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PRINCIPAL STREET 
STERZING, TYROL 
within a space but a 
thousand yards square. 
It can be so easily 
traversed afoot in a 
few minutes that the 
city has been spared 
the noise and dis¬ 
figurement of cars or 
bus-lines. The only 
tram in the province 
is a lumbering affair 
running from Hall 
along the valley to 
Innsbruck. T h e 
other cities being 
smaller, have never 
raised problems of 
urban transportation 
at all, nor have ques¬ 
tions of drainage and 
water supply, street 
lighting and policing 
AT BRUNECK 
harried their passive 
townsmen. Swift 
streams are ready to 
bear away the city’s 
waste, whether it be 
discharged through 
sewers, as at Inns¬ 
bruck, or by surface 
gutters as at Sterzing 
and the smaller towns. 
The water, of course, 
is perfect; but little 
has been done towards 
storing it for washing 
and sanitary purposes. 
T he town pump still 
does duty in the older 
and poorer quarters, 
and only in the new 
are dwellings favored 
with a water supply. 
For drinking, the pure 
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