. Town and city. An Ash Cart collecting for Rikers Island them to use as fertilizers; otherwise the ashes andsweepings go in scows to Rikers Island in East they are dumped, and the land grows fast. Duringeach month of 1903 over one hundred thousand cubicyards of ashes went into the inclosures which are beingfilled to make this island. It cost the city seventeencents a cubic yard to get it there. 50 TOWN AND CITY The ashes are packed in until the new land standssix or eight feet above water at high tide. Then, insteadof more ashes, sixteen inches of good earth is added, sothat trees
. Town and city. An Ash Cart collecting for Rikers Island them to use as fertilizers; otherwise the ashes andsweepings go in scows to Rikers Island in East they are dumped, and the land grows fast. Duringeach month of 1903 over one hundred thousand cubicyards of ashes went into the inclosures which are beingfilled to make this island. It cost the city seventeencents a cubic yard to get it there. 50 TOWN AND CITY The ashes are packed in until the new land standssix or eight feet above water at high tide. Then, insteadof more ashes, sixteen inches of good earth is added, sothat trees and grass may finally have a chance to growon the manufactured island. To start with, Rikers Island was only eighty-sevenacres in extent. But the plan is to turn it into a threehundred and twenty acre island. It will then be twiceas large as Blackwells Island. When the work is done. Building Rikers Island New York City may move her hospitals and her peni-tentiaries from Blackwells to Rikers Island. Thousandsof people are hoping that when that time comes Black-wells Island will be turned into a beautiful park withathletic grounds for the city. So much for the good management that turns ashesand street sweepings into valuable land. But the fateof rubbish bundles is quite as interesting. These are gathered by large carts, because the loadsare lighter and more clumsy. In these loads every sort GARBAGE, ASHES, AND RUBBISH 51 of thing is found, from rags and tobacco pipes to worn-out mattresses and useless carpets. In truth, manypeople cast aside all sorts of things that can be used byother people. There is so much of this done that con-tractors are willing to pay the street-cleaning department
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