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lection of ashes after which the cart collects garbage 

 until all the garbage on the route has been taken up 

 and carried away. The collection of ashes along the 

 route is then resumed and continued until the day's 

 work is done. The receptacles used by the house- 

 holders are supposed to be of metal and about the size 

 and shape of barrels, but this is not rigorously insisted 

 upon. Each driver is required to work from 6: 30 A.M. 

 to 4 P.M., at which time his route should be cleaned. 

 There are about 1300 drivers. Each cart horse travels 

 about twenty miles per day. 



The papers and associated light refuse are collected 

 in special carts of large capacity. The weight of the 

 material handled averages about 143 pounds per cubic 

 yard. The rubbish is collected when the householders 

 notify the department by a signal card placed in the 

 windows that there is material to be taken away. 



The paper and associated refuse are taken to central 

 depots or to piers along the water-front where they are 

 sorted, bagged, and the useful matter sold by 



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contractors. The city receives a small sum of of useful 

 money from a contractor in return for this 

 privilege of picking over the refuse. This contractor 

 sublets the picking privilege to other contractors. This 

 work is done in a dirty, untidy, and insanitary manner. 

 All the pier dumps are of primitive design and, with one 

 exception, are uncovered. There are seventeen dump- 

 ing places located at as many piers in the three boroughs 

 which are under the charge of the Street Cleaning 

 Department. The greatest distance from one dumping 

 place to another is about four and one-half miles. 

 Experiments were made nearly fifteen years ago by the 

 Department of Street Cleaning under Commissioner 



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