The writer is of the opinion that it is just as essential for the city to collect the ashes and rubbish at stated intervals as it is to collect the garbage. This is the custom in all of the large cities and in many of the small ones. The cost falls upon the same parties in the end. The property holder pays it in taxes and those that hire pay it in rent. The rubbish contains much that may be of value when it can be collected in large quantities.
Many cities sell, at a good profit, the privilege of reclaiming anything of value.
The writer has been told by one interested in this reclamation in a large city that it was very profitable, several thousand dollars being obtained monthly for the tin and lead of old cans alone. We believe an adequate municipal collection of garbage, ashes, and rubbish is the only way in which the premises in all sections can be kept healthy and sightly, and it will make our annual clean-up unnecessary, thus contributing to the cause of the city beautiful.