New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-08
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
coNnr1rox OF THE STREETS.


WHAT PEDESTRIANS ENDURED YksTk"pAr
POLICE COMMISSIONERS IN CoNsVIi"'-' "'
THE CORPORATION COUNSEL
8 II tte condition Of the streets was unpeasans o.
Sunday IL was simply intoerabie yesterday. Muu
yeigued supreme From the Battery 70 Spunn d. re,
Dnvyl and from the East River to the Nortu iuVcL
the strrets were submerged beneath mass OF hI.n
that was foul and unsghtiy beyond deecI'pas'.v,n
The main thoronehfares IN me lower Sev were
sunday. Captain Williams and the men under n'S
command dad the best they could under the c'io"H'
Btayces. A.. ,or mart Of the
CITY and some in the lower part. carrying away 'h1 20
ice and snow as fast as possible. gten' ut of
rnbbjsh was removed from the sontuerh phD y
Rro.Jwav .arjv i'm the morning, and, as a naturai
co,lsemlrnce the street was IN conpoTatNt'E oio
condition. In Houson-s w91cn large force OF men
vas M work IL required energetic EFFORTS niiu We.,
directed blows of pick 10 make any IMP c,on
upoa the snOr and ice. Considerable hcauway ~ ,
made dnrinv the day. and pedestrians may look or
more convenience in passing throngn mar slrent;
FoureeDth-sf. remains IN aVtrS pau s,a'o' ~" W..
niles of ice and snow Obstruc the CUTTERS, WINE tne
centre of the street is full OF pastciSe black mnu'
The extreme eastern and western parts are disgacr
fuliy dirty Twenty -tbrd-St Is in similar plight
The streets between Fourteenth.st. and twenty
fhird-st have had almost nothing done TO them. III
the neghborhood of the stables OF the street
ing Bureau the streets are 50 blocked up WIN niuu
and ice that the carts Of the bureau make SLOW pro-
grrss in returning homo at 0ieht. Madison-aVe
must he eyesore ~ those whose homes 'front.' III
y
carriages canno, go through ior han : u"h,,
blocks without heokng rs " tlav had orea tarouHh
az Illinois hog. fitth-avc. Is very little bitter.
The whole Of tue district lying between L HentN-
sixtb-st.. Forty -secUndst Sixh-ave and tho North
River II IN vile state scarcely anything mas been
tloue to remove the mass of rubbish which encunl-
bers II. The East side beyond Ihird'ave' Is nesriy
as bad
The ice ia the rivers was exceedingly trouble
some yesterday. Many of the ferry-slips were 80
choked up that the boats were run IN only w,th the
greatest difficulty. Ia some OF tbein the WAFER,
where not very deep is frozen to the ground. nus
is also the case Of the docks uyc, for dump
ing by the Street Cleaning Bureau. Ii makes the
landing of the scows a matter III great ain ,utI.
The ice fields which we're floating down the North
River were wide and heavy. 1t was not impossible
to cut through them. but the boats made very SLOW
progress. The Street Cleaning Bureau ran three
large lows of scows out to sea last night at Hood
tide. This operation is attended with great labor
and some danger The tugs Municipal and Cereus
went out iu'company FROM the North RIVER.
e The $4,000 appropriated for the removal of ice
and snow from the streets appears TO have been
spent, ano IN addition to. other difficulties, the
Street Cleaning Bureau is troubled by u lack II the
siuews of war. The officers of that bureau were in
hopes yesterday that the rising temperature was q
sign OF rain. They feel that they are In need OF no
little assistance the elements to enable them TO
Police Commissioners French and Nichols yester-
day called on the Mayor and conferred with him
relative to the feasibility of using portion or the
regular Appropriation for street.ceaning for tho re-
mOval of snCw and ice. They stated that the regu-
lar appropriation was practically exhausted, Dlit
that there WAS an unexpended balance OF SlJ.UUU
of last years appropriation for the removal of snow
and ice. The Commissioners visited the Office OF the
Corporation Counsel Mr.. Whitney was of the
opinion that the Commss'oners would hardly De
justIfed'in using any of the general appropriation
tor ct rect cleaning, for the removal OF snow anu Ice
The Commissioners will apply TO the Boaru OF Esfl-
mate ans Apportlonment for tle transfer Ni tis u
clean the more important th6rOugbfares and Keep
the culverts open.