The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-10
CLEAN UP DAY WAS
 VERY SUCCESSFUL More Than 500 Wagon Loads
 Trash Collected
84 WAGONS HARD AT WORK
Street Force, Police Detail and People Cooperate Well-commissione Mccartin Pleased--Mayor
 Wards New Piumaee.

Five hundred men. operating eighty four wagons cleaned up 12o0 cubic yards of trash in Birmingham yesterday. SIX hundred and eighteen wagonIoads of refuse was collected and carried to the city dumping ground at Seventh street and Avenue c.
 The street force worked like beavers, the specially detailed policemen did ex- cellent service and the business men and merchants gave plentifully of their time and their attention to the work.
 Throughout the city the people cooper ated promptly and willingly with the city officials in cleaning up the town. At an early hour the cleaning-up bus mess began and kept up till nightfall. Mayor Ward was on deck when the work began and kept a firm grip on the throttle of the street department force throughout the day.
 Started at Daylight.
 John McCartin, the street commissioner, was in harness at daylight and was ev- anywhere all day, directing the work and spurring on the men.
 When seen last night, Commissioner McCartin said:
 Cleanup day has been great suc- cess
 Birmingham is cleaner tonight than it has been before in it's history.
 fThe whole force worked satisfactorily and accomplished wonderful results.
 We had eighty-four wagons and 300 men at our command.
 Many of the wagons were furnished by Birmingham's merchants and business men.
 More than six hundred wagonloads of garbage were taken to the city dump Our work was made easy by the gen erous cooperation given us by business houses and the people.
 But for the assistance rendered by the merchants and some of the great corpor- ations we could not have accomplished half as much as we did
 Policemen's Work.
 orhe special detail of ten policemen worked wonders. These policemen acted as forerunners of gangs in the various districts. Their appearance stimulated the workers and had a good effect upon all classes and especially upon the negroes. we planned out the work systematicai- ly before we began if. and kept to the plan throughout.
 "rhe whole town was covered, the al- leys as well as the streets.
 '1n many cases the people all over town had anticipated the arrival of the wagons. Boxes and barrels filled with trash on the sidewalks were awaiting the wagons in a great many portions of the city.
 "The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company. Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, Louis saks, Dunn & Lailande, the Nashville Roofing and Paving company and many other business establishments furnished us with Their wagons.
 Result Satisfactory.
 ''The results of this experiment were so satisfactory" said Commissioner Me- Cartin "that 1 hope an annual 'clean-up day will become permanent in Birming- ham.
 ''The men on the force, the special po- lice detail and the people generally are to be commended for the interest they have manifesiei in the work
 Mayor Ward, wet tired and dirty, when the day was done, went home at clock. His friends thought he had gone to bed for rest.
 At o'clock he came down town, dressed out in a new blue coat a pair of white trousers, patent leather shoes, black sailor neoktie and brani new Panama hat.
 When asked for an explanation of his rare plumage, the mayor said:
 The whole towns clean, and thought the mayor should clean up, too and look respectable"