Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-05
OFFICIALS WILL AID
|. CLEANUP WORKERS
Special Service for the COL
lection of Ashes to Be
Installed.
NEW GARBAGE SCHEDULE
DURING SUMMER MONTHS
Citizens Again Urged to Look After
Their Home Premises
at Once.

A new service for the collection of ashes
in the District of Columbia will be in
stalled during cleanup week. This waste
product is removed twice week during
the winter, but only weekly collections
are provided ordinarily for the. period ex-
tending from April 16 to october 81, in
elusive. Following the cleanup cam
paisn; which is to be waged from April
II to 49, the District authorities will
make ready for the installation of more
frequent garbage collections.
With the exception of hotels, apartment
houses, markets and similar places which
are furnished a daily garbage collection
service throughout the year, including
Sundays. premises whiting the existing
fire limits of the District and certain of
the more populated sections outside the
| fire limits are given a service three times
a week from October 16 to May 10. Col
| lection of garbage in this territory will
| be made daily excluding Sundays, begin
ming May 16 and continuing to October
| 10, inclusive.
Beyond the Fire Limits.
| In place of the semi weekly service
| now provided for territory outside of
populated suburban sections referred to,
collection of garbage will be ordered
| three times a week during the period
extending from May 16 to October Is, in
elusive.
Cooperation of citizens with the Dis
trict street cleaning department to the
end that the collection services for
garbage and ashes may be conducted
satisfactorily is desired by J. w. Pax
ton. superintendent of the department.
That official said today that complaints
over the failure of the wagons of either
the contractor for ashes or garbage to
call at premises on the days designated
for collections should be made to the
department rather than to the con-
tractor.
Immediate attention will be given all
complaints, it is stated Frequently, 1T
is asserted, the fault lies with the COM
plainant, who has failed to unlock the
back gate so that the collector may
gain entrance to the premises, or in
some other way is responsible. or partly
So for the trouble reported.
When the contractor is found to be at
fault he is fined by the department.
Interest in Cleanup Campaign.
Much interest is being manifested by
Mr.. Paxton and the officials Of the de-
partment in the plans for the cleanup
campaign Pointing out that this wide
spread movement to clean the city will re-
suit in the collection Of tons of refuse
in comparatively short period, the street
cleaning department head expressed the
hone that citizens will take into con-
sideration the fact that the refuse con-
tractor will face tremendous task with
respect to providing for the removal of
the dirt and that they Will assist him
in every way possible
Ono Inv which residents can assist
the contractor will be by beginning at
once to improve the sanitary condition
of their own premises This Will lessen
the amount of rubbish to be removed dur
ing campaign week and may prevent
an overtaxing of the capacity Of the
refuse wagons
Compliance With Law Required.
Mr.. Paxton recently has been expert
menting upon plan whereby citizens
may be compelled to comply with the po-
lice regulation requiring ash cans to be
kept OH the rear premises rather than
placed in alleys just back of the prem
iscs It is learned that in several in
stances where householders failed to
comply with instructions issued by the
street cleaning department inspectors to
remove ash cans from the alleys TO the
back yards the receptacles were seized
by the department and consigned to a
dump heap. This necessitated. the pur-
chase of new cans by the property own
ers. and has had the effect. it is under
stood, of influencing more general COM
pliance with the regulation.
WaShington's sanitary regulations are.
in the opinion of Mr.. Paxton, generally
satisfactory. He says the throwing of
waste paper on the streets is not mat
ter over which the department has con-
troll; that its prevention is up to the po-