The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-20
NOW PARIS KEEPS
STREETS CLEAN
They Are Sometimes Sprinklcd
Three Times a Day at Mini
mum Cost.
NO WAGONS AND TEAMS
lOnc Man and a Line Of Hose Ac-
complishes Wondcrs'-Co Com
mcnds System.
NO WAGONS AND TEAMS

iA Mir. John T.. Branch spoke yesterday
most Interestingly of the, system of street
D sprinkling in use in Paris the most bcau-
fltiful city in the world.
|, The system OF street sprniling and
llclcanins, as Mi. Branch explained 1t to
i,A reporter for the Times dispatch yes
u tsrday, is exceedingly simple and in
expensive, as compared with Amcrican
methods. and more especially Richmond
4 methods of laying the biting and all
@pervadinS dust of the public thorough
fares. The fact that la gale Paris has
fused this simple method for fifty years,
ifnnd that the whole city is practically
Isdust-proof, being sans dust sans dirt,
tstind sans the other little atmospheric
that make life in big city
IN bore, particularly during the heated
season of summer. All these consdera
sstions would seem to show that the adop-
+, ton of similar fashions in this line
would be to the profit and benefit or
3Sany city. in Europe or in America.
t8 The tourist, the artist, even the deni-
tlzens OF the Quarter Latin are sure or
getting Whit of dustess air when tc.~'
Arrive at the palatal Saint -.azarc Sta
E5on in Paris, and pleasant sojourn Ill
1.-the city and its beautiful suburb is
assured them ALL Ones pleasure will
not be mar,ed by the necessity OF fire.
EQucnt and drastic nose, eye ear ana
sithroat rinsingI, and the CORRESPONDING
tcall for tips il ON ofiicious porters ana
tothers who handle the duster, as hap
4 pens In various other municipalities Of the
sSglobc.
Three Times Each Day.
5EE There, in the uncxcelictl city of Paris,
sthc streets are sprinkled three times Il
4day, and not only the main streets OF the
4 city, but even the smaller byways OF
ttnc place come in for their share of the
Ewatery sedative of one of the worst
tDlagues that civilized man has to con-
tend With in these days Of progress and
u germ-.:hcoriging. The results of 60
BSood work on the part of the authors 4
lilies, be they called health or otherwise.
lis apparent at once to the Traveller ana
stranger in those parley-voo parts.
sEs The streets are almost absolutely with
out dust, and as for filth and trash, 1t is
i ronspicuous by its absence from the al
3lcys, hooks and crannes and out of the
afWay corners.
NJ Besides the added beauty and dcsira-
Utility OF the city stopping place,
t8,Ithere is the lack OF that catarrhal
epidemic that is noticeable in cis-Atlan-
tic cities. What physicians here but Will
tel state that the dust that fills the
air is the cause of the widespread UNI
855 comfortable feeling That is ucnOmlnatcu
v catarrh What citizen but will peti-
,ton the city to rid the air of the dust
and the tiny bacilli that hang TO the dust
In Its meandering into sleeping chambers
mi and dining halls.
$sIs Straddles Like Plague.
3g ft{5It is considerations such as these thai
? make the statements of Mr. Branch OF
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
i In Paris in use here, simooms like those
that swept over the city yesterday just
prior to the do%npour Of fragrant and
dust settling rain drops, would be impos-
Y sblc and the streets could be given a
much needed wash now and then.
8&iltThe way they do the cleaning stunt
NJ in Paris follows: A number OF narrow
four wheeled trucks carrying an iron
pipe of small dimensions are run into
3e a line. and the end Of the pipe on one
a 1lose TO the water plug at the street
u corner. The trucks are joined by leather
z connections. which allow the water TO
pass from the pipe on one truck to that
Y On the next. and 50 on down the line
"a 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 stt;ct. 4
One Mai Can Do 1t.
4 BY the addition of trucks, the stree:
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