The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-28


aries OF the Five Points,, are Captain Gunner says
swept and cleaned once Gay. The Bowery, he says,
is also cleaned six times week, whc broadway
Is only swept three times week. Spring
street, stated by tho same Official Is also cleaned
three tmesa week, anu all mo rest OF the ward twice
q week. Captain Gunner accounts for the street
sweepcrs bong seldom scen performing their dutios
In The afternoon By stating mat IN hot weather they
usually commence At four O'Clock in the morning and
nnisn their work by the hour Of noon. The Bowcry
exception to tns rule as the laborers commence
sweeping IT every evening at SIX O'Clock
Wniic there seems to be oil late marked improve
ment In the condition Of The streets In tho Fourteenth
ward there are still many places within us
limits that require tho immet ats auentlon
OF the Bureau OF Street Cleaning. IL must
not DO suppoaed, however that Mulberry
street, between Houston and Blocker streets, Is in
cluded In the exceptional localities alIudea TO, as,
all the streets tue ward attended 70 with such
scrupuous fidelity as that opposite aud contiguous 70
that department sit for a lew hours daily and there
issue their imperious mandstes they would almost
rival Fh avenue, SO far cleanliness Is concerned
But this saubrious state OF affairs does not extend
very from the marble building Mulberry street.
Opposite No Ell Mott street the gutter rs very foul
ssnas fortn q most offensive odor.
THE PLACE ~ SELDOM CLEAN.
MrA McGilL, living at the ABOVE mber, and who
found working hard at making aud Insndng
shoes, said:"Ips very seldom that place is cleaned
out, sir. There's often such n stencil coming from
the guther that we can hardly stay In The house. 1
never secs any around claiming II, although be-
leve The street sweepers comes around here evory
day. Ips messif mat mas 0nen wondered where such
q stencil could come from out OF that autner."
In front OF No. rs Mott street there was pool Of
nlth IN gutter, which was partly concealed BY a
plank extended over IL for the purpose oil allowing
wagons 10 pass over IL TO a trucxman's yard In tho
rear. Dederiok rhobaben who keeps grocery store
Al No. 223, on being asked IL the gutter
was often cleaned gave II as his opinion that
the deposit OF foul water was owing 10
the TACT that tho street had sunk AT
that spot, and consequently tue wator and Stops TALL
ing the street all nowel INTO the hole, from which
IL could not escape. He added, alt smells awiuliy
bad sometimes, and although tney come around 10
sweep the street they don't get The wafer out be-
cause, you see, the gutter wants lxing."
Lower down on Mott street, ana opposite Nos. lS9,
19l and 1885, the gutter is also IN nlthy condition,
being nled with rank smelling liquid, compared with
winch Bulge water would be considered us debghtfuL
very largely attended funeral In the setting
IRON No. 1913 somew hat suggestive circum-
stance. In eating house al No lS9 the young man
In charge said that the street sweepsrs around
In a whllc but as general rule the water was
lying In the gutter all the time.
SPRING srREET
Spring street, near Mot. street, requires attention,
as both the street ana gutter the south sdo are In
n very dirty state. Tho man who keeps cigar store
at No 80 spring street beng asked how the
street was cea ned, answered, even, believe they
come around here about twice week but for all Mai