The Minneapolis journal., 1906-04-25
POLICEWOMEN, But
BY ANOTHER NAME
MAYOR TO APPOINT "CITY BEAU
TlFUL" INSPECTORS.
Cleaning Day Deferred a Week Because
Of Law Against Rubbish Burning
Improvement League, Mayor and
City Officials in Conference-Many
Suggestions Made. .a r~a

Special policeman is title not liked
by the women of the Minneapolis I'm
provement league, who have applied to
the mayor for appointment as special
sanitary inspectors. When Mayor D. P.
Jones announced to the league, at
meeting yesterday afternoon, that he
under the law regarding special police
men, there was apparent consternation
among the women present. The -ex-
planation that they would not be called
policemen or be expected to make .ary
rests brought the plan into greater
favor.
An ordinance forbidding the burning
proposed "cleaning day. a week, but
the council is expected to grant special
permission to disregard the ordinance
upon certain day.
The Mayor Speaks.
Mayor Jones was present and spoke
at considerable length on the work Of
the league. He noted the lack of the
ash and garbage cans required by or
dinance,> and said this was responsible
for many of the unsightly piles Of rub.
bish to be found in some of the resi-
dence sections of the city, and said
that the persons who failed to provide
| these cans were the same who COM
planned most bitterly when their gar
bage was not carted away. He also
scored the unsightly billboard.
A suggestion which tends to solve
the vacant-lot and playground problem
was offered, that some woman in each
neighborhood secure from the owner of
to fit it up as a playground. A light
wire fence, sand pile, a swing or two
and small shelter would complete the
playground.
Another cleaning suggestion was en-
bodied in a letter addressed to the
municipal building commission request
ing that steps be taken to beautify the
city hall and courthouse. Some sort Of
garden for the interior court and
shrubbery for the outside area, to be
installed under the direction Of the su-
perintendent of parks, were the sug-
gestions.
Looking to Encampment.
All these plans were largely for the
Improvement of the appearance OF the
city during the G.. A. R. encampment.
Uniformed guides and maps of the city
posted conspicuously on the downtown
streets were suggested as well as drink
ing places where pure water could be
always ready. In connection with this
last proposition, low water troughs fol
dogs were urged as humane and a pre-
ventive of rabies.
| On the moral side, the league con
demned the system Of paying In checks
employed in many large business AM
manufacturing establishments, as tend
ing to drive men to the saloons, which
were practically the only places IN
which they could get their checks
cashed. g- r.
Overcrowding in the schools was de
nouneed as unsanitary and preventive
,, of the best results, as the teacher will
too large class could not give needed
care to the morals and conduct Of hel
pupils. The recess period Of fftee1
minutes was condemned as unsatisfac
tory and demoralizing. School gardens
as a substitute for the vacation schools
and the proposed detention home wer'
also under discussion. Notice wa
given Of the Teachers' club dinner OF
. May 8.
Words Of Praise.
The movement for a. "city beauti
ful' won these words of praise befor
the meeting: sy
Andrew Rinker, City Engineer
, am glad that the women have undertak
? en- this work. They can help particular
: in looking to the cleaning up of tn
Yards. The street commissioners ar
already at work on the streets and a.
leys but, of course, can do nothing wit
7 the yards. Minneapolis should be thor
!. oily cleaned by the time this movemen
is ended.
Mayor David P. Jones-The men
8 bers of the Improvement League hay
4 undertaken splendid work and shoul
q
1 officials and all citizens in their effort
\ to make the city clean and tidy.
Minneapolis must be in her best attn
for the visitors who are coming here tn
4 summer, >but the work should not en-
there; It should be carried on perm'
nently. Very few things impress vi
itors so much as neat, clean streets an
tidy yards, and citizens should see
/ it that all rubbish is promptly di
/ p'fe. Dr.. p P. M. Hall, Commissioner G
l ment League can be Of great value t
1 the health department in reportin
cases of nuisances. While we try
stimulate cleaning as much as possibl
Hive can only interfere when an actu
nuisance exists or is likely to create
B nuisance or unsanitary surrounding
/ There is need for a general cleaning u
of streets and alleys, but particular
the latter in the residence districts.
III Councils Pledge. z-...
Alderman W.. E. Satterlee, chairms
of the council committee to assist tt
1 league-The council stands ready
help the league in any manner with
it's authority: At the meeting Of tt
council next, Friday evening permissi!
/ to burn rubbish in the streets under t
direction of the police and the fire q
partment will be" sought. :. 3,
This is an effective way of gettil
rid of all the rubbish which will bur
The suggestion of having large boxes
cans on the street corners for was
paper and other stuff, which is NJ
z thrown on the streets, seems to be
- good one and ought to be tried.
y exercising little care much Of the ru
bish will not be found on the streets
in the alleys.
Guaranteed ft or no, pay. Spri
Specials, 500, $25 and $50. zak & Bog
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