The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-11
SPRING CLEANING TINE
Main Street. Il Put in spick and
Span Condition.
THINGS IN FINE SHAPE
It Il b Intention OF Mayor Harrington
and the 0thsr City Authorities TO
Keep Butte In Her Best Clothes
This Summer.

There ID \ surprise In store for h
people of Butte tomorrow morning.
and an agreeable one to. When people
20 to their business they will md Main
street as spick and span clean a. the
kitchen floor Of the neatest housewife
in town. Mayor Harrington issued or
ders to the street department yester-
day to put q force Of men at work to
clean OF the dirt that has covered the
paving on Main street all the spring.
making IL as dusty in dry weather and
as unpleasant in wet weather n be-
fore the pavement was put down and
complaints have been loud and fire.
Quent at the failure Of the city to keep
the pavement clean. but there will be
no occasion for complaint In future.
as II 10 the Intention Of the mayor
t. keep the pavement swept n
sprinkled In future. Each night
until there IL pavement enough to
warrant the purchase Of q sweeper. a
force Of men will sweep and clean
Main street from Quartz street to Ga
lena and there will be no further an
noyance from lust or mud.
In speaking of the matter yesterday,
Mayor Harrington said:
Il KNOW tneTe mas Oetn IOOul ~
some complaint about the condition of
our one paved street. but the street
department has had a great deal on
it's hands and We LAY not been able
to get ut the matter of cleaning the
pavement before. Like everything
else, 1t was merely a matter OF q little
time. We have got to 1t now. and
~henceforth the pavement will be
cleaned every night"
60 aA thu
Main street pavement kept cleaned IL
but a step in the direction of further
plans of the mayor in the same direc-
ton and for sanitary improvements
which go together with the cleaning
of streets. When n paving contcm-
plated is completed. Mayor Harrington
will recommend the purchase of q
street weepe for keeping all the
paved section kept clean and then will
follow, IL the mayor has his way, the
formation of garbage districts, the
same as are in vogue in all other cities
of Importance. The plans of h mayor
contemplate making one garbage dis
trict of the business center and one
of residence sections, and all garbage
removed by the city by contract. Citi-
zens will be required to keep some
kind of a vessel at their places OF
business and residences in which gar
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wagons will pass along the business
streets each day and gather up the
accumulation of the day before. In
the residence section. garbage wagons
will visit each place once each week to
gather up the weeks accumulation.
The individual amount will be very
light when divided up among the citi-
zens. Mayor Harrington said yester-
day that 1t would doubtless be some
time before the plan can be put into
effect, but he considered IL among the
very much needed improvements and
he felt confident of bringing Ii about In
time.
There will be q meeting OF the coun-
Gil committee appointed to secure pho
tographs of the city for exhibition al
the Omaha exposition. In the mayors
once at the city hall to-day. All the
views taken will then be on exhibition
and the necessary steps taken to turn
them over to the exposition commits
sion.