The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-04
STREET CLEANING.

 The block pavements are swept at
 night on an average of two or three times week. It takes from seven to nine hours to do the work as 1t should be done. Some of the streets are very uneven and if the broom is run too fast 1t will not do the work as well and the wear and tear on the machine would be greater
 The sweeplngs are of little value for fllling-in purposes and for that reason they are disposed of to the nearest dumping ground that can be found for economy. They have been saved and piled up at the foot of Laurel steret and used on our public parks for fer tilizing purposes. But there were many complaints made about 1t being un- healthy and as a consequence we stop ped putting 1t there.
 The hardened streets are very seldom swept, but the gutters are practically kept clean, while the mud and dirt on the surface is not removed until 1t be- comes absolutely necessary. It ought 10 be removed as often as it is on block streets.
 There has been great amount of building done in the center for the past year or more and the carting from them has kept our streets in very bad con dition, owing to the large amount of waste material that has been dropped from the teams that were removing it.
 The street department has had all this to contend with, and as well the carting of a large amount of dirt--left on the roadways where the electric roads have torn up their tracks and relaid them. It cost more to clean off the mud from a mile of hardened street than to keep three miles of paved street swept and cleaned
 When we clean paved street we cart nothing away but an accumulation of light dirt and the streets are left, clean and healthy, while on hardened street we cart away a large percentage of the wearing material in the form of mud, which has to be replaced with crushed stone in very short time, especially on the streets that are heavily travelled, to keep them in a passable condition.
 For an illustration-Crown street, be- tween Church and State streets, was hardened two years ago; since that time l we have carted upwards of 100 loads of | mud off 1t; Orange street, between Elm | and Grown, same dn proportions; Elm | street, more in proportion; West Chapel | street, from York to Norton streets, 150 | loads this spring and a year ago 175 | loads; Wooster street (only two years | oldD, over 175 loads
 If we should undertake to keep all the | mud carted away from off the above streets it would require nearly double the amount of labor to do it, hence more expense.
 We have cleaned over 150 streets this spring and carted about 1,500 loads from )ff them. We have carted the material | )ff the hardened streets to the most | convenient dumping ground belonging % the city, these dumping grounds be- ng at a great distance. We have hard sned Lambertton street with cinders, rom Howard avenue to Norris street, which was much needed. We have fill d in the lower part of Munson street with surplus dirt, from the Dixwell ave- tue railroad, and street dirt from off oixwell avenue. We have filled up Worth Bank street with nearly 15O loads which We cleaned up from State street nd other streets in that vicinity.
 Whitney avenue Is now being cleaned nd we are carting the dirt that is there nto the east side of Gamer street, outh of Whitney avenue, and filling up he low sidewalk
 Whalley avenue is noV being cleaned. The dirt on this avenue we are carting } the low place, corner of Mott street l nd Whalley avenue, which is part of he Boulevard roadway and which will oon have to be graded.
 All of which is respectfully submitted.
 GEORGE L. IVES,
 Acting Superintendent of Streets.