MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



contract; the city does not own any horses for its 

 street-cleaning department. The teaming costs $1.54 

 to $1.67 per machine per night, according to the divi- 

 sion in which the work is done. This sum includes the 

 horses, men, and maintenance of machines, except the 

 supply of revolving brooms. 



Sixteen horse-propelled rubber squeegees were in use 

 in 1906. The cost of teaming, sheltering, tending, and 

 maintaining these scrapers was $6700. 



The street sweepings resulting from the work of the 

 brooms are removed by contract for about $251,000 per 

 year. The quantity of material removed in 1906 was 

 175,610 loads or 481 loads per day. The quantity varies 

 greatly, as, for example when rainy weather follows 

 a dry period. 



The removal of snow is done by the contractor who 

 removes the street sweepings. The price paid in 1906 

 was 27 cents per cubic yard. The contractor 



Snow 



is obliged to procure the necessary carts for a 

 rapid removal of the snow which is piled in heaps for 

 him, and to provide the dumping places. The number 

 of cart loads is determined by check marks and is con- 

 sidered satisfactory. It is interesting to note that 

 the city did not pay for the street sweepings con- 

 tained in this snow. The average monthly quantity of 

 street sweepings was deducted from the total loads 

 of snow and sweepings removed and the contractor was 

 paid the difference. 



The removal of snow is sometimes a serious matter 

 in Berlin, snow storms sometimes taking place which 

 have many of the features of the worst so-called bliz- 

 zards in New York. During the winter of 1906-7 

 there were 410,582 wagon loads of snow removed at 



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