Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15
STREET CLEANING BY HAND
Superintendent Stutler Wants to Decrease
the Area Swept by Machines.
Request for Necessary .Approprin ton
of Streets for Hand Sweeping.

Mr.. Warner Stutler, the superintendent
of street ard alley cleaning. has, with the
approval of the District Commissioners
asked for an appropriation which will en-
able him to more than double during the
next fiscal year the area now cleaned by
hand. The present area of streets cleaned
by hand is AT 500 square yards, and if the
appropriations are sufficiently increased he
will be enabled to clean during the next
year 463,7 34 square yards, or SS1 ,234 square
yards in all.
The streets which Mr.. Stutler proposes
hereafter to clean daily by hand, in addi-
ton to those now so cleaned are fol-
lows: K, 9th to 18th northwest; Connecti-
cut avenue, X to Dupont Circle, with cir
Gle; Pennsylvania avenue, 18th to Rock
Creek bridge; 10th, X to Scott Circle, with
circle; 18th, E to X; E, 9th to 18th; Sth, d
to Mount Vernon Square; 9Th, Pennsylva-
mia avenue to Mount Vernon Square; Penn
slyvania avenue southeast, I'd to 7th; East
Capitol, I'd to 18th; Maryland avenue, LIST
east to 4th east; H, 4th west to 18th east
Massachusetts, avenue, 4th west to Dupont
Circle; H, 9Th to 10th west; l, 9Th to 18th;
18th, B to Pennsylvania avenue; 18th, B
to Pennsylvania avenue; 18th. Little b to
9Th to 10th; 18th, New York avenue to X;
18th, New York avenue to K; 18th, New
York avenue to K; 10th, New York avenue
to K; I'd northeast, East Capitol to 5; A
northeast, 1st to I'd; B, Sd west to I'd east;
New York avenue, 9th to 18th northwest;
North Capitol, B to G; Delaware avenue, b
to northeast; list, Pennsylvania avenue
to c northwest; I'd. Pennsylvania avenue to
northwest; 3u Pennsylvania avenue to c
northwest; Indiana avenue, 1st to Sd north
west.
M. Stutler is n strong advocate of hand
cleaning, believing it to be far superior to
machine work. 1t also gives. he claims.
greater satisfaction to the people. AS he
stated in a recent report to Congress. the
streets, by the hand process, ARE kept
clean during the day with less noise and
little no dust the dirt being gathered
in bags which are carried to the dumps be-
fore being emptied; second, doors and win
dows may be left open when there is hand
cleaning, and the fresh air enjoyed by
householders in the warm weather, without
the annoyance from the clouds of dust suf-
fered along the routes when swept by ma
chine: third, when swept by hand, streets
need not be flooded with water and made
slippery and unsafe for travel"
Another reason he urges in favor of hand
cleaning is that under that system nearly
five times the number of men as en-
ployed in the sweeping machine are given
chance to earn a living.
While admitting that the general service
is not at present what it should be, Mr..
Stutler points out that it is the very best
which can be given under the present ap-
preparations. The service, too. is much
better than heretofore, he contends, and a.
a proof of this he refers to the records in
his office. They show. he states, that for
the last four months of the old contracts
and system fifty-two complaints were re-
ceived, while during the first four months
of the new administration of affairs but
fifteen complaints were received, a differ
ence of thirty-seven, about II per cent
decrease.