Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — NEW YORK'S AUTOMOBILE STREET SWEEPERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK'S AUTOMOBILE STREET SWEEPERS

N-W YORK.—The horse is being pushed from another of his positions of usefulness, for New York Is Installing gasoline-propelled street cleaners. The automobile sweeps are a combination of vacuum cleaners, scrubbing brushes and sweepers. Besides loosening np the dirt in the streets as they go along, they pick It up and store It In great tanks with n capacity of from six to eleven cubic yards, which, when filled, are driven to the dumps and automatically emptied into the waiting scows