New-York tribune., 1907-07-02

stroers just off Fifth avenue. o. in any other of
The better residential streets Of the city, have
moi beer offended by the sighl OF unremoved
garbage. They have not escaped the smell al
together however. There is not a car line in
The city that does not pass through. in some
part of its route. section where the good old
fashioned way Of plng the garbage in a tin
can prevails When the persons Of delicate
sensh1ies ran into one Of these sections yes
terday in an open trolley car they had some
pretty rude shocks.
There plenty Of alarmists to be found
Rll day, and while the situation was grave
enough not 10 need any exagseration. there were
plenty Of persons who seemed to take delight in
trying to frighten every one. One point
raised by Dr. Crump. of the New York Uni
versity medical faculty. He called attention 10
the warnings of the Health Department and the
various anti tuberculosis societies regarding the
disposition Of the sputum OF consumptiyes.
They have been advised TO eXpectorate into
newspapers and then to wrap the newspapers up
and dispose Of them with the garbage This ad
vice has been generally followed in many lung
block, and DR. Crump pointed out that grave
danger lurked in the bundles Of newspapers
The eXpedients to ameorate conditions were
numerous and varied Most useful and most
general, of course the attempts Of the
Health Department physicians 10 disnfect the
piles Of refuse with hromine which carried
about the streets under police guard in swift
automobiles and sprayed on the garbage. Down
III Pearl street the wholesale tobacco merchants
went to the rescue of their neighbors and the
air was filed after a few hours Of the
durable stencil Of the garbage, with the far more
aromatic oGor Of burning waste tobacco leaves.
As the day wore on the method Of incineratiOn
became popular all along the East side. The
children had q lot fun.
There have been all sorts of criticism Of Com
missioner Craven even since he succeeded Wood
bury His friends declare that seldom has
4 man in any city worked 3arder more
bravely, under the most trying Of all imagt-
nahle situations than Nj Craven has since last
Tuesday. The Commissioner arose from what
many OF his friends feared was 10 he his death
bed TO face the crisis and he has worked over
since, without rest or sleep without proper time
Tor food and absolutely without regard for him.
self
Many Of the amateur critics Of the department
have been complaining that football player has
been brought slto it to do its work. Bill" Ed
wards. the mighty target for this shaft of
sarcasm, was football player when he at
Princeton. and mighty good one. He led al
least one team that heat Yale, and he over
flowed in a chair built for an ordinary sized
man al the 18th street stables yesterday he
mopped his streaming brow and remarked.
Well, this Is certainly the most strenuous
against Yale"
That's the way Mr. Edwards has gone into his
work He has put into IL all the enthusiasm Of
his college days and he makes up in popularity
and power Of attraction for all that his chief to
whom he is extremely loyal lacks No one who
saw the big man in the gray suit running things
al Stable 4 has a word 10 say against his
ability.
There was n story yesterday that the Park
Department employees who had been ordered by
Commissioner Herman 20 90 20 the help Of the
Health Department had refused 10 do SO. Never
theless there were at least fifty at work at Stable
A and they did good work in getting out the
40 carts sent cut there during the morning
The number Of carts sent out from the other
stables varied. From Stable G. in Hamilton
street. forty-four went The strikers down
there undertook TO prevent the carts from
going out. Apparently they didn't know that
they were in Inspector BuTfiends district. The
inspector soon restored peace, and FOR the rest
Of the day things were as peaceful as in the
district further UP. where Inspector Burns and
Captain McDermott had enough police on hand
10 make the section look like city under
tial law
From Stables Z. in West 18th street; H, in
East 4Sth street, ana T, in East S0th street not
a cart was sent out: Stable d, in East 10th
street sent out thirty. and at Stable nearly a
hundred carts Were at work.
Up in Harlem Miss Eleanor Neapotain be-
came annoyed at the filing Of the carts at the
East 11Gth street stables. So Dr. Bensel
went by a tenement house in which she had
found an empty room, she !ct fly at him one Of
basketload Of bricks she had gathered. She
didn't hit him, but she arrested just the
same and Magistrate Whitman fined her 50