A clean route for just one crossingSourced
Crossing sweepers cleared a pedestrian’s way
Nineteenth-century crossing sweepers cleared a path through dirty urban streets in exchange for gratuities. Horse-drawn traffic and long clothing made a cleaner route useful. The service could concern one person’s short crossing rather than the whole road.
A few steps across a street could create a paid task.
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