The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-20
IHOW PARIS KEEPS
STREETS CLEAN
They Are Sometimes Sprinklctl
Three Times a Day at Mini
mum Cost.
NO WAGONS AND TEAMS
One Man and a Line Of Hose Ac-
4 composites Wondcrs--Con1-
mcnds System.

u 4! Mi, John +. Branch spoke yesterday
4 most ntercs tingly Of the system of street
Il sprnkling in use in Paris, the most beau
" stiful city in the world.
+ HI The system OF street sprinkling and
StEclcaning, as Mr, Branch explained 1t to
lib reporter for the Times dispatch yes
It4rday. is exceedingly simple and III
@ EXPENSIVE as compared with American
y cthods. and more especially Richmond
4 methods of laying the biting and all
q tpetvudns dust OF the public thorough
Il fares The fact that Ia gale Paris has
{8Euscd this simple method for fifty years,
aInnd that the whole city is practically
.iluust-proof being sans dust, sans dirt,
g}iand sans the other little atmospheric
that make life III big city
n q bore, particularly during the heated
IA Season OF summer. All these considera-
stions would seem to show that tho ;,dop-
33i,tion or similar fashions i'll this line
'3.Would be to- the profit and benefit or
is!any city. in Europe or In America.
,yts The tourist, the artist, even the dcni-
Stzens OF the Quarter Latin are sure or
getting Il Whit of dustless air when trs~,
arrive at the palatla Saint -.azare Sta
i E5on IN Paris, and a pleasant sojourn III
1.-The city and It's beautiful suburb is
assured them all. Ones pleasure will
not be narred by the necessity OF fire.
Hqucnt and drastic nose, eye, ear ana
Throat rinsingJ, and the ever-recurrlnG
tcall for tips iiom o1tlcious porters ana
ESothers who a,dlc the buster, as hap
fglobe.
Three Times Each Day.
iEl There, in the uncXcclcl city of PARIS,
fthe streets are sprinkled three times Il
day, and not only the main streets OF the
tcity. but even the smaller byways OF
'tnc place come in for their share of the
SWatery scdative of one Of the worst
Iplagues that civilized man has to con-
Itend with in these days Of progress and
5gern,-.:heoriging. The results of 60
good work on the part Of the authors
ties be they called health or otherwise,
lis apparent at once to the traveller ana
stranger in those parey-voo parts
,sS The streets are almost absolutely with
out dust, and as for filth and trash, 1t is
conspicuous BY its absence from the al
3lcys, hooks ana crannes and out Of the
}tWay corners
3ii Besides the added beauty and dcsra-
Utility OF the city as a stopping place,
there is the lack of that catarrhal
fepidemic that is noticeable in cs-Atlan-
tic cities. What physicians here but Will
tell state that the dust that fills hthe
air is the cause of the widespread UNI
comfortable feeling that is dcnomina ted
u CdlaTIu.t w nat ClllLtll Jul VIII PClI
stion the city to rid the air of the dust
and the tiny bacilli that hang to the dust
4 In Its meandering into sleeping chambers
and dining halls.
mn Straddles Like Plague.
Unit is considerations such as these that |
i5nlakc the statements OF Mr.. Branch Of
1.-The greatest interest at the present time
when Richmond is as sorcly afflicted with
dust as ancient Egypt was with the To-
Gusts. Were a system such as prevails
Sin Paris In use here, sinooms like those
that swept over the city yesterday just
tprior to the do%npour of fragrant and
3dust settling rain drops, would be impos-
}Eible, and the streets could he given a
much needed wash now and then.
FilsThe way they do the cleaning stunt
in Paris follows: A number of narrow
tfour- wheeled trucks, carrying an iron {
!Spipe of small dimensions are run into }
Ia line. and the end of the pipe on one :
iof the trucks is attached by means of E
those TO the water plug at the street /
corner. The trucks are joined by leather c
connections. which allow the water to r
pass from the pipe OF one truck to that )
On the next. and 50 on down the line.
Is nozzle Is attached to the last pipe,
and this can be adjusted for fine sprink-
Ting or for a grand rush OF the torrent
10 wash the stsaet. I.
l One Mai Can Do It. i
U BY the addition Of trucks. the stree. u