, 1904-05-06

COMING AGAINST SCATTERING
LEAVES AND RUBBISH FROM
CUTTERS ON STREETS.
Mr.. r. e.. Fitch Writes Note and Judge
Carpenter Adds Weight Of His
Opposition to Plan-Pronounccd
UnsishtIy, Uncleaniy and un-
healthy In Extreme.

The action of the city marshal and
the street cleaning department in scat
tering the dead leaves and rubbish
from the cutters on the streets is meet
ing the condemnation of citizens gen
orally, and this morning Mr.. r. Z.
Fitch handed the following note TO the
editor of this paper for publication
over his signature:
In my own behalf and that OF many
citizens of Laramie, | a to enter a
very strenuous protest against the
plan of scattering the leaves and rub
bish cleaned from the bitches along
the Streets"
Judge Carpenter was no less posi-
tive in his statements and asked to
be quoted in the matter. He declares
it unsightly, uncleanly and unhealthy.
DR.. Brown is another whose voice is
heard in protest.
Many b~icyclists have complained.
They say that for the convenience Of
the public and their own safety in
avoiding the middle of the street and
the danger of collision with teams
they by common consent take the side
of the street, where a path is soon
plainly marked and which is followed
in all parts of this city. The street
cleaning department shovels the dead
leaves and the filth from the cutters
into this path. and the cyclists must
either pillow through it, which Is quite
wearing to the nerves of the man or
woman who delights in a clean. well
vanished wheel, or take to the middle
of the street, lodging wagons and
the sprinkling care as best they can.
A business man speaking of the mat
ter said that in the more than twenty
years he had resided in Laramie he
had never seen the streets in a more
unpresentable or more untolerable
condition than at present. He did not
know whether it was the intention to
leave the rubbish where it has been
tHIoWH Vi WhVllel 1 was llS
to later rake it up and haul it away,
but in either event it vas ~disgraceful-
in the one case for multiplying our other
wise clearly streets and in the second
for entailing the expense of having TO
do work twice that should be done at
one handling.
A prominent young clerk, while bust
ly engaged in fixing up his beautiful
lawn remarked that it was discourag-
ing to the property owners to try to
clean up and make their premises
beautiful for no sooner would they
get things in shape than the street
cleaner along, heaps the dead
leaves in the street and then allows
them to lay there for a week or ten
days to be blown into yards and over
laws. And this year things were even
worse than last. Instead of heaping
them up they were scattered out so
that wind can get a better sweep at
them. The only thing that has saved
the home beautifyer this year is the
fact that the weather clerk has sup
piled sufficient moisture thus far to
keep the rubbish from blowing about.
The professors are unanimous in the
assertion that the practice il it is the
intention to leave the rubbish where
it has been scattered, may be a lit
tie cheaper than the other way, is less
beautiful and less healthful. and they
would rather pay a little more, If
necessary, and suffer less. The coun-
Gil, they contend. should order the re-
moval of the debris.