How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer epidemics

Father Knickerbocker: “Great heavens! is this all my descendants can do to keep this great city healthy!”
Representative of the Street-Cleaning Department [likely Irish]: “If yez think yez can swape a mile of strate a day wid sich a brum better nor me, yez better thry it.”
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 1879 (via Library of Congress)