Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-17
CLEANING 0F STREETS
What the Women of Kalamazoo. HEh., Have Accomplished.
CUT COST NEARLY IN HALF.

Women's Civic Improvement League
 Took Up Problem and Proved f
 Could Be SoIved-fiow Streets WcTe
 Flushed-cans Provided For Ru5his, Writing on Charities and Com mons," Caroline Bartlett Crane give an account of what has been done h' the Women's Civic Improvemenl league in Kalamazoo, Mich, a city ot 32,O0O population, to prove that it doe not cost too much to have clean streets lays the Philadelphia Public Ledger. IVA studied the matter of stree; 2Nanixs S as well as we could, and then wA asked for and received permission from the city council to take charge of six blocks of the main business street for three months Then we introduced the Waring system, the salient flea lures of which are:
 "First.-Sweeping the pavements by hand with push brooms and collecting the dir into piles.
 "second.-Immediatel taking up each pile of dirt and depositing it, with the help of a small hand broom and shovel into a bag suspended upon two wheeled bag carrier. which the sweeper, pushes about with him. -t.
 ''Third-Tying the bags when filled and depositing them in convenient places in alleys or along the street, to be removed by wagon.
 Fourth. The orderly or patrol system, by which each man is given ;> definite portion of the street to keep clean and is held responsible for this portion.
 xxyhi ifo ,1p1f a lpou white coat and hat or helmeD and wa terproof outfit for rainy days.
 "Sixth.-Flushing the streets at stated intervals-once week-in the absence of drenching rains.
 "We secured carts, brooms, uniforms for the men, and we made three ne4 | galvanized iron street cans, aluminin..l painted and inscribed, For Waste Pa per, Fruit Skins, etc. We also succec>i ed in getting the council to pass ai, antspitting ordinance. We took pho tographs of all the filthy downtown alleys and of the hideous refuse dump: which disigured our naturally beaut full river banks.
 "On the appointed day we began q! along the line at once. The men be. gan to seek the pavement, and after they found it the fire department came out at o'clock in the morning with some secondhand hose and flushed the streets under the direction of the chair man of the women's committee. Diff ferent ways of flushing were tried on successive mornings until the right way was found-fushing without noZ gle from the middle of the street eacE . way and either bagging the storm Z sewer entrances or stationing me, ss,s clah hoes to keep the coarser dirt from ,2eyNring. Of course the best way to ssss.,fush is with patent street flushing machine which works with compress ed air and which can be charged with air as well as water at any street hydrant
 Our very attractive cans were placed at intervals on poles along t.!e streets, and boys from our Junior league distributed thousands of little dodgers like this:
 PLEASE!
 ''The Womens Civic Improvement league has undertaken to keep Main street clean. We ask YOU to help us Please do not throw anything-paper. fruit skins, peanut shells or other litter in the street Put 1t in the waste paper can at the corner. And, gentlemen, please do not spit on the sidewalks or in the gratings or anywhere but in the gutter.
 'Eow, please don't throw this in thl street!
 "Our alley pictures were sent to the tenants or the owners, sometimes to the health officer, with the result that the alleys were cleaned up like magic and have been kept fairly clean evel since.
 "The experiment was an entire sue cess. The street was clean, peop liked 1t, visitors commented on it. mei chants said the lack of dust in thei stores was most noticeable, and we did 1t with no more cost to the city than the old dirty way-namely, $5 day.
 Then the street commissioner un dertook to keep the street as clean as we did, but without the Waring sys tenn. It cost him $8.99 a day.
 The league made to the city's com. m1ttee on streets and bridges an eX- haustive report showing the need Of really clean streets throughout the paved district and demonstrating the superiority of the Waring system and lts relative cheapness. We succeeded Tn getting the Waring system inaugu rated on three miles of pavement"
 Planting and Care of Street Trees.