New-York tribune., 1907-07-01
GARBAGE PILES HIGH.
DOORS INFEST CITY.
Mayor Fears Filth Vii Cause Dis
case IF Strike Doesn't End Soon.

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Of Health. who has taken charge of the ciean-
| ing work it appeared that the piles of garbage
and ashes continued to grow in size all over
town
The danger from disease impressed every one
who had anything 70 do with the great task OF
removal Mayor Mcclellan was at his office all
yesterday afternoon. and had several confer-
ences with Macdonough Craven Commissioners
/ of the Street Cleaning Department and with
commissioner Darlington. Although a few OF
the strikers returned to work and Commissioner
craven had closed a contract with a PhiIadel-
phia employment agency To furnish him with
hfteen hundred men, the prospect OF an imnledi-
ate and thorough cleansing OF the city seemed
TO be far away
Mayor Mcclellan summed up the situation
from the official point of view when he said lust
before leaving his office at o'clock yesterday
afternoon: The work done to-day has been
very gratifying to me. Not so much has been
done as l could wish. but In Chinatown and the
. lower East Side conditions have been improved
am not doctor, but the effects Of this pilins
up OF refuse will be exceedingly bad for the chill
dren. Nobody doubts that To the end that the
danger may be quickly eliminated have insisted
that the heads OF the departments intrusted with
I the work OF removal shall not stop work"
DANGER OF TYPHOID FEVER
Many physicians realized the danger 70 tho
/ city, and among those who predicted much dis
ately was DR.. Edward E. ODonneIl. of No. 80
West 33d street. who is we'll known as a spe-
cialist on typhoid He said that not only may
typhoid follow from the contamination OF water
pipes. but that the odOr of accumulated garbage
had depressing effect upon persons and placed
them in a receptive condition for disease germs
There is a chance Also said Dr. O'DOnnsll,
that typhus fever, sometimes called prison
fever may become epidemic There have been
sporadic cases of it, and about eighty years
ago New York suffered from an epidemic. the
/ typhuS fever being nearly always fatal. Streets
/ filthy with decaying matter in hot weather
/ form Just the condition that prison fever needs
/ in which 10 flourish Why, 1 shouldn't be sur
prised If Asiatic cholera and bubonic plague
/ should follow. for there are many foreigners in
/ the crowded districts. where the garbage stua-
tion is at its worst There will he plenty ot
stomach troubles and it is certain the death rate
| will increase nightly unless the streets are
/ cleaned at once.
/ Dr. L. A. Worran Palmer, editor OF The
| homeopathic Eye, Ear and Throat Journal
| predicted tonsiIitis and bowel diseases. stomach
/ disorders and typhoid TO follow the blowing
/ about of the dust from the drying reIuse- me
/ situation" he said. ''is much more serious than
we care 10 think. The possibilities of an ePi-
/ demic of one sort or another are very sood
must say that we are lucky TO have had COM
! para+ively cool weather. a couple Of hot days.
/ and those plies OF fl,n w tre ag-,
many persons. especially young children
NO CONFERENCE WITH CRAVEN
The strikers did not send their committee to
/ confer with COmmissloner Craven yesterday.
/ The men who returned 10 the stables did 81 as
/ individuals and made no stipulation as TO treat
| ment saying merely that they wanted a J"O-
The strike was still in force, as strongly as eNer'
/ a,d n has begun to look as il the men nave
/ failad 70 be Impressed by the knowledge thac
under the rules they have ceased to be members
| of the department and have gone autoIllatlcaAy
| 10 the foot of the Civil Service list
/ while the crippIed force was doing us pes.
| under the circumstances. there were plenty or
advice and suggestions made TO the oIIlelals- ne
Streets Conference Committee. nlaae Up %
hers of twenty-five civic ORGANIZATIONS piSpo.
/ ., snDeaI TO the Mayor that VIII De preSehteo
TO-DAY In effect the committee ASKS tldS 10
clean the streets without regard 20 Ieu tape OE
precedent Complaints were heard rom a.,
Sources that the police have been too gentle IN
Lo1,51Irer the turbulent strikers who have as
saulted nOn-union drivers.
PAIN HELPS CLEAN STREETS
THO basvv rain of Saturday night had ths
effect of washing away into the sewers parts OF
the garbage heaps. but when New HorAers
axvoxe Yesterday they found their streets do''e.
every half block so with unSlshIT hltlONNs
NI+b In some of the residential seetiohs a.
+,-,+s wore made to cover the stun in barrets'
hut OF, the East Side the cutters were piisu VIZ
= ,,ss that reeled under the warm sun anu
made the town smell like section OF Sarre'
island All day long the carts unaer pollo'
guard carried away the garbage, ana py hshe-
fall TWO hundred loads were TO nave oeeh -
moved from the lower East Slde' lncluuInA ,
chinatown while one hundred more were IeAea
fror, other sections. But the heaps looked al
-,os+ ,,rdiuinished. Seven carts were KEPT
going all morning in Chinatown. and seventeen
were used IN the thickly populated sections OK
Suffolk. Norfolk. Broome and Essex streets
An interesting feature of the situation Is tnss
the bis hotels restaurants and apartment
rO,ses have organized a service OF their, own
T-ha Broadway and upper West Side hotels were
freed from the sufferings OF other sections oy
the use of hired wagons In some cases tenants
of apartment houses dubbed together 70 hire d
man to take away the refuse from their COURT
yards -
POLICE GUARD STRIKE BREAKERS
While the police have been sharply criticised
for failure to impress the strikers or many
of the rioting gangs. there were enough men on
duty Yesterday TO make the street cleaning
stables look like drill sheds There were 1900
policemen on reserve duty and as It happened.
there were no disturbances reported up to a late
hour last night At Stable A. 18th street and
Avenue g. where two men were badly injured
in dghtng on Saturday. Inspector Joseph Burns.
headed 800 patrolmen. The section OF the city
from 18th to 18th streets east of Third avenue
was thoroughly pOlced. and all day the patrol-
men were going in and out OF the stable Is
escorts Evidently strike sympathizers
impressed. for the nOn-union men were able TO
about their work without the need of dodsins
bricks.
Another precaution taken I'm the districts
where the strikers are most numerous was the
closing of the saloons a policeman was sta
toned at the front and side door of every drink
ing place in the district. The force at stable 4
was drawn from eleven precincts Stable @.
in Hamilton street, in the heart of that part
of the East Side which most needed Cleaning.
Inspector Burfeind made this his headquarters.
and during the day there We're thirty or moro