The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1869, Page 8

8 OUR STREET CLEARING. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CITY Profits, Workings and Figures of the Contract System. Comparative Statistics of New York and Paris. DEFECTS OF THE CONTRACT. Remedy for the Present State of Affairs. It Is now forty years since the great sanitary reform movement began in France and England, evcapymg the attention of the acutest scientidce men in Europe; but it was not until 1860, stlinulated by the reports of the Fourth National Sanitary Con- vention, that public senument {fn thts country could be educated to the support of the work, and even now the support accorded is only lukewarm and partial, particularly in this city. In the course of the last forty years, or since 1830, more than £1,000, 000,000 has been expended in the two cities of London and Paris in the single matter of sanitary engineering, and still those citles are by no means fect im this respect. The eity of London has 41 more from imperfect drainage than avy city is the worid, though Paris, Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna have had thelr own bitter expe- riences. Even so late as 1840 and for the anterior five years the number of persons attacked wh fever im the city of Glasgow had been equal to 58,949, of whom 4,783 died. The number attacked had amounced to one-fifth of the Whole population of the city; the mortality from fever alone being equal to one-sixtieth of that population for eyery lustrum, or one-third per cent yearly. Of the total yearly number of deaths in the world, nearly one-baif are caused by fever in some jorm, In cities, on the average, two-thirds are the results of fever, or of disease induced by similar causes; and in tuis city the fraction is rather gxeater than the average. In cities atlarge, this excessive prevalence of fevers may be traced to one of three causes—imperfect drainage, imperiect sewerage, or imperiect cleanliness of the surface. Imperfection im the laying of pavements 1s another cause worthy of atientiou; for, unless the pavé be water proof, Shere is a continuous percolation through it of re- fuse matter, which, in the end, generates pestilence, in this respect, a3 weil as in the dimeulty of clear- ing it, the cobbie stone pavement is a degree worse than none at all; aud how bad none at all is may be gathered from a few facts. In ail cities the exemp- ton of the inhabitants from intermittent and Dilions yremittent fevers 1s, in @ great measure and very uniformly, due to the paving of the streets, The paving of Dock street, Philadelphia, was, Dr. Bell states, the means of saving nundreds of persons from malignant fever ip @ single year, The Southwark and Kensington districts of the same city were and are instances of the workings of the same priuciple. Inthe South- Wark dis'rict espectaliy the almost utter disappear. Qnce of malignant fevers was wrought by paving and subsequent attention to scavencering. Louis- vile, Ky., Was once Known as the graveyard of the West, aud forms & most remarkable example or the Workings of the same law. Though now one.of the healthiest towns in the State, ag late as 1622 ma- Lignant intermittent tever was a regular annual ‘Visitaut and threatened to depopulate the town. In 1823 the streets were paved, disappearance of the fever ensued. There are two surface conditions of health, there- fore, in the sanitary regulations of cities. Tue one is & good pavement, through which refose matter cannot be conducted by percolation; the other is an adequate system of street cleaning or scavenger- ing, by which the pavement is daily freed from all refuse Matter—as garbage, offal, night soil and ordi- Mary refuse—generative of noxious and noisome @ases. Drainage ana sewerage being adequate, all Koino-miasmatic fevers and diseases, a3 well as most of the idio-miasmatic type, together with the mixed fevers vermed idio-koino-miasmatio, are due either to imperfect paving or imperfect scavenger- tng. No street paved with cobble stonea can be healthy; no street imperfectly cleaned can fai) to en. gender disease. The subject of pavement having been treated heretofore, np further reference need be made to Ithere. Roughly estimating the payed surface of the vity at 6,000,000 square yards, 2,000,000 square yards are paved with stone block and other modern pavements, about 4,000,009 being paved Wiih cobble stone, It is necessary to refer to tus point in order to estimate the dificulty of keeping the city Ina cleanly condition 60 far as surface 18 concerned. The latter pavement is cleaned with great difficulty, and even when cleaned is not per- fectly wholesome, owing to the percolation of refase wlan it, tainting the soil beneath, The constant "i * the streets 1s 60 necessary to the preser- sweeping v. | brgorctc vation of health tha, .¢ Would naturally be supposed ‘ttake some interest that citizens of all classes My... im the matter, Yet it is supposed by some {22" seay- engering is an unn ry expense, the mud and dirt have become so exceseive as to ‘fend the senses; and, prebably, were it to be put W vote in some cities Whether the elveets should pe swept twice or three times a we ¢ iatter mat ally increasing the expense—the decision by popu- Jar vote Would be in favor of th - weekly scaven- gering. It is not generally Known tuat there ts sow greater danger in removing refuse bas accumulated than in ing it this reason trequent scavengering becoues a ne sity to public health, An streets of Vera Craz, aft ed for few weeks, came nc ion oF that portion of the a: peading the war win monace, 227, ODO smaller Klute, the game phenomenon has been repeaied iu postion: New York city. The thorough street in the eumimer of 1800, under the tion of sndge Whiting, resulted, on eecoun Gisturbance of refuse mat tty; and the same fact was t adjacent sections of the fa necessary, therelore ascertain aud dx PHB SANITARY ConpiTio’s BY fm order to discu p sub) ntetligently and telligibly. ‘AU st should be swept st three times a wee all tho night,” says General Vicle in cussion of the subjec so far as York ig concerned, clean thorouglfares like Broad week and aii te remaiulng sleet ro of the dry goods trade there ts a very reauced evolu- tion of offensive mattey, In those of the grocery trade—for instance, ‘Third avenue, Washington atreet and others—tivare 1s considerable evolution of garbage and the sanitary necessity of frequent cleaning 1s more imminent. Again, in thorough. fares devoted to market supplies the necessity is more immineyit stil}; and again, from the presence of trucks avd carts in large numbers thoroughfares of the wholesale trade evolve refase matter more rapidly than those of retatl trade, The frequency with which any given thoroughfare ought to be cleaned ts governed by these considerations; and generally thoroughfares need sweeping with less frequency than streets of the first category. & Streets and avenues of first class dwelling houses, where the population is more diffused, of a higher order as regards personal habits of cleanii- ness, and bas greater advantages in respect to sur- roundings, ventilation aud other conditions of health. Barring babits of personal cleanliness from the discussion, the population of any given section of Mulberry street or Mott street is six times that of any equal section on Fifth avenue; and the same rule ts trae of ali tenant house streets as compared with streets devoted to first class dwellings, Agaln, (here are several grades of tenant house streets; and again, there are several grades of streets devoted to dwelling houses for singie families; but, generally, the evolution of refuse and offensive matter Is 61x times greater tn a tenant house street than itis ino street or avenue of first class dwellings, taking no account of the personal habits of the two ciasses of population, Taxing the latter into consideration, any given section of Mulberry street evolves daily more tian eigut times the garbage, offal and offen- give refuse that are evolved by any section of equal length ov Fifth avenue, and should be cieaned at least eight times as often, In any proper sanitary administration of the street cleaning devartment these distinctions must all of them be taken into account, unless the city is to be spotted with pest-holes and fever-nests, and yet in the framing of the contract there seems to have been no comprehension of the facts aud categories above stated, The true sanitary theory has, in fact, been exactly reversed. Thorduzhfares are swept every night, streets with first class dwellings twice or tliree times a week, and tenaut house locations once a week, the work being badiy done at that, There 18 one other consideration which tends to demonstrate the sauilary necessity for more fre- quent cleaning of streets classed as tenement house, In the majority of them the pavement ls cobbie stone, through which the moisture and humidity generated by garbage percolate with greater rapidity, rendering suriace sweeping, unless Very ireguent, inoperauve or comparatively $0, a3 a sanitary agent. [t will be seen, therefore, that a thorough knowledge of the wants of diifevent locations is needed In order to graduate the frequency of cleaning suitably. Generally speaking, oe should never v2 subjected to tue Faction of the sun’s heat, and cannot be so subjected without considerable generation of noxious gases; and ence, in streets like Mulberry street, 1t suould be removed every day, Ifit is to be left anywhere let tt be in streets the sanitary conditions of which are otherwise favorable, aud not in the overcrowded districts, Regarding this condition the Board of Health has disseminated au order which 1s based on sound principies:— Tenants must put thelr garbage and ashes ina tab or bar- rel, and must not throw these or any refuse things iuto the streets and gutters. Bring out the tubs of garbage and ashes to the edge of the sidewaik every day when the caris come, andif possibie keep them tadvors hour. Ayood dour bi wer au a garbage tub for six- teen ‘amilies, and bai! a barrel for slx or elyht Camilte Cleanse aad disinfect the garbage tud every day by washing out with @ stub broom and sprinkling In ehioride of Une or some disinfecting uid, to keep free {rom olfeasive odors, Any violation of these rules Will gubject the ollender Test and punishinent, ‘The garbage carts proper, of course, make their daily rounds every morning, and every neglect may be reported. A third condiilon of good avavengoring ia found in the disposition of the refuse, Formerly it Was used to a considerable extent to reclaim waste ground and fill up swamp localities, Now it is con- Yeyed from tae dumping places in scows employed for the purpose, and mostly is sold for manurlal pur- poses at thirty cents a load, ihe dumping places are, however, in the filthiest conaition possible; and that near Washington Market—the worst of ail per- baps—constitutes in itself an intolerable nuisance, to which {tumediate attention ought to be atrected. The rest are more or less filthy and~tutolerabie, though not worse, sume of thei, than numerous Streets on the east side, The PRESENT CONDITION OF THE STREETS would form the topic of @ paper iu itsel!, were the Intolerably Mlety localities to be specified im detati, nd ad almost utter except when } an the WHICH STREBS y and is, in fact, alarming. Mulberry and Baxter streets are thoroughiares of pest. So are whole dis- tricts in the southern part of tue city and whole dis- tricts east of Second avenue, crammed, congested With tenant houses and tenant house population. There is an odor of rot everywhere, and yet the con- ‘tractor insists that he 18 doing his whoie duty under the contract. The Board of Heaitu Las authority to expend $25,000 a year in cleaning tlthy localities; but tiis pittance, though more good 1s work it weekly than by tie whole sum at the command ot the contractor, 1s utterly inadequate, and something must be done or aggravated fevers wiil ravage the clty before the hot season ts over, There secms to be no remedy except in the possible hold- ing by the commission of the contractor toa more migid performance of his work; and, owing to the fact that the whole is in the hands of the mug, there ds lie prospect that this will be done. Tue direc- tion of public attention to the subject seems to re- sult in no benefit; and, probably, for this year at Jeast, there 1s no remedy, though, in point of fact, there has never in the history of the metropolis oc: curred an occasion for bitterer severity of criticism, City inspector Boole averaged a million a year from 1860 to 1865 in expenditure directed to scavengering. In point of historical accuracy, the million @ year reaily began iu 1859; and thence may be caiculated the expenses of the department for ten years:— Under Inspector Boole, six years, at @ mil- lion a year, + +++ 86,000,000 Under contract : 1,500 B Total ..sseses seasseeses ses + $7,004,000 Expended by Board of Healty 1 addition 10 the above... 50,000 lomplete totle....-.0...0+ : $8,044,000 ‘or ten years, therelore, the average for strect cleaning has been @ trifle In excess of $800,000 a a) aud yet, in point of surface cleanliness, New fork ig the worst clty in the Uyited States and ta- fiuitely worse than any leading European city, It is 4 & Worse condiuon this summer than tn the sum- mer Of 1864, when the ot of the season led to # brait in regard to te administration of the City Inspector that ended in the removal of the work frow the coutrol of that bureau. The HISTORY OF THB CoNTRACy sysrEat ig brief. In 185 the Legislature, having subjected the administration of the City Inspector to the giembic of an investigating committee—littie more than a political fiauk movement, but beter than pert pe 1a commission to adminis&r the department. The comm on was made to consiat ef rhe Mayor, Recorder, Comptroller, Corporation os : tor, and the scavengeriug of € city was to on the sho» fon of the office of Oity Inspect é PRA Of the Buard. of Health was placed tipon vee tue stead of the in the several bl apy was & to clea t Was to be refunded on of the proprietor r the specilications ot an. Trvtlié summer of d Ww give satisfaction, sold act to Judge Whiting (for 200,090), Who made the first contract, aud was tc Whiting cont inside yd 4, Bubject to ¢ A 6 ance by @ proiit pocketed by that elf 197ms an incentive to u e yj. ins int ork; thal making of anliness With th » ‘constitute mere leavin a there, I coordance wih his f the presence of the ptter thatthe fe its w bab it serves 10 1 sometimes de- meaning of & | carts, carts holding a couple of cubte yards, aad ts the utmost average that can fied; and this soa $6,600 cleaving of the twenty-two. div! wind ot ths pi id be Pam being $343,200, ‘The table atands as followa:— Weekly expense, Ward,......+ rd Weary expense for ewenty-iwe ‘wards. 690 Yearly expense......+++.++ seeees 843, 200 Dedue the latter sum from the amount named inthe proposals, the profit to the contractor Js ths exhibited: — Yearly receipts, as per contract,. .... £498,500 Yearly expenditure........... 943,200 Profit on contract... seeeseeeee $155,300 This 1s the most favorabie statement that can be made, id yet under it the profit on a business of $343, year ts found to be equal to forty-five per cent of the whole amount expended by the con- tracter and equal to twenty-eight percent of the whole amount disbursed by the Comptroller for ti work, The profit scarcely ends here, however, The dis- Position of the refuse remains to be taken into ac- count, The whole quantity of refuse matter re- moved averages 1,000,000 cublc yards per year, or 1,000,000 loads, #& load being estimated at a cubic ard. For the privilege of converting this refuse to iis own use the contractor payé an annaal stipend to the city of $20,090, selling the same at thirty cents per load of the average cubic yard, at an regate receipt of $30), ol which possibly $100,000 is to be deducted for the cost of removal in boats from the Sumpin laces, leaving an annual proilt of $180,000, provides Tae whole waste is marketable. Adding this amount to the amount already developed the annual proiit to the contracting party is found to be the enormons sum of $335,200, The original contract was for ten ears, Naving five years longer to ran, during which he contractor, matters continuing a3 at present, may be set down as about to amass the moderate fortune of $1,676,000, Deduct from this amount the Odd sum of $179,009 for oice expenses, percentayo of wear on implements and other incidentais and there still remains @ round intition and a half as the proiit of five years in the business of scavengering and a round three millions as the prodt of the con- tract for ten yoars. The contractor might still furs ther reduce the expense per ward by using larger 58 ewell his accumulating fortune to still more colossal proportions. A COMPARISON OP NEW YORK WITH PARis proves the general correctness of these mathematt- Gal deductions, ‘Ten years stuce the city of Paris was swept by hand altogether, ‘he general supervision of the Work was under the control of the Mayor, while the special supervision was entrusted to the prefect of the police, The sweeping was done at the expense of the proprietors, or, Where there were shops, at the expense of the owners tuereof; the aversge annual tax being two dollara, and the re- cetot therefor coming from the prefect. Thus the citizens were made vo pay directly for the sweeping of the streets in front of their dweilings or places of business, the cliy conveymg away the sweepings. The work was later done by contract at a cost of $300,000 annually. Lhe contractor carried off the rubbish, and, having permitted ts to rot in pits for a certain length of time, sold it for manurtal puryoses at from three to five cents per cubic yard, total yearly receipts from this source ‘nver- aging about $700,000, The direct superin- tendence peing confided to officer responsibie to the city government, the organization of the force was reguiated by them. Including both sexes, the number of scavengers employed was out twenty-flve hundred. These were divided into four legions, comprising twelve battaitons or thirty-six companies—four sections tothe company. The per- sons employed in this Work were almost exclusively Alsaclans and Germans—the men belag pald tweaty- four cents a day, the women twenty, aud the non- adults according \o the work they were capavie of performing. The sweeps were accustomed to collect &t given polnts at four o’oiock i the morning, tn companies of from twenty to forty. Takipg their ae in ranks two by two, the roll was called and he absent marked, At four o'clock they were all at work, long handied brooms being used for the pur- pose, and the sweeping occupying about four hours, ‘yhe work was usually dnished before eight o'clock in the moruing, and invariably at eigut o'clock the carts carried oi the rubbish. No rubbish trom house or shop could be thrown into the street after that hour, At eight o’clook the foun- tains were opened and the gutters tilled for an hour or more with pure running water—a measure re- peated in thé course of the day according to the ‘Wants of tie season; and all this was accomplished 1n four hours 1n the morning with all the regularity of clock work—a regalt due wholly to a careful or- ganization of the force and @ regular superiutend- ence of it, The streets of Parts, all cleaned and trri- gated dally, wore, therefore, always as clean as em. ciently supertntended brooms could make them, There were no relaxations—no experiments. The work was done with regular system from January to January again, With the same daily efficiency and without complaint from any source. It was not re- garded as an extraordinary feat of administration, and any ineficiencies in its performance would have been a matter of surprise, Besides this moruing cleaning, a certain number of workmen called cantonniers, were kept employed during the day to scrape up accumulating dirt and keep the gutters clear—a ceriain numper of carts being retained subject to the order of these canton- niers, The sweeping of the public squares aud gar- dens was done exclusively at the expense of the city. The removal of the refuse was performed by con- tractors, the total receipt to them from thts source being about $700,000 per year, of which, after paying ali expenses, about $300,000 represented the net rout, Compare these figures with those of New york pertinent to the same work. Paria, with an a) of pavement to be swept of 10,701,416 square yards, swept daily at an expense of $500, 04 800,000, New York, with an area of pavement to be swept of about 650,000 square yards, swept weekly at an ex- pense of $493,590, Paris, swept by hand datly, the cleanest city in the World, at a cost of $890,000. New York, swept by hand Savory the dirtiest city in the world, at av gunual cost of half a million, ‘This Comparison 13 represeatative of Parts in 1869, during which year New York paid $1,000,000 for the weekly sweeping of about 690,000 square yard: white Paris paid $300,000 for the daily sweeping of about 1,000,000 square yards, Gost per square yard in New York et fifty-two siveepings. 6635 Cost per square yal sweepings. 0 834g Cost TS ae y 00 BWEEPIEZ coe eTeccccescoerque sp sagazngesg Cost per square yard in Parts Yo¥ bile gweepilog.... ssseeege 0.00 1-10 It needs nothing more thau tls exposé to demon- strate the profits of the present coutract to its holder, Its inadequacy to the purpose being demon- strated sudetenuy by tue present coudiiua of the city. THD ORs BROOM is used to ag exteht here, and is very available in ounéstion With the Russ pavement and the wooden nd concrete pavements, It may be takea for granted, therefore, that the contractor is sensible enough to use jt whenever {tt is feasible, Which upon an area of nearly 250,009 square yards of th whole 060,000 to beswept. The saving LAs wee by the tmplem ent be t to be investigated. The bloow tséd yu reer #7008 1306 and introduced M. Tallfer ts Very stmplé i ¢onatr tpn. About st: eet in jength, tt is sot obliquely ho axia of she art, the one efd beng one foot and four-fifths ow ad Une with the Cod and Papeigen | Res and dust jou Of tho gutter handle contr 5 river onables iii 19 lute tos breed eae ground at pleasure, A contoal-toothed wheel fix On the axle of the cart enga with a smatier | fixed on an interniediate axis, and Dy $ of other fron work engaging, as tho ca ¢ broom revolyes, The eauiod wheels oa lly disonaared, ehawilig the Catt t é thé broom fh fnottom, ul ig thus distributed: —Wheelp, Drgom, 110 pounds; vA att and shatts, 1,219 p ai The band eftictently 8 a and ¢igh! 720 sqiave yards 1p seyeuty mmutes—% would lave réquired 1oy men for thy t In geveral one of these broont ards per hour at a cost ue, While the work 1 hour at @ cost refore, that the of them have been known to every night, ‘The tenant house wards ought eer- | word ho argue that } city is £115, 10,000,000 aguare tamly to beswept dally. itis imperative that they | the . a bn any : i ee an should be, since in these locations there is groa'er | ipend has an r one 1 crowding of population and consequently a more ) » » the adminis« ‘ y rapid evolution of refuse matter. In fact, so far ae pert Facet ve 2 “4 ae os ae this city is concerned, there are reaily tiree grades with thoroughness ‘Sie ia part of @ cent Of streets to be attended to, and efiher grade is sub- ject to special conditions. These grades are:~ 1, Streets inhabited by tenement house population, ‘where the crowding is unlimited and the evolution Of refuse correspoudingly rapid and offensive. These Streets, in reapect to the evolution of Hit, take pre- cedence of thorongbfares, and furthermore the re- fuse evolved i# of a more offensive and unwholesome order, Thoroughfares produce a great deal of ordi- Dary refuse and but little garbage, offal and the like, Tenant house streets evolve mountalns of gar- bage and offal, with a corresponding reduction of ‘The former are always offensive and cannot be left to putrify with impanity; the jatter way or may not be, ac- the ordinary refuse of trade and traves. cording to circumstances, 2 Thorougifares, where the refuse of trade and travel is great and the evolution of garbage and @ffal is correspondingly reduced, Wacior. Howe idea of the profits of this sort of economy may be gathered from caiculaon, Information— that 18, accurate Information—of the workings of the system it is diMeult to obtain, The number of men employed is graduated to the season, So with tho number of carts, So with the number of scowa. So } with all the details of expendib In apother di- | | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1869—TRIPLE SHERT. than the amount disbursed under the contract for ‘ Privilege of fithy. An neler to Twenty-sixth once every twenty-lour hours, Side thoror from Park Bowery, and thence to the be- ne; avenue, om wae 10.06 urdays. avenue to Thirty-second atreet, Eighth avenue to Forty-second street, State street, White- hail street, Wall street, Cortlandt street, Maiden lane, Grand atreet, east of Broadway, and Canal street, west of Broadway, are to be swept ouce & ‘week unleas prevented by frost or snow. 4, In case of @ parade Or-procession or other pub- lic demonstration the commission may order the contractor to clean any street ef the inteaded route shereot upon Nae order, a . vicuni all public markets must be cleaned dally 10 the forenson. 6, All pang Portions of the city are to be swept once & week, and this is to be held to include cee alleys, gutters, wharves, piers and heads Leaving out the lower section it will be seen that the idea of the commission was to separate the city into firat class thoroughfares, second ciass thoroughfares and streets in ordinary, the former to be cleaned three times, the middie class twice and the jatter once a week. few other exceptional spots are to be cleaned aaily, A division more utterly wanting In comprehension of the absolute neéda of the metropolis was probably never con- celved; and the analysis of the contract is made to demonstrate that tie contractor 1s uot altogether to blame, a more salient specimen of stupidity than the contract itself having never been executed at the City Hall, In streets like Baxter, Mulberry, Mott and others—that 13, streets of the Jower class of tenant house population—daily cleaning forms an {inperative condition of health, and to clean them only once ® week, on account of the disturbance of garbage, is worse than not to clean them at all, especially dur- mg the heated term, Yet the contract makes no discrimmations in their favor. In fact, Mulberry street, or any of the Rroceting mentioned, need oniy be cleaned once where Fifth avenue is cleaned tires times, aud were the contractor faitn- ful in nis work, portious of the city must be pest holes, in accordance with the terms of the contract. The fact remains, however, that the contractor 13 supericial in the performance of his duty, even at the once a week specification, though it ia demon- strably true that the system that formerly prevailed in Paris of sweeping the whote city daily with band brooma might be introduced and carried out here at an expense of half a million; while the present Paris system might be carried out for one-half taat sum, leaving an ample imargin to the contractor, ‘Prue, scavengers tn Paris are paid ouly wweaty-tlve cents, while here they demand seven times that Qinount, hutagain in Paris the contractor receives on- ly from three to five cents a load for the sweepings, wuile here he receives eight times the Parls average, It must be remombered, however, that the Paris scavanger in general only worked four hours a day, at six cents an hour, which would be equivalent to sixty cents for every day of ten hours, or nearly two-lifths of the cost of the same labor here. Takin into account the two areas, therefore, if Paris coul be swept fay for $300,000, with proft to the con- tractor, New York can be swept daily for $500,000, with profit to the contractor; and, again, if by a horse-broom Paris can be soap daily for $120,000 a year, New York can be swept dally by the same pro- cess for $250,000 a year. These are just deductions based upon the relative cost of all appliances and of labor tn the two cities, and there is no galusaying their substantial justice, ‘The cost of a single cleaning to the square yard in New York is now seventy-eight times that of Paris, and were Paris to be cleaned only once & week, as New York ig under the present adminis- tration, the cost would be a trifle less than $20,000 per year, aguinst $500,000, which is the New York figure. in other words, over 10,000,000 of square yards in Paris would be cleaned for about 5400, Where 6,500,000 square yards are cleaned in New York at an expense of about $10,000, These are startling deductions, but they are facts, nevertheless, a3 any one who will take the trouble to inform him- self may ascertain, and tho inevitable conclusion to which they point that there ig shameful prodt- gality on the part of somebody of the pubiic moueys, a further mevitable Conciusion being that there is shameful neglect of duty on the part of the commis. sion in permitting the contractor to draw his money at al! for work so Iueiticiently and superficially done, her specifications of this curious document as to the manner of cleaning are as subjolued:— The streets shall be kept conveniently passable for vebt- oles during the win nd the and all gutters intersecting the Ai be Kept clear of snow and fee, and the culverts of the sewers shall be kept free and clear, 60 Ynat the water shall not be prevented trom slowing through The streets shall in all instances be sprinkled in ‘advance of the sweepers employed thereon, and from the 1st of pate the Ist of November in each year the gutters ahall be washed out as often as the contractors may think hecessary, of tuey may, from tine to time, be required. by the City ‘Inspector, unless objected to by a majority of said commissioners, any mud or other substance being firs re- moved the guiters, 20 that the saine shall not be carried Aud the Croton water which the contractors may deem nestasary for the performance of this contract shall be {urnlahed free of expense, enbject to such rules and regulations as may be made by w majority of the commis- jouers to prevent waste of watel ‘The purposes of the provisions of this contract are to secure Clean atreets in this elty and protect the public heath, mited expenditure of money, for the period of ten ‘ge This last declaration will probably strike the reader 88 @ morsel of pas oficial! humor, but bemg in the bond i¢Is worth quotation; for most certainly had not the purpose of the contract been thus definitely exp! nobody could ever have suspected it, eituer from the specifications thereof or from the manuer in which they have so far been carried out, Portions of the city are at this moment nothing but lague spots, and but for the interterence of the joard of Health must continue to be go, The Sanitary Supermtendent is permitted by atat- ute to expend a snm not exceeding $25,090 per year, and has expending an average of $300 per week since the middie of June with greater advantage to Sanitary Conditions than 1s gained by the whole es ‘a week disbursed to the contractor. Under he present contract the duty of supervision seems to devolve upon the President of tne Board of Heaith, it having formerty devolved upon the City Inspector, in whose stead the President occupies a seat in the comumission and whose tunction be other- Wise exerci8es, The specification under which this power accrues to the President of the Health Board rans thugs— The work bgt reformed ynder fhe {mmodiate: soper: YUH EL Ia A ADRs ote it Intpertr aba ARG ig st it to comply with an failure, he shall Cortuwwith not of the default; and if the contractors shall no reasouabiy delay, comply with the requirements of the City Inspector a respbck to ‘such default such off his aasocinge Commissioners of the fact, who shall thereupon on twenty-four hours’ notlee, notify the contractors oo the particulars of auch complaint, and of a meeting of the Com- Inissioners to egnsidér the same at a time ahd place to be qwentioned ia such notice, It would seem, theréfore, that under tnis con- tract the President of the Health Board s mvested With the immediate supervision of this work; but it unfortunately so happens that 4 criticism of his ust be referred to the meeting of the commission, ad thus his powers = 80 curtailed as to be pro- Guetive of no resulcs, The Sanitary Superin- tendent cannot, therefore, be held responsible for the existing condition of affairs, Again, there is no narmony 1n the commission, On the part of the iT np eT ey jseldng and of the Health gt and meetings of the mniission amount nothing. Thus the con- ctor 18 of sauna utialiy to himéell in the per- formance of the fork—and Who ever heard of a contractor having any consclence?—and thus he is eet ¥ Save something more than half che amount disbursed by the Comptrolier at the least calculation, paying perhaps @ percentage of his ains to membera Of the bi t more dis- faceiul fraud, taken in 1 its bearings, ‘as hever potperrated than this same street clean- ng contract, taken tn connection with its tndecent administravion, and ye, unless there 18 legislative interference, it fa likely to be continued six years or go longer. Verily there ig some moaning in the rage “oMcial swindling,” and that meaning was Rover tiustrated with more forcible and posiuve emphasis, The contract would be @ swindle at 250,000, ety Bo FTP RO a8 at present admin- jatered; at $i Bo, it ia the most outrageous finan- cial and sanitary pun that was ever eae by a combination of oMcials and contractor for the simple purpose bP Lg alot ad of the pubiic pocket. if the contractor dia his whole duty under tho co Tract it would still pe iastiicieat, o Ing to the sut- pidity of that dodument tn te matter of spectiica- vions. Falling in this nothing 0 be tmagined, gnd that puolic seu only pYoves that Americans are good a fond of being swindled, THE REMEDY for all this leg in imvestiang the Health Board with eantuoritative supervision of We Contract, Or io al it and thyest the Sanitary Superiatendent jun tae duty of cleaning We streeta, It could be doue dally and thoroughly at an expense less than the amount disbursed at preseat, and there ts no reason why it suould not be done, ‘Two things aro Wapted in this city, The one is aboard of public works, beet | of competent engineers; the other is endowment of the Sanitary Superintendent with full disor 1 in sanitary matters and with the re- sponsible supervision of all matters affecting tie sanitary Condition of the metropolis. The rale should be to clean the streets in every ward thoroughly every day, The need of this will be seen at a glance. The annual refuse matter generated by New York is equal to @ million cubic yards, and would afford a yearly coating of the whole area to be cleaned one-hali @ foot’ in thickness, In venant “at the contractor studies yBOMy f tinat serves to more than {8 for the puvile good, hibit the enoxvin ewindie pet 06, In the Wrong direction, Tnstewt | pewated upon t polls in the matter of applyin aod availing huaself of thei | of street clea In nearly one-half ery wil, ) ecouomy With thoroughness, tue | the whole area to bo swept he Yailler broo ther 1s and the former tusigted upou. | ean be used as feastbly andeatisiactorily os it 19 Use ¥ Foil 18 reduced, not by the invention Of de- | in Paris, Its manitext, th , tha either stu to perform tue work more éxpetiuvusly, but | jiaity or knavery exist hore, vec on the Mie interest Of the contractor demands it, | part of the contractor or of the commission need not » work ia done in a very superficial manner, | be specified too particularly. ‘vie quesuon of ex+ the contractor pocketing the proceeds of a redneed #e 18 not, however, the iain question mvolved. Pay roll without the provision of other adequate g More imporbavs COvsusration of ewmiuary Con- means for the th gh performance of the work; | dition is the prinoipat pont. New York can and, for this r ile Sanitary Superintendent | afford to pay rowvaiy for reg Clean, bub nob finds himself fy secetpt of a dozen complaints daily, | roundly for belug atrty ana unwt 18, which i ali of Wich aro relerable to tie neglect Of the con- | the state of facts at preseut; nua were New York Kept clean New York, beng ¢ like, 8 magnanimous enough to Keey its mouth shat and pay triple for i The complaint is that the city pays quadruple for the privilege of belng dirty, an there lf prooably no remedy except to Invest the Board of Health with the street cleaning, At the nt standard of Wages, With due appliances, the 2 city could be Gieaned thorouguly every day {ty sud bosiness- w Io theroughiares | pervious. nowever, BoMCKINg Muay be developed by f aud well Wasued With Crowon at an expensd leas house wards the average would not be less than one and a quarter feet; in wards covered with first class dwellings the deposit would not 6x one-elg ith that; on thoroughfares it would be of about normal thickuess, but less offensive. In half @ century, if left alone, thia enormous annual accamulation would bury the city in its own flit, av centuries have buried the cities of the ancient world, The average accu. mulation of one week is equal to 60,000 cubic yards of miasma-evoiving matter dangerous to the public health; the accumulauon of a single day 18 equal to 4,000 cuble gts, or one cubic yard of mi: fe evolving ath to ‘every hundred ‘aquare yards of ed surface, or ten cublo yards for every square, ule Would seem to be a sufficient accumulation to be perinitted at any one time, and this is the average of aday. Lhat datly cleaning should be the rule ie, Rrereteees. tome, these considerations obvicas, In Might not be as 8 captions, ooly prove ths rai, Toolerring. tie whole Iatier to the Sanitary Superintendent, the aistricved suriace would have to be referred to ® certain num- ber of would be en- trusted ‘the 4 cn of the work in their respective and very little aiteration in the ‘Would be heavy. jon of an eficient warsingy after the old manner of Paris would remain to be effected, which done the sysiem would be ready to be in motion with all the minute regularity of clock work. A legislative lim) tation of the annual tures of the Sanitary Superintendent, say to 000, would complete the system, aud render it both practicable and economb cal, With the aboittion of covble stone pavements and the almost universal use of norse-prooms, the iat daeaen erence arenes tay Per year; though wit! from. 8,600,000 to 4,000,000 square yards of cobble mane Oe ~ vet - Ln the Pores, brosun ig not suffi- urposes Of thorough sweeping, from $230,000 to $300,000 13 not too high an esttinaes for daily cleaning. The 2,500,000 square yards of Rass, wooden and concrete could be swept daily for @ year for rather leas than $50,000, using the Tailfer horse-broom; the rematning $,000,000 or 4,000,000 square yards of cobble stone would involve an ex- naira Tass) An sas of oes R008 260, ma 300,000 an ample appropria- tion, the removal of the snow to be made he ab. fect of @ special appropriation. This being done ew York might expect to harvest some of te natural sanitary advantages of its situation; and that it must come to this in the end no practical thinker with data tn lis possession can reasonably doubt, ‘Tne proof of fraud on the part of the ring is overwhelming when all the circumstances are taken into account, The commission, consisting of Mayor Hall, Comptrolier Connolly, Kevorder Hackett and» Corporation Counsel 0’Gorman, holds its meetings secretly, refusing adinis- sion alike to the public and the members of the press, The President of the Health Board is not ac- tually honored with any recognition as a member of the commission, and has no practical power in the premises. Peopié who would wake complaints are overvorne by oulcial domineering; but this fact ia certain, that work done or undone, the contractor receives his monthly stipend on the contract. Tho Comptroller, upon application yesterday, however, reiused to give the ollicial figures, as the contractor evades; ali attempts to investigate the actual state- ments of expehditure on his part under the contract, How different in the cleaniy city of Brooklyn, where ersons baving complamts to olfer are invited to a Rearing and investigation, How different 1t might be in New York were the meetings of the commis- s10n open to pubite scrutiny; and yet these men suc- cessiuily defy pubiic opinion, evade inteligent criti- cisim and refuse to be responsible to their masters, tne people. ‘There is one help for tue matter, how: ever, though it cannot, unlortunately, be applied this summer; and that {s for the intelligent New York public to make the question a com- Puign question, irrespective of political Ailiiiations, and curtail the power of the City Hall ring, All tue data for a popular agitation of the subject have been herein afforied, and it is to be hoped that public discussion will follow their exposure. Seventy-eigat dollars in New York for the amount of work doug {n Paris at an expense of one dollar constitutes in itself a rather startling disparity, Paris pays exactly two cents for every fiity-two sweepings of @ square yard of pavement; New York pays exactly $l 63% for the same amount ot work; and it 1s bigh timo some reason were given lor it beyond the vague statements of contractors and the general comment of the City Hall ring that the weather ts bad to tals country, and the matter of street cleaning encumbered with climauc diiiiculties, It must be remembered that there was an extra ap- Propriation of $100,000 made to ciear the street of snow in winter; and really a hundred thousand extra ought to be suilicient to get over the climatic diticulty comferta- biy. The fact is, both commission and contractor seem to have formed aieague for the perpetuation of one of the most gigantic swindies of the age; and it will require @ great deal of sophiatry to conviffce the public that the fact is not as stated, There must be another investigating committee, though better it would be to call a mass meeting of citizens and appoint a civic committee, armed with the sword of Public sentiment, w luok into the matter, BROOKLYN CITY. THE COURTS. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM, The Bridge Street Pavement Litigation—The Temporary Injunction Agaiust the Water Board Diamissed. Belore Judge Tappan. Thomas Lynch vs. Wiliam A, Fowler, Archibald M. Bliss, Thomas Kinsella and Daniel L. Northup, comprising the Permanent Board af Water and Sqwerage Commissioners of the City of Brooklyn.— This was an application for an injunction to restrain the Water and Sewerage Commissioners from repav- ing Bridge street with Beigian pavement, on which thoroughfare Mr. Lynch owns 100 feet of real estate. ‘The application was based on the plea that the Com- missioners had not deem requested to repave the street by a majority of the property owners, in accord- ance with ine naeot Marcio 1358, eutitied’ “AD act to amend an act entitied an act in relation to assess- ments for local improvements in the city of Brook- lya,”’ which dee that no proceedings could be taken by the Common Council or by any other officer of the city of Brooklyn to regrade or repave any street or avenue unless npon a petition signed by a majority of the property Owners. ‘The plaintiff sup- ported his application by the allegation that the act creating the Board of Commissioners was unconsti- tutional and void, on account of its being a local bill and embracing more than one subject, and that it was 1a controvention of section nine, article eigut, of the Constitution of the State of New York, in that tt does not restrict the power of taxation, assessment borrowing money, contracting debts, an loaning the credit of the city so as to revent abuses in asssessments and in con- Eacting debts by the municipal authorities. Appended to the application for the injunction ‘Was the aitidavit of Benjamim ‘t. Lynch, one of the plaintiffs in the action, who sets forth that the action ‘was brought at the request of a majority of the pro- Rery, owners on Bridge street, from the East river to rile avenue, Along that portion of the street there are 197 houses, thirteen vacant lots and two churches, and @ remonstrance against having the street re- bene nad been presented to the defendants, signed ry the owners Oi more than 200 lots. The number of noe signing the remonstrance was 108, including he two churciies. Yesterday morning the case was in the Supreme Court Spect rg ii fe Tappi Mr . Johnson, counsel for the Commissioners, moved to have the applieation for an injunction dis- missed, on the ground that there had been a pre- vious application made to Judge Troy, of the County Term, before Court — This delegation was supported by an atli- davit ye William A, Fowler, president of the Water rd. Mr. Johnson based his application fot a dismissal of the injunctton on rule twenty- three of the Supreme Court, which reacs as fol- lows:—‘If any application for an order be made to any judge or justice, and such order be refused in whole or in part, or be granted conditionally, or on terms, no Subsequent applicatioa upon the same state of facts shall be made t ly other judge or Justice, and if upon such subsequent Lge any order shall be made, it shall be revoked, and tn this afiidayit for such order the party shall state whether uny previous application for such order has been made.” Tne motion to dismiss was granted by Judge ‘Tappen, and the temporary injunction dissolved, EROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. EscaPe OF A PRISONER.—Edward Fagan, thirty- five years of age, arrested yesterday upon a warrant charging him with grand larceny and felonious as- sauit, Was taken before Justice Delmar’s court for examination ai noon, While awaiting arraignment, however, the prisoner Sisiagen ye, make his Way un- ovserved by the oilicers to the door and out upon the street, He was subsequently pursued, but made good his escape and is yet at large, Exrenstvp House ROBBERY IN WILLTAMSBURG.— Between twelve and four o'clock yesterday after- noon the residence 216 South Fifth street, Williama- burg, occupied by the families of Charles H. tt king end Mortimer De Nyse, was entered by thieves and robbed of a large quantity of silverware, jew- elry, sili dresses, furs, &¢., Worth at least 1,2 GL this amount Mr. De Nyse loses $1,000 and Mr. Hawkins ¢209. This 18 the ninth time that Mr. (law. kind tas been robbed im four years. AtTeMet av OUTRAGE.--OMicer Boyle conducted Owen Connell to the cells of the Butler street station houge, about three o’clock yesterday morning, at the tustance of Mra, Mary Riley, of No. 4 Willow street, ‘The prisoner ts charged by the complatuant with getting into her bed and attempting to commit an indecent assault, Which she resented, when her linsbund, Who was asleep in the same apartment, cauie to her assistance, Connell fled from the house, , ander cen! aes ty caper: gst, P.M. Thete fs 4 squad of twelve police omcers the mand of Sergeant fae we A special meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Aldere men was held yesterday afternoon in the Compe troller’s oMfce, City Hail, Alderman Bergen, Preate dent, in the chair, ‘THE NASSAU GASLIGHT COMPANY. A communication was received from his Honor the Mayor vewing the resolutton passed at the las® session of the Board, granting power to the Nassag Gaslight Company ‘‘to lay their pipes in all the streets, aventies, lanes and highways of the city, and also to manufacture and furnish e for variou! purposes,” &c, The objection of the Mayor is Upon the fact that similar permission was granted. by the Common Council to the People’s Gas Com- Pay, but was subsequentiy revoked because of the objection to the latter com) laying thelr pt and locating thelr works in a neighborhood wi Was objectionable. If the real purpose of the Hoard be to create healthy ition for furnish! superior gaa, then both companies should have Permission required, THE BELL NUISANCE. ‘The Mayor also returned without nis approval the: resolution of the Board eromnictng une use of bella by junk dealers, Mayor Kalbfelach sa} My objection ia to but a eingle clause of the amendment, and it can be entirely removed vy a triding moditeation of i which I suggest to your honorable body it te be made, The clause to which I refer is as follows:—“No.° person stall ring any bell, oF cause or permit the same to be no by bis employes or servants, in any street, lane OF ave- ublic place in the cfty, un enulty’ of twenty-fve- for each and every offence.” ‘The constant clangor of large bells through the atreets of the city is undoubtedly. annoyance, and especially to slck or nervous, people and desire to give my aid in the abatement of such nuteance § but in so doing care should be taken to avold unnecess sary interference with the rights of others, result~ ing perhaps.in preventing them from earning # legitimate livelihood, There among us as all aro aware, a certaln class of trattickers, the nature o whose business almost compels them to traverse the streets. seeking out their customers. In fact, {t isu convenience no} only for thew, but for the persons with whom they aeal, Fever toray and junk dealers from wuou tae city derives certain license fee, and {3 in’ some degree, therefore, oblige to protect them fn'the legitimace prosecution of their busts ness, * * * — Bestdes, tt haa been suggested ordinance requires moditeation in any event, Inasmuch as {b might be held that, under aatrict literal construction of the phraseology, “No person shall ring suy bell, or cause or permit the same to be done," it was forbidden to use Pa . 8, ko, on the horses attached to the 'ralirowd cars, sleight would therefore recommend that tho ordinance accordingly. Alderman WrTiNa moved that the Law Commit- tee be instructed to draft an ordinance in accoml- ance with the suggestion of the Mayor, which mo tion was carried. THE THIRD AVENUE IMPROVPMENT LITIGATION, Alderman WaTwry presented the following in re+ lation to the Third avenue bridge question, which ‘Was adopted :— ved, That this Board hereby protests against an order: made in tho}Snpreme Court by Mr. Justice Tappen, on the: 6th August, 1809, in an action between the Hrooklyn Improve ment Company, plaimiff, aud the city of Brooklyn, Martin Kalbfieie, Mayor, Robt, Fury, Stroct Commissloner, de- fendanta; and William 0. De Wity Corporation Counsel, 1p hereby directed to take all lawful wave aad means, by ap- allng from sald order oF ouuerwite, to provect the rights of rooklyn and ita citizens in the control of Third avenue for the purpose of travel, sewerage, tc, against the claim of the Imorovement Company, and ‘all persons attempting to inter fere therewith. Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel do make app! icar tonto the Dity Court of Brooklyn or ‘to the Buy P Dourt: for an injunction to prevent the Brookiyn Improveme Company and all others Interfering with Third avenue ex with the approval of thts corporation, Resolved, That this Board hereby approve of the action of Martio Kalbfieisch, Mayor, and Patrick Fury, Street Com- missioner, and theif conduct in the before mentioned action by- appearing personally before the Supreme Court and in ere ploying 1D. Benedict as counsel to ussust them in asserting the rights of Brooklyn and ita eftizens to the coatrol of the re a A PLUM FOR THE CITY CLERK, On motion of Alderman THORN a resolution was passed authorizing the City Clerk to compile and prepare for publication in book form the charter and ordinances of the city of Brooklyn, and that he be paid for such services the sui of $1,000 upon the completion of the work. INFORMALITY, A communication was received from Auditor O’Brien setting forth that the sum of $50,000—the rice of the plot of ground purchased for the Truant ome site, Known as the Snediker plot—had been drawn from the City Treasury tm an informal and Mega) manner, the bill therefor not Waving been audited by that officer, as required by the charter. A large number of proposals for city work were opened and appropriately referred, and the Board peer to meet again on the first Monday in tober. THE NATIONAL GAME. Atlantic vs. Union ‘The Union Club, of Brooklyn, was organized a few weeks since under very favorable auspices, and with undoubted spunk made arrangements to ap- pear (for the first.time) in & contest with the Atian+ tics. Yesterday was the day arranged for the game to come off, and the Unions were promptly on hand. The Atlantics were minus the services of ‘Smith, Zettlein and McDonald, yet they managed to defeat the Unions with an overwheiming score, The Unions, of course, were timid, owing to thelr ine: " rience, but their batti a comparatively, waa bete x than that of the “old vei.” Bunce, of the Unions, deserves special mention for his fine play- Ing, having dis) of 14 0f the 27 outs on the Auantic side, Wabe also is entitled to much credit for the play he showed in his position. ‘The score of the game is a8 follows:— modifies Pr ‘sige R21. Mes, 83 RUD Pearce, 6 ou 7 ae oe 6 B1ae Tot 213 9235 in? 4 6 496 a 1 596 H 4 Tita iit 1310 6 2334 27 95 63 37 12:17 4 INNINGS, Be, 2h Bi Mh. BA. Gn, TH. BU, OM, 19 0 10 10 8 87" 13 7 9-95 Union 00 3 0 5 0 8 1 1B Umpire—Mr Grower, of the Powhatan. Time of game—Three hours. Fly catches—Atlantic, 10; Union, 10, Base Ball Notes. The game between the Nationals and Mutuals at Washington yesterday afternoon was well contested throughout, and resulted in a victory for the former with the score 18to 16, Much \interest has been manifested concerning this game, and a large crowd of spectators were present. The following is the score by lunings:— INNINGS, Clube, 1s, 2h BY 4h. Bk. Gh. TU. BOA, 91h Nationals. a>. 8 4 3 3 0 Mutual On 16 ee eee 4 ‘The Empire secoud nine defeated the second nine of the Social yesterday at Hoboken. Score, 57 to 23, ‘To-day the Irvingtons and kowhataus will play at the Unton grounds, Brookiyn, EB, ). The Kmpires, of this city, wuil play the Unions, of Morrisania, at Melrose to-day. Ine Hmpires wiil meet at the Hariein Railroad depot, Twenty-aixth street aud Fourth avenue, at twoP, M, The nine selected comprises Messrs. I. Muler, Higham, L. Miller, Gedney, J. Miller, J. Kelly, Murphy, R. Me« Gowan and Josephs. The probabitities are that tha full strength of tue Empires wiii not be on hand, so that subs I be chosen from the following:— Wilson, Voege, Gritla, J. MeGowan, Post, Ward, or such others a3 may be present, To-morrow the Euipires will play the Actives at Hoboken. Shouid the Empires appear in their strength to-day and to- morrow very pretty gaines inay be expected, The Excelsior nine will play against the field to- day at the Capitoline grounds. ‘iiis game 18 pre~ paratory to the grand match to be played between the nines of 59 and 760, Tue former pine tneindes Leggett, Russell, Pearsall, Holder, Whiting, Cole, Fiaaly, Pothemus and Young. Pearsall, the “light. ning Hist base man,” will come from Montgomery, Ahi, to bo present at the contest, ‘yhe Knickerbockers, of this city, and Excelstors, of Brooklyn, Will Visit Washington shortly ab the to vitation of the Natioual Club, ‘The Oak Leaf Club, of New Durham, N, J., defeated the Alert Ciub, of Rid ved, the grounds of the latter, on Satur sre Of 82 to 29. On Thursday the Independent and Eekford, Juntors, Will play on the Union grounds, On Friday there will be @ grand game between kekford “nuts on the Union jay, ai80, the Adartiica will play Their return game With the Olympics on the Capie tollne grounds, and on Saturday taey will play the Stara, at the Capivatine, ‘The Southern Club of New Orkeans left that city on the Mutual aad grounds, On Ki the 10th imstant and have already played sever games with marked succe They take their rout through the principal cities of thé \Vest and North- West as fav perhaps as Olncinnatt. The principal clubs east of Porkopolls should extend vo the Southern- ers an invivation to come as iar Hast ax the Metros polis or Boxtua, It cotld easily be done, and such an affair would be an annal in the history of the country as wed aa of the game, and feud to reunite the social ties between the sections of the country, ‘The Southerners are now in tke velghborhood of Cmeinnatl, and the Bri eRallway Con pany bas Vol- Jeaving lis shoes behind him in his fight, pursued by the indignant husband and wife. Le was dnally overtaken and was given into the custody of tic oliicer, Camp Meetina at Bay RinaR.—A camp meeting of the German Methodists was opened on Thursday last at Van Brunt’s woods, Bay Ridge, in the towa- ship of New Utrecht. The occasion was considered aw of importance by the Germans of that aenomina- tion from the fact that it was the frat meeting of the kind ever held in that vicinity, Eleven churches ace represented, the whole being under the leadership of Presiding Elder Wallen, of New york city, There aro representatives (rom two Brooklyn church congregi- tions and three New York churches, while Newark, N. Hudson City, Elizabeth, Melrose, New — hochel ore all ro- and = Mogrisania resented in the haa The services on unday last were attended by about 2,500 persons, There were four sermons preached, two of which were in English and two in German, the oMiciating ministers being Rey. E. Joyst, of Walltamsburg; Rev. Louls Waller, New York; Rev. George Abbele, Ehgzabeth, N. J., and 0. F. Grenvinger, New York. ‘The services commenced at six A. M., and we kept up, with short intervals, yntil half-past eleven unteered, it 18 understood, to Convey the Southerners from Cinciinatt to this city and back at half the usual rates, in case the Hastorn clubs extend the tn~ vitation, ‘The Olympics defeated the Gotnams on Friday, at Hoboken, With the score 23 ty 24, The Patnaws (Jt) of Troy intend taking ® trip to New York anc are anxious te heer rout some of the heavy juniors of the metropolis auu other towus hereabouts, In the game for the nt championship played on Friday between tie Flyaway and Keystone Clubs the umpire gave the gate to lao Keystones, At the end of the ninth inaing fhe scove stood “Hed” at 25. Js bemmg too dark to play another in- ning the wpire decided thatthe gaue must go back to the eighth inning, when the score siood 26 to 1T in favor o1 the keystones, ‘The Irving Clab, organized on the Q5d ult. and named tn honor of James Irving, member of Assems> py, has elected the followlig oficers:—Prestient, B, Connor, Vice Prewdent, KE, Catully Secretary, W. Conner, Jr.; Treasurer, i’, sonngite recvors, 6, Adams, G.'W. Schateter, &, B, iubbard- ama J. Me btuart. They played thelr first game on Tuesday last at Mott Haven with the Frankia Ciub, Wianibg, WIth @ HEQLE U9 Los