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pans, pots, crockery, glassware, etc. They were raked in little 

 piles, shoveled into wheelbarrows and carted away. It is no ex- 

 aggeration to say there were whole train loads of rubbish to be 

 removed by the city teams. The plot was then filled up with street 

 sweepings until it was as level as a floor. It was staked off into 

 gardens ten by twenty feet with a street on two sides of each 

 garden. The streets were four feet wide, except the main walks, 

 these were six feet wide. The children were assigned their gar- 

 dens as they paid rent for them with a nickel. Elach received in 

 return a red card with name, number of garden and five packages 

 of seeds. Under the superv'ision of a director each planted his 

 seed and raised a crop. Stealing was no joke now. A new idea 

 dawned upon them. How were their gardens going to be pro- 

 tected and who was going to do it ? No fence was around the lot 

 and hundreds of persons passed through daily. No one gave any 

 encouragement. It soon dawned upon the young farmers that 

 the property was theirs and the responsibility was put upon them 

 to protect it. So then they organized with Mayer, Council, Com- 

 missioners and forty Police Officers. It was no play affair but 

 real responsibilities meaning much hard work. They assumed 

 their offices with a great deal of seriousness and did their work 



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