Street Cleaning Department's Weekly Chores Include Incinerating 10 Mules or Horses, May 23, 1923

Street Cleaning Department Reorganized. . . City Manager Adds Two More Sprinklers and Makes Incinerator Incinerate

City Manager Grantham has rejuvenated the street cleaning department with the recent addition of two sprinklers purchased second-hand from a refining company and the addition of another man on the street with a pushcart. Despite the dilapidated equipment at the city incinerator, 75 per cent of the trash collected in the city is consumed by it. An average of 10 mules or horses a week are consumed in the incinerator and under the present management enough combustible material is found in the incinerator consume practically everything without the use of coal. The sanitary and street cleaning department have been combined under the management of Roy S. Parker, which is assigned as one of the reasons for the more effective work of the two departments.

From the front page of The Goldsboro News, May 23, 1923. Sprinklers were used to keep dust down on dirt streets.