The White Wings have been ordered to clean up Coney Island. "It hasn't been cleaned up since the Rough Riders were there last fall." Their duties include removing garbage, waste paper and mud.
Promotional Materials; Correspondence; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); McLeer, Col. James Crooke; DeBevoise, Charles I.
Letter written by DeBevoise telling voters he served with Colonel James Crooke McLeer during the Spanish-American War and found him "clean, straightforward and humane … and, as a practising lawyer, splendidly qualified and equipped for office."
Clippings; Street cleaning; Quinn, Patrick H., 1852-1926
The World reports that Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn admitted that he did not have enough money to clean Brooklyn's dirty streets, and that "mounds of slush and slime line the streets."
Clippings; Snow removal; Quinn, Patrick H., 1852-1926
The World reports that 3,500 men helped with shoveling and street-cleaning in the city, but in West Meadows "families were without food and fuel for days and tore down outhouses to get heat from the burning wood."
Clippings; Snow removal; Quinn, Patrick H., 1852-1926
Merchants along Fifth Avenue, though they had arguments with Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn over snow removal, now commend him on the "excellent manner in which the streets are kept clean."
Flowers; Dyers; Plants; Animals; Clothing and dress; Dyes and dyeing; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
Illustration of deer and fauna surrounding card with name and address of office and branch offices. Gold background. Verso side: List of branch offices in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Text,"Dye, clean, and refinish all kinds of...
Jim writes to his mother about his time away from the front, in Barcelona. He was able to enjoy all the indulgences city life has to offer: a bath, a clean bed, good food. He assures her that it will be a long time before he sees any action. He...
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated March 18, 1871, praising Spooner's "treatise on money" and discussing the topic of monetary systems.
