Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
WILL FIGHT It OUT,
Local Authorities Thoroughly
Worked Up Over the
Cholera Scare.
ATW0RK ON EVERY STREET
The Highway Department Purifying
and Cleaning the City.
BLOCK CLUBS ARE SUGGESTED.
Colonel Roberts Writes the Mayor About
Street Cleaning.
ATWORK ON EVERY STREET
BLOCK CLUBS ARE SUGGESTED.
Colonel Roberts Writes the Mayor About
Street Cleaning.
ALLEGED EFFECT on RUSSIAN OIL

duO anu Vi pCOPlS 1HSAaSSA'S u
are working wonders in the sanitation oftht
municipality. Superintendent Andrews, o
the Street Department, said last night thai
by Sunday Pittsburg would be as clean a:
it would be possible to make it, in so far as
the streets, alleys and sewers were con
cerned. There are now at this work, and
have been for the past three days, 375 men.
Part of this force labors at night, so that
there can be no intermission in the effort tC
keep out the expected cholera scourge, and
the work is being carried on in all
sections of the city. Superintendent
Mcknight, of Schenley Park, and
Superintendent Paisley, of Highland, have
each reduced their forces of men in the
parks to what they can barely get along
with, and their men are helping In the
sanitary movement Nearly all the street
repairmen have been taken away from that
work and are lending a hand to sanitation.
Yesterday one large force of men put in the
day at cleaning out that notoriously filthy
place, the "Yellow Row." on Second ave-
nue., and Greenough street nearby. An
other force worked the streets, alleys and
sewers in the Seventh aud Eighth wards.
Some good work was done in the courts and
alleys around Webster avenue and WASH
ington street inhabited by Italians, Russian
Hebrews and other foreigners. The pond on
JunIlla street, Thirteenth ward, was
flushed yesterday, the drop was opened and
the Shiny deposit there was washed away.
Pushing the Work.
The Spring and Mulberry alley districts
in the Ninth, Tenth and Twelfth wards
were given considerable attention, but it
will require another day or two to finish
them up. Out in Lawranceville, Bloom
field and the East End and on the whole
Southside the cleansing process is being
pushed ahead vigorously. Although the
city does not recognize an alley less than Is
feet wide, regarding such as private alleys
and requiring abutting owners to keep
them in condition, just now they are treated
the same as the city streets and cleaned thor
oughly when necessary.
All this work being done by the city will
be continued each day until cold weather
comes when it is thought cholera danger
will be past Superintendent Andrews said
Yesterday: "I don't think the streets of
BY Sunday they will be in the pink of con-
dition, and we will keep them so. There
are number of courts and alleys occupied
by filthy class of people which look as if
they had never been touched within "a
hours after they have been cleaned. We at
tend to them the same as the others, but
more frequently. We are following up
every case reported to us by the police
or Bureau of Health. Where a sewer drop
Or an alley needs attention, men are put to
work cleaning it up at once. The people
themselves are doing great work in many
instances, but in my observations 1 have
noticed that the people who should do the
most cleaning and disinfecting of their eel |
lars and back yards are doing the least of |
it. Some OF our business men down town |
should look to their cellars and vaults un- |
der the sidewalks. They are just as danger
Gus as If located in the residence district, !
and some are in bad condition |
No More Fruitful Fields.
The Bloomfield and Hazelwood districts |
are giving the street department much con- |
cern, and it is believed that if the cholera |
reaches the city it will play havoc in those |
sections. Bloomfield is only partially |
secured. The majority of houses are con-
nected with no sewers at all, and many of |
the people are still using the water from
the old wells in that district. This the
authorities especially fear, they sav the
water cannot be pure with so much sewage
in the ground around the wells. A large /
msin sewer in Bloomfield is nearly com
pleted, but has not been connected with the
properties.
AT Hazelwood these conditions exist.
There are few sewers. Some of the streets
are in horrible condition, and many of
the people seem to pay no attention to
sanitation. One of the sanitary inspectors
out there yesterday found ton or more of
garbage in the back yard OF a wealthy resi-
dent, the stencil of which was appalling
Nespucius street, Herbert street and Flow.
ers avenue have been complained about
frequently. When the inspector went out
there yesterday he was not surprised that
complaints had been made. The streets
were reeking with filth, and it is remark
able that an epidemic has not resulted be-
fore now. Efforts have been made by the
Public Works Department several times TO
Lave Hazelwood severed, and ordinsnces
therefor have been introduced in Councils,
but each time some of the interested per-
Sons, through their influence in Councils, |
have had the improvements stopped.
They will reap their reward for this if
the cholera comes to pittsburg," said Super
Paisley yesterday. 'In thickly
populated district it is worse than folly to !
oppose such a necessary Improvement as
sew ers. Nc better argument could be ad-
vaIced for sewers than the present danger. |
Il will be better one if the cholera comes,
for it will undoubtedly rage the worst in
the unsewered sections 1 consider it
criminal negligence !or a man owning prop
nrty in a populated section to oppose the
construction of proper drainage to it. -
General Wall Goes Up.
The Bureau of Health received nearly 200
letters of complaint yesterday. They were
Several localities in Law
have been in bad condition. but
cleaning is in progress there now. Super
Baker, in speaking of the work
being done in the tenement districts, yes
terday said:
81 was surprised in going through the {
foreign colonies of the Seventh and Eighth
wards to-day TO see the wav the people have
Deen obeying orders. They are scared and {
t is well for them. Many of them had
cleaned out cellars, whitewashed their
-ooms. In several places where did not
expect it they had even scrubbed their ,
ioors. Many of these people claim they ,
annot afford to buy lime to whitewash, {
,ut will willingly apply it if furnished
hem We have purchased a large quanti- !
V of good lime and will supply it in such J
ases rather than bother running after the
andlords.
At the meeting of CITY officials Yesterday :