Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
REFUSE REMOVAL
BEGINS TOMORROW
Clean Up-Paint Up Program
Embraces Every Section
of the City.
CITIZENS AND SOCIETIES
COMBINE IN CAMPAIGN
Effort to Free the National Capital
of All Disease-Breeding
Accommodations.


| ingtons first clean up-paint up cam
paign, which is to open tomorrow and
continue for two weeks. The National
! Capital has had three clean up periods,
the first of these being in the spring of
1912, and the work this spring. broadened
to include paint up activities with the
1 city clean up. is a continuance on
larger scale of the preceding campaigns.
| Plans for the two weeks of activity
were completed at meeting Friday
night of the clean city committee. the
| executive committee of the Master
| House Painters and Decorators Associa-
| ton and the many organizations which
are cooperating in the effort to make
| Washington the cleanest. most sanitary
and beautiful city in the country. The
Master Painters organization has aided
| materially in financing the 1915 cam
paign, its donation of 5000 to the clean
city's fund being the largest single con-
tribution received by the committee
All Associations Cooperating.
Practically every citizens association,
as we'll as all commercial organiza-
tons; thousands of school children,
troops of Boy Scouts and Camp Fire
Girls. and other civic organizations;
women's cIubs-including the local
chapters of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution and the Federation of
Women's Clubs-have pledged coop
Grafton in the two weeks warfare
against dirt, disease and untidiness in
the National Capital; while the Dis
trict health department and other
branches of the District government
are aiding in the campaign. which is
designed to clean every corner of the
District remove every vestige of the
winters accumulations of trash. refuse
and garbage, and thus bring about
better sanitary and hygienic conditions
throughout the District during the COM
ing summer.
AS announced yesterday. the cam
paign which is to open tomorrow
Efforts tomorrow, Tuesday and We'd
nesday are to be conferred in South
east Washington, where the clean up
forces are to comb the alleys, back
yards, areaways. vacant lots, etc. for
trash piles, Accommodations of rubbish
and garbage and see to the removal OF
such eyesores and incubators of dis
ease.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday the
southwest section of the city is to be
the scene of operations Monday. Tues
day and Wednesday Of next week the
and united effort of the clean up forces
are to be conferred in the northeast
section April 20 to May l. inclusive.
Rules for Collection and Removal.
Rules for the collection and removal
of all kinds of refuse, etc, have been
promulgated by authority of the street
cleaning division of the District and
the District health department, and
copies of these rules may be obtained
on request from the street cleaning de-
partment
Reports made yesterday to DIR. Arthur
l.. Murray, secretary of the clean city
committee, from every section of the
District of Columbia, indicate that
greater interest is being taken in this
springs campaign than was shown in
any that have preceded it. The pub
licity that has been given to the move
ment this year by means of the clean
up-paint up buttons, signs, cards, col
ored slides shown in motion picture
theaters and by the columns Of pub
licity in the newspapers of Washing
ton, has resulted in centering attention
on the efforts to rid the city of dirt and
to convert 1t into veritabIe spotless
town, and has brought thousands of re-
cruits to the army enlisted for the
campaign. The buttons, lantern slides,
signs. etc, used in calling attention to
the clean up-paint up campaign were
supplied by the executive committee of
the master painters organization, of
which A. II. McGhan is chairman
That Washington's clean up-paint
up program has attracted attention
outside the District of Columbia is evil
denced by the fact that newspapers in
many other cities have commented on
it. Papers in Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Jersey City, Newark, New
York, Boston, Cincinnati and other
cities have contained accounts of the
clean up and paint up activities in this
city, and several of the cities mention
ed have inaugurated campaigns along
similar lines.
Appeal to Citizens.
The clean city committee and the
forces cooperating with it last night
issued an appeal to all citizens of
Washington to do their utmost in aid
of the campaign. Citizens were urged
in the appeal To reDort either To the