The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-23
CITY COLLECTIONS WANTED
Chairman Scranton Intimatcs Change Would be for the Bcttcr-To Look Up lnclncration
 Plant.

| S'idIltoll, lhe report covered in,
 work of the committee very thorough, and gave a prospectus of the work stil ahead, It was suggested that the com. lGittec be made q permanent organlza. ton and the work q permanent work Fhe report suggests thorough investi. gations of the powers vested in th, several departments of the city which bear upon the subject in hand and fl hew modification of laws on the mat. ter, If those in existence are found tc be inadequate.
 MT scranton thinks better means tc collect tho rubbish and ashes should he mad and hints at city department which sh lid nsvc that as it's snecial province. He is not certain that nm incarceration plant is exactly what is wanted to dispose of the garbage fin the best way possible but he s quite sure that the present methods are in- adequate and says that the committee VIII make thorough investigations of the question.
 It was reported at the meeting that a committees of ladies had come 10 New Haven from Derby, shelton and Anso- nia to ask the committee about details or HIS work. The ladies said they in tend 10 institute such q cleaning campaign In their communities as New Haven has had. A letter has also becr received from Providence making ln- qniries along the same llno. This shows. the committee said. how wide spread had the movement here become known about the country.
 Mrs. Leo Herz reported for the Wom- ems Civic club that letters had been sent to many other cities where the cleaning-up plan had been instituted and replies had been received as to the results attained. These replies were read and proved very interesting.
 The report of MT Scranton as chair man of the central sanitary committee was as forlowe:
 Report of Sanitary Committee.
 Tn offering this report. do so as chaiiman without having had an op- portunlty of submitting it to the other members and therefore, release them from any responsibility for It's contents
 'On April 6, 1908, your chairman was requested to organize q working com mittec to assist in cleaning up the houses, yards and lots. and to encour- age citizens in general to do likewise. also to investigate the causes which made the existing conditions possible and formulate suggestions which would prevent q repetition.
 With che able assistance of F. [, Warden, as secretary. a sanitary com mlttee of seventeen was formed, con sistinS of one member from each of the fifteen wards, secretary and chairman. Each ward committee man surrounded himself with a sub-c.m- inittee consisting of from five to forty members,
 Through the assistance of r. IT Eeede, superintendent of schools. and private school superlntendonts pe caused to be distributed blank pledges which were signed by nearly twenty one thousand pupils, to whom the pur- poses of the campaign were explained. In addition, We furnished about six thousand buttons, of special design which were distributed through tho same channels to scholars above the sixth grade.
 5000 Loads of Refuse,
 "On April 18th, the ward committees consisting of nearly four hundred mem bere, each under the charge of their ward chairman, commenced their work and on April l7th and 18th wagons were provided in which the refuse col lected, not previously removed, WAS carted to the public dumps II is con servatively estimated that over six thousand loads of garbage, ashes and rubbish were deposited on the dumps during the two weeks above mentioned and that whatever the quantity might have been 1t included twice the amount normally carted to the dumps during the spring cleaning of previous years
 great quantity of rubbish was sent .o the dumps by individual property owners, or tenants, which, in addition 70 that carted by the committee, made | ID the most satisfactory result.
 Some Dirty Yards StiII.
 Tho city as a whole now presents a 'ery cleanly appearance, but there are 'till a few yards which have not been 'ared for, and many open lots on which rubbish has been deposited, us- lally for the purpose of filling. We | nope to cause these to be improved in 'ppearance,
 In few congestcd districts which were beyond the power of this com nttee to clean up, there still remain onditlons which arc distinctly unsan- tary, unsightly and unsafe.
 We arc using certain means to 'ring to bear sufficient pressure on hose responsible for the condition to eieve the city of most of those Iusances,
 Work Co be Permanent.
 l recommend that this committee be cntinued as a permanent organlza- ion and that the cleaning up cam atgn be renewed as frequently as rc-