New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-19
CLEANUP" LESSON
BEARS FRUIT IN PARK
No Strewing Of Rubbish and
Police and Laborers Have Un-
broken Sunday Holiday.
NEW PLAN BIG SUCCESS
Stover's Appeal for Cleanliness
Effective, and Courts, Ex-
pectiug Many Offenders,
Remain Deserted.

There's nothn' touches the people IKE
the threat of havin To pay out lie"
dollars in "A fine"
I'm the opinion of the old park cmploye
who stood guard all day yesterday 'at
the East seth street entrance TO Centai
Park side by side with one oil the slN-
feet-by-four warnings not To throw ruD-
bish around that placardcd each entrance
To the park. it was the fear OF arrest
that gave the great pleasure ground the
clcanest Sunday i'm its history.
But Commissioner Slower took more
idcalistic view He said ne felt sure II
wasn't so much the chalkins ny OF the
ordinance against littering and the PEN
atty: it was the appeal also printed on
the posters. to the pub'ics common
sensc-the appeal for their cooperation.
Whatever il was. IL worked, ana WIN
scarcely rub between the public ana
the police. The twenty-five plainclothes
men scattered through the park. special
detectives furnished by the Police De
rartmcnt. in addition To the regular UNI
formed force. simply had nothing to DO
hut admire the landscape And II was
lust as well that the plan to hold SPECIAL
court Yesterday In the Arsenal and ir the
former suh-station i'm McGowns Pass
Tavern was. owing 20 difficulties In the
way. abandoned. The magistrates would
have had little to do but twiddlc their
thumbs I'm the whole day only eighteen
summouscs were ISSUED. The cases VIII
come up to-day in the West Side court
Thomas Simler a clerk living at 40.
as East lo3d street, the only person ar
rested during the day. WAS fined - boy
Magistrate House boz the Mems Night
court last night tie walked on the grass
iu Central Park az the East Drive and
ln1d street iu defiance of the warning OF
John CASEY q park attendant Simler
went to cell in default of the fin"
once durirs the day did anarchy rear
it's head \ curly haired young Russian
aged maybe ten. whose clothes We're
mostly holes, took one of the handbllls
containing the warming and appeal from
park employc AMI studied IT,
"Aw. come on. key. bee adjured his
companion 100 tones Of disgust les ind
some rapers an throw ',m around the
park
read tine posters and haudbills with every
appearance OF respect Constantly chang
lng knots of people were around them
an day Now and then some Of the
older people didn't want 90 accept a
handful but the younger generation
made them
'aerc's the kind We want to look out
Tor" said am alert cmploye al the East
IeIst street entrance. An old woman
with a paper hng Of lunch was coming
along with n small girl They cat the
lunch and throw the bag on the grass
the cmploye said
Here. ma'am" lie held out the hand
bin. printed m English. Yiddish and
Italian She shook her head and walked
on. But the small girl. turning back.
took one and commenced TO read II
aloud.
tn, policeman stationed just south 81
the metropolitan Museum of Art was
there 10 keep the ball-playins BOYS from
breaking the windows but he had time
10 eNult over the cleanliness of the park.
Look at II" he exclaimed with
sweep 81 his arm Like a parlor floor
And. mind you. 'twasnt swept yester-
day. all the men was paradin' yesterday
'Tam't been swept for two days, and
lool, how clean"
officer 80. Sos. standing outside the
Arsenal. said he never saw the park
so clean before"
Let the thousands of dollars now spent
i'm cleaning up the tons Of refuse thrown
away IN Central Park be spent on genu-
inc park needs" was the appeal on the
posters Tine citizen goes about scat
tering refuse. 10 the parks great dlsiie-
urement The city employe goes about
gathering 1t W, at great cost How ri
diculous"
Mr. Stoyer was about most of the day
watching the working of his plan. lie
said he vas highly pleased and would
keep on with II 1s long as necessary,
not only i'm Central Park but In other
parks II certainly had good trial yes
terday. for the warm weather brought out
huge crowds.