The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-25

big POiack woman on SUSSEX street. lAe
woman on all other occasions could hold
a conversation, but when the officer told
her that she must keep the street in front
of her place clean she forgot all she ever
knew about the English language NC
| Gurk tried to explain to the woman what
he meant, but he failed. Al the woman
could say was:-
Il know mott
MeGurk did his utmost to make the
woman understand what he was saying
and finally was forced in desperation to
given her a graceful illustration by Selling
a broom from the corner of the store ana
sweeping the gutter.
Much Obliged" said the woman, to-
morrow you come again" and she
straightway went and told her friends
that the police would in future clean the
street for householders-
Michael Oxley, whose hair has begun
to turn white since he has had to wrestle
with foreigners in the lower section OF the
city. experienced much the same diff
Guilty. The greatest trouble the police
men lave is to get s~torekeepers to refrain
from putting paper and excelsior in the
ash barrels.
Tom Barry. of the Seventh street sta
ton, was busy all day yesterday notify
ing fruit stand men on Coles street, and
Maxwell has been having his hands full
in the dirty Jewish quarter on Henderson
street.
Detective Michael Clark has founds sew
eral violators of the ordinance, most Of
them living at the top of a fenement
house. Clarkels a big man, not very tall,
but very stout, and when he COMPLETED
several rounds the other day, he was all
but s'out,, and putting like a porpoise. To
look at him you would think it was a hot
day in July.
Another member of the Seventh Street
Station to experience much difficulty in
reaching the top floor of tenenents is
Thomas Barry. Barry is about the heav-
lest man in the precinct, and after COM
pleting his work attending to the new law
the other day he looked like a drowned
rat and was obliged to get a leave OF a6-
sence from Captain Kelly to go home to
take a path and change his clothes.
Patrol Driver Thomas Dooley, hoping to
make a record for himself, started out on
an inspection tour. He visited Cork
Row and the tenement in that vicinity,
where many of the old women have
known him from boyhood. When he COM
planned to them, h was rebuked for his
trouble. They told him that he would do
better if he drove an ash cart instead OF
interfering with wornen's work.
Tom was glad to get out of the neigh
borhood alive. He said he would surely
get out an insurance policy before he
undertook another job of the kind.
- -N1;oa-.a1 af tho Cnn1-
munipaw avenue station, had experiences
a few lays ago, and both swore that
sooner than go through a repetition they
would throw up their jobs.
.Who's responsible for this activity in
the street cleaning business" said one
when interogated by a 1News" reporter
relative to his experiences in notifying
residents to clean their streets. Say, L
was up against the %stiffest sort of a
game" he said, when 1 dropped into a
house on Garden avenue
q Hum said a woman who answered
my knock, so you want us to get out and
clean the streets now. Well I just won't
do it. You have street cleaners. but good
ness me, they never call around. We pay
our taxes and we dom propose to go out
and shovel dirt out of the street.
That's Just what she told me" said
the copper. Now after an experience of
that sort 1 was just a trifie backward in
meeting such tartars a second time.
Others I saw were pleasant, semi
pleasant and very angry. However, the
majority of them appeared to be in
sympathy with the new method of clean
ing streets and told me that they would
do all they could to help along the work"
Have they?" asked the reporter.
Say, l refuse to answer such ques-
tions,' was the response.
well, 1 don't know what kind of orders
will be given out later" said another
.tcop," .'but that one about street
cleanin', is a peach. A woman can make
you feel more han miserable in a
minute, when she opens up on you with
her ceaseless flow of chin music. I met
only one of that sort, and she declared
that the police had no right to give resi-
dents instructions about cleaning streets.
She paid taxes, that was enough and she
would not do as she was asked. You bet
I was glad to get away. This woman
lived on Jackson avenue"
According to the police the majority
of the residents of the Greenvi11e section
are heartily in favor of the street clean
ing movement and promise to do all in
| their power to assist the authorities in
obtaining good results. The streets of
Greenville are in a pretty fair condition.
The residents rave always taken an in
terest in the matter. In some instances
property owner have hired men to clean
| certain portions which had been neglected
by the street cleaning department.
Another man to meet with a difficulty,
but of a different nature than which the
officers meet with is Sergeant Finnie.
Several times he has instructed the
officers to meet him at a certain point
on their post and not finding them on
time has endeavored to find his man.
After much searching and climbing up
stairs. he has found his brave knights
of the stick arguing with some offender OF