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CHAPTER YI. 



PUBLIC SERVICE. 

 Section 1. Street Cleaning. 



1. Reasons for having clean streets. 



a. Health. 



b. Comfort and convenience. 



2. Methods of street cleaning. 



a. Man with hand broom. 



b. Pick lip sweepers. 



c. Rotary broom with team. 



d. Flushing with hose. 



e. High pressure flushing. 



Discussion of relative value of these methods of care of streets. 



3. Provisions of city charter for care of streets. 



a. Street commission ; how appointed ; powers and duties. 



b. Superintendent of streets ; appointments ; powers and duties ; term of ofhce. 



c. Relation of mayor and of council to street care. 



4. Significance of good paving to clean streets. 



a. Effect of automobile tires. 



b. Effect of heavy wagon tires. 



5. Co-operation needed. 



a. Force. 



b. Citizens including women and boys and girls. 



c. Administration. 



Field Work, 



1. Observe the method of caring for the streets. 



a. In the part of the city where you live. 



b. In the down town business section. 



c. In the section where the poor people live. 



d. In the section where wealthy people live. 



2. How often are the streets cleaned in your community? 



If not paved, how often are they sprinkled? 



3. Learn cost of paving a block if you can. (Get data from superintendent of 



streets or from your parents.) 



4. What part of this city needs paving? Why? 



5. Ask your family physician if there is more sickness during the dusty season of 



the year. If so, why? 



6. What is done with the street sweepings? (Ask superintendent of streets.) 



References. 



Pupils' Readings. 



City Charter. City ordinances. 



American City, 6 : 895 — Crane, C. B. "Some Factors of the Street Cleaning 



Problem." 

 American City, 7: 435 — Very, E. D. "Modern Methods of Street Cleaning." 

 American Magazine, 74 : 162 — Roberts, Octavia. "Annie Murphy." 

 American City, 10 : 231 — Weber, G. "How a City Cleaned up and Kept Clean." 

 American City, 11 : 394 — Carlson, S. A. "Street Flushing by the Fire Depart- 

 ment." 

 Technical World, 21 : SO — "Flushing Streets with Mountain Streams." 

 American City, 12 : 147-8 — Hagerdom, F. "Sweeping City Streets by Machine." 



