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Title: Public works
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering
Publisher: Ridgewood, N.J. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rks of Syracuse, N. Y., for collecting garbage in thisway. The apparatus used was furnished by the ChaseMotor Truck Company of that city, and consists of 3-tontrucks each with a capacity of 54 cans, each can holding100 pounds. The pans, of course, are not always full,and the average load of a truck is about l^i tons. In making the collection, six men are used. Two areat all times standing on the folding running boards ofthe truck, their work being to take the cans from the col-lectors and place them in position on the car. The fourcollectors bring the garbage cans from the house yardsto the truck. When the trucks are loaded they carry thecans to the reduction plant outside the city, where thetwo assistants and the truck driver empty the truck.These assistants stay at the reduction plant and wash thecans and have them ready for the next days service. Theclean cans are then taken out the following day by thetruck and exchanged for the loaded cans as they arerfnii)\ed l)v the collectors.
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THUCKS buli CULLiECTlNG G.AHB.\GI; i.\ .SVK.ACU.S December 10, 1914 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL 847 Municipal Journal Published Weekly at SO Union Square (Fourth Ave. and 17th St.), New York By Municipal Journal and Engineer, Inc. Telephone. 2.S05 Stuyvesant, New York Western Office 60S S. Dearborn Street, Chicago S. W. HUME, President I. T. MORRIS, Treas. and Mgr. A. PRESCOTT FOLWELL. Sec.-etary C A. DICKENS. Western Manager A. PRESCOTT FOLWELL. Editor Subscription Rates United States ind possessions, Mexico, Cuba $3.00 per year All other countries 4.00 per year Entered as second-clasi matter, January 3, 1906, at the Post Office at NewYork, N. Y.. under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CHANGE OF ADDRESSSubscribers are requested to notify us of changes of address, givingboth old and new addresses. Contributions suitable for this paper either in the form of special arti-cles or of letters discussing municipal matters, are invited and paid for. Subscribers desiring information concerning mun

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