MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



making such small repairs to tools and machinery as 

 arc necessary. At the head of each division is an 

 inspector who is responsible for that division. A 

 second inspector is in charge of the night work. As 

 the cleaning force for the streets is recruited with men 

 who have seen military service, quartermasters and 

 sargeants are chosen for these higher positions; for 

 common labor only men are employed who have had 

 good reputations as soldiers. 



A night gang is composed of one foreman and 19-20 

 men. One man is assigned to a cleaning machine; 

 one man to a water wagon ; one to clean the street-car 

 tracks; a small party to empty receptacles which hold 

 the dirt collected from the streets during the day; 

 one or two to clean out catch-basins; four to clean the 

 sidewalks; six to shovel together the dirt which is 

 swept into rows by the machine brooms, and four to 

 drive the carts which remove the refuse. The night 

 work is finished when the prescribed work for the night 

 is done, and is therefore regulated according to the 

 weather and condition of streets. Under normal con- 

 ditions it should be finished between 8 and 9 o'clock in 

 the morning. 



Most of the street cleaning is done by machines at 

 wight and night. The cleaning done in the daytime is 

 Day cleaning on } v fo remov e material which is most appar- 

 ent to the eye. 



The streets to be cleaned at the end of 1906 were 

 700 miles long and had an area of 9,150,000 square 

 yards. Of this 5,200,000 square yards were carriage- 

 ways. 



The work which can be done at night depends upon 

 the capacity of the standard one-horse sweeping ma- 



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