Our town and civic duty

Chapter 102: EQUIPMENT OF STREET CLEANERS

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A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

EQUIPMENT OF STREET CLEANERS

Don’t Sweep Rubbish into the Street.

A large city street-cleaning department uses:

Sprinkling wagons, flushing machines, machine brooms, dirt wagons and carts, rubbish wagons, tightly-built ash wagons, covered garbage wagons.

The workmen needed are: drivers, collectors and cleaners.

All employees should be required to wear uniforms and numbered badges.

Each “blockman” is usually provided with the following:

A bag carrier, bags, scraper, broom, sprinkler, fire-hydrant key, shovel, tools.

QUESTIONS

All sweepings are placed in dust-proof bags. Why?

Sweepings are not allowed to remain in piles on the street. Why?

Snow, ice, and mud should be removed from street crossings, fire hydrants, sewer inlets, and footways of public bridges in reasonable time. Why?