The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-28
500 LOADS OF REFUSE
RESULT OF CLEANUP
Marked Enthusiasm in the Work Dis
played and Heaps of Useless Ac-
cumulations Were Removed
to the City Dump.

Barre set its civic house in order yes
terday, when business and professiona
men, city officials, members of the Barre
Woman's club and more than 600 schoo
children, mounting on the crest of the
big cleanup wave that has been rolling
all the week, cleaned the city from out.
post to outpost. Yesterday was "pick,
up" day and its most tangible results
could have been seen on any avenue OF
street this morning. Every highway was
lined with boxes, barrels, bags and piles
of refuse. Tin cans predominated, but
the days spoils included everything from
a trunk to a defunct stove.
City officials and individuals who gen,
erously loaned the use of teams for "re.
moval day" estimated that 500 big team
loads might make difference in the
looks of the city, but as matter OF
fact the teamsters will have to make
more than 500 trips to the city dump
Chairman Hoban of the street commit
tee put on more teams near noon and
even then it was figured that another
day must elapse before the accumula-
tions are removed entirely.
Cleanup week has been moving sue
cess thus far. Yesterdays hostilities
against refuse were started soon after
noon when troops of school boys, given
a half holiday, marched away with rakes
and hoes. Competent leaders were as
signed to each group and the work con-
tinued until late afternoon. 1t was a
great leyeler, this cleaning business.
Side by side with the boys, worked a
couple Of clergymen, the mayor and 9TH
er officials. Auto owners gave the use
of their cars for the afternoon and mem
bers OF the Woman's club put in an
afternoon making lemonade for the
workers. All told, 500 quarts were dis
tributed in various sections of the city.
The approach of the refreshment car was
usually signalized by general cessa-
tion of work, but once the thirst of each
and every worker was appeased, the cam
paign was resumed.
Preferring to succeed well in one thing
rather than to make poor successes in
two endeavors, the promoters decided to
keep the boys scouting for rubbish and
cans instead of making war on the tent
as had been originally
planned. This phase of the campaign
will be covered later with the assist
ance of the boy scouts, it is thought.
Near night, A. NJ. Troup, whose photo
graph machine usually covers the field
like a circus tent, put in his appearance
and began swapping the various groups.
f'he pictures in every instance were sue
cessful and each youngster is to be re-
warded with a mounted photograph of
the group in which he worked.
Enthusiasm was the keynote of the
afternoon and bulking large among the
factors which made for the success of
the picking-np crusade was the amount
of enthusiasm which the leaders We're
able to instill in their youthful charges.
There were few desertions and with mi
nor exceptions the school boys duffed
into the work like veterans. To-day
and tomorrow were to be spent in put
ting the finishing touches to the move
ment People whose barrels are not col
lected are requested to communicate at
once with the city engineers office, as
ii is the purpose of the general commit
tee to have the work completed by the
of Memorial day.