The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-13
ACRES OF RUBBISH
IN CITY'S CLEANUP
"Mount BuShwick" Was a Pile
of Worthless Junk 30
Feet High.
ONE HOOPSkIRT EXPOSED
Ten Thousand Wao, .ntadS .t"r
Taken to the bumps
Work Goes On To-day.
ONE HOOPSkIRT EXPOSED


Street Cleaning Commissioners Ed
wards went over certain parts ot this
town with a stiff brush Yesterday and
left said parts rcd and shiny, hut never
theless clean. When the spring cleanup
is finally over the dirt Will total up into
the hundreds OF thousands Of wagon
loads
Although 10000 wagon loads. as
nearly as can he estimated, were trans
fcrred from the cellars and attics II the
city and tho parts % houses in uctNccn,
some Of the streets In the districts se-
lccted for cleansing yesterday were not
finished with and the wagons Will have
t. 60 back to them later
out on Bushwick avenue. in Brook
lyn, there was pile OF rubbish thirty
feet nigh. which the residents called
Mount Bushwick" Small boys tore
their trousers on Jagged sofa backs
broken legs Of chairs and other parts OF
the rubbish heap as they skllfully eaped
from craE 10 Cras. II would have been
d joyful day Iur the small boy In almost
any part OF town had it not been for
the elders who warned the boys away
from piles of junk which offered untold
delights. And what a chance for bon
fires Eut always there was the police
man. the white wing. the tenement
house Inspector, the health Inspector
the ir, nan or the unadorned citizen
who shoucd the boy away from those
piles
The worst district in the city. 50
far as quantity of rubbish goes, huf
the best IN the city, viewed from tn"
angle OF diligence in cleaning up. was
the region between ll0th and ll6th
streets, Fifth avenue and the East
River. There were piles OF stun III
the arcaWays mounting M six or eight
feet high. composed Of old broken beds,
mou!dy, dcCayinG and torn mattresses.
hONcs filled WITH miscellaneous -un...
barrels, bags, broken furniture of every
description, broken bed springs. broken
toys. rV@ber boots. old shoes, broken
crockery and glassware, rusty and
tattered stoveplpc lengths, tattered
satcheis and disrci table trunks broken
stoves. worroU' steam boilers, rusty
and worn tinware and then some
There could be found all the articles
in the catalogue Of the very largest Of
Chicago mail order houses, and some
things not even found there.
one OF N. weird things which the
street cleaners found WAS "A hoop skirt,
"A relh' of the old days which some
family haa evidently kept In the attic
thcs" many Generations. one pa~nshop
on Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn. pu; out
nine soap boxes filled with old pawn
tickets. TIE accumulation OF twenty
Ia. ts,Dl ly-a hA,
seventh avenue was taken a wagon load
OF tailor dummies, tattered, torn AMI
bent
The schedule for to-day takes in
these sections Of Manhattan.
Section s-New Chambers street. JEFF
ferson street, Park row Division street.
East River.
Section West Houston street. Wash
.ngton Square. Charles street, Broadway.
West street.
Section ls--R' 'ge street. Eas, River.
Broome street, lust Houston street
Section l5-West Sixteenth street, West
Twenty-s.cond street, Fifth avenue West
street.
Section 2s-East Sixteenth street. East
Twenty-second street, Fifth avenue 10 the
river.
Section s3-West Seventy-third street.
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West TO Riverside Drive.
Section 3S--East Forty-s.xth street.
East F!fty-th'rd street, Fifth avenue 10
tn" river.
Section 3I--west Sixty.hfth street,
West Seventy-th!rd strcrct, Central Park
West to West End avenue.
Section 4s-East Seventy-ninth street
East Eghty-s!xth street, Fifth avenue
to East River.
Section 39--West Nincty-seventh street,
West lo3d street, Central Park West 10
Riverside Drive.
Section 5s-Easr ll2th street. East
HON street. Lcro% avenue 10 river
SECTION i5--W"st llOth street. West
l25th street, Lcnox avenue 10 Morning.
sid" Park.
section 53-Wcst l54th street. West
ls0th street, Harlem River 10 Riverside
Drive.
Tho cleaners will cover eight sections
in Brooklyn and two IN The Bronx to-day