The evening times., 1897-07-01
STREETS CLEANED BY HAND
Daggett's Band Of Sweepers Put
to Work.
BROOMs, SCRAPERS AND BAGS
Employment Given to Seventy-five
Men--Force to Be Uniformed Like
Apparent Superiority OF the New
Method Over Machine Sweeping.

Street cleaning by hand,o4 all the prn-
cipal thoroughfares in the central part of
the city went into operation this morning
at $50 o'ciock. During the fiscal year be-
ginning today all of these streets will be
kept clean all day by a force'of men work
ing by hand continuously, There will be
no hour In the day when the force win not
be at work.
BY reason of this new departure from
seventy-five to Il hundred extra men will
be emplo yed There has been, for some time
q general demand that hand labor be en-
ployed in the street cleaning department..
The Commissioners had urged Congress for
q long tim to grant them permission to
employ hand labor, and were more than
glad when in the last District appropria-
tio,, bill this privilege was granted them.
The Times, from the first, strongly IA
yored the idea and advocated the change
The contractors who secured the work,
Messrs. Doggett and Dugan, Were able to
demonstrate TO the Commissioners that
they could do it cheaply and satisfactorily
aud employ Il large force of extra labor
ers.
reporter for The Times saw MT La
Rowe, the superintendent for the contrac-
tors, this morning, in relation to the new
system.
I'VE employed seventy men out of work
today he said Every one Of them has
a family of fiom three to seven, and the
number OF people provided for is nearly
400 Several others Will he hired, as
Nn In in 81
few days for work. and they are still
coming in all the time. The jobs We're
about equally divided between whites and
Lacks.
The new contract means that there
VIII be more and better street cleaning
The thoroughfares III the central part of
the city viii be much better kept, and all
the Others will receive the same care as
formerly
The streets which viii be continuously
swept by hand are: Fifth, from d to New
York avenue; Sixth, from Miss ouri
avenue to New York avenue; Eighth, from
c to u: Ninth, from Louisiana avenue to
Mount Vernon square; Tenth, Eleventh and
Twelfth, from Pennsylvania avenue to
New York avenue Thirteenth, from b
street north, 10 New York avenue; Four
teenth, from Il street north, TO Thomas Cir
Gle, including the circle; Fifteenth, from
Pennsylvania avenue TO K; Fifteen and-a-
half and Sixteen and a-half, from Penn
sylvania avenue TO II; b street north from
Sixth to Seventh; D streetnorth, from Fourt tn
to Sixth; Z street north, from Thirteenth
10 pennsylvania avenue, f street, from
FIFTH 70 Fifteenth; street, from Fifth TO
Fifteenth; Connecticut avenue. from TO
!; Indiana avenue, from Third TO d; LOU
isiana avenue, from Fifth. to Tenth; New
Jersey avenue, from to d; New York
avenue, from Fourteenth TO Thirteenth;
Vermont avenue, from to I street; hack
| stand, at Seventh ana streets northwest;
| Executive avenue; First, from Pcnns Il
| wanna avenue to Garfield Circle; Penn.
| sylyania avenue, from First 70 Seventeenth;
| First street east, from East Capitol to L
south: B street south, from New Jersey
/ avenue to Second east; VI street west. from
| Twenty-eighth to Thirty fourth street:
/ opera square, from Ninth to Tenth; East
| Capitol, from First east TO Second east;
Second east, from East Capitol to b north;
Pennsylvania avenue, from Seventeenth
street to Twenty yninthstreet, viii be hand
| swept twice W eek in addition to tue reg
ulaT machine Work.
The machine sweeping will continue over
the remainder OF the city, as heretofore
The band system for the principal streets
| includes force OF sweeperS and a force
| OF Scrapers, assisted By men with bags
| The sweepers and bag men co'rnence,I
operations this morning, but the scraping
| machines have not yet been received from
the factory. They are expected in a day
| or two
| The work began in several sections Of
the city early this morning force
started on Pennsylvania avenue ut the
corner OF Ninth street and worked up
toward Twelfth. When they had passed
at II O'Clock the broad stretch of the
avenue was as clean and neat as a
newly swept floor almost. Passing pc
deStrians liz Interested groups watched
the men at their work and commen Ted on
its toroughness and expressed pleasure
at seeingand walking or clean pa nents
! In other parts of tie city the same 1per-
alton went on, with the same results
Another innovation, which will be in
force probably by Monday, is new white
uniforms for all the street sweeping bri
gade. This uniformed brigade will be
modelled on that in New York, Se hich has
caused so much favorable comment The
men viii be distingushable everyw here a:
employees of the city, and in addition they
| VIII present neat appearance.
! the uniform is to consist of W hite duel
| trousers and coat and white helmets
|