Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-25
.StreamIinedPIdn
Allows Streets TO
Get SCrubbing

Several sections Of Detroit had
clean streets today for the first
time in many months following
the Inauguration Of a DPW plan
TO strcamline the street cleaning
task and give all thorouGhfares a
thorough polishing at least once
every two weeks
According 10 William NJ Walker
! Jr.. commissioner of public works,
certain streets win be posted dur
ling the day warning residents that
Ian parked cars must be removed
/ from one side of the street that
might between ! a m. and Is a m.
on the next night the cars Will be
lremoyed from the opposite side.
This Will give the big meChani-
cal SWeeperS straight run and IS
Expected 10 cut the cost OF street
Icleaning from the present 81 per
1milc Thand SWCepIUBJ 10 less than
/ S3 per mile.
WHITE WINGS OF WAY OFT
The old men with the puShcartS
taUri SHUvrtS.- uvt1aftv known rs
/ ~ hiteWingS.' have been on tho
lWay ont I'M Detroit for over year,
according 10 Walker. Most of
THESE men were welfare clients
land the number Of able-b bodied
men on welfare has dropped almost
TO zero.
There are many residential
streets i'm Detroit that have not
been cleaned at all for the past
nine months or year." Walker
explained
During 1899 we had about 600
welfare clients doing this work.
This dropped to about 800 in
1910 and during the first six
months of this year we have
averaged fewer than 95.
There is practically no well
fare labor at all now with which
To do this work"
o MECHANICAL SWEEPERS
At the present time the DPW
has nine mechanical sweepers and
will be able under the new plan to
schedule regular cleanings of every
street in the city at least once
leach month.
However. Walker. will request
1.-THE purchase OF six additional
isweepers at about $500 each as
Soon- as Mayor Edward !. -LeffrieS
returns from South America. With
this added capacity he plans to
schedule the once-eVery-two-weeks
isweepingS
The notices which the depart
lment will put on the door knobs
Of the houses along the streets TO
be cleaned explain the public'S part
in the plan.
ASK COOPERATION
This says in part:
Periodically your side ~ the
street will he posted prohibiting
parking from ] a. m. To 6 n. m.
for street cleaning purposes.
we ask your cooperation.
Failure TO cooperate will result
In violation ticket being issued.
The Department of Public Works
Is striving for a cleaner city and
will do their part. viii you do
yours"
At present, The few remaining
hand SWeeperS average cleaning
only one and half mile of curb
frontage in an eight-hour day and
the mechanical sweepers, hindered
by having 10 duck in and out
around parked cars, only make IL
miles a day.
SEES CUT IN COSTS
However, Carl Warner, superin- 4
tendent of municipal waste. ex. 4
PLAINS that the m chanical
Sweepers Of the Wayne County,
Road Commission are able 10 make /
30 miles in an eight-hOur day, OPP |
Grating on the unobStructed por-
lions Of Outer Drive and other
outlying thoroughfarcS.
Warner is confident that II the
public will cooperate by eliminat-
ing park in 9 on the designated |
night, that the city Will be able TO |
equal this efficiency and cut the |
cost for mechanical sweeping from |
the present So a mile figure 10
about So per mile.
The savings that will be made
in this increased efficiency. If it
materializeS, will be passed on TO
the public in the form of more
frequent cleaningS.
There are 700 miles Of resi-
Dental streets in Detroit and 300
miles Of major and secondary traf- |
nc arteries The traffic arteries
get a cleaning at least twice a
week. now. while the streets in
The loop are cleaned every day
with lower Woodward avenue
getting a sweeping three times a
day
Much Of the cleaning in the
loop viii continue TO be done by
hand SweeperS.
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