Public works . , dur-ing the night time. These streets are also served byblock men during the day, these men being on duty from7:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. ra., with one hour for dinner. Theirfirst duty on coming in the morning is to clean fromthe gutters the dirt deposited there the night before bythe flushers. The flushers clean an average of 350,000 square yardsin the two shifts each day, or 175,000 square yards ineight hours, as compared to 80,000 square yards cleanedin the same time by machine brooms. There are fourteen machine brooms in service, whichalso are used in all ])arts of the city. Eac
Public works . , dur-ing the night time. These streets are also served byblock men during the day, these men being on duty from7:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. ra., with one hour for dinner. Theirfirst duty on coming in the morning is to clean fromthe gutters the dirt deposited there the night before bythe flushers. The flushers clean an average of 350,000 square yardsin the two shifts each day, or 175,000 square yards ineight hours, as compared to 80,000 square yards cleanedin the same time by machine brooms. There are fourteen machine brooms in service, whichalso are used in all ])arts of the city. Each broom isdriven by one man and followed by a gang of eight menwhich sweep the winrows into piles, and these in turn arefollowed by two or three collecting wagons, the driversof which shovel these piles of dirt into the wagons, oc-casionally assisted by a man from the broom gang whenthis is necessary. There are 55 block men, located in the streets of thebusiness district and the business streets of the outlying. 182 ^Jn[] MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS Vol. XLVII, No. 12 • ^- •* ^ :-? ?^\ ~ v . ^KlKi:... m •ll: fn -?/^& ^^^WM ^«tU ^^^^ NEWARKS TWO MOTOR FLUSHERS. districts. The area covered by each block man variesfrom 7,500 square yards in the congested district to from12,000 to 15,000 square yards in the outlying block men do not use cans and can carriers, as isthe practice in many cities, but the dirt collected by thebrooms and scrapers is pushed over the pavement to andshoveled into boxes placed along the curb. These boxesare located about 100 to 125 feet apart on each side ofthe wide main streets in the business district, and at sim-ilar or somewhat greater intervals along one side of theother streets. These boxes are made of No. 18 gaugegalvanized sheet iron, with a flat lid of the same materialhinged to one side, and provided with a handle on eachend. The box is 2 feet 6 inches by I6J/2 inches, by 15inches high. While they cannot be claimed to be
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