Show TIE COST OF CIiTJATVIIVG BEIII1A I is true that municipal affairs are generally speaking conducted here more economically and much more thoroughly than is the case in American Amer-ican cities Thus in S72 streets of Berlin Ber-lin covering a total area of 6780000 square metres were cleaned at an annual expenditure of 2 million marks half million dollars Now the area of Berlin streets haying hay-ing increased by 18D3 to over Jight million auare metr the streets ar cleaned for but 40 OOO and cleaned better than in any other large city in the world This is due to system to the excellent pavements constantly renewed and mended And to machine seeping which costs 60 per cent less than the sweeping done toy hand It is the fftme j with street sprinkling This is done during the season whenever when-ever needed on hot dusty days twice and 1200000 cubic metres of wsiter are used up in the thorough system of sprinkling between April 1st and November No-vember 15th The city does it at an expense of but 2364000 marks this pondence year Chicago Records Berlin Corres S |