New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-15
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
REMOVING THE SNOW.

THE WORK BEGUN on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF REFUSE.
Commissioner Nichols Chairman OF the
Committee on Street Cleaning, and Capt Gunner, III
spector OF Street Cleaning made arrangements on oat
urday for beginning the work OF removing the ice ana
snow from Broadway from Unonsquare to the Battcry
Tie private Office of Commissioners Nichols was De-
aioged all day by thronCs Of ward politicians seeking
labor tickets for their constituents aud many uncn
ployed working men sought for themselves an oppo-
tuu,iv 10 do few days work with pitiable eagerness
Six hundred engaged and ordered to report 10
Can't Gunner at o'clock yesterday morning at Broad
way and Fourteent-st Promptly nj that hour the men
engaged ani the SEQ carts ployGcd were at the place
where they were divided into gangs and assigned TO
clean sections Of the street. These sections were COM
posed of from to five blocks and each gang was in
charge of foreman The price paid to the iaborers en-
gagged is 90 cents hour and for horse cart, ana
driver So % a day.
After men armed with pickaxcs had loosened the ice
il was sloveled into piles and removed by the carts and
dumped into the rivers either side OF the city, The
street showed a manifest Improvement, Whlch
ELECTED approval from passersby, only qualified by the
universal comment, Z" IL should have been done long
AGO" great difference WAS percepble In the quantity
and quality of the accumulation OF snow ice and dirt al
different points along Broadway In front OF high
buildngs especially in the lower portion Of the city,
where the had not had access to it, the lee was nearly
two feet IN thickness and solid rock. AT Fulton5t
the constant traffic and the shadow OF the high buildings
in the vicinity had reduced the ice 10 the consistency or
stone, AMI IL resembled, when broken with the PICK,
fragments OF granite. The PIERS and bukheads desiG
mated dumping places soon proved insufficient on ac-
count Of their distance. aud arrangements were hastily
made by which permission was obtained to use Ter ina
purpose almost any Of the docks along the ver fronts
The work steadily forward during the day under
the personal supervision Of Commissioner FicD0s
and Capt. Gunner, who were going backward and
nj frnr mimi To Il,
fastening and directing the labor. As night ap-
preached the work was found to he one OF such
magnitude that not probable 1t could be finished
entirely during the day and evening in the lower part Of
the city, therefore orders issued TO take the west
side of the street first and complete that in order
that there should be good carriageway continuously
through the street The work was continued up 20 ate
hour last night and will he resumed to-day as much RS
practicabe while the filed with vehicles. and
this evening with large force OF men ana carts III wa
streets particularly those leading ferries should
he cleaned today. hut it was found Impossible 10 90 H.
and the work will have TO wait until tonight or TO
quarter of the city which is in especially had condi
tiOn Side, between FIfst-.Ne and the East
River In Avenues A. b. aud there are INDUSTRIOUS piles
of ice, snow and rublsh choking ne streets, ana III
heavy thlw sets in the tenenenthOuse reputation
will suffer greatly Much delay has heeu experienced ny
ashes and garbage from their hoscs In many parts
the city the ashcarts have not made their rounds Tor
| cunher the sidewalks. Capt. Gunner said that many
complaints had been made to him by citizens The cans'
! OF the utlaf was VI
the river but several dumping places had been re-
Gently by the city and i'll future ashes would be
removed from all parts of the city Regularly The cond
ton Of the sidewalks in many paris OF the city II eK
tremey bad. from their not having been cleaned IDcy
are covered with ice during cold days and sush when
the strikes them. that pcestrians becomes no -
pert than discomfort. The police are Instructed 10
give notice residents that tleir Sidewalks must DE
cleaned properly, and in case they aIl TO comply! 10 re-
port their and addresses 70 the Corporation Cou
sell In due process OF law they should be summoned 10
appear before district court aud fined 60 But members
OF the police say that when they instruct people TO
abusive language, and that when they have reported
them hing further has been done in regard 10 II.