The morning times., 1895-09-22
Superintendent Mckenzie Esti-
mates for $274,495.
SUBMITS ANNUAL REPORT
Millions of Square Yards Swept Over.
Increase over 1894 in the Amount
of Work Done, Due to a Greater
Appropr riation-Sug gest ions for
Further Extension of Service.

supt. Mckenzie, of the etreet ard alley
cleaning department, yesterday handed to
the Commissioners his report for the fiscal
year, ended June 80, 1895, in " hich he
shows that during the year there was
total of $50 ,553, 1S1 square yards of street
territory swept at a total cost OF $780,
216.25 '-'4'~ ~' " -n n'''' -r-"r
The price paid for street and avenue
cleaning was at the rate of 20 IA cents
per 1 900 yards The sw ept area represents
1885 miles of space. -2" ~tii's+
There was an increase in the amount Of
work done, and a corresponding increase
in cost over 1894, due to an extension of
the service rendered possible by an enlarged
appropriation.
The schedule for 1s95-'96 has been en-
| larged by still further increasing the serv-'
ice on many of the streets to the amount of
about 1.471,31O square yards per week.
The amount calculated as being available
for1S96 isstated to be sac. 900. s..i, =. ,..-a-
COST.OF HAND SERVICE.
The cost OF hand sweeping Pennsyi-
vania avenue, Executive and New York
avenues from Fourteenth street west;
Fifteenth street west, from Pennsylvania
aveniie to- New York avenue, and First
street west, from Garfield circle To the
Peace Monument, all of which is done by
contract, is given as $5,237.11.
|. In addition to hand cleaning that por-
ton from Peace Monument TO Rock Creek
bridge is now machine sweptthree times per
week.
Thsa rIa x-.Ad n q
given as $10,571.64. The area embraced
is 24,533,3l5 square yards. The total area
of paving is rated as 602 s56 square yards.
This part OF the service. the supcrintend:
ent says, is of most importance, a thepublic
health depends very largely upon the coDdi-
| ton in which. the alleys are kept. .-.,..-...
The almost total absence of complaints,
he argues, is evident that cleanliness has
been the rule. The cost of sweeping is at
:he rate of AZ 4-I0 cents per 1000 yards.
The cleaning of unimproved streets. cost
S1O,4S5.47. This branch OF the service
deals not only with the unimproved streets
of7the city, but larger area of-streets and
roads beyond the boundary, which has been
lately transferred from the country roads
chedule. 90. ....n .-r-.,-.4o .,..s
WHERE THE CARRIAGE GOES.
Unimproved alleys cost, net, S2,550.76,
the contract price being at the rate of
SLIT per day. 1t is into this class of
alleys the superintendent says, that much
OF the garbage and other refuse goes in
defiance OF police and sanitary regulations.
There are 3S7 alleys, which embrace
an area OF 26S, 900 square yards They
are cleaned each once in about eight days.
More money was expended during Jau-
uary, February and March of the present
year for the removal of snow and ice
than the cost for. several years previous
aggregated.
The report suggests that separate ap-
work, and also recommends that the act
relative to the cleaning of sidewalks and
cutters OF sand, gravel. snow and ice be
amended so as to embrace rUadways.
Mai. Mckenzie calls attention to the
large number of cobble and rubble paved
streets that have become so rough and
uneven, that they have been taken off of
the sweeping schedule. The streets par
ticularly referred to are b street north,
from Seventh. west to welfth street;
Louisiana avenue. from Ninth to Tenth
street; little street, from Tenth to Twelfth
StTett, anu Dclu Niutu anu ltuln streeB
vest, from Louisiana avenue to street
north.
He recommends that instead of letting
out street cleaning by contract the Dis
trict should have the work dome directly.
ESTIMATES FOR NEXT YEAR
The superintendent rs estimates for
1897 are: For sprinkling, sweeping and
cleaning Improved streets and avenues
100000; for paved cleaning, $4,000; i'm
proved alleys, S13, 900; unimproved streets,
S20.0a0; Pay~of employees of all classes,
S12T 1916; contingencies, $1,000; rent,
S42O. Total, $274, 4,495.
To this is added snow and ice item,
amounting to $4,000, and for sprinkling
unimproved urban streets and Pennsylvania
avenue, 81 1O,0OQ;sprinklings suburban streets
and roads, $4,000.
He recommends that per diem employees
be transferred to the annual rall- ,.z o., H.