Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-04-09
HOW >HAI..1Uil5
. is kept CLEAN
Children In German City Show
Deep Interest. 81"
Ohio MAYOR IMPRESSED.

Trained Men Look After Asphalt.
Regular Force of Nearly a Thousand
Cleaners.
With almost every city and town in
the United States preparing for its
spring cleaning, attention has been at
tracted to the methods of cleaning
house adopted by the important cities
of Europe.
In no European town perhaps are
| the methods more interesting than in
| the thriving German city of Hamburg,
| where carefully trained children help
to keep the city beautiful. Writing
from that place. United States Consul
Robert p. Skinner says that the mayor
of one of the large cities OF Ohio who
visited Hamburg WAS much impressed
with the Important part performed by
| the children in Keeping the city clean
He departed from the city, Mr. Skin
ner says. convinced that the cleaning
of streets and sidewalks in Germany
| Is much lighter task than i'll cities
of the same size in the United States
because of the orderly habits of the
people themselves.
"Suction street sweeping devices"
continues Mr.. Skinner. ARE practical
| " unknown in Germany. Hamburg
| itself owns horse drawn sweeperS only.
| although for about nine months two
electric motor sweepers have been in
| use. These, however. do not yet be-
| long to the city and are being employ
| ed experimentally They have not Civ
en- satisfaction and have been under
repair more than three months. These
motor driven sweepers fail to work
well in this city because the pave
ments, as rule. are not very smooth.
and the mechanism of the sweeperS is
| deranged by the shaking it receives.
| Recently the front wheels of these
sweepers have been provided with rub
Der tires, and they have worked more
satisfactorily.
Cleans 1920 Streets.
THE Hamburg street cleaning de
partment cleans and when necessary
sprinkles all city streets, makes re-
pairs. maintains relief stations. re-
moves dust, garbage and waste mat
ter generally from streets. houses
| wharves. ships and markets and op-
crates also Il garbage burning plant
At present the department cleans 1890
streets. with their adjacent sidewalks.
| having a length of 201.1 miles. Til"
roadways cleaned cover fully J,G5G"T'
square yards and the sidewalks ahHU
| 4,177,990 square yards. The work l.
carried on under the supervision q.
twelve experimenting establishments
Thirty main thoroughfares are cleaned
six times weekly at night by means ot
rotary brooms and all other streets
with few exceptions, twice weekly. In
the center of the city the streets are
also cleaned six times weekly dUrm"
the day and in other parts Of the city
four times weekly during tn" day
asphalt street surfaces require
more attention than others rs they h".
come slippery and are looked after by
specially trained men. They are swept
and drenched with water and in icy
weather are sprinkled with pebbles, CT
late complaints have been made by tn
owners of motorcars that these peb
bles damage the tires of their vehicles
so that now this material Is strewl
only when strictly necessary. The peb
bles used are mud free and from one
fifth to two-fifths inch in diameter Il
1910 S65.S5 cubic yards of these pet
bles were utilized. The Hamburg stree
cleaning department owns 80 clean
ing machines 81 SnOwplOwS. lO1 wa
ter wagons. 100 garbage carts 70
waste from private houses. 60 garbag
carts for waste from ships, quays
etc. $50 snow wheelbarrows and 81
garbage wheelbarrows.
might work begins at midnight ant
ends when the streets are in order
Twelve squads work under the direc
ton of twelve different posts. Thes
posts are in charge of an inspector 70
day work and subinspector for nigh
work. The jurisdiction of each post i
divided into ten subdivisions, so that il
the event of emergency work can b
] taken up simultaneously at moment
notice at 100 different points. Firs
the broom machines. of which Their
are twenty-siX, sweep the roadways
while the sidewalks are cleaned at tn
same time by special men. Anothe
squad follows the sweepers to heap III
the dirt swept to the roadside, an,
finally carts and garbage wagons fol
low. The night work never lasts NOR
than eight hours. HouSeholders ar
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