BERLIN 



Another new piece of apparatus is an electncally- 

 driveii sprinkler and squeeze. The batteries are able 

 t<> run the apparatus for fifteen hours without recharg- 

 ing. There are five forward speeds. r rhe motors are 

 mounted on the front wheels and are of four horse-power 

 each. 



The streets are never flushed with water from a hose, 

 as in Hamburg and many other cities. 



Absence of 



The quantity of water used to sprinkle the HO*. Flush- 

 streets in 1906 was 409,000,000 gallons. 



Street orderly work is done by boys ranging from 

 fifteen to eighteen years of age. They pick up papers 

 and brush horse droppings into piles near the work of 

 gutter, using very long-handled corporation 

 brooms of pissava. About 40,000 of these brooms are 

 consumed in a year. The piles of street dirt collected 

 by the boys are not large, but they are unsightly in 

 Berlin as they are everywhere. Sometimes a gang of 

 two boys and a man collect the street dirt into piles 

 and remove it at once in a hand-cart to points where 

 it can be taken by large wagons. 



In one street (Leipsiger), a very busy and important 

 shopping thoroughfare, pits have been built under the 

 sidewalk to receive the dung and avoid the 



Temporary 



necessity of storing it on the street surface. PS for 

 This dirt is pushed into these pits through spe- 

 cially constructed chutes opening through the curb. 

 A metal pail or bucket is placed inside the pit to 

 receive the refuse. Rain-water is kept out as far as 

 practicable by iron doors at the opening to the gutter 

 and the bucket is provided with holes at the sides 

 through which the moisture can drain away to the sewer. 

 The buckets are removed from the pits at night fo- 

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