New-York tribune., 1885-01-31
OFFENSIVE STREET swEEPINGs.

The Board Of Health on January 8 received q
street cleaning sweepings etc." on the low lands
at E1ghth-ave. and One-hundred- -and-ffty-hfth-St.
His letter was referred TO DIR. Morean Morris, who
returned it Yesterday with this lndorsenAnt:
Recommended that permit be denied These street
sweepings called, tain much offensive deeomposa-
be material such as garbage MANURE sa td 9eaa am
Bile and insanitary The areato be lled In
nweines win probably be constructed ever this filed
in ground which would undoubtedly become unhealthy
NIT is to he granted it shsua he for only good fresh
EARTH gravel cinders or ashes ehtirey Tree from gar
bage or other offensive material
About six months ago the Board directed the
Board of Education to tear out the drain pipes IN
the latters hall at Grand and Elm-sts. and replace
them with sanitary system OF drainage TO cost
about $500. The order has not been complied with
vet, but a communication was sent TO the Health
Department last week announcing Ihst tne WORK
spectOr Lockwood reported that the Grammar
School building at No. 351 West Eighteenth-st was
unhealthy, An order was made Immediately by the
Board of Health for needed changes, but informa-
tion was sent to the Board yesterday that the order
had not been obeyed.
HE WILL NEVER INSULT ANOTHER GIRL.
A fashicnabiy dressed boy of sixteen years, with
the first faint glimmer of mustachc. stood III
yoraemon-st. not far from tns racker dnstitn,c
ganccs at a group of rosy-cheekod maldens who
tripped lightly along toward their school-rooms IN
the Institute. Despite their disguised and frown-
ING looks, he threw kisses az them and made mo,
items suggestive of hugging Some OF the girls told
Policeman Hill, who watched the youth and failed
70 see him do anything, but arrested hm Tor loung-
ing He said that he was Noble j. Scranton:
age sixteen, of No. 131 JOralemonst st and appeared
10 be greatly ashamed of being caught Police SUI
perntendent Campbell sharply reprimanded Scran-
ton and told hIm that he on tho road to the
penitentIary unless he protected girls instead OF
Insulting them He promised IL he was let oil.
never to do anything wrong again. lie was taken
before Police Justice Walsh, who discharged hln
upon his promise to insult girl again. None
Of the pupils Of the Packer Institute appeared TO
complain against him and President Backus did not
wish the case to proceed. The girls III the Central
Grammar School have also complained OF scranton,
who is evidently would-be "masher." He be-
iosgs TO a respectable family and lives with his
mother. his father, who was q grocer, being dead
The boy has no occupation.
NEED OF WORKING AGAINST CHOLEkA.
The Nec- York Medical Record OF January 81 IN an
artIc.e entitled. Use the Epidemic Fund, reiers
to the cholera question. Noticing the recolnmehu,A
tions of the Congressional CoNmittee On IupIc
Health for an appropriation OF o,OOO 10 lhe "a.
tiona Board of Health, and 5000 600 10 be usea at
the Presidents discretion III keeping cholera away
the writer says IN part
In the ordinary Of affairs, II such approprla-
tions are passed, the funds not available Deiore
March 4. Meantime, the season Is fast approaching
upon the first Of cholera the ardn cuers OF ne
spidemic make their appearance among the
The whole machinery FOR preventive measures must be
Ia full operation at the latest early rs the nrst OF
April. Those measures cannot be matureo IN WEEK.
nor In twice time the most experienced sanitar
>aas IN the country. properly organized scneme "