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Show STREETS OF CITY BEING CLEANED i It has been lmpoK..!hlo. for the sfreei department .o do any work o; the Mrcits, exci-j.i f. remove pome of i hi snow, since the flrt cf last December De-cember and, as a resuli, consideralle filth and mud bio accumulated on the pavements. The snow and ico haw; remained in the Btreets, from four to eight Inches deep, during all this time, and 'he g;ound ha3 not been lsible n any par-, of tbe city, ll bas been lm?o-slble lo reniove the thick iKyer of lre. as at no time was the temperature high enounh to cause any thine like h thiw. j Yesterday, hweer. it was found that (be work of cleaning the sirepLs could be befun In some sections of I the city and the ttree" supervisor started on Ihe ta?k. The force of I men and teams bas been Increased materially tcday and con.siderable hoidviay Is being ma le. Street s.crap-ers, s.crap-ers, plows, f hove Is, sweeper;". and I every other instrument capable of r'-moving r'-moving the Ice and muil hae h'-n brought into no. Chalriiian Rarkcr rf the street cm-mltfce cm-mltfce flin'i'd to the 'ounrll lut eve- I n!ng, wh'ti the amusing cornmir.ilca- I lion was read from the real etn;e jv socl.atlon reg?rdln? the eondltlon o' the streets of the cily. that tho snow and ic bad li-en so de.p durln? the wlnier months that It wrs utterly Im po. pih.. for the street department to htinille t, or In any way clean the I street. 1 1 (e: ihTt (he criticism was ui, fair to 'he rtreet ir on ? r and the :.trcet eommitieo, ap well p the present and ft' adnilnUtratbrr-Thcr- had been no dereliction of du'y, he s-ild, nn'l 'here nohody lo Id 'rue for th condition of the- streets. |