| Show I National Capital Is a Clean City r lOll tribute to the cleanliness of HIGH tho streets of the national l capital vns paid recently by Joseph A Olea son general superintendent of the department de-partment of public works of New Orleans Or-leans Ho called at the district building to find out how It was done and chatted with Commissioner West and Superintendent James M Wood of the streetcleaning department Washington is the cleanest and the best city I have been In ho told Commissioner West after relating experiences In visiting ninny of the leading cities of the eastern and central cen-tral states I want to find out how you do It During his conference with Su I perln tendent Wood of tho street cleaning department it was discovered discov-ered that there Is about ten times as much street area In tho district to be cared for as In Now Orleans but tho visiting official told tho local I heads that the streets of Washington I aro cleaner than those In New Orleans J leans I The New Orleans official went carefully care-fully Into all tho details of the system s sys-tem of street cleaning In the national capital and declared that ho found many new ideas which could be used t In the southern city Ono of the advanced stops iueu lu New Orleans looking to cleanliness Superintendent Gleason explained was along the line of making the street railway companies sprinkle their tracks While tho old lines of tho city cannot bo made to carry out t ti that course the now lines aro given charters containing u compulsory clause Tho results are excellent It was reported and the system Is to bo extended in the future Nothing like this has been tried in tho district dis-trict |
