COLOGNE 



snow districts lias a foreman appointed from the force 

 nl' remilar laborers, and extra workmen are 

 employed. Four wagons for hauling away the 

 snow are assigned to each gang. In all there are 56 

 snow districts. The work is begun simultaneously on 

 the principal streets. After this the other streets of 

 the districts are freed from the snow in regularly pre- 

 scribed order. 



The wages of the extra men are 7 cents per hour. 

 The removal of 1000 cubic yards of snow costs about 

 $84. The carts are provided with tally cards which 

 have the numbers of the subdistricts running from 1 

 to 20. The carts after being loaded and before 

 starting for a dumping place have their cards 

 marked, and upon discharging their loads, have them 

 marked again. From these tallies the work done is 

 calculated. 



The load cards and the working cards of the laborers 

 are provided with the signatures of the holders and 

 serve as vouchers, so that special accounts need not be 

 opened. 



Most of the snow is dumped into the Rhine. There 

 are seven dumping places on the wharves and seven- 

 teen elsewhere. 



The whole cost of street cleaning (including that of 

 day sprinkling, $11,042) amounted in the Cogt 

 year 1902, to $152,026. There was an income cleaning 

 from various sources of $14,679. 



The house refuse is hauled by the transportation 

 bureau out of the city in covered wagons. 



Final Dis- 



Formerly, the sweepings were piled in heaps position of 



at the dumping places and conveyed finally 



to agricultural fields. Up to 1897, the chief dumping 



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