MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



cleaning by means of a crane attached to a wagon. 



The buckets are emptied into the wagon and returned. 



The household wastes are collected and disposed of 



by contract. The wagons are of wood. They are 



covered and so built that the garbage recep- 



House Refuse . 



tacles can be emptied into them mechanically 

 without the possiblity of casting dust or much bad 

 odor into the atmosphere. The refuse is delivered by 

 the contractor to the city and used as a fertilizer on the 

 city's country estates. 

 An idea of the cost of street cleaning in Berlin may 



be had from the following figures for the year 



1906: 



Wages of permanent workmen $600,932.96 



Wages of extra workmen . 75,616.33 



Clothing 13,520.09 



Teams, apparatus, and materials 129,213.77 



Carting 527,275.23 



Sprinkling 147,786.27 



Maintenance of property 5,098.87 



Public comfort stations 10,487.77 



Pensions, insurance, etc 3,779.82 



Extraordinary expenses, new and experi- 

 mental apparatus 10,306.99 



Total $1,524,018.10 



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