Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-03
WANT STREETS
KEPT CLEANER.
New York Sun and Elizabeth
Times Discuss The
Subject.
The Elizabeth Times says;

The Elizabeth Times says;
The Evening SIM, commenting up
on the extreme care applied in modern
cities to insure freedom from microbes
and other disease breeding organisms,
calls to the attention of its readers an
exception in one important particular;
an exception which is as glazing as it
is, without q doubt, responsible for
many of the evils to which the human
flesh is heir or, rather, easily absorbs
to itself. eff we hated the Prince OF
All Evil as much as we hate dust the
oretically,' n y the Sun, ''all would
be we'll with us" Then the writer of
the Sun article proceeds to show that
while the people of New York ''shud-
der Mt the dangers hat Turk in badly
managed barber establishments, in
dirty money, in the clothes stitched in
sweatshops," they do not seem to
have the least appreciation of the ex-
tent of the dangers to which they are
subjecting themselves because of the
prevalence of dirty, dusty, germ-laden
| streets in the metropolis.
All of the above gently reminds US
that the principal ~thoroughfare in the
city of Elizabeth are not, particular
ly at the present time, models OF
| cleanliness, MOI evidence Of our belief
in twentieth century methods of
sanitation. 1t is true that our street
cleaning force is entirely inadequate
to the task of keeping this city any
where nearly as clean as it ought to
he. The city's income is not large
enough to warrant a larger appropria-
| tion for street cleaning, except at the
expense of some other department,
say the members of the local council,
who are annually and throughout the
year at short intervals, very much
! embarrassed i'll their efforts to distri-
butte the items of the budget in order
to maintain q happy proportion
among them all 1t seems, however,
| TINT tho importance of clean streets
has not been fully realized in past ap-
portionments of tho local municipal
fund.
AS a matter of fact, clean aud we'll
kept streets arc as necessary to a COM
munity as a first class sewer system.
1t Is moro important to have the city's
streets in good condition than to en-
JOY the advantages of first class
schools, sufficiently c%ommodious to
accommodate all of school age. The
prevalence of dust in the streets has
been convincingly proven to be the
cause of many cases of lung troubles
and kindred diseases, and the health
of the residents Of any community
nnquestionably demands first atten-
ton on the part of those to whom has
been entrusted the grave responsibility
of expanding the taxpayers contribu-
tions to the maintenance of Il o
various department of Il populous city.
The City Council will, in the course
of q month, have again To deal with
this problem of app~ortioning the
city's income. 1t is to be trusted
that the question of street Gle aiming
will be given more thorough con-
sideration than it has been heretofore.
1t will cost not a little to reduce the
number and the gravity of the
dangers with which we have now to
contend because of the dirtiness of
the streets in Elizabeth, and it maybe
necessary to keep down other appro-
priations in order to provide sufficient
funds where with to do tins work in a
somewhat more satisfactory manner
than is the case at the present time.
But the results will meet with uni.
versal approval.