New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-28
wAR1NG AND THE WEST SIDERS.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE WEST END Ao0O
CITATION ON THE CONTROVERSY ONHH
THE REMOVAL OF ASHES.

Cvrus Clark president of the West End ASso0''
tion has sent the following letter to Mayor o',os
REGARDING the troubles which have arisen over ~
mel Warnings refusal TO remove promptly as"eS anu
garbage from the section where members u '"' q"
ISOLATION live: $1,000 ,.or,,or
u,i,b Won unon the question of removing the aShes
ETC. by Colonel WARNS from the Mtse mistakes in
Interviews and in order to be certain whetned yo o
were correctly reporeoo Of the interview was cor
rect In this interview you state that te 49, i"
citizens ARE stiff necked rh anu ~ YOUR asser-
ton but il true you were our compamtVGm a rn
Tors viii name the several occurrences IN the'
oI E,,1vbon Won attended the meetings OF mo
ppard 81 E"timste and Apporonment by invitation
NJ the then retiring administrator OF Mayor His ;
and when the Board haFaE up was to
governed one os those meetings j. was SdtonsI
allowance of $4,000 account OF the ezra i
of transporting the ashes etc To h the dump on
Riverside Drive and Park and West ven I'M Oh
st. This appropriation was passem iye RAJ il
lection on Your part, and yet nrmiy peiene 10 no
YOU had raised the slightest objection y woa ,e yes
have had a single vote in the Board oi'e"'' e'''
Gsecond-when you into power counsel a
the Wsst End A sSoye aiM we're restrict
sh d Rom a dump I we'll remember a committee 81
the West End hs BILL S At that time You
stated that YOU were entirely opposed TO any dump
on aRS y ne aid approve bill and refer you
CHAPTER 800 Of the La%s Vest 81 Side citizens ARE
entitled to special privileges" In this YOU are
wrong again We do claim howe N c eqSa PRIZE e
asbes are to be removed in other sections OF me
would INK: you to sGTm m se6 or ySSS cam ps
OF law whereby either Of you can designate from pn
which portion Of n S%r e bo nf OF to
taken this responsibility and that too, without any
aHd they w Ss % best
it,. Wrong again. Mr.. Mayor. we want our Ssn ,s
na ,Re over awarded the
Cleaning Department. To do anything else Is an
u"}u asked Colonel Warning the question. which he
has not yet answered. by what authority OF law ne
could remove the ashes from below Seventieth-st.
and moi above ask you a similar question only one
more simple: Why should AS ashes be taken ana
not BIS? or the reverse?
since began this letter have received a COM
munioation from taxpayer VINO not onIy resu i.s
the West Side but rs oa b aw firms
1t so entirely corresponds with my own views 'ha'
The city OF New-York adopted different plan
with respect the laying out and Improvement OF
this section of the city from that adopted IN any
other part OF the city, particularly IN TINS respect
that It set apart waterfront on the North River
for public park laid out drive adjoining nus
| mark which park and drive were so constructed at
a very large expense both to the city ana the ad-
jacent property Owners. Relying upon the fact
that property adjacent to the river froned upon a
park people have been invited to make and have
| made very expensive improvements. differing en-
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any other section of the city. The waterfront
south OF and on the entire front
OF the East River to the end of the island has been
devoted TO manufactures and commerce. and a dock
more or less a nuisance more or less could make
! no possible difference. In the section north of
Seyenty -second-st. have the actual experience
NJ , dunn at the foot of Seventy nnth-s IL filed
that street from the Boulevard to the river. with
| melancholy procession Of dirty carts. and II the
least wind were stirring with an insufferable cloud
| Of dust and during tne warm weather creating
| most noxious and unwholesone odors the latter
| principally from garbage. The people OF the West
Side are not acuated by selfish interests In oppos-
| Ing the allowance OF an ash dump at the end Of
eithcr Seyenty-ninth or Ninety th-st., except In
cidentally for where they have laid out large sums
NJ money I'm buying property adjacent TO park
they would naturally think themselves entitled &c
projection against nuisances. We thoroughly APP
nreciate Colonel Warnings difficulties. but think
that they are not difficult to overcome as hi
seems to think. The increased expense of hauling
the ashes to other places south of Riverside Park
we are informed would not exceed 10000. Neither
the Mayor nor any OF our citizens should be AYERS,
To this small expense or even larger one, should
II be required to protect that part OF the city IRON
nusances. .,, -, . . .
''The whole system of gathering ashes s OF The
most primitive character; the high carts. holding
hut little ashes and involving "A great strain o
labor upon the men who gather them In liftinl
them from the ground. are as little adapted as pos
able TO the nature Of the work. We are quite sur