El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-01
new YORK To
DRIVE OUT
MICROBES
A Monster Spring Cleaning
Campaign Is Planned For
the Whole City.
MORGAN'S NEW BANK
TO BE UNIQUE AFFAIR

- ? EW YORK, March This city,
NJ it is now announced, is to have
- a regular spring house cleaning
Of a kind never before attempted, and
incidentally the biggest of its kind in
history. The city's health commission
er has evolved a plan for polishing I'D
, the whole city until IL shall be regu-
lar spotless town and, what is the real
thing that he is working for a fIvless
and germless town. Mayor Gaynor
heartily approves Of the plan and will
ask the various city departments and
the public generally to cooperate with
the health commissioner.
That the undertaking will be an
enormous one is indicated in its scope
as already outlined Some Of the things
included in the plan to make the city
beautiful and healthful include the re-
mOval OF all rubbish and dirt from the
city, including thorough cleaning Of
cellars, roofs, yards and vacant lots;
thorough cleaning OF all streets. clean
ing out catch basins; freeing the city
as far as possible from smoke and
cinder nuisances and minimizing the
nuiSanceS from doors and offensive
trades and the dust from streets; the
better protection of all foods from con-
taminatiOn of dust and flies; fighting
the fly, not by swatting, but by pre-
venting breeding fighting the mos
quito nuisance by eliminating the
breeding places. It is proposed to set
health building for. the movement, to
have citizens committees in each Dor
ough and to send out appropriate liter
ature.
1t viii be a campaign Of education In
public hygiene from which much is eX-
pected- Such a house cleaning as this
coupled with the house cleaning which
is now going on in the police depart
ment and among crooks and grafters,
should result in such a general polish
ing up as to make the city almost IN
recognizable.
Horse Thieves in New York
That the professional horse thief is
far buster in New York than he ever
was in the western frontier, and incl
dentally Is out to set a new record for
1913, is startlingly indicated by the
fact that truckmen and tradesmen es-
innate the loss from stolen horses for
the first two months of this year at
more than $25,OOO.
The police records show that 100
horses and wagons have been driven
away by men operating in residence
sections in the noon hour. and in the
downtown wholesale district late in
the afternoons OF this number a small
percentage has been recovered. But
figures obtained from horse thief vic
tins show many losses not included in
the police figures. More than 20 gro
GERS and butchers have lost their
horses in the last month in the small
neighbOrhOOd on First avenue from
Seventy-fOurth to Eighty-fourth street.
according to one. victim who himself
lost a horse and wagon valued at $500
Apparently the thefts are committed
by well organized gangs. who merely
wait until a driver has left his wagon
to make a delivery, and then. jump on
the seat and drive boldly away. BY
changing the markings of the animal
il is easily disposed of with little dan
ger Of detection.
The operations since January 1 OF
horse thieves who got more than 100
animals. may be traced from the Bat
terry to the Bronx. In the section from
the Battery up to Washington market
the police admit seven horses and
trucks have been stolen. But on Janu-
airy alone the police were informed
of II such rObberies in the city.
Remedy for High Prices
Bigger and better crOps-mOre bush
els from every acre cultivated-is the
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