The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1872, Page 5

AFILTHY CITY Alarming Condition of All the Streets and Avenues. Dist, Garbage aud Pestilential Vapors Scat- tered AH Around, AN EPIDEMIC ENCOURAGED. What the Street Cleaning Con- tractors Are Not Doing. HISTORY OF THE CONTRACT OF 1866. How. Money is Mado Out of Dirt and Who tho Money Goes Ta —_——-—---- Important Action of the Police Board. Results of a Sireet to Strect Inspection. For six months now great public outery has been raised against a great public grievance— gamely, the fithy condition of our streets, Searcely ever has tho popular protest been so general, 60 earnest and so continued, and yet the grievance still remains, and, judging from tho little heed which the responsible porson or persons have paid vto the indignation of the people, will remain antil that {ndignation assumes a more tangible form and tho public demand thelr rights in terms the unport = | foyrth street are cleaned by private subscription, a a Der RENE ond ayenue on the east side and Bixth Summer is come again, and it is no exazgeration | avenue tn the west. to nay that to-day tho streets of Néw York are a ‘ace to a civilized Community, and are in some cases in a fitiér Zondition than the flilthiest streets $4 the filthiest clty in the world. ‘This last assertion may seem an exaggeration, but those who doubt tt ought to havo followed a Heratp reporter in his ‘Walks through the by-streets of some of the wards adjoining the most crowded thoroughfares. la the following article it is Intended to show, by taste and figures, that this state of things is only a | Batural result of THE SPIRIT OF PLUNDER which for years past has animated all who drew money from the public purse; that we have suf- fered fret a small corporation and lattorly an indi- ‘vidual to look upon the money stolen from the pub- Me as legitimate prey, and to do as little as possible to discharge their obligations toward the people; that this neglect has produced evils which {t will require the most strenuous efforts to remedy; that While the filth has been allowed to accumulate In fhe streets to such an extent that it is now a her- @ulean work to cleanse some of them individuals Bave made millions of dollars by the street cleaning contract; that the present filthy condition of the streets is the result of years of neglect, and, lastly, ‘that really the streets of New York, except the few which the street contractor endeavored to clean lately, are in a more filthy condition than they ever have been before. During the session of the Legislature of 1865 a bill ‘Was passed appointing the Mayor, Recorder, Comp- troller, City Inspector and Corporation Counsel as @ Street Cleaning Commission. Governor Hoft- man, then Recorder; Godfrey Gunther, Mayor; Mat- thew T. Brennan, Comptroller; Johan KE, Develin, Corporation Counsel, and Francis I. A. Boole, City Inspector, were the first members of the new com- mission. b ' THE STREET CLBANING CONTRACT, On the 9th of June, 1865, a contract wag entered fnto between the members of the Street Cleaning Commission, of the first part, and John L. Brown, Shepherd Knapp and Willlam H, Devoe, of the second part, that the latter should undertake to glean the streets of the city for the annual sum of $498,500. This contract was made for ten years, and according to the different specifications it would seem was altogether made in the Interest of the second parties to the contract. It was gener- ally believed at the time that each of these three men represented a separato interest in the Street Cleaning Commission itself. Space does not permit ws to give the entire contract, but the principal #pecifications show how little was really required from the second contracting parties for the half million dollars yearly which was awarded to them, THE IMPORTART SPECIFICATIONS. The first and most important specification eet | forth that each paved street in the city, each alicy- way, by-street, wharf, pier and head of slips, except where prevented by snow or ice, must be | thoroughly cleaned at least once a week (!) and Broadway every night. | The second specification provided that all ashes “and gurbaz4 ke removed from the city in water- tight carts once every day. : The other important specifications provided that every driver of an ash and garbage cart ring a bell $n front of cach house and take the ashes and garb- ‘age from the inniates free of ali charge. It was provided, also, that all streets below Cham: | bers street be cleaned at night, except in the neigh- borhood of Fulton and Washington Markets, where horses and wagons congregate. One specification was put into the contract in the interest of the “first parties to the contract, It was that the pay- ments to the contractors were to be made quarterly, and that ten per cent could be held back as 4 guar- antee for the proper performance of the work, Such were the important provisions of the strect cleaning contract made by tho Street Cleaning Com- mission with Messrs. Brown, Devoe and Knapp. This is the identical contract under which the streets “aro cleaned to-day. These gentlemen went to work | and “cleaned the streets” for two years, At first everything went smoothly. A NEW BROOM BWREPS CLEAN. The new contractors, like a new broom, swept olean at first and made a great show, but they fell , off soon, aud at the end of iwo years made things #0 hot for themecives that they were glad to ‘dle. Pose of the contract to the late Judge James R. | ve nail hey were glad to get rid of the contract, | but it was balm to their wounded spirits to get | 250,000 for it from the late Judge, and considering hat they got it for nothing themselves CA ta fore this is not to be very much wondered at, + Whe late Judge Whiting Was On ective, energetic man, He af heard the povaiee clamor and thought hie tould aiiay it and do the work of clean- ing the streets thoroughly for A MALE A MILLION OF DOLLARS, annually, and make mone; ont, He took the hose and broom in hand, literally, and cleanest the streets for two years more—and ald clean. He had the ecumninted filth of @ year and a half to get rid of rat. During -tne two years lie was Street Con- | tractor it is acknowledged that the streets were never in a better condition, Te himself superin- tended the work in person. Tose in hand hte has been seen in some of the filthiest districts In the eit; eee, with characteristic energy at the in- Rabitants for allowing their houses to remain so | aur, ‘The popular clamor was ailayed. Judge | ‘Whiting had done the work for the money, had PAID A CASH DIVIDEND had built stables able to accommodate 250 horses, which are now worth $100,000; had bought $60,000 worth of harness and $50,000 worth of street clean- tng machinery. He had succeeded, and his success a@ronsed the ambition of the street cleaning ring. Jndge Whiting put in a bill one flay of $180,000, The ‘warrant for the payment of the bill would not be signed at the City Hall, Judge Whiting took fright and expressed a wish to sell the contract to his friend John L. Brown, who had made several pro- posals to him immediately before, but to which he would not accede, A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT BY JOHN L. BROWN, A bargain was made with Brown, who purchased ‘the contract for $500,000 (1), or in other words the contract had In four years acquired a value of more than a quarter of a imillion, Mr. Brown had had experience of whot the contract was worth, and he ‘was not te man to give an extravagant price. For two years Mr. Brown has held the contract, and it has by bo means decreased in value, as will be seen by the following facts:—Last year and the year be- fore the Legislature, at the instance of thé Board of Hesith, who were alarmed at the condition of the city, appropriated $250,000 each year for extra ! and be borne with tolerable resignation, but those NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. ing of the streets, This money was expended the Board of Health, and was given to John L. Brown for cleaning certain filthy streets, « IN POPULOUS NEIGHBORHOODS, an extra number of times each week, at mort three times. Nor was this all that was added to the yteld of the contract, The street cleaning con- tractor made 4 private agreement with hotel keepers, the owners of factories and others who wished that the asbes and garbage from their es- tablishiments should be removed as soon as possible. This is known as “private stuff money,” and ylelds an income of $40,000 a year. Nor is this all. Mr. Brewn disposes of the manure taken from the city | ut the rate of fifty cents the cubit load. The manure at present in the city, one year’s accumula- tion, cannet be worth less than $50,000, NOK 18 THIS ALL. 7 * The contractor some time ago purchased a num- ber of waste marshes on Second avenue, between Ninety-sixth and 110th streets, He has converted these into a dumping ground, and the property has become immensely valuable, Nor is all, He has received the Pairiiegs of filing up certain va- | cant lots, which kave since become valuable, But as these Jast two items are comparatively insignifi- cant we will omit them in the following table of the annual yield of the contract for last year and the yeur before :— A SIGNIFICANT TABLE. Original amonnt contracted for. $498,600 Bxtra appropriation ++ 260,000 “Private stuff money’ +» 40,000 Sale of city manure:. 60,000 | Total....... $838,500 PROFIT or, in other words, the contract has during the Inst two years nearly doubled in valne under Mr, Brown’s able manipulation, The late Judge Whit- tng made moncy and expended $200,000 out of an appropriation of $498,500 a year. Query. What Mr. Brown must have made ina year out of $838,500, his sunken lots and the dumping grounds, consider- ing that he latd out nothing and allowed the streets to become as filthy as they are now? HOW THE WORK WAS DONE, 80 much for the worth of the contract. Now how has it been performed ? Noone has ever heard of @ bell on an ashcart; the ashes and garbage have not been removed free of charge from hotels and factories; the streets below Chambers street whe: over cleaned are cleaned under the noonday sun; the extra money given’by the Board of Health has been thrown away becanse none of the filthy streets in the city have been thoroughly | cieanged, though the contractor's foremen were ob- | liged to make amMidavits that they were, so that he could get his money; 1,200 men in ali were em- Dlore to clean tho streets last summer, when irce times that number were at least require the streets have not been cleaned since last No ember untilone month ago, and the contractor | says that its impossible to do it, though it seems strange that the original contract should say every day, Twelve men was the greatest number eni- ployod Just year upon the most fiithy wards in the co ty. PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTIONS...» And it tanst be added io fill this, that all the | Btroces noove Fourtecuth street and below Thirty- ‘The contractor has been making a vigorous effort | lately to rid the streets of some of their fith; but what he has done up to the present is scarcely ap- preciable. The neglect of years has produced the present condition, and tt will require more vigorous efforts than he is making before they can be made what they should be HXTRA APPROPRIATION TAKMN AWAY. The extra appropriation has not been passed this ee by tho Legislature, and the contractor has no longer vory much Miterest in his contract. He never had to go to Albany for his money, and the trouble he has had lately in getting his money has dixgusted | him. It is said that he is anxiove to acl his con- tract, four years of which are to run, to any one who will buy it for $80,000, Ue now has to work hard to hold it at en, HOW TO HO TAR WORK WELL. Mr, Brown lately employed an getive aperintend- ent, Mr. George Middieton. It was at first thought that he had made over the contract to the latter, but inquiries made by the HeRaLD reporter show that he has not. Superintendent Middleton ac- knowledges that the streets are now in the most | filthy condition, but he adds that until the streets | are pro; perly paved with uniform pavement, which | cannot be disturbed without a permit from the on and ea deposit that the damage be made good; until the Board of Health compel the people to collect | and put outside their doors, in barrels or boxes, the ashes and garbage which accumulate in their | houses, the streets cannot be cleaned thoroughly. THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS. One of tho inost justand wellmerited of the innum- erable reproaches agalust the vile government to which the city of New York has been subjected for many years past is the sliamefully filthy condition of the Streets. To be anre; our great thoroughfares, | Uke Breadway and the fashionavle streets and | avenues lined by the stately dwellings of our wealthiest citizens, have always presented a com- paraevely cleanly appearance, the exertions of the lwellers and pray owners thereupon being oc- castonally aided by spasmodic spurts of awakencd duty on the part of those who condescended to take the people's honey for cleaning the people's streets; but the shame, TE SCANDAL AND THE GUILT, are only deepencd and intensified by the cont presented between the attention paid to the Apectable neighborhoods” and the horribly neg- lected condition of the streets and by ways where the broom and shovel are most sorely needed ; where the poor and the helpless crowd and swelter tn filth- pice | and loathsome contiguity, and where the necessity of @ pure atmosphere is consequently 80 tany thousand times more imperative. Tie | cleanliness (or, rather, the frecdom from grossly offensive unisanees) of the sel els and aris- tocratic portions of the city—even if it wero due to the viglance of our sanitary authorities and the faithfulness of their too well paid servants, which | indeed it is not, as has already been shown tn thie article—would only prove that these parties have been wilful end deliberate cheats, who have know- ingly taken the city’s money under faise pretences ; it isan attempted though extremely transparent fraud | on the general public, and, taken in conneetion | with the brutal and heartless treatment of the im- overished and helpless majority in this regard, it sa very sad commentary on our boasted demo- cratic republican institutions and the wonderful remedies for abuse which the never suiliciently belanded baliot is supposed to place in the hands of the poor man. It ts, ther SOMETHING AKIN TO A BLESSING that Nature herself, where ehe does not dircetly provide a remedy, always takes measures for a gure revenge—however tardy it sometimes may be—for the neglect or violation of her every law. Were it otherwise there is litle doubt that, while the immediate haunts of that portion of our opnlation whose frown is dreadful to health poards and street cleaning contractors might he a state of Veta sweetness and salu- brity, the localities to which honest but unsightly poverty is compelled to betake itself would never expcrience the enforecment of a single ganitary regulation, The reeking odors arising from the fifth of the Fourth ward seldom or never entend the nostrils of the dwelic? On Fitth avenue, and if thé possible propinquity of unpleasant smells were the only cause of apprehension to our influ- envial mliionnalres of brown-stonedom the abomi- | nations which surround the human gregarimes in fetid tenement houses would be very !tkely to re- ain undisturbed forever, Happily for th i jess and uninduential poor, however, a stroay well-founded belief has gone abroad that the villa- nous vapors which arise from tho festering heaps of corruption that agcumuiate upon poverty's ver! threshatd wil cohtent themselves with offend- ing the poor workingman's senses, with nanse- ating his stomach and spreading a horrible | allor over the faces of Lis wi etched wife and chil- | ren, With productng @ corresponding moral dis- colorization on the vision of ti rising generation of the poorer or “lower” classes, with spreading disease and death among these thousands of by-no- means-to-be-considered people, and “sicking or killing them’ in seores and hundreds, all which might of course be regarded complacently enough, irveverent an EXOREDINGLY DISRESPECTFUL VAPORS aforesaid are known to take Iberties which their birth and breeding would not appear to warran first sight. When the noxious particles of floating filth come to that terrible maturity at which their disagreeable odor becomes imperceptible to ths ordinary wostril, they are not only Gaugerous and deadly visitants, but wonderfnl travellers besides. They rise from thelr beds in the nowntown gutters and sewers, poise themselves in ti tie Upper at- mosphere wating the sweltering summer day, aud there wait until t hey O21; ride oi on the eVening breeae {0 away from thelr nativeatr. Then they be- gome the living dnd fearfully active germs of deadly dis-ease, in all the dreadful forms that are most to e shuddered at and Impossible to be shunned. viumphantly they float away from the sinms wherein they Were generated, and nolaclessly they pass thg bounds which mark election districts and wards and ehut In “respectable neighborhoods,” Softiy they are blown through the open windows of the brown stone monsion and the marble palace, stealthily they creep ‘up stairs, down stairs an¢ into my lady's chamber,” and siyly they min- gle thelr ‘uncongenial presence with the | perfumes of lovely flowers and rare and | costly essences. With their myriad claws they oldt and suddenly seize imperious Wealth by the throat and strangle him in the midst of his power and grandeur, They surround Rank and ‘ashion, and kill its possessor with even less trouble than they had with well-Inured and hard: Misery. At their approach Pride is soon compelied “to He in cold obstruction and to rot.’ They take reposing Beauty at AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE, and turn her ravishing form into a hideous heap of unapproachable putrescence, Terrible and rapid destroyers and no respecters of persons are those swarming embodiments of plagne and pestilence, and joathsome ts the death they deal wherever they , But imprudent as well as Impudent they aro, oo, and that at least ts fortunate; for marvellous little trouble, It 1s to be feared, would be taken to interfere with thelr amusement if they could only be prevailed upon to confine their operations to the wretches Who are com- pelled to wallow among the impurities of which they were born. But @ rather costly expe- rience has demonstrated that they cannot be so persuaded, and accordingly tt is resolved, not ex- actly that they shall surely die, but that measures shall be taken to prevent their coming into oxis- tence at all. Thus it 1s that our influential citizens have at length hearkened to the oft-repeated warn- ings of the HeRaLp; the sanitary authorities have gradvally noted the ommlous frowns of the infuen- tial citizens; the street cleaning contractors have slowly opened their cars to the complaints of the heaith officers; the scavengers have now very nearly hended the orders of the contractors to repair with broom and shovel and eart to streets and lanes and alleys where filth and rubbish do mostaccumulate ; and, at last andin the long run, it Is to be hoped that a few of THE DIRTIEST PORTIONS OF THE CITY will soon be rendered a litile cleaner than they have been. In fact, it is but fair to admit that some apparently earnest efforts are now being made to render walking through the streets a little less painful than it used to be, and nomietbing in that Way Was sorely needed. The past few wee! weather have helped to bring home directly to our eyes and ears and mouths and noses the crying want ofcleanliness, The accumulated filth of the thoroughfares has been dried by the san and wind and ground by passing vehicles and pedestrians into a fine, insinuating powder, which is now caught op By the Ught spring breezos and blown into every place where, by any chance, it can make human disagreeable. The fashionable promen- aders even on Broadway get their fine clothes ywdered all over before they can finish a full jozen biocks, and those who are compelicd to wan- der into the e#fde streets are tortured beyond en- durance. Compared with the state of things here- tofore the broom and shovel may now be sald to be hard at work, and pleity of work there je for idle hands to do. Down IN THE FIRST WARD the streets are still in a horrible condition, From State to Liberty street, embracing several blocks along the East and North Rivers, great mounds of rotten garbage, ashes and indexgribabie flih of other kinds stand up like monuments of bygone municipal corruption, Carlisle and Rector streets dare not be entered by anybody with & nose in good condition, Along this portion ef West str the sidewalks, channels and streets in front of the rows of the most wretched-looking sailors’ boarding houses reek with abominations of every vile descrip- tion. Heaps of foul-smelting oyster hens and ash- boxes, undisturbed for months and flowing over with noisomencss, offend the cye and nose at overy Horrible steams arise from the mounds of a n Greenwich, Washington, Cedar, Albany, Car- liste, Rector and Morris strects, The First ward portion of South street Is simply abominable, and in every block branching up froin Routh street to Peart aud'Trom Whitehall to Maiden kine the moat trying odors ascend from hundreds of dungheaps. IN THE SECOND WARD, which is bounded by Broadway, Park row, Spruce street, Ferry street, South street, Maiden lane and Liberty street, come approach to comparative clean- liness ls observable, arrays excepting Water and Front etreety, which are Ifdeseribably dirty, Every ont B space around Fulton Market Is covered with a crust of the most offensive fith, the exiata- tions from whieh, reinforced by the amelis from the new fish market and the great street Bower running into the Mast River at low water under the Fulton ferry house, compel the passengers from Brooklyn to hold their noses hard froin tiie tine tho owt ap- proaches tlie slip until they reach Pearl sures! IN THE VHIRD WARD, between Broadway and West street vand Reade and Soa streeta, the condition of the stregns ja, it possible, still worse. All the Btreoty rnnnfog west- ecome frighifully filthy as ward from Lethal they approach within a couple of blocks er so of the Hudson River. This is more particulaily true of Liberty and Dey streets, and of Greenwich street all the way, where it.{s impossible to pass over a cross, ing in eleanly safety after a shower of rain, The streets In the netghborhood of Washington Market are odious in the extreme, and are much worse | than even the sweden of Fulton Market ever dreamed of becoming. ne market's accumulation of the refuse of years—heaps of putrid animal and vegetabiec matter of every imaginable deserlption— are piled high along the sidewalks and gutters and stowed away inte deep holes in the middle of the street. The lower parts of Vesey sire Barclay street and Park place are in aa GLA disgust- ing state, Wading along towards Wee Broadway and Hudson gtre ‘ Re rik FIPTT WARD * is reached, bounded by Broadway, Canal, Reade and West streets, and here, wherever the popula- tion is thickest, the filth on the sidewalks and streets grows most intolerable, particularily be- tween Hudson street and the North River, street is one loug ridge of rotting refuse of the most objectionable kind. Greenwich street, near North Moore, isalmost impassable, and is feartiily dirty all the way along through thie and the First, Third, Eighth and Ninth wards, At the foot of, Lalght street is a city dumping ground which is a djagrac to our f0-Called ctyilization, Harrison, Hubert, Watts, Deebrosses, Hudson, Lispenard, Weet Broad way, Laurens (South Fifth avenue as it is now lied) and the lower parts of Dnane, Reade and ‘arren streets are all but #0 many cesepools, cov- ered over with decaying and foul-smelling garbage. e IN THR EIGHTH WARD, bounded by Broadway, Hrmersley, Honston, West and Canal streets, all the streets bordering on and approaching the North River are sadly in need of the seavenger’s industry, and the same inay be said of the Ninth ward from Clarkson to Fourteenth | street. Travelling along Bleecker street, which is none of the cleanest, we come into the Fifteenth ward, which, with the exception of the somewhst disreputable Wooster, Gre and Mercer streets and 4 few other very nasty thoroughfares, is com- paratively free from bad odors and thelr primary causes. Crossing Broadway along Houston street and turning into Crosby street we enter THE FOURTEENTH WARD, where the sweeper’s broom has been recently and is still pretty busy with some visit fects; but there et reinaine an immense deal of work to be done efore this entire locality can be decently fitted for human habitation. Moving down Crasby street and turning into Baxter street, and keeping an eye on tho various cross streets, such as Spring, Broome and Hester, the eye becomes wearled and disgusted with the litermihable rows of unsavory dirt that line the curbstones, waiting for the street cleaner wagons. Along porter treads his disgusting w: THE SIXTH WARD, bounded hy Canal strect, broadway, Chath: and the Bowery, Here the streets arc most neglected and i}-conditioned in the ard street is horrible, and Baxter, Mott, Mulberry, Worth and Peart streets and City Hail place are filthy in the extreme, THE OVLER DOWNTOWN WARDS. To dercribe the condition of the streets in the Fourth, Seventh, Tenth, Thirteenth, venth and Seventeenth wards, which comprise the remaining ordion of the city on the eest side holow Fourtecnth street, wi repetition of what has alrea First, Seeend, Third. and foulness and 'y and offensive to every sense, ‘The cleanmg process now going on, though some improvement certainly, will prove bag lata inauMelent. The work Is far from being thoroug! 4 done, and from conversa- tions with the men ehgaged in |i the reporter is fully assured that more frequent and thorough a tedious gfeaming will be necessary in all those places than hey are now receiving, ‘The people of all classes and conditions have resolved that the streets of New York must and shali be thoroughly cleaned and that immediately, and the health authoritica and contractors will do well to note this fact in time. Although tne portion of the elty lying above Four- teenth street is not entirely so filthy as the lower wards, there are plague spots In some of the up- town districts that wonld disgrace any city in the wo Some of these dangerous mounds of fester- ing dirt are on the west side of the city, but many more are on the cast side, where the population is crowded futo narrow limits, and the eflect of the flith before the doors is most astrous, Before reaching Fourteenth stre in fact, from First. street to Fourteenfh— may be found some of the dirtiest and worst dis- tricts in New York. On First avenue, at the corner of Second street, the thoroughfare is‘occupled with ruts and holes, into which the refuse from the houses on both sides of the street is flung, aud the result is A PUTRID, SERTHING MASS OP LIQUID The biock of Fivat avenue between Si Third and between Third and Fourth streets is in sucha condition that the perfumes from the flower stands on these corners are completely nullified by the stench emitted from the dirt Th the street, Third street, from about half way between Second and First avennes to the East River, la in A dahgérous condition for the health of the neighborhood, scattered as It is with rotting straw, house and horse refuse and almost every fescription of street fith, In some parts of fivenue B, where the street is well paved, there has been some attempt at cleaning; bnt In 9mers, where the covble stones are indiffereptiy laid and holes and ruts occur in the street the dirt has been simply covered over with a litile of the loose sand in the street, and there It lies tg poison the neighbor- hood, The sirects surrounding Tompking square ar iM a similar condition to thogg in the neighborhood but on the corney of Seventh street anc the avenue it ig oven a little wor On tis corner there is a dark BtagiBut OCC) of water, from which the foulest odors exhaled yesterday while the sun was shining, The effect of this may be easily Imagined when it is remembered the houses in the vicinity are almost all six and seven story brick tenements, inhabited by @ class of peopie prover- Dially careless in their domestic habits. — Tmnve diately opposite this pool of water, ou the side of the street next the houses, are heaps of dirt, THE ACCUMULATIONS OF MONTHS, and the dirt and the water seem to vie with each other in the attempted destruction of haman life. Eighth street, from First avenue to the river, 18 badly paved and uneven, and dirty to a degree. ‘The entire length of avenne C is in a most disgrace- ful condition, and no efforts are taken to improve it. The whole street Is not only dangerous to health, but ruinous to the lives of the people who are compelled to live in it, Ninth street, from First avenue to the river, except just in the middle of the street where the cars pass, is in a similar state to many others in the neighborhood, The gutters on both sides are filled with dirt, stop- ping the flow of water and creating A tortie nuisance, On Twelfth street, near avenue ©, there is a heap of tine sand, fragments of which not only get down the throats of people liv- ing near it, but those passing in the vicinity. Ave- nue B, from Twelfth street to Fifteenth, has reached the very climax of filth, and looks as lf it had not been touched 4 & sweeper’s broom for months; and in all probabillty its appearance isa testimony of the truth. The extent of East Thirteenth street, from Second avenue to the-river, is littered over ‘with heaps of dirt, horse manure, rotting straw and house refuse, There is no pretence at centraliza- tion there, as found in many of the other thorough- fares; the dirt is spread broadcast over,the street, On avenue A THE FILTIC THROWN FROM THR HOUSER has been gathered into heaps by some of the enter- prising storekeepers ou the street and le BOW Wait- { sof dry | Jay | of Broadway and | dis- | | but from present appearances the ay prosohing a Will still find it in the same place. Directiy in front of @ tenement house in East Thirteenth street there is a heap of hardened fiith that has been there since last November, the in the houses say. A little further down the street there is a smaller heap, and between the two monnds a 1 of = =6water has _— settled that makes the neighborhood anything but a learant one to live tn, The First avenue, where ourteenth strect crosses, 18 in a neglected state, badly paved and dirty to an alarming degree. On the dne block of this avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets there were yesterday no less than five heaps of dirt. On the corner of East Six- teenth street and the same avenue there ia another pool of water similar in character to those already deseribed, but mueh larger and deeper than any of the others, East Ninetcenth street, from Seeond avenue to the river, is covered with MISCKLLANEODS RUBBISH. At the juncture of Twenty-first street and First avenue the pavement is all tern up and the holes in the street are filled. with dirt and filthy water, Twenty-third street, from Third avenue to the river, Is perhaps one of tho filthicst streets on that side of town. On Twenty-second street, about half a dozen houses below the Bighteenth precinct station house, there is a heap of dirt almost as hight ae a man's breast, held tn ty an edging of large etones, in front ofa boarding house, ‘fhe people in the vicinity have evidently grown 0 fond of the dirt, from becoming accustomed to its resence, that they are taking care to preserve: it. | ju its present location for the summer, ‘The block | on First avenue between Twenty-second and Twen- ty-third streets is teeming with the very worst de- seription of house offal, From Twenty-third to ‘Twenty-fourth street, on the same avenue, there are ruts and poows of filthy water and heaps ef dirt. ‘There were six men at work yesterday afternoon sweeping (7) on Twenty-fifth street, between Firat and Second avenues. That part of the street is well and evenly paved, and that is one reason why that part of the street was selected to operate upon, The uneven and broken pavements are made recep- tacles for the dirt taken from the smooth surfaces, | and it is permitted to lie there until EVERYTHING AROUND I8 INFRCTED, The block on First avenue, between Twenty-titth and Twenty-#ixth strevts, is as dirty, if not dirtier, than any other block on that disgurting thorougi- fare. ‘There were a mumber of men at work sweep- ing In East Twenty-elgbth street, yesterday, but they handled the brooms in such a gingerly manner thal Gey might just as well have left their work alone. Prom Kast 'Thirty-fourth street to Filty- ninth, the filth is made up of two distinctly de- structive elements, The the sand disturbed in the roady by the passing venicles, which fills the mouth and nosteiis, setting upon the lungs, and only wanting the deediy odors emanating from the vast piles of houge filth in the etreet to successfully hurry of the vieting whe partake of it, 'TM¥d avé- nue, at Vifty-ninth street, is covered with heaps of rotting veretobies, house refuse, stable manure, rotting atray and almost ¢yery Geseription of de- structive ditt, Tne frst [wo or three blocks of Fifty-ninth street, going west from the junction RA Thtrd avenue is ina similar cendition, To ully carry out the characieristies of the east side of the city the street contractor, some years ayo, purchased a we tract of lend ut Ninety-fourth street, which he has ever since been filling in with all the fllth of New York, so that the tainte: getting upin that direction may be DOURLY CHARVERED WITH FOUL ESSENCES, and sent back to the people to breathe with every change of the compass. ‘This broperty, winteh ex- tends froin Ninety-iourth to i0oth street, was ovigi- nally low, marshy ground. Tt has bech fMited in e with the most olensive otal sat ' slums of New York, and is now ostl- mated at being worth — $1,000,090, ith, dirt an@ rottenness are carted from al points of the city to the diferent wharves from witch the boats start with the festering caigocs to this hot- bed of disease. Boats aie regularly filled evory day at the terminations of Catherine and Ganse- voort streets, and the river, with this vile stuff are towed up to Ninety-fourth street by steamers, where the filling in materirl ts dis There can be no doyht of the fi ng in quali of this compotihd, for it undoubtediy filis more graves than any other element jn the city.” The Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and h wards are n nsuatly considered healthy or pastoral localities while for dirt these localities could hardly be ap- proached by any populated districts in the world, and when {t is borne Mm mind that all the street sweepings and filth sent up the river from the foot of Catharine strect is collected In these wards, the effect upon the people living in the crowded streets: along the riverside and at the upper end of the sland may be easily conjectured. The poor are not only exposed to TUR DEADLY RFFECTS OF THIS STUFF while it s being transported up the river, but also while ft is being disembarked, and, finally, when tt ie settling, and all the difivrent elements of the dirt are combining for a powerful attack upon the heaith of the neighboring population, ‘The streets, from Fourteenth street to the Park, between Sec- ond and Sixth avenues, are comparatively clean; but the present street contractor has nothing to do with that, ‘The work is done by privite contract, and in some places it ts rather well done, Each house pays about one dollar a week to a firm that undertakes to clean the neighborhood, and in this. way Ue people themselves are able to have the dirt taken away. These private contractors have the dirt swept into heaps at the strect and avenue cor- ners, and the contraetor sends hts carts along to take up the dir and ashes, because it is valuable to him. Many of the uptown blocks pay as much as $100 and $150 2 month to there private contractors for the eake of health and cleaniiness, while the etty is paying a public contractor $480,000 a year for poisoning the population, The west side of the city, from Fourteenth street up and between Seventh avenue and the riv es an admirable | to Sixteenth street, on the Tenth avenne, there are HEAPS OF HARDENED FILTH the street almost im- | he azked the controlling spirit the cause of the | | Market str e companion | to the cast ide. From Fiiteenth that emit an odor that makes paseible. On the ue, between Sixteenth p' kind of mischief exists. enth street, from Eighth most unbearable, ‘Twen- condition, ‘Twenty-#ixth | tion of torn up Prom Thirty- orty-first street the same sort of thing is Ninth ninth to met at © footstep. Forty-second street, is a disgrace to any community. The pavements are torn “up and dirt. ts piled up until it has assumed the magnitude of Suiall mountains. From Fifty-third street up the same things meets the eye at every corner. The atreets surrounding the Manhattan Gas Works are extremely flithy, and the stench arising from them, now that comparatively warm weather has set {n, blending with that sent out by the gas works, is yost deadly in its effects, ‘the very walls of the houses are BRING EATEN AWAY by this biting, noxious atmosphere. On the corner of Seventeenth street and Tenth avenue a sewer was laid last fail and the pavement has not yet been restored. Sixteenth strect, fcom First avenue to the river, outdoes any thoroughfare on the east side for accumulations of flith, The Tenth avenue is in an alarming state; ail the length of the ave- | nue, from Fourteenth street up, is a disgrace to the city, The pavements are neglected; the dirt has been allowed to accumulate and the dust raised by | the street cars and passing vehicles make t| ouglfare a deadly Oue to live on. For blocks u blocks ut the ay er end of the thoronghture there are huge piles Of rocks on both sides of the way that have been there nobody knows how lon; nmany places thére has been thrown upon the sashes: and garbage from the houses into the streets. This has been going on untilit has been impossible to die- tinguish where the rocks begin or the rubbish ends, The block from Thirty-third to Thirty-fourth street on this avenue is par ty bad, and so are those on to Forty-seconi! street, The Eleventh avenue is something In the same condition, but there are spots on the Twelfth avenue that are equal to any- thing to be found on the Tenth, aud that street has certainly reached DAN SUPERLATIVE DEGRED OF FILTH, A number of catile were being driven up the Eleventh ayenue last evening, and they Were eo ensliiouded in the dust made by thelr own locome- tion that at the distance of a block the droye Jooked like a moving body of dust, A most remark- | abie Hustration of the theory . “How Nov TO bo IT? ‘Was given to a reporter of the H&KALD by the chie! ofagang o1 street sweepers last night. The re- | porter secing a lot of these men at work went over to Watel! the operation, and noticing that they left agreat deal more dirt behind than they swept up, phenomenon. “You see, said this Interesting individual, “we | has so many carts employed every day, at $460 | apiece.” “Yes; but don’t these carts belong to the con- | tractor’ a 4N6, lo! He hires ‘em, Well, they gits $4 50 | apiece and has to take eight or ten loads, accord. | ing to the distance they are away from the dump. | ing ground, tomake @ day's work, Now, if we was to sweep up all the dirt In their streets the way you wants us that man would git his elght Joads in two blocks, But we can’tdo that; we must make him cover at least twenty blocks, “But why ? “Because tt would cost too much. Ifthe streets was to be cleaned like that and all the dirt carried away we'd want twenty times as many carts, aud se € What that would come to!"? : “Well, then the pe would have clean streets.” “And the contr yould be a poor man. Oh, faith | that wonld never do, Its our duty to make it work the other way.” “On the principle, 1 suppose, that dirt brings luck *”" “Well, may be 80, You eee the contract binds the holder to sweep the streets every week at certain seasons of the year, and, well or fil, they must be cleaned, or else there is no cash, Now, it is much alsicr to skim em over and show we are working, get our pay, than te take up all the dirt and the whole o’ the money to the carters.” ‘s a wonderful principle.” w, isn’tit, siry Ob! it works beautifully, and the most elegant part of it is we are all satisied with it.” 8; but the people are not."” , that’s the misfortune of it; but then, sure, they are never satisfied,” At one of ita recent meetings the Board of Health requested the Police Board to enforce the health ordnance forbidding people to throw any kind of rubbish into the streets and _prevent- ing the disturbing of mannre after six o'clock in the morning and before eight o'clock | years and 2 day | late residence, throwing any kind of dirt whatever into the streets | __ GAPFNMY.-On Monday, April 20, ing the pleasure of the contracter to be soneree | and to take them immediately before a magistrate, who will then Infict the full penalty of the law. ‘Those moasures are conskicred absolutely neces- as the hot weather is fast approaching, and AN INGENIOUS ROBBERY. Strange and Susptetous Adventures of a | Night Watchman. Early yesterday morning the premises 213 to 221 | Fast rorty-second street, occupied by J, M. Stearns as a «ik manufactory, were entered by burglars | and $2,000 worth of silks etolen. Miehael Shelley, the watohman, says that the bell was rung at two o'clock, and upon his gosng to the door and inquir- 8a epiteniion will be sweeping the city in-thetr deadly | } progress at any moment If great care Is not taken. | we muy, in the 220 year of his age. foun J. Garp The relatives and friends of the family, and those of his father, Hugh Gatfney, and hia father-in-law, Christopher moonade, and his uncles, Patrick Bart. ley and Joseph McArdle, and also the members of M. C, 8, Club, are respectfally invited to attend eral, from his late residence, 19 Pitt strect, ednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock, | GILMORE.—On Sunday, Aprif 28, Parrick Grumorr, a native of the county Monaghan, Ireland, aged 25 ears, The relatives and friends of the family are re. spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 469 West Thirty-second street, this (Wednesday) morning, at eleven o'clock, to St, Mi- | chael’s chireh, In Thirty-second street avd Ninth avenue, where a solemn requiem mass will be of- fered up for the repose of his soul; thence to Cal- vary Cemetery for interment. GRanr,—On’ Monday, April 29, Lewis Granr, Jr, youngest son of Lewis and Isabella Grant, in the 23d year of his age. ing who was there and what was wanted, he was told, “An omcer;” and that two ruffians were with- | out Whom the officer wanted Shetiey to assist Indriv- | ing away. When eo} opened the door he was met by 8 heavy wow £4, his right eve, and before he | could rocdver fori thé effect, the ‘tnrce i 2 wearing a cap, coat and shicld like a pollee ¢ Fi rushed in upon him, and, appiying a gag to stop his | cries, they handcuffed him, tled his feet, and se- | | curing him te a loom, two of them proceeded up- | stairs, leaving the apparent officer In charge of hin, and opening a case of goods took twelve picces of | etlk. Shelley says he did not allow them to insert the gag between his teeth, work tt out of his alavm an hour after tera 9 bad entered the building; | while at the-same time he avers they were at least | an hour effecting the theft. Omcer Holley, of the | Twenty-first precinct, states that he saw a milk | Wagon stop at 242, opposite the silk factory, about | three o'clock the morning, and two men enter that house with a mitk can, and when he addressed thém they replied that thelr route being a long one, they must make an early start. After making another “reand,” Holley discovered the watchman of 263, who had by this time freed him- seit from the loom ‘anc reached the door. Shetley was laken to the Nineteenth precinct, bls | handoufs filed off, and at fix o'clock he was in the | bosoin ef his terrifled family, the hero of all the rossip in the neighborhood. No arrests were made, int Mr, Stearns thinks he ean identify the goods, a8 they were summor silks, of light texture and bright cotor, A siightiseratch over the corner of Sheiley’s right eye and some bleod en bis shirt ave evidences | of his encounter, witich may prove niuch or no- thing. | a ree MARRIAGES AND DEATH 1 oe | Married. | Dick—McSHANnB.—AtL Tomp Tues- | day, Aprif 2, 1872, by the Rey, Dr. , Wine LiAM A. Dick, of Brooklyn, to Miss E1iza MCSHANE, of Tompkinsville, 8, I. No cards. ForcR—EnL13.—On Sunday, April 28, by the Rev. M. D. Crawford, Mr. SrrrHEN H. ForRck to Mrs. FRANces A, Evtis, both of New York, Guirvitas—Dopag,—In Brooklyn, on Tuesdey, | April 8, at St. James’ church, by the Roy. ¢. W, Homer, 1. J. Qaireitns to MAGGIE A., eldest daugh- tor of Stephen A. Dodge, Kau. | HAND—UBNDRICKSON.—At St. Paul’s church, Al- | bany, on Monday, April 29, by the Rey. Living- ston Reese, JOUN H, HAND, of this city, to HELE Avauera, daughter of Matthew Hendrickson, Esq., | of the former place, | ITINMAN—HARMON.—On Wednesday, April 24, 1972, | at the Chureh of the Transfiguration, by Rev. George H. Houghton, SAMUEL ©, HINMAN to SARAH | E. HARMON, beth of this city. HuUMPUREYS—GUILLAUDEU.—On Tuesday, April 30, at Trinity church, Bergen Point, N.J., by Nev, G %, Gray, ALEXANDER ©. Humpurkys to EVA Guin. | LAUDEU, younger daugliter of the late Dr. Umile | Guipauden, No garde, | a and 60 managed to | lips and give the | Z Woes (ORAN—LRWIA.—Married clandestincly, on Mon- April 29, by the Rev. Dr. Schenck, of ‘St. Ann's | Broowiyn Heights, FRANK ’A, Moran to KE. youngest daughter of John W. Lewis, ali of Brookiy: Stmons—Heatn.—On Tuesday, April 30, at the | Lafayette avenue Presbytertan church, by tle Rev. d. Clement French, JuLtus FP, Stans to HLIzZa, daugh- ter of the lato Aaron B. Heath, Exq., all of Brooklyn. Smirn—Lewis.—On Tuesday, April 30, at tho Chureh of the Incarnation, by the Rev. Dr. Mout- gomery, Frepertox R. Saire, Licutenant Comman- | der U.S. N.) 10 CAROLINE S., daughter of the late 8. 8. Lewis, of Boston, Mass, Boston and Eastern papers please copy. Wrisse—-Svybam.—On 'Tacsday, April $0, at Cal vary church, Wy Rey, Henry Y. Satterlee, assiste Rev, Dr, B. A, Washburn, FANBUIL DUNKIN Werisse, M. D., and MARY ELIZABETH, Gaughter of Henry Suydam, Exq,., all of this city, Engagement. 2M AN—COUBN.—-MISE CART Coury, former! of Kaston, Pa., to 8 W. HEINEMAN, of New Yor! city, No cards, Died, BACUMANN.—On Tacsday, Apri 56, Im only daughter of Henry Bachmann, aged 7 years and 20 The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 306 Kast Porticth street, on Wednes- day afternoon, May 1, at two o'clock, Guyon,—At Kossville, Staten Island, on Sunday, 28, JOSEP G, GUYON, In the 6oth year of age. rie relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday, May 1, at the Methodist chapel, Rossville, at half-past two o'clock P. M. HAGENBACHER,—At Williamsburgh, on Sunday, 28, BABETTE, the beloved wife of Gottlieb Avett April | Hagenbacher, after a short and severe illness, aged 4S _ ye Fu half-past nine o'clock, No. 309 G street, rk. »ral will take place on Wednesday, May 1, at A.M., from the residence The friends of the family, also the members of the Congregation Beth Elohim, the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Wllamaboreh Hillel Loage, No, 28, 1. B.; Cassia LORY Oy 445, F, and A. M.; Crusaders Lodge, No. ot, I. 0, 0} oO. and Dan Lod, No.9 1,0. ¥.8,0fL, are invited to attend the fine GOTTLIEB HAGENBACHER, ISIDOR HAGENBACHER, BERMAN HAGENBACHER, 1. TLAG R, HAG Ry MAN, ther, A NEMAN,—On Sunday night, April 28, BAMPSON SEMAN, in the 60th year of his age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to ationd ti “ ednesday morning, May 1) slock, from his late residence, 647 boxing? Children, at nine o’ ton avenue, near Fifty-fourth stree: MiLt.—On Monday, April 20, after a short and é- vere iiness, ANN Hint, belofd wile of Willlam. Lill, in the 44th year of her age. May her soul rest in peace, : Her relatives and friends, also members of Henry Clay Lodge, No. 277, F. and A. M., also Columbia Chapter, . 3, are respectfully invited to attend tie funeral, from the residence’ of her family, No. 276 Rivington street, on Wednesday, May 1, at one o'clock, Eastern papers please copy. Hombencer.—On Monday evening, Eh a 20, after short illness, Dr. Jvrivs Homsurarn, late of New Orleans, a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger- man years. B fnvited to attend the faneral, which takes place on Wednesday, May 1, at two P. My, from 287 Bowery, the residence of Mr. 'T, Stolts, un+ : LUDWIG TRE ‘Tuesday, April 30, 1874, » after a short ill Th “nds of the family are respect- fully invited to atte funeral, on Thursday, ay 2, at two o'clock P without further notice, ING.—At Fort, Washington, StePHEN Kine, in the Sith year of his age. The reiatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his brother, James King, corner 185th street and Broad. way, Fort Washlugton, on Wednesday, May 1, at two o'clock P.M. Kowarskr.—Suddenly, on Sunday, April 28, in the 22d year of bis age, CHARLES W., only son of Susan B, and the late Constantine Kowalski. Relatives and friends are tnvited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his mother, 169 State street, Brookiyn, ou Wednesday, at three o'clock P.M.’ ls remains will be taken’ to Albany for in- terment, LYNcH.—On Tuesday, April 30, MATTHEW, second son of Thomas and Rose Lynch, aged 5 years and 6 months, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the faneral, from the residence of his parents, 825 Kast Twenty-eighth street, on Thursday, May 2, at haif-past one o'clock. MarkEY.—On Thursday, April 30, Mary SMIrs, whic of Preven MARKEY, in the 45th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully Invited to attend the funeral, on Thurs- day, May 2, at one o'clock, from her late residence, 541 West Twenty-vinth street, New York, MATUEWS.—On Tuesday, April 30, RICHARD JouN MatTHEws, Esq., formerly of Rewer ties county Westnicath, Ireland, in the 65th year of his age. Fnneral from Memorial church, West Eleventh Alreet, corner of Wayerley place, on Thursday, May 2, at ono o’clock, Friends and acquaintances of the | family respectMily invited to attend. Interment at Greenwood Cenictery. | MoCLuskey.—On Monday, April 29, 1872, after a short iliness? WILLIAM MCCLUSKEY. The friends of the funily, and also his brothers day. ‘The relatives and friends are invi funeral, on Thursday, 20 of May, residence, 48 Bast Thirteenth street. Brapy.—On Tuesday, April 29, at his residence, No, 940 Bast Twelfth street, Counsellor Joan BRADY. ited to attend the at 2 P.M, from Cocunans.—Suddenly, on Taes¢ April 30, Isa- BELLA COOHRANE, only dauehtor James A. and Mary E. Cochrane, aged 6 years, 7 montis and 17 | daya, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from the res! detice of her parents, 98 Soath Third street, Brook- lyn, E. D., on Thursday afternoon, May 2, ai hail | past two o'clock. i COGAN.—On Monday, April 29, Many Coaay, only daughter of Peter aod Bridget Cogan, aged 14 | The relatives and friends of the family are in- | vited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her uncle, P. Brady, 13 Magazine street, Nowark, on Wednesday, Miy 1, at halt-past: seven o'clock AL M., to Rllzaboth, thence to Easton, Pa. Connor.—Ou Tuosday, April 20, at two otclock A, M., after a lingering illness, ANsiB, widow of WL- liam Connor, j ‘The friends of the family are respectfully invited | to attend the funeral, which will take. pi m | her late residence, 241 Kast Twenty-ninth street, | this (Wednesday) Afternoon, at two o'clock. | CokY.—In Brooklyn, b. D., on Sunday, April 28, | of edenia of the lungs, Cuanies Cory, tn the o4ih year of his age. ‘The relatives and frlends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his No. 76 Lee avenue, on Wednesday, May J, at haif-past two o'clock. | Londen and Plymouth (Kngland) papers please | >. ACDONALD, the beloved wife | of Edward Cox, | The funeral will take plac from Calvary Lodge, 203, F. and A. M., are invited to attend, | Cnrook.—Qia Tuesday, April 00, LacKA Cxook, daughter o H. Crook, aged 22 Years. The relath family are re- specufully invited to attend the funeral, oi Wednes: | day, May 1, at two o'clock P. M., from the family rostdense, 84 Chatham street. | CUNNINGHAM.—In Brooklyn, ob Monday, April 2°, Mra, B, Cooke CUNNINGUTAM, Widow of Captain Join Cunningham, of New York, aged $4 years and | dy daye. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to | and friends of the attend the funeral, on Thursday, May 2 at two o’clock P. M., from the r% f hor son-in-law, G. Pope, 160 President street, Bre . | Danikis.—In Brooklyn, on ‘Tu ay, Apri 20, si CATHARINE, Widow of Pliny Daniels, and 2 montis, the relatives and friends of th to attend the funeral, from th in-law, John Yates, No. 340 De 8d instant, at two o'clock P. M. Worcester and Frankiin, (Mass.), papers please cop JKER.—On Monday, April 20, at Belleville, N. | J., HANNAN Manta, daughier of Levi and Haunah M. Decxer, in the 2ist year of her age Relatives and friends of the family are respect: fully invited to atteud the funeral services, fron the residence of her parents, on Wednesday, May 1, at one o'clock. Carrlages wil be in waiting at the »U depot, Newark, on arrival of the forty minutes past eleven train from New York, of New Jersey Railroad, | DONOVAN.—On Tuesday, April 90, MARGARET Boy. | OvAN, the beloved wife of dames Donovan. | Relatives and friends of the family are attend the faneral, on Th aged 70 years family are invited | idence of her son- | n street, on Friday, | | i} ce, 100 Sullivan street, near Van Brunt, South Brooklyn. Doyir.—In Long Island City, on Tuesday, April | 30, after a short ilness, THomas DOYLE, & native of | Shanbally, Tipperary county, Ireland, aged 40 years, | The relatives and Triends of the famally are hivited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, Pros- pect street, near Jackson avenue (Dutch Kills), on | Thursday, May 2, at half-past two o'clock P. 3 Drever.—On Monday, April 26, Hermann FP, | DrevYeEn, Jr., aged 36 years, ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and also the United Brothers of Lodge 366, F. and A. M., and the Selutzen Corpa, Captain John FP. Rottmann, are respectin!ly invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 115 Orchard street, on Thursday | afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, FarroriLp.—On Monday, April 29, at the rest. | dence of her husband, No, 342 West Fifty-seventh | street, Mra, CAROLINE Parr MILD, Wife of Benjamin | P. Fairchild, in the 54th year of her age, | The foneval will take place on Thursday morning, | May 2, at the Pilgrim Baptist chareh in Thirty-thire street, west of Bighth avenue, at balf-past eleven | Fanret, only son of Jolin | o'clock. Relatives meet at the house at a quarte to eleven o'clock, are gn Ny E. and Ann Farrell, ‘The relatives and friends of the family me ite. spectfally Invited to attend the funeral, from S| residence of his 3, 410 West, Twenty-flith | street, on Wedne! May 1, at one o’clock, - FouLps.—At Passaio, N. J, on Tuesday, April 90, | Junta O, Foutps, wife of John Foulds ane daughter | of the late Captain Alexander V. Fraser. Funeral from the residence, bog!) ory | avenue and River street, Passaic, N.J., Thursday, | the 2d Instant, at half-past ten A. M. Train leaves of Gregory at night. In compliance with this request the Board of Police yesterday issued an order to the force directing police to arrest every person } Jersey, at a quarter-past eight a M from Pavonia ferry, foot of Chambers street, New II IIIIISSSS SSS ISS Particulars hereafter. | | AL hapel, | | dence, 16 Esse | to attend the funeral, on ig | L Jawes, John and Thomas, are respectiully Invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 23 | Ninth avenue, on Wednesday, May 1, 1872, at one o'clock. | ° MefiCan.—Gn Tuesday, April 90, ANNE B., infang daughter of John and Annie #. MeHugh. Funerw! from the residence of her parents, No. 11 Union pinee, Classon avenue, Brooklyn, on Wednes- jay, May 1, at two o'ciock £ ‘ONNOR.—In Jersey Cit y, on Tuesday, April 30, after a short illness, Joun 8. O'CONNOR, a native of te county Roscommon, Ireland, aged 66 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re- ectfully invited tend the fineral, on Thurs- y morning, Ma », TR t eight o'clock, from his late he remains will be taken a solemn high mass will 4¢ of his soul. "1 uesday morning, April 30, at his residence, load street and Third avenue, after a lingering Jiness, CHARLES R. PrrerseLp, in the 60th year of his aig Notice of fune *p U il hereafter. Roy.ixns,—At J sy City Heights (Bergen), on pe abs April 30, Joun T. Rouiixs, in the 63d year of his age Ther ind frlendsof the family are respect- fully in attend the funeral, on Friday, May 3, at three y M., from his late residence, Brinkerhot et, (fake Monticello avenue cars.) SHeRwoop.—On Suna jay, April 28, after a lon painful illness, ANNA GeerRUpE, daughter of Gil- bert P, and Marla Sherwood, in the 19th year of her age. and he veluiives and friends of the famil yectfily invited to attend the funeral, estdence, 82 Car are re- ‘om her t, on Wednesday, May 1, at two o'cloe! Her remains will be aken to Greenwood for interment. SM Suddenly, on Sunday morning, April 28, SMrri, aged 61 years, sand friends of the family are reapect- in Twenty-third street, near Third ayenue, on | fuily invited to attend the funeral, from his late ‘Thursdaay, May 2, at half-past oi .' The | residence, 586 Ninth avenue, on Wednesday, May 1, friends of’ the family, also inembers of Templar | at ‘ten g’clock A, M. Interment at Woodlawn Cen Smytu.—At Irvineton, Pa., on Sunday, April 28, by drowning, James Sstyvit| a native of’ Granard, county Long! and, aged 25 yea Sligo, Longt and Dublin (freland) p: STEORLAND.—On Tuesday, A daughter of Digdrich and Dorot 2 years, 8 months and is days. Relatives and friends of the family are reapect- folly invited to attend the faneral services, on ‘Thursday, May 2, at one o'clock, from her late resi- street, between Hudson and Green, apers please pet 0, ‘A, only hea Stegeland, aged ty. SreeLe.—At sea, in the Indian Ocean, during a ale of wind, washed from the bows of the ship Surprise, on her passage from New York to China, BENJAMIN VINTON, third Mate, son of Maria H. and the late Robert T. Steele and brother-in-law of Cap- tain 8. Samuels, of Mott Haven. POUTEN BUR In Brooklyn, on Tuesday, April 20, USAN, Wife of George B, Stoutenburg and daughter of Jane Boyd, aged 32 years, ‘Tho relatives and friends of the family are respect- folly invited to attend the funeral, at her late resi- dence, 96 Penn street, Brooklyn, B. D., on Thursday, May 2, at two P. M. elps Citizen please copy. TenkeTT.—On Sunday morning, April 28, at 35 West Twenty-fourth street, CuARLES W. TERKETT, only son of Gilbert R. and Eleanor Terrett. The relatives and friends ot the ar are Milly Invited to attend the funeral, at the Jersey respect- Madison aguare eae ehureh (Rev. Dr. nay on Wednesday, May 1, at half-past ten o'clock A, M. ‘THoMpsON.—On Monday, April 29, Marta Tome £0N, widow of Samuel Thompson, aged 69 yer ‘The relatives and friends of the family are to attend the funeral, from her late residence, Varick street, on Wednesday, May 1, at half-past two o'clock, VALENTINE.—At_ Williamsbridge, on | Monday, April 29, at a quarter to eight o’ciock P. M. ana A. VALENTINE, daughter of the late Mat jas an Hannah Valentine, in the 42d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the famtl Loa spectfully invited to corel tage orien 3 re mee ‘ ‘Thorsda a o late residence, on T i eat aeyor ae Yolo. Cars care Ae "elo jamsbrhlge, TP Oe omeon lyn, N. Y., on Tuesday r ‘April 30, of seariet fever, LAWRENCE L., ved 3 eure and é months, tiird son of Elbert H. ola R. Van Kieeck. ey: eran an friends are invited to attend the 5 ‘om the Chureh of the Holy Trinity, om funeral Tr otay 2, at twelve o°clOck. Warswhioit?.—On Sunday, lng: April. 28, Tuomas H., son of the late Thomas Ll. and Mary o Wainwright, aged 26 years, . sa reiauves and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday, May 1, at one o'clock, trom his late residence, 61 Delancey street WAKSER.—On phy e April 28, OLtve R. War- eR, youngest daughter of Thomas and the late Eliza Warner, in the 284 year of her Se The friends of the fanwly are invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her father, 165 Sonth Fifth street, Williamsburg, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. ? Wants.—On Tuesday, ot 90, after @ short ill- ness, HENRY A. Wants in the 63d year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are invited May 8, at one o'clock P. M., at the residence of his son-in-law, ‘Thomas B, Taylor, 115 Bast Fifty-fourth street. WILTBERGER.—At the Pulaski House, Savannah, Ga, on Saturday, April 2 Wittiam H. Witt BERGER, Esq., of that city.