New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-17
UORETNG HARD on THE STREETS.
PLANS OF COLONEL. WARING FOR THE DISPOSAL
OF ASHES AND GARBAGE-TiE cOMMls-
SIONER GIVES RAP AT TABOR"

PLANS OF COLONEL. WAXING FOR THE DISPOSAL
or ASHES AND GARBAGE THE coMMs-
sIoNER GIVES RAP At TABOR"
Colonel Warlng spent several nours In his once
yesterday. directing the affairs OF the street Clean
ing Department. and he said he was recovering
RAPIDLY from the severe cold from which he had
been suffering. He gave orders for continuation
OF the work OF removing snow from the business
streets downtown during last night and to-day. ana
said he expected to have most OF the streets IN
which there Is heavy traffic Clean by tomorrow
The Dock Commissioners were asked TO have the
docks at East River and Seventeenth-st and North
River and Nneteenth-st. dredged out to-day. in
order 10 allow the Barney dumping scows to get to
the dumps. Deputy Commissioner Moore said that
he expected TO have all Of the refuse which had been
dumped In the streets near the rivers removed by
Tuesday.
When there is warmer weather, and the work OF
the Street Cleaning Department can go on without
INTERRUPTION by snow the Board Of Health and COO
mel Waring will Cooperate in compelling the separa-
ton OF ashes and garbage at every house in the
city. The plan Will be compel the owners OF
houses to remove at their expense all ashes and
garbage which mixed in the receptaces.
| That plan, 1t IL believed. Will soon compel the
systematic separation Of ashes and garbage and ii
will then be To get rid OF the Clean ashes Tor
| filling and sell the gIrbage to the manufacturers
Of fertilizers In that 1.-The cost OF dsposing OF
ashes and garbage and also the cost a cleaning the
streets. will be greatly lessened
Colonel Warng yesterday gave out the following
statement regarding the delay in paying the men
who help TO remove the snow from the streets
I am appealed TO by many kind-hearte persons
whose sympathies have very naturally been aroused
| In behalf OF the poor ow-shovellers who have
had TO wait so long for the few dollars coming TO
them for their chance work. | am implored to
that they are paid more promptly. This cannot be
done The formalities necessary to be gone through
with take time. Even the regular force OF the de-
nsrtnent has to wait six days for its payros 10
he made out properly audited at the Controllers
office and paid by the city Paymaster In the
of the irregular force OF snow -shovelers. the
| average time OF delay is eight days and this
| probably cannot be made less.
Many Of these men earn only one days pay-S2-
| and the average of the last four days OF January
was only IS &c. For this pttance the oo2s men who
had earned II had TO stand around In The cold
and wet waiting day after day TO get their money
! II was not possible for either the Department OF
| Street Cleaning the Department OF FINANCE 10
| prevent this hard necessity .,,... =,
| The fault lies entirely at the door OF lhDof, OF
the only aristocracy In our social organization. OF
ignorant cruel and heartlesH cor glomeralion or
designing and well-pad blatnerskitcs ana thet TOOL
| ish dupes who have been petted by sentmentallsts
and codded by politicians until they assume the
right TO grind the faces OF the poor ANA who make
| the ordinary workingman slave ,,
in the face OF an organized vote these poor snow
| shovellers could have worked for contractors who
would have done the city much better service than
| we have been able TO render, and for much less
| money. They would have received 81 90 a day.
Under the present plan counting the time spent In
| coming TO get their money they have not
directly owing to the part that .abor' has played
In legislation, restricting the rights Of workingmen