MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



In many cities horse droppings form the bulk of 

 the refuse collected from the streets and if this mate- 

 rial is promptly collected and kept separate from other 

 refuse, it is sometimes salable. The city of London, 

 for example, sells the refuse collected by its street 

 orderlies for about 11 cents per long ton. 



In some instances, notably Charlottenburg, miscella- 

 neous street sweepings are used, after a storage of six 

 months or so, as manure upon flower beds in the city 

 parks. 



The most usual way to dispose of street dirt is to 

 use it to raise the level of low-lying land. Some diffi- 

 culty is experienced in this direction, for there is not 

 always suitable land to be filled. Furthermore, unless 

 the refuse contains a large amount of indestructible 

 matter, such as sand, it is not generally considered 

 wholly suitable for this purpose. In many instances 

 where transportation is cheap because of special canal 

 or river facilities, street sweepings are barged away to 

 the country with other city wastes. The barging is 

 sometimes done by contract at so much per ton. 



The removal of snow is universally considered to be 

 an unsatisfactory problem to deal with, although it 

 Removal of offers much greater difficulties in some cities 

 Snow than in others. In Berlin and in North 



German cities generally, the winters are severe, and 

 occasionally snow storms occur which compare with 

 some of the worst which are experienced in New York. 

 In Middle France and the Low Countries, the winters 

 are less rigorous. In England and Ireland the winters 

 are mild. Occasionally a year passes without any snow 

 in London except such as melts as it reaches the pave- 

 ment. 



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