MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



can attend to depends upon many local circumstances, 

 including the character of the pavement, its condition 

 of repair, the state of the weather, and the amount of 

 vehicular travel. In one of the busiest places, Cheap- 

 side, a boy of 16 years, earning $3.50 per week will 

 take care of 1200 square yards of roadway. In other 

 districts where the travel is less heavy a boy can take 

 care of 20,000 square yards of pavement. The horse 

 droppings are thrown into iron bins on the sidewalk, 

 or in the center of the carriageway, and these bins are 

 finally emptied by men into high carts and taken to 

 barges on the river front. The boys wear white coats 

 and black caps. 



On Sundays a few men and boys are engaged on 

 the main streets from 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. clearing up 

 litter, spreading grit or squeegeeing as required. Water 

 carts are at work on Sundays, also, during the summer 

 months, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. as required. On holi- 

 days a number of men and boys are engaged for a few 

 hours in the morning on main streets to remove refuse, 

 to squeegee or to spread grit as required. 



Snow is removed as far as practicable by the use 

 of salt. Common rock salt, of a brownish color, re- 

 Removaiof sembling coarse sand, is stored in bins at 

 snow convenient points along the streets and is 



sprinkled on the streets like gravel on the approach 

 of snow. When the snow falls, it rapidly melts on this 

 saline bed and runs off to the sewers. If the snow 

 continues to fall for a long time and does not melt 

 promptly, more salt is used, until the mass becomes 

 a sloppy, semi-liquid compound which can be flushed 

 into the sewers with a hose. Only rarely is it neces- 

 sary to resort to carts to haul the snow away. In 



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