Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14

May last another dump was closed to US.
leaving but six under our jurisdiction
and it is more than likely that two Of
those, the only ones located in the north
west section of the city, will have to be
closed during the current year. as they
are being filed up. very rapidly. When
this takes place all Of the hand sweep
ings of the section of the city west of
7th street northwest will have to be
hauled to 18th and NJ streets northeast,
or to Benning. a distance Of IN and By
miles, respectively. from the central
point Of said section, instead OF to 24th
and N streets northwest and Connect1-
cut avenue extended, respectively. as at
present. In order not to exceed the 10
cent Limitation of cost for hand cleaning
1t is necessary to assign to each laborer
on that class of work an average OF
about 10000 square yards of pavement
This area Is altogether too much for one
man to keep clean, and it is, therefore,
desired to reduce the surface yardage
per laborer by about 1000 square yards.
For the foregoing reasons 1t Is neces-
sary that the Limitation in cost be In
creased from 10 to 81 cents per 1000
square yards.
Explains Increase.
"(b) The proposed increase in limitation
from 20 to % cents per 1000 square yards
is made to meet the proposed increase in
the Limitation of cost from 10 to q cents
per 1000 square yards.
The following is a detailed statement Of
the estimated expenditures for street clean
Ing work for the fiscal year, 1909 and ex
plains the increase of $37, 600 asked for
Hand cleaning, 500 100000 square yards
at 2O1a cents per 1000, S102,500: machine
cleaning. 43o,OOO,OOo square yards at 22A
cents per 900, $97, S25; unimproved street
cleaning. $50 days at $73.S per day, $206S4;
alley cleaning, 10000 600 yards at 40 cents
per 1000, $4,000; sprinkling streets. $12ouo;
incidental expenses, $1,000; total. $216,ooJ
LAS will be seen, the estimated eNpendi-
ture for hand cleaning is based upon
cost of 2O12 cents per 1000 square yards.
I'm September, 1906. the machine sweep
ing schedules were rearranged that
streets which had Heretofore been cleaned
once and twice per week, respectively, were
scheduled for three sweepings per week,
and the area for daily sweeping was also
increased by the addition of some Of the
main thoroughfares that had previously
been cleaned three times per week.
By reason of these changes the schedules
were increased about 100000 square yards
per day, and the streets swept times and
3 times per week, respectively, instead of
6 times, 3 times, times and once per
week respectively, under the old ar
rangement.
Unimproved Streets.
The item for unimproved street cleaning
Is based upon the contract price per day
and the number of days upon which it Is
estimated that work will be performed.
Prior to November, 1906, all public alleys
were cleaned but once per week In that
month the alleys in the business section of
the city bounded by 18th street west and
LIST street east, Florida avenue and the
Mall were added to the schedule for a sec
ond cleaning each week, and that arrange
ment has been continued ever since. The
results have been gratifying from a
sanitary standpoint that it IS proposed to
clean all of the public alleys twice per week;
hence the estimated expenditure of $4,000
for that class of work.
sidewalks and cutters, under the act ap-
proved March 2, 1895, the sum of 81 900 was
allowed the street cleaning department for
the present fiscal year. but experience has
taught Mr.. Twohey that this sum is far
too inadequate and at least $4,000 will be
necessary. He says an ample fund should
at all times be available and Congress
should not have to be called upon when
extra funds are necessary, as has been the
case several years in the past. Even
though the past two winters were eXcep-
tionally mild and the strictest economy was
practiced the $4,000 proved to be too small.
No increase is asked for in the collection
and disposal of garbage. dead animals,
miscellaneous refuse and ashes and the
collection of night soil The sum of Sl6S,
$40. which was appropriated for this year,
will be sufficient for next year, he says.