The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-12

are SO active and vigilant in enforcing san
itary laws and ordinances of this character
that the streets are models of cleanliness,
and their condition materially promotes
the health, comfort and happiness of the
people. 10 make the action Of the police
effective, the hearty corporation Of the
courts is necessary, n the police justices
must promptly punish offenders against the
cleanliness of the streets, and severely, too,
in case they are repeated. With proper ao-
ton and CO operation of police officers and
police justices, the great and most impor-
tant obstacle to clean streets can be re-
moved.
TO make these suggestions operative
Gen. Clark. would have legislation on
the lines he lasys ae~n:
l. The laws and sanitary ordinances
should be amplified and extended, II neces-
sars, to cover minutely all subjects Incl
dental and necessary to clean streets. Such
laws and ordinances should be SO broad,
plain and explicit that every citizen would
know his duty in the premises, that every
police officer would be certain when it was
proper to make an arrest for violations, and
that M police justice conld fail to punish
upon proper evidence.
2. The ash and garbage receptacles, in
which the refuse of buildings and the sweep
ings from the sidewalks should be carefully
placed. should be we'll made of galvanized
iron, of style and size prescribed by ordi-
nance, and they should be portable, abso-
lutely tight, with covers, and the covers
should not be removed except when neces-
sary. These receptaoles should be placed
for removal IN the areas within the stoop
lines, or in some other convenient place,
but never on the sidewalks: and rag-pick-
ers and scavengers should not be allowed to
disturb their contents. The ashes and gar
bage should be removed daily at a fixed and
regular hour from every building. in abso-
lutely tight carts. Of style n size pres
cribed by ordinance, with covers so ar
ranged that 10 part of the contents can es-
cape. Carts for the transportation of street
or cellar dirt, manure or other refuse,
should also be of uniform size and style,
tight and covered, and especially construct
ed and adapted to their respective pur-
poses.
Practical experiments by the New
York board Of health, Gen. Clark says,
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advantageously and economically dis
posed of by cremation and he recon-
mends that plan. And finally, as the
result of years of experience, the general
concludes:
THE cleaning of streets and the re-
moval of ashes and garbage should be
on strictly business princi-
pies, and can never be successful or
satisfactory unless exempted from per-
sonal and political influences. The
commissioner at the head of the de-
partment and all officers and employees,
including street sweepers in charge OF
districts, should be selected solely be-
cause of their fitness for their respect
i've duties, and should not be removed
except for good and sufficient cause.
The methods of the successful merchant,
banker and manufacturer, especially in
to all employees, are necessary to
the economical and satisfactory conduct
Of any public business; and whoever at
to clean the streets of New York
by any other theory or practice is GER
tain to add another to the many notable
of the past twenty-five years"