Reuben S. Simons |
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Established & Re-established New York City's Juvenile Street Cleaning League[1][2] He would address school classes to recruit children to join the effort. [3] He arranged for tokens of authority as encouragement for boys to participate. [4]
Bibliography edit
- The Juvenile Street Cleaning Leagues of New York, American Cities, Volume 3, p27, Arthur Hastings Grant ed., December 1909
References edit
- ^ Melosi, Martin V. (2005). Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 106. Retrieved November 14, 2013.
- ^ "HONOR BLIND STREET CLEANER; School Children Celebrate Simons's Reorganization of the Juvenile League". New York Times. July 8, 1909. Retrieved November 14, 2013.
With tears of joy streaming down his cheeks Reuben S. Simons, a blind foreman of the Street Cleaning Department, stood in Dexter Park, Woodhaven, Queens Borough, yesterday afternoon and told 3,000 school children who had gathered to do him honor that it was the happiest day of his life.
- ^ Burnstein, Daniel Eli (2006). Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. University of Illinois Press. p. 97.
- ^ Storey, Thomas A.; Woll, Frederic A.; Park, Julian, eds. (August 25-23, 1913). Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene. THE COURIER CO. OF BUFFALO.
This gentleman had done work of a similar nature among much younger boys in the elementary schools and knowing boy nature came forward with the offer of badges to be used by the squad members as a distinctive mark of authority.
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