Evening star., 1901-04-20
MUST OBEY REGULATIONS.
instructions Issued Regarding the
Collection Of Ashes.

By direction OF the District Commission
ers, the superintendent of the street clean
ing department. Mr.. Warner Stutler, has
called the attention of Mr.. r. V Rusk the
collector of ashes and like refuse, to the
amendment of the police regulations the
22d of last January. constituting the term
ashes and designating the character and
size of the receptacles in which ashes shall
be placed. The collector has been instruct
eu by Mr.. Stutler to act in strict accord
ance with the amended regulations.
The term ''ashes." as construed by the
regulations. includes ashes from wood,
coal and other substances used for fuel in
connection with the ordinary conduct Of
dwellings, but not such as may accumulate
as the result of building operations" ETC.
Ashes, it Is desirable to remember are COL
!ected at public expense from only dwell
ing houses in the city, and its more dense
ly populated suburbs, and the regulations
require the occupants of such places to
provide for the use of such premises a suf-
clent number of metal receptac acles to con-
tain all ashes that may accumulate there
on during the usual interval between the
collections. and to keep such receptacles In
good repair at all times. mo person" saw
the regulations, without a permit from
the superintendent of street and alIey
cleah1ng. shall deposit ashes for collection
IN any receptacle having a capacity of less
than ten nor more than twenty-fOur gal
ions, nor In more than one receptacle con
tanning less than twenty gallons"
Ihe regulations, as amended provide that
the receptacles. when filled shall be MIA ced
in such position as to be easily accessthle
TO the collector between the hours Of 7
o clock am and o clock D M of ach day
on Whlch the collection Is made from the
premises. Any person violating any Of the
provisions of these regulations shall. on
conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
not less than one nor more than forty dol
lars Tor each and every offense. In expla-
ma ton of these regulations it is st ated tina t
numerous fires have been caused by persons
placing ashes in wooden receptacles, and
that metal receptacles were found TO be
necessary as additional protection of the
community against fire. 1t is also ST tated
that the sizes of the receptacles authorized
were found to be necessary in order to en-
able the collectors force to. properly and
easily handle them.
1t is understood the collector has been
in the habit of taking ashes from many
residences where there has been no OBJ
Servance whatever Of the regulations In a
number Of instances his men have lugged
barrels and large boxes of the refuse to
their wagons. and recently it has come to
the notice of the street cleaning depart
ment that householders have permitted
ashes to accumulate during the past several
months to the extent of cart loads making
no pretense of observing the regulations,
and yet are now demanding that the col
lectOr shall haul these accumulations aWay
All this. it is explained by the street clean
ing department, seriously interferes with
the proper and regular collections from
those premises where the regulations are
duly respected and Obeyed. Hence it is that
the collector has been instructed that COM
mencing with Monday next. the 22d in
stant. he will be required to assist as far as
it may be possible for him to do so, in a
strict enforcement of the regulations and
that he will be expected to thereafter re-
fuse to remove ashes from any place where
the law is not observed by the occupant
thereof