, is
very small force Tor SO lurge district
SOME FILTHY LOCALITIES TOWN.
In his explorations OF the ward the reporter
saud and filth In Sxty-second street, between Mad.
ison and Fourth avenues there Is water IN Tue
cutters and the Accommodations OF NTH the north
side such long standing that TUFTS
OF grass are growing luxuIiantly ON the pavement
throughout tho whole block new building is in
course OF erection in Sixty-thrI street, Letween
Madison and Fourth avenues, which gives some ex
Tor neglecting the block AS matter OF course
advantage Is taken oil this circumstance tar beyond
the necessities OF the OCCASION There Is heap Of
rubbish at the corner OF Fourth avenue, while in The
avenue Sky third and Sixty fourth Streets
there heaps OF sand aud Debris from The block Of
buildings just erected the west side Of the street,
ana Sixty-tnird street. con Fourth and Lexing
ton avenues is also in very bad coalition. And,
only is Fourth avenue neglected on The side OF tho
street wnere the new buildings are, but on
tho side, above SIxty-thi sireeI, the
cutters are filled with mud and sand Tor
many blocks In Sixty fourth street, between Fourth
and Lexington avcDues heaps 81 sweeplngs have been
allowed remain IN the street, and the dust which
the wind scatters with every breeze Is binding. A
brick pile belonging to a new building IN the block
been allowed 10 remain the street long that
the bricks have bcea crushed to powder by The
wheels VI passing Vcnlctes, ulng the eyes OF people
with brick DUST
ANOTHER SPECIMEN NEIGnBORHooD
Lexington avenlc, at tue corner Of S!xy.fourth
street, filthy, and both above and below NTH
street II Is very much neglected, is also sixty ninth
street, between Lexington aud Third avenues. Above
Sky ninth street, IN Third avenue, the work the
New YorK Elevated Railroad gives excuse Tor hall
clean condition OF that thorougnarc. Second
above Seventeen street, Is also very much neglected
In this locality the lntersectng sreets are nearly all
in bad condition, the but up blocks being swept bet
seldom, and those which have not been built upon
at all. there collections oil sand many places
and mud basins are oil frequent occurrence. Coming
down the east side, near tho river, Sixty
street, just east of Second avenue found TO DO
very hitny, and Fifty -sixth street, between Second
and Third nues, also in bad condition Other
streets the neighborhcod are sadly in need OF
broom, but these are pernaps the worst. In Sec
oud avonue, between tileth and Flty.sixLh streets,
the cutters both sides OF the street filthy
DEDUCTIONS
:hts hasty resume Oi the condition OF the Nine
teonth ward shows more deplorable stale Of things
than was be expected, considering the improved
cleanliness OF other localities aud tho increased ef-
cheney OF the Street Cleaning Department The gar
bage nuisance, however, was not so conspicuous as 1t
Gays ago, nor are so many ash barrels flied
with kitchen refuse ana vegetable matter TO be
on the sidewalks. The reporter could only draw
from the condition oil lie NineLeeDth ward
ycsterday-namely, that the entire district had SUI
fcred ron concentration OF the broom brigade
the Eighth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, EIgh.
teenth ana olner downtown wards to The neglect Of
the streets in the old Yorkville neighborhood.