Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-07

sl3 arc curb trees on streets. There
are 1882 miles of streets on which
trees have been planted. the mileage
not having been increased during the
year. The trees are planted on both
sides of the street and the mileage is
based on 352 trees per mile. The
amount expended in the planting and
care of trees was $43.l5155. The va
rietfes of trees planted were elms.
gingkos. lindens. Norway. sugar and
sycamores.
There was q decrease in the work of
planting young trees on recently i'm
proved streets and filing of vacancies
that large portion of the appropria-
ton had to be spent for replacing trees
blown down by a severe storm during
the year. Likewise little progress
was made upon the general trimming
OF street trees. A considerable portion
OF the appropriation was used In
spraying the trees. which became in
rested during the midsummer with the
Iali web worm. tussock moth and the
elm-leaf beetle. The total number OF
trees sprayed during the year was
2S.17S. and the total number OF trees
treated for insects by kerosene emui-
sion Tor the purpose Of destroying an
elm tree scale was 2,064.
In addition to caring for the trees
unfenced public parkings were moved
during the year for the purpose of rid
ding them of weeds.
Street and Alley Cleaning. Z.
The street and alley cleaning d.
vision serves a population of about
353.291, and covers an area of ap-
proximately seventy square miles. It
has charge of the cleaning of all
streets. avenues and alleys in the Dis
trict of Columbia, except such work on
the outlying county roads and suburban
streets as is done under the supervision
Of the superintendent of county roads.
The work is done under the immediate
supervision of the superintendent OF
street and alley cleaning who also has
supervision over the collection and dis
posal of city refuse, which work is done
under contract
The work of street cleaning involves
nushing, squeegeeing. machine and
hand cleaning and dust prevention.
, The daily cleaning of all streets In
the central portions of the city by the
hand patrol amounts to about 3524.7Oo
square yards. This is an increase OF
1ll.iO0 square yards over the area
cleaned during the fiscal year 1913
daily in this work. The cleaning OF
all paved streets outside of this are,
is done every other day, or every third
day. depending upon the location and
fiscal year the territory covered by
machine cleaning amounted TO 22a5, 0OO
square yards. OF this amount how
ever, 100000 square yards were. April
IL, 1914, taken from the machine clean
ing territory and added to the hand
patrol territory. In addition to the
hand cleaning nearly all of the smaller
paved streets in the hand-patrol are.
are sQueegeed two or three times a
week, and, in addition, all cobblestone.
fa
and the poorly paved streets are flushed
by the use OF pneumatic flushing ma
chimes. which cover a territory of 374.-
050 square yards about once in four
or five days.
In the suburban portions of the city
the surface of practically all the un-
paved suburban streets is covered with
emulsion road Oil. the entire area being
covered about ten times during the
year.
This division also cleans all paved
alleys in the District of Columbia once
week. there being an increase in the
area cleaned during the year OF from
1,O6O,000 square yards July /, 1913, to
l.079.959 square yards June 80, 1914.
The cleaning of all macadam, gravel
ana unpaved streets in the suburban
section and the unpaved alleys is ac-
compiished about once every ten days.
and the area cleaned increased during
the year from I,4S1,525 square yards
to 1.514,1S0 square yards.
Inc appropriation for cleaning streets
and alleys was decreased $1,000 under
the amount appropriated in the prevf-
Gus fiscal year, but in spite OF this re-
duction the records of area cleaned
show considerable increase over the
figures for the previous year.
The methods regarding snow and ice
cleaning were considerably changed
during the year. Previously no snow
was hauled except from street railway
intersections, but during the last winter
the removal of snow from the streets
was carried on day and night II In
estimated that this Appropriated 16O,-
600 cubic yards of snow. This was re-
moved from the business sections of the
city, in addition to the work OF OPEN
ing crosswalks. sidewalks and cutters
of the surrounding territory.
The cost of work doue during tile
year per 1000 square yards is as fol-
lows:
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