The record-union., 1894-12-24
STREET CLEANING EXPERIMENT.
Another Success-Chance for Portion
OF the Unemployed.


Another SucceSs-Chance for a Portion
OF the Unemployed.
Last week the Trustees authorized D.
A. Lindley to experiment in remov
ing the mud from residence graveled
streets and allowed him 500 to expert
ment with. MIR. Lindley, who is acting out
of public spirit wholly, associated Road
Engineer Fairman with him, and the
same machine used on Ii street and Sec
ond street was rugged up.
Parties having been found who would
take the earth scraped up OH certain
streets, the work of cleaning began on
Saturday. \ street, from Tenth TO Fiji
teenth, was cleaned with success, and in
a short time. Men were employed to
clear the crossings and Cutters and load
the wagons. In the five blocks tried S.
600 pounds of mud per block were re-
moved. it weighing 300 pounds to the
yard.
In order to make the work 60 Just as
far as is possible, it was resolved TO give
the unemployed laborers chance TO as
sist the experllnenters. Tickets were ac-
cordingly prepared which read that each
ticket entities the holder TO one hours
work in loading the earth and cleaning
cutters and crosswalks, and that the
work is placed at fifteen cents. The tick
cts are to be sold TO the people on lines of
streets TO be cleaned at ten cents each. On
presentation the ticket-holder is paid five
cents, and al the end of an hours work is
given an order for tifteen-cent meal,
thus securing him good food for small
sum, while the property-owner pays out
ten cents and the experimenters five
cents.
This added income will, it is hoped, en-
able a large portion of the streets TO be
al~ 4 -,
niSh enough work to enable the needy to
get food. In looking over the matter II
was found that the number of men need
ing food and having no means whatever
10 get it, absolutely suffering, is greater
far than has been supposed. Fairman
says that he has been deeply distressed
by the pitiable want he has discovered.
o. p Dodge and +. ii. Russell have
been engaged as solicitors to call upon the
people and sell the work tickets. Their
first attempt on street met with most
gratifying success, the tickets being freely
taken. One of the gentlemen engaged i'll
the work says If the husbands who are
willing to aid the poor and the street
cleaning at the same time viii leave some
money at their houses for this purpose 1t
will greatly expedite matters, as The
solicitors can only call at residences.
Fairman and Russell made the first cam
vass together, and found several houses
but the householders had left no money
at home for the purpose.
The success on \ street greatly en-
courageS the workers IN this enterprise.
They believe they will be able to make a
little money do more good in this way
than the most vivid fancy can conceive.
IL is possible that a section OF street
will be worked to-day, but the plans for
putting ticket-holders to work are not
completed, so that any can be employed
to-day or until Wednesday.
All the tickets are registered with and
credited to the buyers and an accurate
account kept of them, and MIR. Lindley
saws that full statement of every cent
usrd will be published. No one aside
from Lindley and Fairman, but MIR.
Dodge and Mr.. Russell, will be authorized
TO sell the tickets, and as everybody
knows these two old citizens, there can
be no impos ton; besides, the tickets are
numbered in series so as to be Identified
as genuine on presentation, on whatever
street is worked.
Shovels and hoes have been procured,
two teams for the scraper secured, and
arrangements made Tor the disposal OF
the earth scraped up for three streets, full
length, and it is believed like arrange
ments can be made for all the streets.
The movers in the work believe that
every dollar paid for tickets can be made
to feed at least five men day with two
substantial meals, and perhaps more.
This means in eight hours from forty to
sixty men day supplied with food who
are willing to work for it, thus demon
strating their necessity. Men have been
found willing and anxious to work load
ing the earth, for enough to get a meal,
but who, for lack of strengthening food,
are actually unfit for the task. Ar
rangements are in process of completion
with restaurants to suppy food to such as
are employed, and to have the meals OF
a character to conserve physical strength.
1t is advised by the committee that in
giving out tickets residents of Sacra-
mento be preferred to strangers when
the fact of residence can be established.
AS to how many hours one man will be
allowed to work in one day has not been
determined, but it will be limited SO as
to distribute the means to the best ad-
vantage for the largest number that can
be employed.