MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



While this was proceeding men and boys with hand- 

 brooms and squeegees helped clean out the car tracks 

 and inequalities in the pavement. 



When the work was done the street was clean except 

 for the gutters for a distance of two to three feet from 

 the curb. Here was dirt which had not flowed into the 

 sewers. The inlets to the sewers are of the usual hori- 

 zontal type. This street washing did not seem a wholly 

 desirable proceeding to carry forward during the day- 

 time on a crowded street. It placed a good deal of 

 dirty water on the streets at a time when the public 

 were not prepared for it. There was much splashing 

 and spattering of mud upon garments, sidewalks, and 

 even shop windows. 



Several types of carts and machines are used to clean 

 the streets, the idea seeming to be to experiment to 

 Types of some extent in the hope of finding the best 

 kind for the work. It is thought that one of 

 the best watering-carts procurable is a four-wheeled 

 cart which sits very high and sprinkles from between 

 the fore and hind wheels. Much or little water can 

 be used according to levers placed on the driver's foot- 

 board. Sprinkling can be done on one or both sides 

 according to choice. It takes about as long to fill one 

 of these approved watering-carts as to empty it. The 

 hydrant is much too small. 



One of the best squeegees is a revolving wheel, 

 like a cylindrical horse-propelled broom, but provided 

 with rubber scrapers placed upon the cylinder like a 

 helix. As it revolves it scrapes the mud to one side. 

 A large motor-driven sprinkling-cart capable of throw- 

 ing water to each side by means of a pump was being 

 experimented with in 1907. 



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