The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-27
BOARD TO STUDY
STREET CLEANING
Special Hearing for Coins De-
partment Set for To-Mor-
row Afternoon.
COST JUMPED 0NE-THlRD
Paw Roll of Department
$4,000 More Than 1t
Was in 1910.

Affairs of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment will be taken up at special session
Of the Administrative Board tomorrow
afternoon at $50 o'clock when Super
intendent Henry Cohn will present his
estimates of the needs of his depart
ment for the current year. Mr. Cohn
will make his chief plea for more men
claiming that with the growth of the
city and the constant extension OF
paved streets and alleys it is physical
impossibility to keep up with the work
with the force at his disposal. Members
Of tho BOARD are anxious 10 hear some
thing of improved methods of machin-
erv by the use of which 1t is believed
the work OF the department could DE
greatly aided.
the department for its activity IN
notifies rather than in street cleaning
for its lack of competent gang foremen
70 direct the men in different sections
Of the CITY the lack OF improved sweep
ing machinery and fiushers, and the use
of small one-mule carts instead of larger
dump wagons. by the use of which the
same driver at the same pay would be
able to haul several times as large a
load.
Has Increased Oue-f nlfu.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Cohn COM
Dlaint that the size OF his department
has not kept pace with the growth of
the city. it is interesting to note that
his paw roll has jumped $50 800
in three years. The budget of 1910
provided for Street Cleaning pay roll
$50 600. The payroll for Street Cleaning
in 1911. following annexation OF Man
chester. jumped 20 si06. 200 and the pay
roll for the year Just closing amounted
to Sill. 500. an increase of SO 800 over that
of 1910.
Expenses. including feed. have uni
formly amounted to about S25, 900 Il year.
and purchase of mules, harness and
carts 10 5000 a year In the last an
s25 900 for erection of new stables for
the Street Cleaning Department and
the building Is now about to be occu-
MED 1t is of reinforced concrete CON
struction. and Is said 20 be the most
complete and up-tO-date structure of its
kind in the city. Its use Souid add
greatly to the working efficiency of
the department. and to the protection
of its mules. carts and machinery.
Men Get $40 Per Day.
The city ordinances do not specify
the number of men to be employed as
street sweepers. leaving it to vary
from time 10 time as conditions justify.
the department being required 10 I'VE
within its annual appropriation for
pay roll. Last year the Council in
creased the pay Of employees of the
street Cleaning Department five per
cent-from 81 per day to s2.lO per day
each.
Probably not since the Street Clean
ing Department was reorganized IN
1902 have there been as many COM
plants of failure to remove ashes,
alleys and filthy streets as
have come in during recent weeks. many
OF which were no doubt justified, but
some of which. on investigation. were
found to be from causes beyond the
control of this department In one
recent case where complaint had been
made of the condition of an alley. the
department had hardly finished giving
it d through sweeping. when from the
back door of the complainant there was
loose into the alley the con
tents of large box. making the alley
after the first gust of wind as filthy as
before The adviSabilIty OF reporting
such instances to the Police Court for
the imposition Of the penalties provided
by ordinances, Is under consideration