Show REMOVING SNOW COSTS CHICAGO NEAT FORTUNE Removing snow from Crom Chicago pave pavements ments at per Inch of ot snow Is winters burden on the tho street depart department department ment mont for 01 the superintendent of o which 17 1 i cities have hao sent applicants to tho time civil service contest In which there are areTi 71 Ti contestants Tho The annual cost of re removing removing removing moving the time snow from the streets in inthe Inthe inthe the First ward which Includes the time loop district Is about For several years this work has been done by b the time Citizens Association but It Is I understood that after this year ear tho the work will be turned back to the street department Every Ever snowfall costs about an aim inch to remove from the tho loop the cost being rather high because of or the necessity for speed speech When hen Chicago has a snow sno fall Call as nS It had last week it usually requires less than 18 hours to free Cree tho the streets in the business district of o tho tIme beautiful bl This compares very fa fee favorably a with the tIme work In this line lIn done In Paris where they the still use the theold theold theold old method of ot sprinkling the snow with salt and trying to melt it When this works it causes so much suffering among time the horses their feet f et becom becoming becomIng ing frozen through constant standing and working In the cold slush that tho time French people are beginning to protest against It The Chicago method is to sweep p the th snow into plies piles and then cart it oft off and dump it into tho the I river or lake The now new street superintendent will probably follow the same course as us it has been found to be bethe bethe bethe the best and just as economical as asan any an other and far quicker The Tho new street superintendent sUI will vili draw a 3 salary of o a year ear and have hae the expenditure of of public moneys mones annually As s a result of or ef eC efforts efforts forts torts of ot tho the City club which Insisted that the examination should be open to outsiders the civil service commis commission commissIon sion complied and Chicago hopes to have tIme tho le best man maim for tor the position that tha could be obtained throughout tho the en entire I tire tiro country countr Chicago News Letter |