New-York tribune., 1907-06-29
CLEt MING 10 GARBAGE
DARLINGTON CALLED IN.
Mayor Orders Health Department
to DO Craren's York.

street Cleaning Commissioner Craven when it
was learned that the Mayor had ordered the
Health Department 10 clean the city of its ac-
curlulated garbage, acting over Mr. Craven's
head Although Commissioner Craven at the
last minute, told the Mayor that the men We're
coming back to work. the Mayors order stands
Dr. Walter Bensel assistant sanitary superin-
tendent OF the Health Department. who will be
come sanitary superintendent on July /. was
appointed 10 take full charge OF the removing
cf the garbage Work was begun last night re-
moving The heaps Of garbage that have become
menace TO the health of the crowded districts
Commissioner Darlington said last night that
although he had several very important appoint
Tnents on hand he was not going to keep them,
but would oversee the removing of the garbage.
! expect to be the until late in the
night said the Commissioner and I don't pro-
pose to stop until everything has begun in a
satisfactory way. We mean business, and the
strictest discipline viii be used as though We
were the Street Cleaning Department It Is the
Mayors orders, and they will be carried out 10
the dot l hope that The city will be rid Of the
garbage in two days. The men will be made to
work hard day and night until every scrap is
removed.
We have got TO do the work and we do
ing it The situation brooks delay. and
are sparing neither time expense in straight
enlng out the situation. Under the provisions
of the charter Sections l1I7 and HIS, the
Health Department is empowered TO go ahead
with emergency work, with the consent OF the
Mayor, and to spend, if necessary. much
$4,000. do not anticipate that we shall spend
THAT sum, but We shall spend whatever is neCes-
sary remedy the situation"
Dr. Darlington said that there were fifty la
horers employed in the Kingston Avenue Hos
pital. BROOKLYN the Willard Parker Hospital. at
10th street and East River, and the Riverside
Hospital, on North Brother Island, who had
been requested to take the places of strikers in
removing garbage. but they had refused TO do
in lie
charged.
I fired them said Commissioner Darling
ton because : wouldn't stand for their non
sense. Their alleged sympathy for the strikers
I could not appreciate, and they would be
worked no harder than at their regular work.
They are gone"
DR.. DARLINGTON DETERMINED.
This situaton said DR.. Darlington. has
been put squarely up 10 the Health Department
and it is matter that concerns the health Of
the city and intend to let nothing interfere with
the complete solution of the trouble We have
got 10 clean up the city. We are going 10 do it,
and We shall finish the job The police are Civ
ing US splendid aid and I do not anticipate but
that we viii have the situation we'll in hand in
another day" {
In speaking about the status Of the strikers
DR. Darlington called attention TO the fact that
to-day the men would have been out five days.
without leave. and that under the Civil Service
their connection with the department. and they
therefore forfeited all right to Civil Service
protection.
So" said Dr. Darlington, Commissioner
Craven can appoint any from any new
list he sees fit take the place OF the strikers
after tomorrow"
DR.. Bensel put his clerks 70 work yesterday to
get in communication with as many contractors
IS possible and get all the drivers and shovelers
available TO report ar the various stations %
The Street Cleaning Department. Or Bensel
said that within four hours after receiving his
orders from the Mayor he expected TO have
several hundred drivers and shoveIlers ready for
work ! made a canvass Of the city all day
yesterday and the day before" said DR. Bensel
and I found the streets in an awful state. on
the East Side the conditions were fearful. but
going through Little, italy. up in Harlem. be
tween Josh and 120th streets. the conditions
vera beyond description
God help the man who interferes with my
work ! am going 70 have this mass Of gar
hage removed in less than TWO DAYS. L VIII be
50 arranged that the men VIII work both day
and night. In addition 70 the police reserves
Va have our own force of sixty-ffve men. who
viii take care Of my men. If necessary. the
Health Department officers viii ride on the carts
with the drivers
The carts viii in taking away the
garbage will be taken from the Street Cleaning
Departments stables. regardless Of any orders
from the department superintendents or fore
men l am in full charge Of this work and will
give all orders necessary.
we shall first tackle the East Side The
garbage viii be taken to the Clinton. Stanton
and 10Th street dumps. II will have 10 90 out
10 sea II has become SO mixed with other ma
terial such as paper. ashes and old clothing
that It will not get into the hands Of the Naw
York Sanitary Utilization Conpanv's disposal
plant II has TO be got rid Of Immediately.
II is fast rotting from the sun. If If stays on
the street another day germs win spread: then
there viii be trouble among the hundreds of
thousands of families both the East Side and
in the upper Italian colonies.
Those who viii assist me in experimenting
the work viii be Drs. A. Blauvelt and Russell
Rayn0r, who viii be at the stables. OF course.
Deputy Commissioner Edwards will do every
are concerned. I viii say fhis II they run afoul
Of US or interfere with US in any way they will
get hell"
Whether Commissioner Craven was in the
Mayors Office at the time the Mayor and Com
missioner Darlington were in consultation it
could not be learned. Mr. Craven had seen
the Mayor some time during yesterday after
noon, and when he left the hall he refused 10
say anything
Commissioner Craven and his deputy Com
missioner Edwards, We're out throughout the
city in the morning making an effort to SET
Tie the strike among the drivers The situation
had become serious that A meeting vac boi5
OF the East siders Yesterday AT Clinton Han
on Clinton street DR.. David Rlausteip of tbn
Educational Alliance, sent letter 10 the MAJOR
about the garbage on the East Side and presi
dent Schwartz of the Pushcart Pedler'e Aeso
citation. and a delegation were at City nm
yesterday asking the Mayor to find some rom
edy.
MANY SMALL RIOTS.
All kinds Of trouble started vesterd,,. nh.
Commissioner Craven called upon the Rerqofs