MAY RELEGATE THE BROOM.
School Board Considering Vacuum
Cleaning for Buildings.
Vacuum cleaning of the public schools may possibly be substituted for the old process of sweeping with brooms and occasional scrubbing of floors. At the meeting of the board of education last night Charles Smith, architect for the board, was instructed to ask for bids for equipping the new Bancroft school, Forty-third street and Tracy avenue, for vacuum cleaning.
It would require nearly $165,000 to put the system in all of the school buildings. The board will probably have it placed in a few buildings at a time as the funds will allow if the plan is found to be practicable.
