The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-07
WHERE ARE THEY, BYRNE 5?
Your Men Haven't Done
Much Cleaning Of
Late.

The residents of the Heights are up in
arms against Henry Byrne, who has
again secured the street cleaning and gar
bage collecting contracts. They. feel that
they have been shamefully neglected of
late, both in regard to the cleaning OF
streets and the collecting of refuse. A
dozen indignant citizens have appealed to
the police of the Communipaw avenue
station within the past few days, seek
ing relief from the present dsgraceful
state of affairs.
Heretofore it has been customary for
the ashmen to go about Tuesdays and
Fridays. One week ago today garbage
was collected on the Heights in the Ber-
gen section and since then no ash cart
has been visible on the hilltop. The
citizens are simply wild over the condition
of affairs. They speak of petitioning the
Street and Water Board for relief, asking
the Board to compel the contractor to do
his duty to the public.
Many hundreds of barrels, boxes and
pals are visible on every street in the
Bergen section to ornament the sidewalks
and dwellings. These are filed to over
flowing. The residents have no relief.
They have no other places to put the re-
fuse and ashes. In front of some houses
there are as many as half a dozen barrels
and boxes.
Ocean avenue, just this side of the
bridge of the Newark and New York
Branch of the Central Railroad, is lit
tered with refuse from the barrels that
have been allowed to remain on the
streets for over week. Wagons in pass
ha harr oil n
the results are provoking to the residents
The condition of Ocean avenue in this
particular section leads up to the ques-
ton of the condition that all the streets
of the Bergen secion are in.
Bergen avenue, for instance, one of the
principal thoroughfares of the Heights,
may be taken as a sample of what the
other streets are like. Mud and leaves
actually cover the pavement in places for
distances of many feet. At the intersec-
ton of every street, from Bergen Square
to the Greenville line, piles of debris can
be seen lying in the cutters. Some of
these heaps of refuse are in instances a
foot high and form a circle covering ten
feet of the pavement. There is scarcely
a sewer basin along the whole street that
is not plugged up with leaves and dirt.
AS a result of this terrible state of af-
fairs all the crossing were flooded in the
storm of few days ago. At Kensngton
avenue small bridge of planks was
built to enable passage at that point. 1t
is possible to go on naming and describ-
ing street after street where the same
filth may be seen lying about as an eye
sore to the public. Monticello avenue,
another of the most prominent streets, is
sight to behold, and all the intersecting
streets are in the same deplorable condi-
tion.
Lafayette streets are subjects for more
adverse criticism. Street cleaners are
unknown there. Some people will swear
that they have seen no street cleaners in
months. All of the Lafayette streets are
alike in filthiness. The residents are de-
termined that unless something is soon
done to better the system of street clean
ing they will appeal to the proper au-
thorities to receive the much needed re-
lief.