. Our Philadelphia. pecially in wet weather, or when Washington had towade through mud to get to the theatre where he foundhis recreation. It has become actually the Filthydelphiasomebody once called it in jest. Not even in the littleSpanish and Italian towns whose dirt the American de-plores, have I seen such streets—all rivers and pools andlakes when it rains, ankle-deep in dust when it is dry,papers flying loose, corners choked with dirt, tins of ashesand garbage standing at the gutter side all day long—even London, that I used to think the dirtiest of dirtytowns, knows how to order its gar
. Our Philadelphia. pecially in wet weather, or when Washington had towade through mud to get to the theatre where he foundhis recreation. It has become actually the Filthydelphiasomebody once called it in jest. Not even in the littleSpanish and Italian towns whose dirt the American de-plores, have I seen such streets—all rivers and pools andlakes when it rains, ankle-deep in dust when it is dry,papers flying loose, corners choked with dirt, tins of ashesand garbage standing at the gutter side all day long—even London, that I used to think the dirtiest of dirtytowns, knows how to order its garbage better than Americans are supposed to be long-suffering, to en-dure ahnost anything imtil the crisis comes. But I thoughtthat crisis had long since come in the Philadelphia agreed with me, and I was assured that acorrupt government having been got out and a reformgovernment got in, already there was tremendous talk ofschemes for garbage—^bags to be hauled off full of gar- \V\v^ ^. THE RAILHOAD BHIDGES AT FALLS OF SCHUYLKILL AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY 485 bage, dust-tight on the way, and hauled back empty, oldpaper to be bought up by the city so that no thrifty citizenwould throw a scrap of paper into the street—and astremendous talk of experiments in garbage, ten patrioticcitizens promising to contribute one thousand dollars eachto make them. I was assured also that the reform Mayorhas done his best and struggled valiantly against the evil,but unfortunately it is not he alone who can vote the moneyfor a wholesale spring-cleaning. It occurred to me that, inthe meanwhile, we might be better off if we returned withmuch less expense, to the hogs that were the best ofscavengers when William Cobbett visited , at no more than the cost of a ticket to New York, thereformers might at least learn how to keep garbage tinsoff the front steps of inoffensive, tax-paying citizens atfive oclock in the afternoon when they ask their friends
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