New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
BUCKING THE DIRT
LINE, FIRST DOWN
FOOTBALL STREET CLEAN
ING METHODS.
Commissioner Eduards Begins by
Applying "Squeegeeing" Process
to Department and It's Workers.

The Street Cleaning Department Is being cleaned !!
After Il is cleaned It may proceed to clean the
streets OF New York
High I'D IN the Offices Of the department. On the
,,ry-4eenth floor Of the Park Row Building. the
sornd Of the purifying "scueegee" machine is heard
-s the tpgang OF the shoveI echoes hurriedly from
~. paverrents between the Battery and The Bronx.
: powerful hose, directed by the Commissioners of
Accounts is flushing the precincts of ralodorous
bureaus and sweeping away the remnants Of ancient
scandal Nothing is taken for granted not even
the purftv of the bureau that handles the tender
s1d immaculate snowflake which falls from the
sky into atmosphere of smoky graft
Amid the casual noises Of the cleanup reverbe-
rates 8 strange cacophony;
"7Srek-ek k-kek-kex- Koax Koax! Ten yards
sor YaIei Rah. rah, rah, Princeton
Eighteen. forty-seven. nine Big
Bnl Edwards has eIn smashed Get there
Hogani Yah. YAH WOW
s1owhats tn hoIlerfn' for. Pat?7 nervously asks
= street sweeper of e. driver, both waiting In the
hallway
Sc College men, replied the driver They got edu-
LED for to handle this Job, an guess it's the
C.-e4lC language they're putin over Us Maybe
~, have to learn the talk an say It when we go
to the dumps
foreman In q brown army overcoat reassured
.,s-, NTH the statement that the new footoan ad-
f-ss4ra+,on of Commissioner Edwards and Deputy
Commissioner Hogan would not put the CLASSICS
., +l,e REQUIRED list for sweepers end drivers IL
might be necessary. however 10 learn some OF the
tactics Of the Eridiron, such as pron1puluoe IN
ohe,-irs signals making the end pass Win Ine ASH
-, en6 butting through the days Work "llhou'
fear Of consequences
F2a-u-een the football chiefs celebrated IN the an
,sjs Of Yale and Princeton and the ConInissloneis
q Accounts Il looks as If the department might pe
-,,-zed TO perfection and that the highways u
Gotham might again show visible efects OF 'he
= 51o no9 TO be spent upon them this year VI
o.--se miracles must not be expected The cluzeh
~ the new srctIess town cannot hope TO touch the
sn-4ace Of Broadway with white kid glove ana
-s,eive no stain A few germs viii continue 10
-endezvous OF the asphalt Once IN while a guam
t,tv oe ashes on the way TO RkeTs Island VIII De
diverted into the citizens mouth, and occasionally
-f,e snow will linger IN spots To make New York
sbsor1-elv clean would mean the reincarnation OF
wsring and would cost 100000 q year, likewise
.7g abolition of the horss and making it q felony
- scatter papers, beat rugs. burn soft coal or
sruf=e about with cheap-soled shoes. When these
conditions obtain and eli the streets are asphalt
and every household has vacuum cleaning plant
2 real millennium may be expected.
On the other hand those who expect the new
Commissioner TO O good work hoping that the
familiar sight Of White Wings sweeping dirt into
the sewer instead Of into a bag viii vanish; that
II least a little effort will be by sweepers TO
get the dirt out from between the blocks Of the
r7venent instead Of merely brushing of the top
and leaving an cracks and gules still full Of ref
Use: and even that the who gather up the
dirt that has been scraped into piles for them will
not leave an inch thick layer it behind for every
wind 70 scatter into house windows and shop doors
f-e1geutJy do a present