The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1901, Page 3

Surrounded by His Staff of Robust Clerks, All of Whom Keep Their Hats on and Smoke During Working Hours, the}: Chief Street Cleaner|3 Makes Garbage male Interesting Topic. 1g aa 19 19 Until the late Col. Waring raise i sat — the Street Cleaning Departmert to a Sats Sra Ee high sta tard of excellence it was the most despised and thankless job that Tammany Hall had on its Commissioner Nagle walked from Far Rockaway to Coney Island looking for garbage. SRR THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1901: Do: DOODIOGOVOHVOHODHOGHWOHHOH|ODHVGODGISOH|GIOOOH|GODOHOQHEDOITGI ADH AGVOSGHIGOVOOGOOIIIVS Cow, *Y Beane Bercy It’s a long walk, and he Is lame from It fo} Of course, there are one or two places @ ~ CHAT WITH THE BUSY STREET CLEANING COMMISSIONER, | POWERS CALLS ON THE HON, PERCY NAGLE. ® He Determines the 8 Status of a Derelict 3| Mattress and Also of a Floating Bunch of Bananas — Says Our Beaches Are as Clean as Any Other, for He Has Been Around Them. bunch of bananas?” “A bunch of bananas {s frult,* was the reply. “I suppose you feel flattered at the admission of Mr. Guggenhelmer thas Q) your writings on garbage make excele lent summer reading?” I ventured. : Mr. Naglo smiled a sort of tired amfle, patronage list. Now things are dif. ) between Rocknway and Coney where the walking fs 4 little wet, but the Commissioner is a sturdy man and would hever stent ata ttle thing Ike Jamaica Bay. Q] “on: he said, wearily, "T supposs ferent. Following on the tines of 2000S ASOAHATIIIONTEOVOGELGIAHA AEOSOSONO’ AIIATSAASHIAATIINASOAASSOST | some people will have to have thelr Uttle Col. Waring, the Hon. Percival E.} y1\e-vodtes cupy chairs In ther f one ‘The consequences should a chatr Nagle, irom the fourteenth : floor. of ut of the window and go crashing | the Park Rew Building, is directing} iown into Park Row might be most his department in the hope that his| \isstrous. record may stand somewhere near Robuat staff of Clerks. ff Of all the | that’ of fis brilliant predecessor. | Ct Nt cte's containa the! ost) robwat But he has his troubles and he fells, stan of clerks. ‘They are all men of full ti L, habit, with heavy jewels and the higa Artist Powers of some of them. Hin bit Meith tien ood eels canal chen nin) ing the example of the bo: each clerk By T. E. Powers. Wears his hat and smokes a fine, large cigar. I did not know that garba, about the boss appears to be the extent an entertaining thelr duttes, Of all the highty-pol- until 1 heard F d, expensive desks in the office T saw sioner of Street-' . +} but one that was equip ‘ith more Bir. Nagle takes I: up and *| furniture than a clean otter and luminates it. But, of course, it's his! a few envelopes. The one exception was! business. the desk of the boss, In iddition to the offices I have been in regular blotter and envelope equipment ft boasted of a bottle of ink, a pen and a bale of results of the busy work of the press clipping agencies’ sclaso “The boss ain't feeling very well.” I the red] was told by the man at the door. “Io's snulty on one prop.”* “He's what on which?" I asked In sur- gee hie lordly fleets of eaciioa scowa gall majestically out to sea, shirt of the Itailan crew Mitting from "« multy on one prop,” was “Didn't you know that one gale. It strong the rep during the businers hours of the day to| of his blow a chair out of the window. Doubt-| in one leg."" Jess that is the reason why ro many] Mr. ‘This and sorting press clippings| coming all the way from the Hacken- "was on the bum? He's lame] across the atreet from a boarding-house| an odorless crematory would drive some gle, wearing a big Panama] roof, in the fat above an amateur rag- hat. was seated at his desk. looking over the press clippings. He ts a man of commanding presence, an athlete tn his younger days, apparently. In his business with me he showed great Kool nature, but I inferred from the looks of his telephone that he Jumps up and down on the floor and pounds the w: with the receiver when the messages don't come right. "he went on, that are making the About Odorleas Crematories, Upon taking a seat T removed my It tle Massachusetts. hat. The bree: sack meadown toyed with my locks in a EMANner mort embarrassing, “Put on your hat," sald the Commis- stoner; “you'll catch cold.” I put on my hat and felt better. Then I asked Mr, Nagie his opinion of Act- ing Mayor Guggenhetmer's project to adorn New York with a few high-class rematories. No right,” sald the Com- ‘but where are you going bathing beaches.” making trouble for somebody, HOW TO GET RID OF THE RUBBISH ON THE BEACH. Let Peter F. Meyer auction it off. “Now, then, ladies and gents, here fs a fine stecl- wire bedspring just washed up by the beautiful waters of the Atlantic. How much am I offered?” OOO about garbage. to put 1 told him f didn't know. > attress in not garbage.” “I don't’ want any odorless crema- | ma tory in my district,"" he asserted, nd T guess you den't want any in you time plano-player, and across the hall “Oh, [don't know,” was my response from a button Importer, who imagines “I live next door to an engine-house,| that he !s an operatic baritone. Maybe stoner Nagle, his handkerchief, time you would be getting ready to en- Joy the new condition you'd be dead. “Thero xfe probably odorless crema-| hoopskirt, a bustle, a tin pail, a can, an| Brighton Beach I asked: wiping his brow with “but Just about the “What in itt" “Ite rubbleh."* row tn which the boarders sleep on the| of them away.” “It sure would,” assented Commie-| tories, but, I repeat, Our system of garbage | We don’t dump garbage fon is the beat we can have at “the very peo- udest kick} sea and have it come up and hand a ainst garbage on the beaches and so|clammy caress to the back of your would be the firat to utter strenuous] neck.” jen If we attempted to establish an lorless crematory within five miles|there hasn't a mattress come ashore at where they live or own property.”" observe by the public prints,” hat the Women's Health Protective | from Coney Island to Rockaway yenter- woclation haa made a few hogsheads|day and I didn't see anything excest a war medicine, taken up your trail and|few clamshells washed ashore in the mored that yon shut off the daily |strong wind.” Mettations of floating garbage to the “Yes,” he replied with a bored alr, he women, God bless ‘em, are always|have gone clear around Jamaica Bay,| 1 w I've just|thereby touching and appertaining to| if It wouldn't Sidney | Bergen Beach, Floral Park, Aqueduct, senfeld, President of that organiza- tion, telling her what she don't know|viliages and towns. nswered a letter from Mra, People have got the wrong idea about |an overpowering interest In his work an| wind was blowin garbage. Now, for inatance, a derelict|to walk that far. Statue of Derelict Mattress, I asked innocently. sald Mr, Nagle. ‘Bo In| anybody's beaches,’ a bedstead, an empty box, a barrel, a where are you] old hat, a broken picture frame or any- thing else that floate from the dumps, | J°Kes: I hava sent some other letters to We burn It. | of information from. “Speaking of letters,” he continued, “they flood me with ‘em. People seem to think I have nothing to do but an- swer letters. [ am going to get a lot printed reading something like this: “Dear Sir (or Madam)—All I have Kot to say tn regard to your letter is that Tam a street cleaner. Yours truly, Vercy Nagle.’ “I'll send one of these to everyhedy that writes:to me on trivial matters.” “Do you really clean the streets? J asked. T made a rapid mentat calcutation and | yaQing alt at Stanhnteas Pitas intits ie figured thay If he had walked from| scope and sald in a voice ringing wit Coney Island to Rockaway he must| Pie: |, as afrnid to look, so I asked him be a good idea to nave “Neverthelens,"” 1 suggested, “even ad- mitting that a derelict mattress ts not xarbage, tt 1s not pleasant to go Into the “VM pet? aewerted Mr. Nagle, “that any of the bathing beaches tn years. anid | Why, T walked the beach all the way Peter F. Stayer auction af inerabr a ordi estore cancun omatns T was lost In ad- oceans ata Nagle ve ane a ay jook and vouchsafed no reply. ¥ miration of a man who would take such When I started for tl elevator the with great velocity, And with a “multy | but every:chal: prop,” too! Reaches Cleam as Any. ¥ “No, air," anid the Commissioner, The police are looking for Stewart proudly. ‘Our beaches are as clean as| Farrell, who has been missing from his’ home at No. 19 Napler avenue, Cheater: Park, aince Aug. 17, He is sevent Remembering a recent experience at} ¥OrN oe treet inches tall and weighs 3 pounds. Hix complexio “How do you classify a navigatingjhe wore & dark gray sdien | ue GH oN MOTH, FLY. & FLEA AT DRUGGISTS SENT ey Mai, ‘oy Makes also.aGratéful Lotionfor: Tender, .Tired:or/Feveréd Feet. THE ROUGH ON'S NEVER FA prained Ankle, a Sp ‘¢ Bruised! Tendon, no tyament or Neel ‘a Black Eye, any. FEanedior “Sprain; Bruise j.where:the skin. is.entire. B-.@: WEIEM, Jemey Cuy, MW. 7, o. 8. 2. Pach Your things with itand DON'T WORRY,!) WT, GERMICIDE, SEPTIC, DISINFECTA LEIS (OR WASHING . 5/k ROOM CLOTH, GREAT Conran * NFOR - gorecrl© R v) L LAS Th TWO TO Typ, fo IT Wil as errnon Pe a, UMECT CLOTHING es SES IN SUCEESSION WI 0 0 Om WA WE M teges. 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