The evening world., 1893-07-21
Vile Condition Of Streets East
of the Bowery.
Disease. Breeding Cutters and Pools
Of Shiny Water.
Where Children Play in Fe,id
Odor Almost Sitting.

OF the town east OF tne l3OWery, tne
most overcrowded patch of earth In the
universe, Is bad. and Just now 1t is such
as to demand more than ordinary at
tention.
An Evening World" reporter found
yesterday afternoon In that section
which lies between Grand and Houston.
Orchard and Norfolk streets-n patch of
less than a half mile square-a condi-
tion that would discourage an optimis,.
There Is apparently an honest effort
making by the Department of Street
Cleaning to clear away the constantly
accumuiating rubbi,h from the streets,
but the earnest cooperation Of the
other departments Is necessary to make
the work effective
The ignorant and thoughtless must
be prevented from Cutting the streets.
the cutters and the sidewalks before
their homes with the refuse OF their
tables, and the sale of decayed fruit
vegetables and the like must be stopped
II the health OF the general public is
to be protected.
Rivtngtou, Broome. n part Of Houston
stree. and Ludlow street have nsphalted
pavements. and u glance shows that 1t
is much easier TO keep this kind OF
pavement clean than II is to keep the
rough block pavements free from accu-
mutations.
All OF the cross streets, Houston, Stan
ton, Rivington, Delaney. Broome and
Grand, were clean and neat for the most
part.
Orchard street was satisfactory In
the blocks from Houston to Rivinst1n,
marks OF the n,.,r5y 6ro0ms IN ,s OF sssn tine 6s
the faces OF the paving stones. the
street was in bad shape and the arr was
While the reporter stood beside a po-
Mceman looking at the throngs OF fret.
ting children, sick from constant
woman hurled a great hunk OF beef
liver from a third-story window. II
landed in the middle of the street, and
meeting OF greedy nies. The policeman
gazed at 1t dreamily and then turned
IL the woman who threw 1t had been
arrested it might nave stopped some
other careless wretch, however.
wsEon toad Of s"a snS
and fostering grapes was offered for
sale by a vender. and he found many
Juvenile and female buyers, yet The ths
laws.
Al the corner Of Broome was an ac-
cumulation OF melon rinds from close
BY fruit stand-save the mark!-enough
to all u bushel basket and In all stages
OF decay. green grocer near Delaney
street had strewn the sidewalk and
pavement all over with cabbage leaves,
corn .cobs and husks. melon rinds, de-
cayed pears. peaches, withere1 beets.
foul tomatoes and other litter.
In the next block a vender cried ::
"Ripe peaches, two cents quartz
Is 1t necessary to describe the i'm
purity Of peaches that sell at two cents
q quart? The fruit inspector wouldn't I
permit the sale of II solitary peach from
this wagon-but the Inspector was not
there and apparently y, none lone ever visited
nent fruit and green grocer stands In
all these streets where the rottenest of
era has broken out in Naples
The air Of Ludlow street was not 80
thick as that Of orchard. but the iie-
porter did not find the reason for this
In the cutters and on the pavements,
for they were in a Very discreditable
state. II there i Is anything clearer = than
milestone, 1t is that II sweeping and cart :
ing the dirt and garbage from stree,
and carriers s. Should @ ei come see second eerS tlmS'
BeEinning at Grand street the reporter
found from end to end OF Ludlow street
recent cali. But here we're also i cvi-
dences either that the cleaners didn t
clean or else the rules of the Street
Cleaning. Police and Health Depart
ments had been violated by tenants Of
the big double -deckers OF the street
Here were lately emptied garbage and
showed where heap OF street dirt hat
been q few hours before but alongside
Of the empty garbage & &receptacles were were
ease-breeding stun that smelled t.
heaven with a power that would triv,
IN aoe Sqs p
the people OF every street at what hou
70 set out their garbage and ash cans
rule that nothing In the way "f Ilui
skins, vegetable debris: or anima mat
in this section. at least, no one seems
TO have the slightest regard for IT, an,
all the laws Of sanitation are violate,
with impunity, for It seems to be no
Under the windows of Ludlow Stree
ing 4 bonfire kindled In straw tick
aid supplemented by lot OF debris o
various kinds.
A dainty, dark-eyed little girl sa
knitting on the curb on the corner o
Broome street, with a watchful eye o.
a watermelon cart she was attending
fruit that she had sold. Six feet ava
was barrel that had been flled an
run over with slushSy sloPs. that sent u
baby in two hours. yet there, was
my Rad OF little ones moping In tn
street. fretting. feverIsh and nauseated
ness and a mountain OF dirt--at leas
two cartloads-lay on the east side q
the street: not builders dirt, but ashe
and garbage, left there because ther
was building going on opposite 1t, an
presumably a Public Works Departmcr
permit had been issued TO the builder
OCCUPY the street for building pun
poses"
1t would take an honest engineer
week to find out who should be held r,
sponnible for this particular kind {
nuisance. but L. cannot be that nobod
Is responsible.
Another pile OF ashes. dust. garbag
and filth. for building purposes" orns
ments the block between Rvington an
Delaney street, while there are in se'
eral places real builders supplies
Ludlow street.
A broken trunk, four barrels overru
with ashes, heap of garbage and 9th,
disgusting things offended the eye, Il
nose ard the stomach In front OF sill
gle number nj the corner Of RivingtC
street.
Just above. a neat little woman wit
weary face was found sweeping befo
her own door, attempting to drive baC
an ocean Of filth, and at the corner
Houston policeman and a citizen we
amused at q fuFillade between two hoy