New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-11

witness ha. recorded that "he corn growing
on the present corner Of Hammond West
Eleventh) and Fourth SITS. on Saturday morn
ing. and on the following Monday Nibo & sykes
had a house erected capable of accommodating
:,no boarders" This shows how quickly the
citizens could move whom the fear of dread
disease was on their heels. 1t is surprising ina.
such an institution as the butchers procession
should have persisted into the tWenties. buy
New-York could be as backward then as she
can no now Just as 40 allowed Tammahy
camp followers to run riot in our streets "nue,
the pretence Of cleaning the latter, until Coiohei
Warning took the matter in hand, so the New
Workers Of 1922 and whereabouts abandoned the
cleaning Of th-r thoroughfares to roaihihs
swine Says Mr.. Haswcll:
.Hogs were permitted still to run at large w
the streets, although the practice was opJec'e"
To BY most OF the citizens, and the lreaue"'
notifying references thereto OF Boston anu
Philadelphia editors added to tire oppos'''""'
yet the common opinion that the hogs were '"e
best scavengers supported for many years a'"''
the indifference to the practice sht wn ny tue
Common Council. In support Of this Mac'o"' "
ia 10 he considered that at this period all gar
base and refuse matter from dwellings, was
thrown into the street. Some years after u5-O'
an ordinance Of the Common Council authorized
the furnishing and equipment Of cart ana
operators to arrest swine In the streets fne ""-
vent of the cart ard the endeavor to arrest 'He
swine were attended with such forcibe oppo-f
ton 10y men and boys. that the ordinance hs''s-
sarily became II dead letter. until the aiio"
proprc Of our citizens, despite the appropriately
of the cart was aroused, the enOrWity VI '"e
nrac,ice was realized. and swim, were removed
from the streets
This epsode concsely illustrates VIVA, has been
said above concerning the hyhridify ol Ne"
York nrior TO the Civil Wa. The little note
carries MS only so far as 1925, in MIR. HasWeIls
narrative. but AL through the book he reveals
sim;lar conflict in the city between the first-rate
WAYS Of progress, and the dolefui compromises
~ an ora in which uarauding pigs could be re-
carded az aids to public cleanliness. Manners
take \ long time TO develop. aud Mr.. Haswell sur
veycd a state Of society in his youth whicn Wa
,vould like to think of as belonging to time
much further back than man stu living cou'u
remember Passing up Broadway. he writes.
Gin tho winter of 1S2J-2G at the northern corner
of vesey-st witnessed. in great part, the fol-
lowing scene: At this period and for many years
after until the street was severed, ell the sur
face water from the park ran over depression
across Broadway and down Vesey-s;., and. as
q result the gutter during heavy rain or tha"
would be knee deer involving the use or q poaro
to bridge IT, At this time the gutter was run
ming very full from the effects or tha"' ana
man well dressed ana # presentabie appear
ance had dragged a chinchll.a hat from OF the
head Of q negress stamped on II. and then thre"
4, INFO the gutter where it was rapidly porhe
down the street. Upon being questioned why ne
hid done II. he replied I have just paid Slo
for a chinchilla hat for my sister, and don't
mean that any nigger-wcnch shall year one IKE
H. while | know it,
II would be diverting to 80 on guoths lro'i'
MIR Haywcll's book, for II has scarcely page
an which some such interesting II cident as the
above Is not described The volume Is perfect
mine of Geographical Information. IL mas soH"-
ching IN say about innumerabie landmarks
about the streets and their names a"ou' re'.'"
rants and places Of amusement noted III the'
day abo,;t the thousand and one things "hich
gave New-York its physoSnomy, about tue
thousand and one celebrities who were promi-
nan, T., the making Of the city. But the WORK 's
too .pcvcl,paedic too miscellaneous, tn De eA-
,.nrlvciv cited or even consecutively analysed
II IL 4 book To dip into; one moreover III WING"
the casual reader will never ran l" n"o s'"'
thing worth having paused 10 sean. Inc Illus
,ra,ions are numerous well chosen, and wen
cxecuted To the older generation pictures M"
,.x, viii recall much that II has wei nlxh Tor
,o,tcn and to the Younger public 1t offers STORE
az anecdotes as Instructive az II ~ an'us''s'