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Show oo CONFETTI III IJjL ION Swept Up From the Streels of Coney Island Now York, SepL 19. Appioximate-ly Appioximate-ly 1,440 tons of confetti were swept up and removed from the streets of Coney Island during the week's celebration cele-bration of this year's Mardi Gras, according ac-cording to a report by the street cleaning department Tho total , la some four hundred tons larger than that of last year. Sixty men and a large number of carts wore employed in the work each morning, the cost to the city being about $2,000. The confetti was carted to the Coney Island dump and burned. oo |