New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20

! COMMISSIONERS HOUsE-THE ABSOLUTELY
FILTHY CONDITION or THE STREETS
AN UXEXAMPLrD OPPORTUN-
ITY TO PROVIDE WORK FoH
THE UNEMPLOYED
e.rse, Cleaning Commissioner Andrews was ;nicn
enra4ed .. what he called the trick Of PERSONA
enemies who ne sad sent body OF seFoFal scores
OF dirty ana ragged Italians 70 his mouse ~ i>S'
soventieth-st. Sundoy afternoon denlan'''s -
be Sc; at work. The procession formed III No.
and marched TO the select quarter IN "n''' -'ii'
Andrews lives Most Of ;he men were armed Win
shoysls Or lrcorns They asserted that W@y were
starving. and wanted to be set at work N 'lc
streets AZ once. Wives ard children OF some Ga
the applicants We're placed in a truck ana drNen
up 70 Mr.. AnGr,ws's door as n samil- u STU" ''1
great need OF the people in the Italian quarter
Andrews got rid Of the crowd by promising tAe
Interpreter who represented them in the conference
which crsued that he would give them enpioy''.i'
al 6 r. H. az the department; stables SeVon'eeh'h
81, ard avenue q: but when the poor fellows VEN
there about :h.ee hundred in number, they were
suyed by the regnar cWpo{gs a2 aT,rHar de-
niod TIA: he irG giTon any positive promise on
the subject. He VS. naturally anxious 10 get '''
Il tho mob and IL succeeIVG
There wa, p.en,y c. reason for employing tncsc
men ana $s many more 1 S rca5i M pepartmen
Since the hig snOwstOrm ncsan. Most OF ticin r.
ceived attention Tor l'nS uiiy e 80
some OF the principal thorouGh:ares Ike Broadway
and Fifth-aVe. and parts of Fourteenth. l"tHS,
third Thl~;v-thiri. Forty -seC0ad, Ffty-nlntn ana
fifth sts have been IooKei
after to some extent hut scafcey d cf'Hs 500
this winter. West of SeVenth-ave. ana east OF
Third-ave the snow lies in the roadbeds Just as II
fell except the part Of it which the rams naNe
broadway and Canal SITS. never were IN worse
condition New Chambers. Pearl, Baxter. ko2se-
welt Mulberry. James. Worth, Mott. Oiivcr; flke;
Ruteers. Division and Clinton SITS are Iithy ptyou
a.
running into Sixth-ave. are almost impassape. me
cutters and cuV erts being choked with the mass
with en- appropriation for 1894 Of nearly $4,000
the largest amount ever allowed for street clean
ing in New-York. and with the streets IN cohli-
ton as deplorahle as they have been at any tine
during the last decade: with thousands OF men
clamorng for work to keep them ana their families
from starvation Street Cleaning Commissioner An-
dreUs calmly refuses TO make any cXeruoil ana
c.!ngs to his system Of securing labor through me
abhorrent Iadrcne method. The snowstorm OF las,
week afforded him an opportunity to prove ms
the pubic Is that more utterly lncapanc heal "I
the Street Cleaning Department could never nave
been discovered. $500. ,,.
from Father Bandini of ST. Raphael Benevolent
Society promising e furnish all the men me DE-
partment needs at 81 % 4 day, 10 supply them WIZ
the necessary tools, ana to give me men sun S
usual vouchers can be audited ana p2li ny IN"
Finance Department. Father Bandin added pro-
viso however that he would expect thai MS men
loophole for MIR Andrews which he promptly took
advantage Of. He said that ne Couid ehtef IIl9 u.
nprr,anent arrangements with Father Baniin or
any one else The Tammany padrones are me
from the S;reet-Clean.ng Department under Mr..
Andrews