Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-03
STREET CLEANING IN
NEW YORK COSTS
SEVEN MILLION
Interesting Comparisons APP
pear in Census Bureaus
Special Annua Report on
Statistics Of 1853 Big Cities
Morning Journal Bureau,
613 Munsey Building,

washington, ~. III AilNH ~
Many interesting comparisons APP
| pear in the United States census bu-
rcau's special annual report on the
| statistics of tho 15S cities having q
population of over 10000 each, for
1907.
The section devoted TO the subject
Of street lighting includes payments
| for expenses OF street lighting per
| acre of land area and per capita,
lights classified by kind. number, can
die power, price per light per year.
number of hours lighted per year and
| average number of each kind Of lights
to each 100 miles OF streets.
The cities Of the highest per capita
payments for lights We're Yonkers,
y. Y, G1.59). and Los Angeles,
C1.2Ds and those with the largest
payments per acre of land area were
sioboken, (SS5.03), and Boston.
($32.00.) owing TO the great length
of their unimDroved streets. the av-
erage number of lights to 100 miles Of
streets is very small in some cities. OF
the cities using Welsbach lights
largely in the residence districts, Bos-
ton leads in the number in proportion
to street mileage, followed by WASH
~ington, st. Louis, Cleveland. New
York and Baltimore.
In comparison with similar statis-
tics in 1905, it is interesting to note
thai the Hat flame gas lamp is last
disappearing from use, the per cent
of decrease in humble reported
amounting to 43.7. This decrease
has been offset by Il large Increase in
the number OF Welsbach, incandes-
cent and arc lights.
Street Cleaning Cost In 1907.
Street cleaning cost in New York
City in 1907, $6,941,912 though a
portion Of the cost of refuse disposal
is included in this amoun The city
next in rank was Philadelphia, which
paid less than a million dollars for
maintaining its street cleaning de-
partment.
Cities of over 5000 OO population
with a small expense for street clean
ing were Milwaukee, G29,3S0); New
ORLEANS, &13S,993); and Buffalo,
(S1S9,6S3.t The cities with the lar
gest areas cleaned at least once q
week were New York, 25,312,T29
square yards; Philadelphia. 17,270,-
034 SQUARE yards and Buffalo, 12,I36,-
1853 square yards. New Orleans had
the smallest such area for cities of
over 900. 600 population, or less than
one million square yards.
Nearly all of the area of New York.
Chicago and San Francisco subject to
regular cleaning were swept by hanc.
while most of that in Pittsburg. De-
troit, Boston, and large areas in
Philadelphia, Buffalo and washington
were swept by machine.
In Buffalo, st. Louis, CINCINNATI and
Detroit large areas We're cleaned by
flushing, though this method in Bur
falo was cnly an experiment and was
continued for only two weeks. In
comparison with similar figures for
1905, the area regularly cleaned by
nuShing shows a large increase.
Water Supply Systems.
OF the 1873 cities reported, III
owned w~ater-supply systems whose
estimated value at the close of 1907
was $C47,3S4,d95. The ven re-
ceipts from the public amounted to
$52,S31,09G, and the actual expense
of operation to $21,231,273. The ex-
cess of receipts over operating OK
penses was, therefore, $31,599,S23,
nearly two-ftths of which was con-
sumed in payment of interest on the
outstanding debt. The remaining
thrce-fftls was apparently net
profit, but ii is impossible to argue
owned water supply systems are ex-
ceedingly profitable. Cities owning
their water works do not receive
taxes from them, and in few cases
charge off a sufficient amount for de-
probation. The report states that
tho financial results indicate. when
these factors are taken into considera-
ton. that few systems are operated
at great profit while some are con-
at an actual loss. Some cities.
however. aim to furnish water to
their citizens at cost. and il is possi-
bic that in such cities water rates are
lower that they would be if the water
system was owned by priv;Fe parties.
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