The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-07
M 'CARTIN WORKING HARD ID CLEAN UP Ihirty-three Wagons on the
 Rush All Day UNUSED ClSTERNS FOUND Dead Animals Picked Up and Buried. Weed Cutting and Burning Goes
 on--WiII Merchants Help
 In the Work?

Commissioner Mccartin. of the street department, kept his force of thirty three wagons busy all day yesterday cleaning up the town.
 Men on the force worked with a will and made great progress throughout the day
 Commissioner McCarten was in his buggy at an early hour and except to get lunch he hardly got out of it all day He drove from point to point in town, directing the work energetically, especially at points remote from the cen ter of the city. When night came he was physically tired but his keen inter- est in the work kept him in harness till late hour after nightfall.
 Will Make It Thorough.
 After a conference with Mayor Ward Saturday. Commissioner McCartin re- solved to make the clean-up work more thorough than it has been. Both men felt that it was not sufficient merely to cut weeds and burn them when dry, but that 1t was necessary to make personal examination of all premises and remove therefrom refuse garbage. tin cans and Bottles filled with water, and all other receptacles
 Orders to do this were sent out early in the day The result was that the amount of garbage carried to the dump ing grounds at Seventh street and Ave- nue c was greater than on any preceding day.
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 Commissioner McCartin directed his att tention to waste places and vacant lots on the outskirts of the city or at least far removed from the business district. He went after householders and prop erty-owners with a sharp stick, and made them in some cases against their protests. cut their weeds and clean up generally.
 Unused Cisterns Found.
 In the forenoon word came to the com missioner that number of cisterns, long unused, and level with the ground, had been found in the northern section of the city. These cisterns were partly or wholly filled with stale water. Commis- sioner McCartin made a personal exam nation and found eight of these cisterns He promptly ordered the lots moved and cleaned up, the cisterns drained or emptied and filled with lime.
 Dead Animals Removed.
 On the waste places and vacant lots where grass and weeds had grown high a number of dead animals are found. Among these a horse, two COWS and greater number of dogs and cats. All these were taken out and buried deep outside the city limits.
 The City Dumping Ground.
 All day long the garbage wagons were making trips to and from the city dump ing grounds at Seventh street and Ave- nue c. This dump Is situated on tract of twenty or thirty acres of land owned by the city, and Is managed most satis- factorily. Garbage and refuse of all kinds is carried there, except refuse of kind that might prove to be a nuisance. When 1t arrives the readily combustible stuff Is burned and that which isn't so easily perishable is dumped on the side of the gradually sloping hill This dumping ground used to be a fiat bottom, but it has since been filled in and is now almost level. The place is kept clean. and all sanitary precautions necessary are taken to obviate nuisances of any kind.
 Commissioner McCartin said last>night that lime should be sprinkled freely throughout the city. especially in the al- leys and on the premises of negro ten- ants. He said that the Carolina Port land Cement company had offered to sup ly free lime to any one in the city who might apply for 1t at the offices. Avenue A and Seventeenth street
 Mayor We'll Pleased.
 Mayor Ward drove throughout the city in the afternoon and kept in close touch with the progress of the work He is well pleased with what has been done and praises highly the energy and interest shown in the work by Commissioner Me- Cartin and the whole street force. The Mayor said yesterday that he hoped the merchants of the town would adopt the suggestion made by one of them, close their stores one afternoon thls week and turn over all their wagons to the street department to help clean up the city.
 
 First Christian Church.