Two hundred clubs of children on the New York East Side
cooperate with the street-cleaning department in keeping clean
streets in their respective neighborhoods. They hand prepared
cards furnished by the city to every one seen throwing rubbish
in the street, which read as follows:
Give your banana-peels to a horse. Horses like them.
Orange-peels, peanut-shells, newspapers and other rubbish must
not be thrown in the street. Keep yours and throw them in the
receptacle placed at street corners for that purpose. You should
sprinkle your sidewalk before sweeping. Don’t raise the dust,
as it breeds disease. It is against the law to throw rubbish
from the windows to the street. Don’t put paper, rags and other
rubbish either in the ash-can or garbage-can.
A badge is given to each child to wear on which is inscribed the
motto: “We are for clean streets.” Thus thousands of children
are learning to take pride in their city.
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