The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-11
WATER NEEDED.
Streets Should Be Sprinkled
Before Cleaning Says
Mrs. Whitney.
RESIDENTS COMPLAIN
When Sweepers Raise Dust
Work Is Not Done
Thoroughly.

"Mr. Byrne must have had a regular
| picnic before the club women got after
| him. remarked Mrs. rankin Whitney OF
No. 37 Fairview avenue, this morning,
when interviewed ON town Improvement
by d News reporter, and she then went
on to note the vast Improvement in the
city since the women tok hold of the
street cleaning, even without a larger ap-
preparation.
why just see all we rave done" con-
tinued she. ssWhen we started ! said l
should be satisfied with good results IN a
year and scarcely two months had passed
before there was a marked improve
ment. / am very well satisfied, and every
body is just as kind and courteous as he
can be.
Mrs. Whitney Is chairman of the Ninth
Ward and has as her assistants Mrs
Joseph Warren, Mrs. Theodore Gubelrnan,
Mrs. e. w. Newbury. Mrs. Marcus Hig-
einpotham, Miss E.. Edwards, Miss FL
mendorf. Miss Perine, Miss G. Bushfield,
Mrs. D.. e. Van Wrinkle and Mrs. Garick.
All Of whom of course reside in the
Ninth Ward.
Mrs. Whitney said she was well salts
fed with the way the men did their Work,
but thought the streets should be swept
more often. She also thought they should
be sprinkled before the sweeping began
You see,' said she, IF the men sweep
too hard they are apt to raise such a
dust that the residents complain, and
this causes carelessness on the part OF
the men, whereas If the streets were first
sprinkled there would be no fear Of dust
7 4lsA1x -,raa~ 4ho frrpmSfanpp thew DO
the best they cam
When asked about the way ash barrels
were emptied, Mrs. Whitney said that If
people would only stop putting papers IN
the barrels there would be less trouble.
Even when they are well covered with
ashes they are not apt to stay that way
for along comes an italian ragpicker and
goes picking about, burning everything up
side down in the barrel, and the papers fly
all over. Or if the ragpicker does not
appear the papers are apt to fly when the
barrels are emptied. We have a great
deal Of trouble from this
what plan have you adopted with re-
gard to eirculars?s was asked.
WELL" said Mrs. Whitney, whenever
/ see q man throwing about circulars |
ask him if he is aware it is against the
law. and take particular pains to get the
name and address of the firm issuing the
circulars. Then 1 tell. him if he wants
to distribute the circulars he must ring
the bell Of each house and hand the
circular in at the door. Sometimes ! get
a curt reply and sometimes they listen to
me-"
There has been some complaints from
"a H. f, ~ = \ n~r.. Tnnpro4amanf qG
to the way the pledge cards were re-
ceived, and Mrs. Whitney was next ask
ed what success she had with them.
"There is everything" said she, lin the
way you approach a person. I do not go
to a place HI it looks dirty, but to the
better residences where the owners
already appear to take an interest in town
Improvement, ask them to take a still
greater interest and try to interest their
neighbors. In nearly every instance I
have had grand success with nc trouble in
getting the cards signed. If you approach
he tenants Of a dirty looking place the
people are apt to be sensitive and him
you have come to find fault. In one
place / approached, a baker shop, I was
told, I'VE keep our place as clean as
n Z in an Offended tone. OF course ex-
planned that was not the idea. 1t was a
movement to improve the city and not to
find with the individual"
Mrs. Whitney further said she thought
the women were doing a wonderful work
and had Vt not been for them the city
would have been very much more uncom-
Portable during the present long drought.
She also said the Town Improvement We're
going to see if something could not be
done about sprinkling the streets,
though added she, II suppose for that
we will have to have more money. You
know the women have asked that the APP
preparation be doubled. Mrs. Whitney is
another member of the Town Improve
ment who does not intend to leave the
city all summer.