. Health in home and town. arts, cans, and bagsare useful in keeping crossings and small squares neatand clean. A man can often collect leaves, papers,and other refuse with a hand-cart where a horsecannot go. Requirements for Refuse Disposal.—Whatever sys-tem of disposal is adopted by a city, it should fulfil two conditions: (i) itshould be done in asanitary manner, and notbe objectionable to thesight or smell; (2) itshould be conducted atas low a cost as possiblewith satisfactory of WasteMaterial.— Several wayshave been employed bycities to take care oftheir waste
. Health in home and town. arts, cans, and bagsare useful in keeping crossings and small squares neatand clean. A man can often collect leaves, papers,and other refuse with a hand-cart where a horsecannot go. Requirements for Refuse Disposal.—Whatever sys-tem of disposal is adopted by a city, it should fulfil two conditions: (i) itshould be done in asanitary manner, and notbe objectionable to thesight or smell; (2) itshould be conducted atas low a cost as possiblewith satisfactory of WasteMaterial.— Several wayshave been employed bycities to take care oftheir waste on land is oneof the simplest andeasiest ways, and haslong been in use. Ashes are well adapted to filling inlow places and to making new land. When garbageand street-sweepings are used in this way many yearsare required for complete decomposition before theland is fit to live on. In the meantime, it may be asource of great annoyance and trouble to the rubbish is also added, a great city nuisance is. Rubbish Cart THE CITY REFUSE 203 created. The wind blows old papers about, and littersstreets and yards for a long distance. Boys like to buildfires on the dump, and so endanger surrounding annoyance from the smoke, dust, and odors of a fireburning on a dump can only be properly condemned byone who has experienced them. Made Land. — Much valuable land has been madeor improved by dumping ashes. On Rikers Island, inthe East River, New York, about eighty acres havebeen made and are valued at $10,000 an acre. Com-paring an old map of Boston with a recent one will showthat a very large section of that city from ColumbusAvenue and Charles Street to the Charles River hasbeen made or reclaimed from the water in this area includes some of the most valuable propertyin the city. In Chicago, Grant Park has been partlybuilt with the city ashes. Dumping in Water. — All kinds of waste materialhave been dumped into large lakes or into the sea bycit
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