Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-16
HON PARIS KEEPS
THE STREETS CLEAN
New Century Club Brings Mat
ter TO Attention OF Local
Authorities.


Tho memhrrs ~ the New Century
tluh, AT lhrr meeting on "Wednesday.
we're hlvhlN Interested IN an account
written hN innp.nc n. oakley ON how
l'Niia vlsana her sircrts This report
which Was rlyen hy the civic Com
nhiies, WAS voted to hc placed before
the ruhlr Through the papers, copies
a. hv sent to city officials ns a sus-
N.silon ~ how to Improve local con-
uliiunH
Tho article praises Paris as having
y system vt street clonnlnr more SAINT
tai, and more scientific than any
American city has dreamed of having.
Ns required hy the dcstructor pro-
cess, Nll the waste Of every family
tv,r intu one receptacle. Ashes, gar
bare, paper broken rlars end crock
,fs, tln rana uld iron, the houHckcepcr
mas mlk ihum nli Tho dry ashes
ulslnfort iho parhasc and the moist
sathaso hulds the ashes and papers,
honpu there are NO papers iiyins about
Parts streets nnd the horrors of ash
vnllppllOn day are unknown.
The ivslduniH of each square are
notified whvn the collectors cart will
arrive, nnd all tocoptaclcs are re-
uulicd ln he un the pavement not more
than tun minutes before the specified
tlmp and tn boz removed within ten
Wlnulpa after the cart has passed.
The squares are swept aud spiinklcd
aullns lhs nipht,
this iapld uluanly collection of
waste h made roTsihlo hy the carts
Whfh arr of metal cylindrical IN
ahspv Rnd swing low 10 lesaun th,
lAhut ~ the collectors. The tight
nillnu lm IL IN three sections a. the
Vhpi Nils, one section iH closed. then
another, ANA when The third has hceu
,lAmpnd down, the cart n ready tc
make he way To- the dcatructor with.
uul the possibility uf dropping one
fragment ul ita contents.
The uaine, or central plant. IL out.
aldo ihu ci,y. n comprises a large
NeiN clean courtyard ON one side oi
whirh are the furnaces and lcadinl
a. them "a moving platform sunk a
funi nl iWu hollow The pavement tn,
NAtth dump their waste upon this
rleiiurm, aud ns n fnlls numho,
~ mrn hnd wnmun. armed with iakos
ssratnle the mass aud retrieve suct
sf,iplvn as they think too valuable {,
feed the iiam,a of the furnace.
Tho moving platform carries IN,
waste tu the furnaces, whore u burns
without ihe addition uf coal or anN
other fuel ana the heat of the burn
avs nenviaira the electricity whicl
liuhia The streets of Paris
The cleen court yard IL flaukcd b,
thu hulldlnr devoted to the comfor
81 thv Norkmon An ale, dining hal
provides a place where thoy may ca
'hrf lunches, on the dining hall ar,
shower baths, and each workman hat
bis lopkor whore after bis shower h'
msi change his clothes and ~ hom,
clpan hnd -elf.r,sp-ctins citizen.
Miss oakley says that the reasor
American villvs do not have the 81
Oeirnt s,n,rma ~ European cities Il
because ~ American cities pc tic'
,shsa the place uf bust aa and mu
nhnnl nuNetnment has Degenerate,
into a pulltlcal ramc. she asked th'
.nNinerf of the Paris deatructor hov
hr ana vthcr officials ct the plant re
,eitrd their positions. and he said Z
~~s from tho ciVil service lists, will
ne questions asked about politics
when she asked the thief 81 the de
pnlimrut of street Ulcanina how
WAS that nn ono thrc, papers on IN
streets. be replied that if anyone drop
rsd paper or scraps ~ the street. IN
~ntyhiw polite, promptly arrested IA
"r,ndeff ana hned 'hem. Miss oekle