Show I 4 A ANEW NEW YORKER t AT L' L ARGE- ARGE G r NEW YORK Dec 27 Even 27 j Ev Even n a n skyscraper raper has to ha have haUs its Us face washed ri now w and then It docs does that some isomo of ot them could stand havIng having hayI hav hay I ing their necks Os i washed as well I And tho the job of or doing this Iss is s something requirIng requiring p i 14 ing the combined ivi talents of ot an nn anI I 1 acrobat a n tight tightrope 1 rope ropo walker and anda I iii a a. old rashI fash- fash I I o on n o 0 d scrubwoman man man Leaning on ona ona JL a strap from a n win window d 0 w that's ump floors from tho the ground gound Is a task t. InvolvInG ing lug a a. human who hR has forgotten the laws oC of gravity and who might be beable bio able to qualify as an aviator S S STake Take ake the Ch Chanin the Chrysler or or th he the new Empire State buildings each of ot which houses enough p peo- peo opie o- o pie ile per day to fill flU a good sized small town own And if It you enter the lobby Jobby of ot any such uch building at nt an hour when gooc gOOe night are making their heir final rounds you'll o find J n a small army of or women with scrub palls Pails alls and each of ot them will WUl tell teU you oU wearily that she sho has to beat the sun iun up each morning In order to uk keep tho the ep building tidy Having encountered a a. certain si Mt-si Irs tS t'S GlI Gilhooley ooley arriving IvIns at work worl theother the theother other ther dawning my statistical interest inter inter- est st was aroused and I found In n the office of Ot one ono C. C L. L Brown whose job It Is isto to keep n a skyscraper spick and span And he tells me Its much easier to keep It span than spick I I 0 S S I But since every evory housewife must o that she has has' a tough life Ufo what with the dinner dishes laundry laundr and keeping the children clean for tor school It struck mo me that perhaps tho tIm average wife wile might be interested in the fact that its it's a aman man who attends to tho the little minor household duties around a Now Nor York cloud For instance thero there aro are windows windows win win- windows dows to be washed J Jh the 10 Chr Chrysler building I alone Jone And when tho n new Empire Sj Sae ate has officially erected cd It Ha Its hitching post for tor dirigibles there thero will bo be hh almost l Ico that nul number b r to worry about Yet sev seven n V cleaners do all tho work anc an and thE they are never out of ot w work t They Th move povo from top to bottom bottom bot- bot bot bot- tom torn and back up again working se en seven days s 's a a. week and seven Beven hours a day Something like women are aro at work the moment are closed for tor the nI night ht and a hundred hundred hun hun- dred porters are aro on tho the Job all aU the time Each woman woman is responsible for tor 10 square feet teet of oC floor loor space which Is slightly more than the average housewife covers corers in the course of at a da day Some of ot them get the breaks for fora a a. lawyers lawyer's office is Ig less tidy than a I brokers broker's office for some reason or another Chewing gum plays plas an Important part I In ii tho the working lives lI of oC those who are aro assigned to tho the corridors for office girls have e a a. habit of or chucking hucking out their gum upon baylog leaving leav bay log ing el elevators since many are not allowed to enjoy the tho mastication of ot on entering an office Each Elch feet teet of or office building building build build- ing inS has a 3 supervisor who goes about complaining that there theres s a bit of oC dust In the corner cor ner there Mar tha that In the order of ot business waste wastebaskets wastebaskets baskets come fh firt t. t And s since absent m minded In de d men have haye been known to let im important im- im important d doc docu- docu o c u- u meats get Into a waste Evaste basket each is lick for forty forty- eight hours t to tomake make sure that nothing important has been thrown out It then Is sold at so much per hundredweight The Tho present price I believe is around 16 cents I And tho the cost of oC keeping a build build- buildIng lag Ing clean runs about a day day- which Is quite an Item as an any r housewife can tell you Ou GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1930 NEA EA Service Inc I B Berlin is experimenting with I 1 cleaning the oil films caused b by motor vehicles from its streets S 5 with jets of oC live JIve steam stean generated I 1 Iby b by a a. po portable table boiler I |