The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

LINDSAY is charge of the First precinct and
Officer Hamilton of the Twenty-seventh. A careful
scrutiny made in the neighborhood of Wash
ington Market and the streets in that neigh
borhood were found to be in good order
Tho reporter conversed with some of the
traders in the building as to the
in which the Health Department had done its duty
to the market people, and no complaint was made by
any one The streets surrounding the market build
ing swept three times every day. 1t was sug-
gested by old resident of Greenwich street that
while the hot weather lasts some ARRANGEMENT
ought TO be made for the removal of the garbage
from the boxes Ill washington street some time in
the afternoon, in addition to the ordinary daily
visits of the carts.
CONDITION FOURTEENTH PRECINCT
The Street Cleaning Bureau gave signs of having
shaken off it's lethargy. On Tuesday night the
brooins and ashcarts We're used with vgor in the
Fourteenth precinct, ana the result was shown yes
terday what old resident of the ward said were
"the cleanest streets there in dozen years" The
Fourteenth precinct covers very large territory.
and contains in some districts a large number of
tenement houses and thousands of persons of ex-
ceedingly dirty habits. The precincti is bounded
on the west by Broadway. ON the north
by Houston street, and the east by
erly belonging to the old Sixth precinct. The
HERALD reporter made careful inspection of its
streets yesterday. Prince street. from the Bowery
to Broadway, was found to have been well swept;
the sweepings had been gathered up and no garbage
receptacles or boxes to be seen. At the
Of Prince and Elizabeth streets men were
gagged in cleaning out a culyert An ash
cart, filed with thick, black muck, which
had just been removed. gave forth noxious
efiuvia that compelled passing pedestrians to place
handkerchiefs to their noses and scamper by the
place at a lively gait. similar performance was
Broome street and Crosby. Elizabeth street
found to be in good condition. The roadway
well swept and the garbage had been fully
moved neighbor told the HERALD reporter that
many of the cellars in the neighborhood were in
shocking condition, and that rigid sanitary meas
should be taken i'll reference to them. In some
of them he said. all sorts OF debris had been col
lecting since they were built-in some
twenty. thirty aud even forty years ago. He also
said that it frequent find the
culverts overflow making it necessary to clean them
out as in the case OF the two referred to- Mott street
clean. The roadway was we'll swept, aud the
garbage and ashes had been carefully removed. The
cobble stone pavement in Mulberry street also
in good condition, the sweepers having performed
their work well. The lower portions OF Baxter,
Mulberry and Mott streets usually in
disgustingly filthy condition. When the reporter
visited them they were found to be in the contrary
condition. In this region Of lofty tcne-
ment houses of the lower order, which shelter hun
dreds of families that live in comparative squalor.
The sidewalks yesterday filed with dirty chill
dren, and much of the slops and dirty used
cooking and washing found its way into the cutters,
adding to the stagnant water which had already col
lected there. the whole casting forth sickening
odor. With the exception of the cutters, which
needed Gushing" the streets in this region were
found to be in good order.
Spring street. from the Bowery to Broadway. was
not clean it should have BEEN The roadway
was not swept and the cutters were in shocking
condition The garbage receptacles, however, had
were encountered In Crosby street. from
Prince to Howard street. is settlement of Italian
ragpickers and azzaroni These people are
have to deal with. They live in extreme
squalor and their habits terribly filthy.
The Easements are used as rag shops and
hundreds families clustered regardless of all
sanitary laws in vile rear buildings. which are
reached by narrow alleyways running through from
Crosby street. In such q neighborhood ana among
such class of people the reporter expected to find
much cause for complaint To his surprise but one
streets, and that was but half filled. The pave
ment had been tolerably well swept but the cutters
its entire length. On every stoop dirty men. women
and children negroes well as Italians lay sprawed
out in all stages Of undress and filth to catch the
least watt of the lightly moving breeze.
Park, Bayard Doyer and Pell are short streets
some of them little more than alleyways-that have
heretofore been left anything but clearly condi-
ton. Yesterday they were we'll swept, the street
sweepings had been removed and no garbage boxes
barrels were to be seen when the HERALD reporter
visited the neighborh6od early in the afternoon.
Said sergeant of the Fourteenth precinct the
HERALD reporter the rough class Of
people we have to contend with in some portions Of
precinct. think the streets i'll excellent
condition. The cleaners have been working lively
during the past forty-eignt hours. Ihere are some
neghoorhoods where the constant presence OF an ash
cart and sweeper would not make the people observe
cleanly habits. AS the ash cart passes some
of these people throw ashes and garbage in its wake
in tho roadway, oftentimes from pure vindictive-
ness. to feeling OF desire to be agn the
law In such neighborhoods, and with such people
to deal with do not think it will ever be possible
to have the streets entirely Clean very good sys-
TEN is employed II It is only carried out thor
oughly. The police officer who goes on duty at six
p. M. until retired at midnight reports the amount
of ashes and garbage collected during those hours
on his post. The officer who relieves the first one,
and who comes off duty at six A. n. also makes
report. The two reports arc compared III any
garbage is uncoliected that fact is at once
reported at Police Headquarters In this way the
responsibility is fixed The Street Cleaning Bureau
also sends out men in citizens clothes to watch the
operations OF thesweepers and ash carts as well rs
those of the housekeepers the depositing Of
garbage and ashes are concerned"
Marion street was found to be well swept its en-
tire length. with entire absence barrels
from the curb lines Prince street also in good
condition. being clean and well sprnkled, with no
garbage barrels III sight to offend the eye affect
the nostris and lungs But here. elsewhere the
influence of stagnant water in the cutters could be
easily detected in the atmosphere. Broome street
was also in excellent condition from the Bowery to
Broadway.
GENERAL CLEANING UP IN THE EIGHTH PRECINCT,
The exposures of the condition OF some OF the
precincts OF the city In the HERALD has induced
wonderful display of activity in the Eighth precinct
On Tuesday night the broom. the shovel the hoe
the sprinkler and the ash cart were brought into
lively play throughout the district, and yester-
day it was. comparatively speaking. among the
cleanest in the city The precinct covers a large ter
ritory and embraces in some quarters pretty rough
element. 1t is bounded on the south by
the north by Houston street. and on the
west by West street thorough tour of the pre-
proved it to be in a surprisingly clean condi-
ton. Prince. Houston, Greene. Mercer. Canal.
nrooe sprnE ana Soutn fH1n avenue
well swept and sprinked, and the garbage and street
sweepings had been carefully removed in nearly
every Instance sullivan street was also swept, and
looked tolerablv Clean but its cutters very oul
and emitted "a sickenng smell.
Thompson street. however. was quite dirty The
neighbornood has a slovenly appearance, which is
shared by its inhabitants. Several garbage recepta-
clos to be seen. and the cutters sadly in
need of cleansing On the block of King street,
bounded by Varck and Hudson streets are large
number of poor. dilapidated tenement houses built
front and lots, the latter being reached by
alleyways. This neighDorhood was found to be in
an exceedingly filthy condition The neighbors were
dirty appearance and habits, and squalld children,
garbage lying on the pavement or in receptacles
aud cesspools of stagnant water in the cutters met
the eye at every turn. In Greenwich street. above
Canal and the adjacent neighborhood. the street
swecpcrs appeared to have done their work less
thoroughly than In most other portions OF the pre-
cinct The roadway was very dusty aud in many
places dirty. and the cutters were choked up with
much and accumulated street swcepings. which
caused cesspools OF stagnant water to form. which
gave forth death dealing odors.
Meeting Police Inspect or Dilks the reporter re-
marked upon the improved condition of the streets.
YES" replied the Inspector. with u grathed