NEW YOHK 



The carriageways alone are under the care of 

 the Street Cleaning Department. The sidewalks are 

 cleaned by the owners of the abutting property. The 

 department has authority to make rules and regulations 

 to compel householders to prepare their wastes in a 

 convenient way for removal by the department, and 

 when these regulations are approved by the Board of 

 Aldermen they become law, superseding, or taking 

 precedence of, any other ordinances that may be in 

 conflict therewith. It has always been impossible for 

 the Department of Street Cleaning to get the police 

 and police justices to cooperate satisfactorily in enforcing 

 the laws which relate to the cleanliness of the city. 

 Cooperation, so necessary everywhere in carrying on 

 municipal work in an efficient and economical manner, 

 is conspicuously absent in the cleaning of New York. 



The streets are kept in repair by a department of the 

 city government which has no relation to the Street 

 Cleaning Department. The departments of health and 

 police are also quite separate. The streets are sprinkled 

 by contractors who enter into agreements for this work 

 with owners of property abutting upon the streets. 

 Dead animals are removed by contract let by the Depart- 

 ment of Health. Trade wastes are not collected by 

 the Street Cleaning Department nor are the ashes or 

 kitchen wastes from large restaurants, hotels, and shops. 

 Private scavengers, operating under licenses issued by 

 the health department, collect large quantities of refuse. 

 They carry some of it out of the city to be fed to hogs 

 and other animals and dump some of it into barges at the 

 water front. Little is known about this private work. 

 Large, therefore, as is the force of the Street Cleaning 

 Department, and extensive as are its operations, it is 



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