BERLIN'S STREETS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 16

BERLIN'S STREETS.

'■.- CLEANEST-.IN TEE WORLD.' ; ' Berlin.certainly holds the .record;'ns'.possessing . cleaner streets /and roads', than' auy _ other city!'in' thd '..wcr-M' (writes ■'a! contributor' toa Loiidon .contemporary).'; It, used to be a-muddy.:., and dusty town'. • Now. if •' there 1 are mud and \ dust'anywhero within its:limitsHkoy.afo not sccil';liy, the; visitors whom-it-'.is '.striving so diligently; to attract;'"'■'•. .' ; '.'. : ...':.. . ..- One'of the sights of tho Berlin'sfreeb is ia snO'the motor watering and, sweeping, machines' at work. .'Tho. cliaufiouf.'jolts along tan. his strange-looking., vehicle,.;which..discharges .'a cataract of. Water, ..and'■'then by a revolving indiarubbor roller s\vecps the .water into : tho gutter. : '■■'.•';.--"'.': : ."-,-' "'.-■"' "■'" .Very, littlo fault is; to, bo found.with our ' London roads,except during :very hot weather'j but the Berlin cdncroto.ronds are,: I..am sure. As fresh. and clean, on' an, Aupist.'day.;jis they are .on a -June', one'. : It is in.tho cleanliness'; of tho sidewalks that.tbe'Berliners tpn'ch" the ■ Londoners a lesson. Itis a police-cdiirbmat-' ter to-dirty or mako untidy the' pavements.' 'When n man knows that he will have to! ■ answer to the police if . : ,ho'throws : down torn'' paper or a banana-skin on the pavement, hdf : docs not do it,', and'there'is dirt'on tho London' ■>. pavements;which' is, hcvor seen\on-'tho-Berlin!' ; ones.-' ■; ■"■''•'./.'-.■.' ',-. ■'••■,''.''■"■'•.■ '■..•"■,','■ .;■ A Londoner walks-with ono'oye.'on tho flags,', i to see where ho puts his feet., A Berliner can look dt thd trees; and buildings'and sky with ' both. eyes. -~ -.'■:> .. >\ '■. .-...; . i