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Updated: July 21, 2025
"Thanks!" said Pelle, holding out his hand. "Then that is settled no more carts go out. And we must bring the street-cleaners to a standstill too!" "Then the authorities will put other men on there are plenty to be found for that work." "They won't do that or we'll put a stop to it if they do!" "That sounds all right! It'll be a nasty business for the swells!
Besides these were the various bodies of State and municipal employees in all grades, from the Governors of States down to the street-cleaners.
"All right, sir," said the driver intelligently, and he found his why skilfully out of the street among the high banks of the seasonable Christmas-week snow, which the street-cleaners had heaped up there till they could get round to it with their carts. When they were in Broadway again it seemed lonelier and silenter than it was a few minutes before.
"Thanks!" said Pelle, holding out his hand. "Then that is settled no more carts go out. And we must bring the street-cleaners to a standstill too!" "Then the authorities will put other men on there are plenty to be found for that work." "They won't do that or we'll put a stop to it if they do!" "That sounds all right! It'll be a nasty business for the swells!
This department, by the way, was given a remarkable illustration of the fine public spirit of the citizens, for by three o'clock in the afternoon two hundred thousand applications had been received from those eager to act as volunteer street-cleaners and help scour the Boulevard after the passage of the great parade.
As soon as the firing of cannon began, all the people ran into the streets, and the street-cleaners, who were sweeping up the tiles and broken bits of slate that the storm had torn from the roofs, leaned on their brooms and listened.
Then the street-cleaners, the "White Wings," garbage and ash-can men begin their deadly rounds, and the clang of dashing empty metal cans on the stone-paved courts and areas reverberates between high buildings until one longs for the silence of the grave. The noise and shock of blasting rock is incessant. They are blasting all along the Hudson shore and in Central Park.
Then, in the first morning hours, he would rise and look out of his window at the awakening activities of the street at the street-cleaners, the ash-cart drivers, and the other dingy workers flitting hurriedly by through the sallow winter light. Oh, to be one of them any of them to take his chance in any of their skins!
Let us bring the dustmen and the street-cleaners into the line of fire! And if that isn't enough we'll turn off their gas and water! Let us venture our last penny let us strike the last blow!" Pelle's proposal was adopted, and he went westward immediately to the president of the Scavengers' Union. He had just got up and was sitting down to his midday meal.
As soon as the firing of cannon began, all the people ran into the streets, and the street-cleaners, who were sweeping up the tiles and broken bits of slate that the storm had torn from the roofs, leaned on their brooms and listened.
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