The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Dust Evil Still With Dir. mingham and Demand Is
 General for Relief
DAMAGE ID MERCHANTS
 SAID ID BE VERY HEAVY
ments Should Be Washed Down Once Day-Other Citizens Also
 Express Views

The rain of Friday evening did not prove to be even the slightest factor in the settling of the dust problem. The rain was rather light and served to cool things off and lay the dust for the night but a few hours of sunshine yesterday morning found great cloud of dust fol- lowing In the wake of each street car, automobile and wagon.
 Down in the heart of town on the hard paved streets the dirt which had been caked by the rain dried out and was soon playing about in the air, settling on everybodys clothes and the stocks in stores. True, the street sweeping crew had been over the streets Friday night but the sweepers apparently did not re- move the caked dirt to any great ex- tent.
 The way to remove this dirt effectually it is suggested, is to play a heavy stream of water upon it. At present the streets are undeniaby dirty. Each vehicle and automobile coming in off the cherted streets brings an amount of dirt and dust. which is taken off the wheels by the hard pavement. There it stays to be
 
 dry.
 Corps of White Wings
 A corps of white wings. whose business it would be to keep moving about all day picking up the trash is another sug- gestion as a remedy. These men could be provided with a small cart in which to place the trash
 The people of Birmingham are thor oughly aroused over the dust situation. and 1t is evident that the campaign against the evil has hardly begun. That the city should either employ few men whose duty 1t would be to clean the busi- ness streets with hose attached to the fire hydrants, or to have the city fire men do this work. appears to be the con- sensus of opinion of the people ap- preached by Age-Herald reporters.
 Whether the Board of Aldermen will take any further steps is a matter of conjecture. The regular meeting will be held next Wednesday night and while the aldermen are expressing the opinion that nothing can be done unless the s4o0- ooo bond issue carries, so that additional funds may be secured. it is believed steps will be taken looking toward relief of the situation, many of the aldermen hay ing expressed the opinion that some- thing should be done
 T. H. AIdrich
 You may talk all you please about keeping down the dust but 1t can never be done until some system of thoroughly cleaning the streets is adopted said T. H. Aldrich. These streets in the center of the city are miserably dirty at all hours of the day. The condition is a dis grace to the city and should be remedied. It seems to me that the best way to clean the streets and keep them clean is to flush them at least once a day. It is i'm possible to clean these Belgian blocks in any other way
 R. K. LoveIady
 Put water on the dust" said pr. R. F. Lovelady. That is the only remedy for the nuisance that I can suggest How 1t is to be done is only the means to an end, the desired result
 T. F. West
 T. F. West, who lives at Ensley, but who has a business on Twentieth street, WAS efnpndtiC ln HIS cOnQcInnaIlOn or the existing dust conditions. 'The streets are not half cleaned or even sprinkled where such work is attempted" said MT. West. See that water wagon now hold ing up and driving around a string of automobinles lined up to the curb? The ne- gro on the water wagon does not dare to order or ask the owner of those big ma chimes to move them. What is he yo do? Only one thing. Neglect to water long strip of dirty pavement along the curb where the dust will do the most damage We need some better system for cleaning of streets. In other cities I have seen men busy all day picking up trash and dirt from the streets. Here we depend on the careless sweeping at night by ir- responsible convicts.'
 c. R. CrulI
 C. R. Crul of the Solomon Shot com pany, said q would suggest that the city purchase several more sprinklers and use them night and day untl there is some relief from the present dust situa- ton. The people of Birmingham are go- ing to suffer greatly this summer unless stringent steps are taken in the mat,<r. The streets should be flushed until they are clean. while squad of half a dozen men could do untold good by moving about all day picking up the accumulat- ing trash. The dust is proving a great factor in damaging store stocks and the merchants are suffering. The merchants and every one else are taxed enough to pay for cleaning and sprinkling properly and it should be done"
 C. W. Jones
 C. w. James, of the American Cloak and Suit company, thinks stringent steps should be taken He said 'The Board of Aldermen should get busy and give us some relies from the dust situation Aside from the great danger to the pub lie health 1t is proving detrimental to the stock of goods in stores. I think new sprinkers should be bought and that every city sprinkler and the street car company's sprinkler should be kept going night and day. Something should be done to relieve is from this terrible dust" m nImm n AM mn