The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-03
CLEANING DAY BULLETIN
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To the Business Firms Of Richmond: !:
Suggestions for Cleaning Week" have
been offered the school teachers, let
ter sent to the children and now
comes an address to the heads of bus
mess houses, to all who are in charge
of the public establishments of the
city.
Merchantmen, no matter what
goods they handle, are herein request
ed to give particular attention to the
Easements of their buildings, to their
back entrances and lots. Let these be
thoroughly renovated, let all insight
ly plunder, accumulations of rubbish,
garbage and impurities of whatever
kind be entirely removed. A city ordi-
nance you voted for, reads thus:
Section 2. Be it ordained, by the
Common Council of the City of Rich
mond, Ind, that it shall be unlawful
for any person to allow, suffer or per-
nit to accumulate or be deposited up
on his or her premises large quantities
of paper or other combustble mater
ial, so as to render the same danger
Gus on account of liabilities to five,
or to deposit or allow suffer or per-
nit to accumulate rubbish, litter of
any description in such manner or in
such quantities as to be injurious to
health, indecent, obnoxious or often
sive to any of the inhabitants of the
said city, or which essentially inter-
fere with the enjoyment Of life or pro-
perty of any such inhabitants"
What need of Cleaning Week. if
utes were properly regarded?
Establishments in our midst are full
of stuff to feed conflagrations, If start
ed. Radiance will mean prevention
from fire loss and disaster, will i'm
prove appearances, bring sanitary ben
eflts and moral betterment.
In any case a dirty spot is a nest
that matches crime and breeds vice.
Filth fighting should precede fire fight
ing, disease doctoring and soul-heal-
ing. That statement is perhaps like
the boys reason for saying that pins
had saved many lives by not swallow
ing them"
Baltimore's fire chief is advising
his city to celebrate the anniversary
of their big fire in 1904 with a gener-
al cleaning up of premises, destruc-
ton of rubbish and other fire produc-
ing material in cellars, yards, attics,
etc. Spokans manifested its good, civ
ic sense last week by hauling off 1850
loads of trash. Chicago's vigorous
cleaning campaign, beginning April
21st was an instance of tremendous
commercial advantage to that city.
The cards in your front windows
promote a successful Cleaning week"
thank you, but please go down stairs,
peek in dark corners and sniff around
boxes and piles of loose leavings, then
out with the refuse, add it to the pa
per and straw and excelsior at the
back door, ready to burn or haul away.
We covet for Richmond the reputa-
ton of Americas cleanest city. Den
yer boasts, "a good place to live in,
to make goods in, to distribute goods
from" A merchants proclamation is
issued there every year, IF you store
front, residence or fence is dingy
paint it, Every effort put forth or
dollar spent will return tenfold"
The men in the Commercial club
are not civic pessimists but they are
desperately determined upon improve
ment. They have "set their faces like
flint" for betterment.
They are serious and earnest in
writing this appeal to the Business
Firms of Richmond.
In behalf of the club.
MRS. F. w. STEPHENS,
Chairman Printing Com.