The evening world., 1891-08-21

cupied by only one family each, but here In
places was evidence that the sweepers had
only half done their duty.
]. Oldenbuttel, grocer at 322, said that the
sweeper visited the street once, sometimes
twice, week, but that the little mounds are
not always removed.
In one block the sweepers had made no
mounds In two weeks, and the street was
strewn with corn husks, barrel hoops, broken
0rooms, loose paving stones, paper boxes,
garbage and reeking filth OF all sorts, while
all along the length OF Henry street little
mounds were found that had been left since
the last visit OF the sweepers on faturday.
Near Jefferson street discarded bed had
lain for a whole week.
Birmingham street is one OF those narrow
lanes that are so frequently found In great
cities. This lane has grown to the dignity OF
street. 1t is only about $50 feet long and
20 feet wide, but It is lined with densely
populated tenements from Madison to Henry
street, and man with half an eye can easily
See that that thorOughfare, fronted by the
houses OF perhaps two thousand people, has
not seen the Department broom in year.
The pavement is entirely hidden by the ac-
cumulations OF dirt. Vegetable matter testers
and decays there; children play In the nasti-
ness, and these hot days and nights the foul
and disease-bearing stencil penetrates the
crowded tenements on either side.
"If 1t wasn't for The EVENING WORLD and
the way 1t snatches things bald-headed we
should never get anything done in this town, -
said M. Rosenthal, sturdy miller employed
by Krulewitch Brothers at Madison and
Birmingham streets.
Mr.. Rosenthal was more enthusiastic and
expressive than polished, but he meant It, and
said he was glad THE EVENING WORLD had
undertaken to get the streets cleaned.
"No, sir; they haven't been in Birmingham
street in six months" he declared; and Lieber-
man, the baker, at "a East Broadway, said,
" That's so. They don't clean the streets any,
where"
A little girl, who had listened, said
"six monthsl HUH They haven't been
in our street In year"
B. Mitnick, butcher at 80 Jefferson street,
gazed at the reek1ng NTH In the cutters along
either side OF that thorOughfare and said:
"Pve worked in Jefferson street three
months, and the street has not been cleaned
all that time"
A1"s' i"au"aS' oi"''u anu HPlehuiu Ihor-
oughlare' with It's busy street-car lines, is
uirIy from ehu 10 END
Inc roadway Is uttered with all manner OF
unsightly things ana matter That 1t is not
oliy an eJesore DuI 10 dangerous 10 the healtn
OF the denizens OF the street.
Dilloh' 'he pharmaclst al 49, SAID vehe-
mently:
am glad The EVENING WORLD has taken
this matter up Do"ntowh New YORK ls the
nithiest place ever saw I've been In Bor-
hh' farls' 81 PETERSBURG ana other European
capltals, ana never saw such dirty place
as Ne" YORK. Beattiesmen come here about
once MONTH Ihe rest OF the time we are
neHiected' ana put ior the TACT that much OF
the art Is gathered up by the residents and
put In the ash-barrels LIE would be unoear-
able here"
Lewis the dry-goods man al 1872 SAID:
"They haven't cleaned this street in
month. You see, 1t Is covered with coating
OF dlrt-plack' mucky stun-and In II are all
sorts OF foreign substances. There are arti-
cles OF wear DTS OF crocKery' unware and the
Ike, vegetable refuse and all that. But II
THE EVENING WORLD has taken the matter
up something will be done"
ShlanOWSky, dealer IN carpets at 13O