The morning times., 1896-11-16

cleaned per man, 6.3l7 square yards: cost
per coo square yards, 40 SO cents.
Each mans equipment for the work
Consists of one bag carrier on wheels,
a dozen or mere bags, one broom with
steel back piece, short handled brush and
shovel. and watering can.
The sweepings are broomed to within
two feet OF the curb. The cleaner then
piles the same, and by aid of the shovel
and broom he places the refuse in the bag
attached to the carrier, and when it is
filled the bag is removed, tied securely
and placed upon the sidewalk for removal
to the dump by the first city cart that
com eS along.
The sprinkler used is the ordinary hand
can, the workmen appl ying water sufficient
to lay the dust. All material gathered is
sent to the regular dump. loaded on scows
and carried away. This system is followed
daily throughout the entire city, Sundays
excepted. In cases Of emergency, Sunday
work is done.
The city force embraces eleven superin-
tendents, whose annual salary is 81, 500
each; siXty-four foremen, at 81 600 each;
twenty dump inspectors, 81 900 each;
twenty assistant inspectors, 5000 each;
one assistant foreman, S65 per month; l.
500 broom men, divided into classes and
salaried as follows: Glass A, SI2O per
tluSS ID. Sooo pei dliLuiu. tidss
$500 per annum.
There are also ninety-eight detailed men,
paid at the same rate as class A, and $50
cart drivers, $40 per annum. OF the
100 carts, $50 are constantly on duty
on the streets being cleaned, the others
being on detailed service.
Major Nick Kcnzie makes a special report
of the section excepted from the fore
going statement, embracing III 1853 square
rhe this q
to peculiar conditions, is 10 % per
square yard.
He SAYS the amount appropriated for
street clea ming in New York for the
coming year is, in round numbers 81,
9S6,O0O, but the sum of $4,000 of this
amount Is reserved for snow and ice work.
In addition, the street commissioner may,
In emergency, draw for any amount 4or
removal of snow and ice. The cost of
street cleaning, according to Major Nc
Kenzie's estimate, Is 90 cents per 900
square yards, and he says it is money We'll
expended.
The system might In part be employed
inthis city-that is to say, by combination
OF hand and machine cleaning. The
cost, the superintendent says, would not
be SO great as in New York, but it would
exceed what we are now paying for ex-
elusive machine sweeping.
As a matter of comparison, the follow
Ing figures are given from Major Nc
Kenzie's report of the cost of hand clean
ing in Washington, based upon an expert
ment on F and g streets northw est,
covering seventeen days.
COMPARISON OF COST.
The area cleaned on both streets, in
cluding parts of Seventh and Ninth streets,
was S51 ,O50 square yards; average pei
day, At ,S26 square yards. The cost in
Cured for the same period was: For labor
per day Of eight hours, $171 80; horse and
cart, S31. .45; wear and tear, $3.50. Total
OF cost per day, S2O6 21. Cost per 900
square yards, % 1-2 cents.
Estimated cost OF hand cleaning the
public streets: Daily streets, 80 cents
per 1000 square yards, and all other
streets, SO cents per 900 square yards
The general cost OF all, the superintendent
says, may reach 81 1-2 cents per 200
yards. He divides the area into two
parts, the whole numbering 100000
square yards. Ee places $50, 900 square
yards in the part to be hand cleaned, ant
$4,000 square yards for machine clean
Ing.
me cost of the former is estimated al
80 cents per 1000 square yards, the latteI
at "a 1-2 cents. This gives the cost al
$3.50. 81 per day.
The present cost for the same area Il
$339. so, a difference of $25.S7 per da1
in favor of machine cleaning. The same
difference carried through o years work
would be an aggregate OF $6,726 20,
counting 260 days as the total OF tint
occupied,