Berlin Lonely For Flies.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 4, 1912:
Streets So Clean That They Can't Find Refuse to Nourish Them.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Aug. 3.— he notedly clean streets of the capital city of the German Empire not only assist in keeping the death rate low and please the eye, but add as well to the comfort of every-day life.
    At this Season of the year, while young America is being taught to "swat the fly," there is no occasion to teach Berliners any such activity. Although window screens are almost unknown here, so few flies can be found in any place that they appear lonely.
    The city's admirable street cleaning methods do not leave enough refuse to permit flies to breed.