New-York tribune., 1901-10-27
NAGLE'S WAYS ARRAIGNED
A SANITARY ENGINEER SHOWS THE IN
EFFICIENCY AND wASTEFULNESS
OF THE STREET CLEANING
MANAGEMENT.

THE Street Cleaning Department of New
York City Under Tammany Administration by
w. F. Morse, sanitary engineer. is the SUBJECT
of interesting article which recently ap-
peared in The New-York Vigilant" This COM
mentary. prepared by expert, protests In no
uncertain tone against the present Nagle regime
Colonel Morse pays particular attention 10 Ihe
disposal of city garbage. He says IN part:
The expendit lres of the Street Department under
Tammany administration, beginning in 1885 for the
bOrOughs of Manhattan and The Bronx, on tne
movai'. Was for 1900 Ss$72 23S g. The total per-
centage Of increase for the three ge55 With the
three pervious years of reform administration:
10000 which by the end of this year will be
$Z5oQ0 appropriated and spent over the a4uiI p,
actually necessary to maintain the department III
Where has this money gone. and what is there to
show for it? What advances have been made and
secured? Are the streets cleaner are tSEs IneE and
money and labor saving appliances and devices tnai
conrn9 WbeIe has Vanished the spirit OF iscip
line and hearty cooperation OF the rank ana HIe
aid WI Was recognized by every one. Deen suppressed
and abandoned? What has become of the steel @
valuable pant built at RiKers Island to unload
the ashes and & & a of anS 81 9e @ hat paid
the city 81 10 for every ton of refuse hande0
and IN danGe Of the NV NV as as Re Death Rate Of
the city gone back from 1900 WnCh was ooS Ine leOo
III 1887 to 2i5 thousand In october' Yi dsoi for I,
The answer to these QueSlOIS ~ IOA O.
to read-"it is Tammany working for its own
p9TSG, 2n m j5te ' interview Commissioner Nagle is
ported as having said: Il have followed Warlns
So he has-but in the contrary direction HI, He
has gone backward Warnings work and VII VII
same inefficient, i'll equipped and demorahzed con.
diton that it was when Waring began MS WORK ot
1t viii interesting bring together the yarious
items of expenditures made by the Street Cleaning
absolute loss to the city has resulted 49,, ,-o,
| York Sanitary Utilization Company for hve months'
| Loss on overpayments for inefficient garbage
crematories in Queens and Richmond and operation
! of same for one year, $4,000.
Loss disposition of ashes and street weepings
by overpayments on day to day contracts. $leoVn
| haitian and The Bronx for one year. $4,000
over S to on tbe sans
| Loss ground filled with city waste for bsneht
spprox xinateiy $4,000 which if deposited ikers
Island would make sixty-fve acres of land esti-
mated to be worth $115,OO
| Total approximate yearly expenditures over
necessary amount required to maintain effcient
| In four years this will have amounted TO some
the payment Of S$o9eo for increase in the garbage
| contract for Manhatta and a proportonate in
crease IN ErooAlyn that may De eNpectee- anu
which II awarded on the conditions of the Man
l venture 10 predict the recovery from the sale
OF refuse material Of at least onehalf the cost OF
In the last & four years OF its control the peoart
spent the largest amount of money with the least
efrectual results and made corrupt deals for
the benefit Of the Tammany machine than any
other OF the city bureaus beginning In 1898 with
the inheritance OF well organized and thoroughly
equipped service. with labor and money saving de-
vices and apparatus in running order with plans
ana purposes well defined for carrying on a prac-
teal and successful line OF work in an honest and
economical way, now at the end of four years as
tho result OF Incompetent mana cement and com
piete surrender 10 the machine politicians the
partment Is III a position of absolute contempt
Every one OF the means established for saving
time ard money has been abandoned: the payrolls
are Nlled with the names OF political henChmen
the streets are dirty and crowded with incum-
orances. the steel dumping boards built for the
department have been sold for old Junk: the refss
disposal station has been abandoned: the steam
dumping boats have been thrown and are rust
ing from dlSuse: a corrupt combination with indi-
Nldual contractors ana corporations by which the
city pays double prices for its work Some parts OF
m" years appropriations even now exhausted
tons FOR next year.