New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-01
RETURN OF COMMISSIONER WEARING.
HIS TRIP NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF s'HrHi
CLEANING IN EUROPEAN CITIES.

HIS TRIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF 9'HhH'
CLEANING IN EUROPEAN CITIES.
The two tugs that went down the Bay on tues
day afternoon to meet the North German lazy"
liner Ems, with Colonel George r. "ar'.' 80
Commissioner Of Street Cleaning, on poaro' n.
rather hard time Of 1t. The Ems. on account Vi ''e
fog. did not run within sight Of Fire Island pre-
ferring to keep away from the shore ana SO sac vac
not sighted there. She reached the Lower Bay anu
anchored there early in the evening. bu' inc 0usS
did not find her. and so they cruised aUous an ms"
The Daniel s. Lamont. the tug OF the '''o'
Of the Harbor. with a number OF ING ~ ~
officials met the Ems at her pier yesterday "oi'
ing and took Colonel and Mrs. Warning across lhe
river to Seventeenth-st The other tug, belonging ~
the Mutual Company also followed the Ems up the
Raw having on board a number OF employees iro"
the various divisions of the Department
Colonel Warning reached his office yesterday AFTER
noon about 3 o'clock. and was warmly greeted u!
the men employed there. When seen by 'riou"e
reporter In regard to his trip he said: my vacation
has been a most pleasant one and the iatler par.
NJ I, combined business with pleasure. sailed
from Hoboken on the Fulda on July =. ana iahoeu
at Genoa. l stayed there for day. ana theh III!
wife and took cycling trip through the Iyro
We began our trip by wheel at Lake Como anu
made our way from there 20 the Engadine where
we passed pleasant month. The trip was made
through the valley districts of the 'Tyroi ana the
mountain steeps were impossible for wheels on
account Of the snow and ice. think that the coun-
try roads are the best Of their kind that have ever
ION August IS started on my tour of Inspection
and visited Vienna, Munich Berlin. Hanover CO.
logne Brussels, Birmingham, London. Paris, Iurih
and Genoa, from which port sailed on September
IT, l had one day In Naples on the way home. VI
all the European cities that saw. Cologne ana
Turin were the cleanest No two OF the cities that
/ inspected there have the same system, and no
one of the systems employed would do for the
cleansing Of our great city But | have brought
home with me a number of ideas, which are not
yet arranged sufficiently for TO say what, II any,
of the methods employed there will be used IN my
Department. Paris is clean city, but there IS
great deal of paper flying about None or the Eu-
ropean cities pay much We do. In Genoa the
men receive 40 cents day. while the men doing the
same work in New-iprk receive 81 a day DO not
know much about the current issues at stake now
over here but will say that whenever had gold
money In my pocket. no matter from what country
IL came, had no trouble but when had any silver
money had be careful to rid myself OF 1t before
left the boundaries of the country 10 which II be-
longed."
a reception given to Colonel Warng In the
main Office Of the Department about O'Clock yes
terday afternoon by the children who are members
of the two leagues instituted by him 10 help In
keeping the streets of the lower East Side clean.
Short speeches made by three OF the children.
and a huge horseshoe and a basket of flowers were
presented to the Commissioner.