Art: Receptacle

Unofficial but vigorous is the Committee of Twenty on Street and Outdoor Cleanliness, a group of New York City medicos disgusted with the condition of their city's streets. Last week they tempted artists, architects, designers with $750 in prizes for a new and beautiful trash basket or refuse receptacle to be presented to the city for placing at strategic points about the streets. Stoutly Acting Chairman Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin of the Committee of Twenty denied the imputation of New York papers that the contest was for the purpose of creating the...

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