The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-05-07

his aid In investigating and remedy.
ing the complaints. A similar com.
mittee in any women's club, co-opera-
ting thus with the authorities, would
no doubt have a powerful effect up
on local sanitary conditions, especial
ly in the smaller towns.
Much Of the litter of the streets
is due to the custom of dropping adj
|vertising circulars into vestibules, and
|of distributing hand bills among pass.
ers-by. Ordinances against this
method of advertising exist in many
cities, but are rarely enforced
Through the efforts, of the women OF
Montclair, New Jersey, 1t is said in
that town "the occupation Of the bill
poster and the distributor Of circu-
lars and hand-bills has gone. The
nuisance of defacing trees, telegraph
poles, and fences by nostrum vendors
has been abolished"
A letter addressed to the Secretary
of the Women's Town Improvement
Association, Montclair, N. j., might
result in some practical information
on the best methods of fighting the
paper nuisance. /
A few years ago, Hull House, Chi
cago, organized "Clean City Club
among the children in It's neighbor-
hood. Each member is pledged to
pick up one piece of paper every day,
and during the first month of the
clubs existence 10000 bits of paper
were collected. A receptacle is pro-
vided devoted to furthering the work
of the club.
The bill board nuisance has been
taken into consideration by number
of clubs and civic organizations, but
no decided results have yet been
achieved. The Massachusetts Civic
League, No. 8 Joy street, Boston, is
making special study Of this sub
ject, and the American Civic Associa-
ton, 703 North American building,
Philadelphia, has published three leaf
let's: "The Bill Board Nuisance"
Public Advertising, AMI Checking
Abuses of Public Advertising, which
are commended to those especially in
terested in this subject.
An important step toward health
and cleanliness is the sanitary collec-
ton and disposal of household refuse.
Cremation is the most hygienic meth
cd of disposing of refuse, and with
proper appliances the heat of the gar
bage furnace may be used to generate
power. Durwen, England, town of
10000 inhabitants, generates enough
electricity with its garbage crematory
to furnish all the public and private
lighting of the town, the furnace thus
becoming source of revenue instead
of an expense. More than seventy.
five English towns and cities utilize
in various ways the power generated
in the garbage furnace, street and
household refuse being the sole fuel.
New York city has just taken step
in this direction, and as an expert
ment, with refuse as source of
power, will light the new Williams
burg bridge across the East River
with electricity derived from NUM-
cipal garbage crematory. Reference
books on this subject are: "The Econ
omic Disposal Of Town Refuse pub
lished by John Wyley & Son, of New
York, and Refuse Disposal and
Power Production" by w. T. Good
rich, published by E. P. Dutton & |
Co., New York
Sewage, also, can be made into
'uel for the garbage crematory The
practice of draining sewers into !
streams and rivers is relic of the
ages. The common law
,ronounces against it, Many towns
n different sections Of the country
rave been enjoined from draining
heir sewers into rivers which form
he water supply of neighboring COM
the courts holding that
,ure water is essential to life and the
pollution of streams unnecessary.
sewage can be purified by sand filtra-
ion, in which case it is made to flow
'ver a tract of sandy soil or prepared
liter beds. The fluid filters through,
nd what remains is scraped off at in
ervals and burned, or sold as fer
ilizer. Concord, Massachusetts, has
successful plant of this description.
n large cities, where the adjacent
and is too valuable to be used in this
ray, the sewage can be tanked and
reated by the new chemical and
Archaeological methods. the purified
,ater drained off, and the remaining
nudge sold or cremated. Saratoga,
lew York, has a model plant of this