. Water & sewage works . BALTIMORE White Wings, each man begins his days icork wearing a spotless uni-form. No employe works over eight hours, but in some districts gangs areworked at night. loft, for each of the new sanitary wagonshave canvas covers. Including all hands there are on thepayroll of the department 800 men andthe annual payroll amounts to $525, Larkins salary is $3,000, and hisdeputy receives $2,000. Cart drivers andlaborers receive $2 per day of eight. QUEEGEE street cleaner, a number ofwhich are in constant use. hours; cart drivers who own and usetheir own horses recei
. Water & sewage works . BALTIMORE White Wings, each man begins his days icork wearing a spotless uni-form. No employe works over eight hours, but in some districts gangs areworked at night. loft, for each of the new sanitary wagonshave canvas covers. Including all hands there are on thepayroll of the department 800 men andthe annual payroll amounts to $525, Larkins salary is $3,000, and hisdeputy receives $2,000. Cart drivers andlaborers receive $2 per day of eight. QUEEGEE street cleaner, a number ofwhich are in constant use. hours; cart drivers who own and usetheir own horses receive $3 per receive $15 per week; superin-tendents of street cleaning $1,000 peryear, and superintendents in the sanitarydivision, $1,200 per year. It costs, annually, about $66,500 to re-move the garbage alone, but there issomething in the way of remunerationto offset this, for the city has a contract,with a sliding scale, with the SouthernProducts Company, which not only takesall of the garbage, but which pays about$16,000 a year for it. This products com-pany has a plant 10 miles from the cityand all garbage is converted into greasewhich is used in the making of soap andaxle grease. The disposal of street sweepings andashes is more serious, inasmuch as pub-lic dumping grounds are becoming was when there was a dump in each October. 1913 342 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING section of the city. Now it is necessaryto load the refuse on scows and carry it10
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