c. Why the surface of the streets is not better, and who suffers

from it.

(1) Poor paving at the beginning, and the reason for it.

(2) Constant tearing up of the streets and failure to replace properly.

(3) Remedy for these evils.

A. The conduit or subway.

1. Why we do not have it.

2. Additional evils resulting from its absence.

a. Waste of gas.

b. Waste of water.

c. Difficulty of making repairs.

d. Injury to health and vegetation.

Poisonous gases. Uncleanliness.

2. The cleaning of the streets.

a. Who has charge of it.

b. What it costs.

c. Why necessary.

d. How the department is run.

e. What is done with the refuse and what should be done.

f. Duties of the householder.

g. How we may keep the streets cleaner.

h. The sprinkling of the streets.

1. By whom done.

3. The regulation of traffic.

a. Who makes the regulations (ordinances, rules)?

b. Who enforces them, such as the direction and speed of traffic?

c. The encumbering of sidewalks and streets.

d. The restriction of certain streets.

e. Remedies for the congestion of traffic, as tunnels, belt lines, etc., for freight.

f. The growth of business limited by traffic.

4. Sidewalks.

a. Regulations as to laying, repairing.

b. Who has jurisdiction over them.

c. The stoop line.

d. Right of the citizen to demand good sidewalks.

e. Blocking the sidewalk.

5. Gutters.

a. Whose business to keep clear of ice, snow or dirt.

b. Whose business to enforce the law and who makes the law?

6. The sewer system.

a. How and by whom sewers are put in.

b. Who pays for them.

c. Who has charge of them.

d. How connected with the houses.

e. How the sewage is disposed of.

f. What is done in other cities and what should be done here?

g. The importance of a good sewer system to the health of the community.

7. The water supply.

a. Why the city and not the individual furnishes the supply of water in a great city.

b. Why the water supply conditions the growth of the city.

c. Where we obtain our present water supply and how it reaches us.

d. Who has charge of the water supply.

e. The total and per capita supply of water in the city.

f. How water is paid for.

g. The danger of a water famine.

1. How it can be averted.

(a) Saving the water by the repairing of leaks, using meters, etc., salt water for fires and cleaning streets.

(b) New sources of supply. The difficulties.

h. The advantages of city ownership over private company.

i. Cost of water supply.

8. Lighting the streets.

a. How it is done.

b. What it costs.

c. Who has charge of it.

d. Should it be done by the city or a private company?

e. The use of the streets for carrying pipes and wires.

f. Who controls this use?

g. The control over these companies by the city or state.

h. Ought the city furnish light to citizens for their private purposes?