. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Immediately After Great Chicago Fire of 1871—Population 334,270. ship route around the world, is to be an in-strument in the saving of immeasurablemillions of money in the expense of carry-ing ocean freights, besides saving years of In our homes, on the streets, in our greatstores and factories, we see this wonderfulmovement for economy and saving beingdeveloped. Will a new cleaning process 16 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OP CHICAGO save work or money in our homes f If so,we adopt it. Will a new pavement or sys-tem of cleaning in a st


. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Immediately After Great Chicago Fire of 1871—Population 334,270. ship route around the world, is to be an in-strument in the saving of immeasurablemillions of money in the expense of carry-ing ocean freights, besides saving years of In our homes, on the streets, in our greatstores and factories, we see this wonderfulmovement for economy and saving beingdeveloped. Will a new cleaning process 16 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OP CHICAGO save work or money in our homes f If so,we adopt it. Will a new pavement or sys-tem of cleaning in a street be better andcheaper than the old? If so, we have itdone. Can shavings or wood formerlythrown away at a factory be profitablymade over for use? If so, waste of suchmaterial is stopped. Elimination of wastehas become the greatest work in the is saving. Economy has becomethe watchword. City Problems in Saving. Almost everyboy and girl today knows something of how. CHICAGO. Tremont House, Corner Lake and Dearborn Streets, 1875—Population 500,000. cities are maintained; how they are keptclean, with lighted streets making it easierand safer to go about; with policemen andfiremen working to keep order and protectour homes from fire; with a great healthdepartment busy preventing the spread ofdisease; and with our schools kept open andthe teachers and janitors paid by the peo-ple, that the children may be educated andprepared for their work in life. The boysand girls know that these things are pur- chased by use of money paid by all the peo-ple, as taxes. To almost every girl and boy, then, it isclear why the people ask and require thattax money shall be economically spent. Itis clear to all that the more carefully moneyis spent for street cleaning the more cleanstreets we will have; that the cheaper lightscan be obtained for the streets the betterwill the streets be lighted for the moneyspent; that, in short, the more waste of taxmoney is prevente


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