The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-19

between Second and Fourth avenues. on which
nrsa 'I Auaean Stable Which needs some modern
Hercules In the shape of an efficient street cleaning
department TO cleanse it, Twenty-ffth street was
lined with little piles of dirt which had been care
fully swept up. waiting for the appearance OF the
ashinan. Sometimes they have to wait a long while
and sometimes they entirely disappointed, being
dissipated by wind or rain before the arrival of the
Official cart.
AMENITIES OF THIRD AVENUE
A little further up, between Twenty-ninth and
Thrtieth streets there some buildings process
of erection. The workmen, with great want of
consideration for travellers have taken up the whole
sidewalk and half of the street up the posts the
elevated railroad. Water has colecNi on each side
OF this obstruction. and, being unable to run off.
stagnates. The little boys of the neighborhood
In crowds and paddle around in this dirty water.
with cheerful disregard for their health. making
day hideous with their screams and antics
fhirty-fourth street TO the ferry is eneumbered
with the immense girders of the IL" road, which
are placed very near me gatters rendering It almost
curpstone in the Improbable event that such an
idea should enter the heads Of the street cleaners.
Between Thirty-fourth ana Thirty-hf streets on
Third avenue. lot of black mud has collected along
the cutters. Thirtyseventh being newly paved
and just is not in such a bad condition. the rain
running of through the loose gravel About the
worst block along Third avenue is that between
Thirty eighth and Thirtyninth Streets where quite
q variety OF decayed vegetables thrown into the
gutter. and the Inhabitants have not been always
careful to set the ash barrel up end.
At the corner of Forty second street and Second
avenue the reporter again met with the IL" road
posts and the stopped up culverts which to be
their natural accompaniment On the southwest
corner u dam has been made purposey the
gutter, and the resut is that pool OF dirty water
about ten feet SQUARE is prevented from running off,
aud, while growing less in size it evaporates,
spreads wider and wider the deadly efiuvia which
arises from the decaying things it contains.
THE 81" NUISANCE ADDED.
On either side of Second avenue the nuisances
caused by laying the "L Orders the cutters is
repeated at every corner. In Thirty -ninth street
dren engaged in what they doubt thought was
most excellent sport. There was large lager beer
empty kegs had been piled up in profusion before its
doors. The children succeeded in getting down
about dozen OF those. kegs and were
rolling around on them in the dirty gutter. From
the northwest corner OF Thirty-fourth street and
First avenue lust the reporter about to
the street, rush OF dirty water down the gutter
made him desist. buxom woman with large
wooden pail. retiring in the distance, gave . clew
to the origin of this sudden food. OF
of course it will remain there to breed
disease in the neighborhood. The cutters all the
ton. The diligent antiquarian who searches here
relics of the past will find old boots and shoes of
the Tweed era, tomato cans OF date impossible to
ascertain old vegetables and fish of extinct Species
showing that this part of the country has been
visited by the street cleaners since very remote
period In stumbling these ruins the reporter
The ground bore incontestable evidence Of
there having at one time been garbage
barrel there, for round pile OF rotting garbage was
to be seen in spot and there the imprint of
the barrel in the ground as plainly visible az are
lmprlntS OF rain drops III certain xmas OF
As a further corroboration of the supposition one
barrel hoop, almost decayed encircled the odorous
heap. The absence Of slaves was the only drawback
to the theory. These might have been carried off by
some young barbarans of former age, leaving
merely the vestiges or what noble gar
bage barrel
g4 cARBoLrc ACID EMPLOYED.
Some enterprising citizens had scattered quanti-
ties Of carbolc acid III the neighborhood of Twenty
fifth street and First avenue, and much 1t was
needed. Two blocks further down, at the corner of
Twenty-third street the reporter found another OBJ
structed culvert filed with lemons and decaying
vegetable matter. Turning down Seventeenth
street to Avenue A. the sight not any more
agreeable than on other portions OF the route OPP
posite No. 3l5 avenue there quito cesspool
Of putrefying matter, among which could be dis
covered the head of FISH and considerable num-
Der OF scales. In Sixteenth street. between
and G. where several houses are in process of
struction, the water that the men use for making
lime had been left running and the children were
amusing themselves by contning 1T III little ponds.
A channel about four feet wide in the foundation
of the building and running from front
to was filed with dirty green water. In which
several large sticks floating On Fifteenth
street. between avenues and G. the smells are
agreeably varied by stable. much of the refuse
of which is allowed to run into the street. Near this
there more carbolic acid and more decayIng
vegetables. Even Fourteenth street, near the East
River. is not entirely free from such disgusting
sights. 4.... -s-, CESSNA SOS.