The New York herald., 1872-12-30
PITCH AND TOSS.
Snow Shuttlec0ck Between Citizens
and Car Companies.
THE SHOVEL wARFARE.
Removing Snow from the Tracks and Piling h
Into curbstone Embankments- Objection a
Householders-Blockaded State Of tho
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The car companies and the community at large
are waging shovel warfare, and the game a.
pitch and toss IL pretty general from Harlem 70
the Battery. Indignant shopkeepers who wish .
clear passage for expectant customers, finding
the laborers employed to remove the snow from
the railroad tracks are shovelllng the heaps -
front OF the doors higher and higher, in ft Of ex-
asperation employ the first gang OF .sunattacheas
knights Of the shovel, aud the spectacle could DO
witnessed yesterday and Saturday OF two rival
parties playing battle-dorc and shuttlecock with
the crystalized element In one instance the farce
Terminated Ia free fight, in which there was con-
siderable pounding and more profanity, which
shocked the churchgoers but pleased the ungodiy.
In fact things, like the snow and garbage arc
somewhat mixed, and what Is everybody's busi-
ness is nobody's business Foundering pcdes-
trians wanted to know why the Street Cleaning
Commission were not at work, especially under
the now reform regime, which purports TO make
this metropolis a Paris In cleanliness and an
Elysum In comfort, but it still remains Cologne
for filth and an Alaska for mpassibllity except on
snow shoes The Police Commissioners waited
awhile and then attacked Broadway. Men with
Of time the great artery was cleared from Union
square to the Battery, at an expense, 1t Is essa-
mated, OF some twenty thousand dollars.
.m OFF OF BROADWAY,
however, especially in the narrow streets OF tsG
lower part OF the CITY, there were continuous lines
OF rocky mountain ranges and Sierra Nevada n
miniature. one had to travel considerable dis
tance to find crossing, and how the wholesale
houses in Church, College and contiguous streets
Atr r1sn
the storm only the draymen and express companies
can tell. In fact. the Ninth avenue. Grand ana
Beecker street lines had to give up in despair. ana
for the past three days no cars have passed over
the route, with the exception Of the Ninth avenue
line. which ran q few painful trips, and then cen
cluded to give the jaded, smoking four-in-hanl
q long and welcome rest. These companies
finding the city authorities had evidently made a.
their minds to wait for thaw to relieve them from
the snow elephant, were constrained to put thets
shoulders to the wheel and bring out the snev
plough and the shovel brigade. Then came
THE TUG OF WAR;
Astonished proprietors looked shiveringly out q
snow -enwreathed windows and found Book q
Genesis being enacted under their peering eyes
Mountains arose where no mountains existed be-
fore, and ash barrels and garbage boxes had on
tireiy disappeared. This sort Of thing was not u
be tolerated. and passages must be made. Men
were set to work to cut la Napoleon the Great
way through these Alps, and HERALs
reporter had the pleasure OF witnessing
sight that would make the eyes OF geOlogst
glisten. comic section OF q mountain IN CROSBY
street showed deep substratum of mud and flth.
on this was stratum Of dirtstreaked snow, sur
mounted by another Of ashes, evidently OF the siu
slaves and old shoes. The pile was capped by
crust OF pepper-and-salt mixture, shovelled IRON
shoots OF r trees We're judicousy planted an ever
green forest might thrive to advantage on tue
IN s the @
tricts, and seemed as II the houses were Just emefg
ing from an avalanche Tns car c0psnleSm y yesS b%s
ness, had employed large force OF ~:
CARTS AND LABORERS -
to remove the piles that interrupted transit In
Church street the Broadway and Seventh avenue
lines on Saturday had seventy carts at work.
and yesterday about forty were employed. This
storm has cost the Company apous xivVo as sney
and had to confine its operations to the avenues.
The sixth and Eighth Avenue lines have spent
only by interruption but has spent fully 81 500 In
clearing q track nom Bleecker street to Fulton
YESTERDAY about twenty carts were e
ssSieles S,Ria aVshss' ss express WAGONS which ala
csl5s sqs haSs ihs me o
Island Is such that teams can dump IN etner rivers
PnllaQclDQl8
the same concentrated trade in narrow compass
nos ns ss m TsSsVSs e &c es
line existed IN street the housenolders had the
beneft OF higher barriers in front OF them: This
sundry A ssossIeepsrs, S wSo ss before mentioned
retaiated, and the pitch and toss game was ptayeQ
to the interruption or travel and the annoyance q
BE jaoers ~ sa4d ono lsoorer. 'tnis work Z
IKE thfOvlns briSkbats IN the air and houldlnsysr
TsDsa ss, snosss, sss tst sns qss %
II The boss did come, ana after pariey with the
citizen gong King Corporation was pleased to cry
truce, on condition that the carts were TO carry On
mere ~ sT se nt 81 tese oy interred Wiz
high as Horab and no game Of pitch and % toss , &c;
wish them in the southwest corner Of Hacss.
where they win be better appreciated, though this
saxon and less classical expression. Bus
thea tidbt iof the avalanche was to be
nave long Seen s abandoned 20 the % primisvs state
Ts the has SS sse e
Stops ana garbage have risen in the world ana, In
stead OF sinking humby In the gutter, surmount
banners to the breeze. The pseudo streets arc
nowhere and q Pompeiian explorer would nnd
civilization in mut.lated curbstone. How dis
gusted the sunny Italians requenting the locality
must be as they dream Of dtdce NdpOt and blast
this snowb0und city ssss-... .. ,.ss. ~ "a.
AFTER THE SNOW THE sLUsH. 4.
About midday yesterday the temperature becam0
q little warmer, and slush began TO hint speedy
arrival Everywhere one could see that tine CUTTERS
had been blocked by the piles cast up by the ratl-
way companies, and consequently the nrst tnaw
win food the sidewalk and make the walking over
Of muttered profanity to men. The oid game OF
melting the ice by salt was played pretty exten-
ture around their feet must expect AL the Ills thae
range between cold and coffin. There Is an or