As a result of the revived activities of the Cambridge street-cleaning department Thursday morning, ten cars were towed by order of police from their parking places on Bow and neighboring streets and left in Galvin's Garage, where six still remained last night.

The street-cleaning department wished to purify the gutters where the cars were parked, so the wrecking car of Galvin's was called and the cars that were locked were hauled away bodily.

Not only were the cars obstructing the path of sanitation hauled away, but when their owners went to reclaim them, a charge of $3.50 was imposed for towing services, plus a dollar a night for storage.

The superintendent of Galvin's Garage when interviewed last night expressed his emphatic approval of the Cambridge police and declared that six of the ten captive cars remained. "A dollar a night it costs them," he declared, "and here their cars stay till they find them and pay the costs."

The irate owners of the cars have hinted darkly at unlawful procedure on the part of the police, but Captain Brennan explained the circumstances in a statement to the CRIMSON last night.

"We wouldn't have moved the cars," he declared," but they had parked for a longer time than the law allows. And if they hadn't been locked, we would have just pushed them out of the way. As it was, there was no way of moving them except having them towed. When they were towed, of course the garage had to be paid."