The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-02
STREET CLEANING.
.uu,s,sruaTOn HOUSTON MAKES An
AuI,-NIGHr INSPECTION OF THE
CONTRACTORS WORK.

st,ea tba induction ~ Administrator Houston
into tbe ONCE NJ improvements Mt tho CITY Heil.
ehott rs the time has boon, he has ihanRuratei
many IMPORTANT changes and has made de-
oidnd stand on making NIL city contractors
carry out strictly tho obligations they had made.
Last wnok The several street contractors were
notified fp bnvN tho work 81 street clean Dg and
sweering performed at night. In order that
tbere might bp no Inconvenience to tho public
In daytime from dust. Saturday might WINS liked
upnn ~ the night on which the work should be
done, ana accordingly Mt o'clock gangs ot mon
were sent out. shovel and broom In hand
Al midnight Administrator Houston. ~ order
to examine tho manner In which tho CONTRACT
ora performed tho work. took carriage. ana
aoaompantad by CITY Surveyor IT, G. Ercsvn and
aDrMocnAr reporter. made tour occupying
The time tn near daylight and extending
through every stroet paved with square block
In the city.
Armed with dark lantern. the party would
statt on a street ma walking down Its centre
would errutinigs the stones and cutters after
the workmen had gone home. The result. az
will be seen. Of this inspection was anything
but gratifying. for on most Of the stroois moth
Ing was done but flushing the cutters with
water and ehoveling up ,he pilngs. The street
sweeping was done carefully only in the gut
terra except In ono or two paees where the
crown Of the pavement was found clean.
IN rHH FIRsT DISTRICT.
Canal street on tho upper side. from tho river
70 Liberty street. was not swept aud the gut
tore aave whore the flooding had washed the
trnsn out were In anything but good eoDdt-
tinn Common. Oarondelet. Gravier and 1T.
To- he in a Ike condition. What Swapping that
was done WINS near tho cutters. and on the
crown the dirt was as II has been. Refuse and
mortar from buildings, Tin cans hoop skirts,
etc enjoyed 1uietude not contemplated In the
contract Of the city.
district ii wns discovered that the. workmen
with criminal negligence Ind left flowing the
nre. well vt the corner Of Iohoupitoulas and
Canal, noodips the neutral ground for two
su,Inrea back Tho Iron covering had been 81
placed by the negligent nighimen that had y
Nyfarer happened 70 step "a i he would have
b&An precipiated into tho well IA Into man
ttAp and nothing moro would no heard from
MIN. On Peters street plugs were found run
ming with in heal WASTING water ,hal h IN
QaDRs I'm this district evidently were careless In
the way they gerformed their work. r.
Magazine, Puydras. TobOupltouaa and Julia
were not found swept M ordered. The cutters
had been cleaned somewhat. but no sweeping
had boon done.
Annunciation street had not been touched.
and tho accumulation Of fallen leaves In tho
cutters testified that but little attention had been
paid To II since mobilization had boon made to
tho contractors.
TuH sEooNp DISTRICT.
WINS almost but not quite ~ bad ~ the First
Starting down Royal from Canal. The lower aldo
Of which hitter street had boon only flushed and
not cleaned, tho party found that at tho corner
Of Customhouse aud Royal no swespIng had
been done outside tho cutters I'm some places
there had been sweeping done.but poorly. Tho
swept from curb TO curb. which was not done.
Dienvillo street was found IN y bad condition,
there being on tho oobhle stones much trash.
ut. Louis until tho rear Of Royal street was
reached WINS poorly cleaned.
There had been aweeping on Bourbon street.
but II Ind bpon done In tho most hurried man
ner for In tho iDterstieeH OF tho square blocks
there were acoumulations Of dung and other
matter n was horo that ono Of The street
the manner IN which tho work was done, said
that We don't propose to work too hard aud
hurt ourselves NJ this sort OF thing for u 2b n
On nnuphine street. as Tar down "a st. PHILIP
only tho cutters had boen swept. the middle Of
the roadway being almost untouched. Tho
river side II Rampant street was not swept out
side the Gutters.
Croasman street was neglected and tho
amount of waste and tin cans lying about would
furnish heavy cart load. Dorstere street. run
ming from Canal TO Customhouse. had not been
The south or swamp side Of Rampart WINS not
cleaned ma II shou Il have been tho attention Of
the ,workmen having been apparen'ly devoted
to the flushing of gurtarR and n OF sweeping caro-
fully. In this district ono exception should be-
mndn and that Ia from Espianade street ND to
ct. Philip. beween Rampant and Daupbine.
Hero tho work had bsen well performed. and
iherr wne no possible complaint to DO made re-
unnrires street. In the slxth ward was swept
dorently. hut from NJ. Philip to Canal street
not touched.
THIRD DISTRICT
On Peters street below Espanade. tho gut
ters had boon cleaned but tho roadway was UNI
touched. Eaplanado street, on tho lower sido.
had been partially swept and cleaned. but mueu
dirt had been loft behind and what was swept
from tho street was lot Ia the cutters. n
THE FOURTH DISTRICT
streets showed that on First from Magazine to
Prytania ihere, had boon no sweep!ng or Wash,
iDgton from Tho river tn Magazine, thore had
been no flooding of the cutters. and no sweep
Ing. Tchoupitoulaa. from Washington to Eel
lefty Road was not touched with broom
Thus II will be aeon that tho Administrators
orders were carried out but feeblv. AID but
little done under them.
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