New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-04
TuE WHOLE TOWN AMAZED.
WONDERFUL. WORK AT CLEANING THE
STREETS.

.,,,v,r,r RECORD IN REMOVING SNOW
MADE BY THE FORCE UNDER COLONEL
r,.p,xc-How TIE WORK Is DONE
~, fret time the history Of this city all Of
is principal streets ana many others have been
.,r,,,yhly cleaned within twenty-four hours after
ss..ion OF a snowstorm People who retired
' -.,rs,r night with memories of snow -clai
e" nt,rcs were as,onished on arising yesterday
,rs 10 find that most Of the snow had disap-
I'D as II by magic. and that during the night
49, navemen.s had been made cleaner than eyer
80 This decidedly novel public experience re-
,,,ea in widespread and unstintod praise OF Colo
aI George +. Waring jr.. the recently appointed
co-missionor of Street Cleaning. and comparisons
=, his efficiency with the imbeciiiiy Of his p.edeccs-
sors which were by means nattering 10 the
,ossils OF the ancient municipal regime. Colonel
Waring being absent yesterday, a Tribune reporter
called the main offices OF the Street Cleaning
Department IN the CrImina, Courts Building, at
Franklin and Centre sts and Superintendent
william Robbins, who briefly described the effective
method by which the great undertaking sue
cessfuly accomplished.
While the falling" he said, "our dis
tric, superintenden;s instructed TO inform all
their regular men and large number of extras 10
be ready to start work the moment the storm should
cease The nine district stables in charge Of the
various superintendent. placed follows Sta
bic A. Seventeenth-st and Avenue G: h. Fifty-sec-
ond.st between Eleventh and Twelfth ayes: G.
One hundred and thrtleth-st. and Twefth-ave; ID.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Pieasant-ave; f.
West Twefth-st. between Washington and West
sts.; +. Eighteth-st between F'irst-aNe. and the
Fast River G. Hamilton-st.. near Market-st.: II.
Foriy-eghth-si. between First-ave. and the East
River: l. One-hundred an secondst. and Court
iandt-ave. Within about twenty minutes after the
snow had stopped falling lo~ regular men and 2lco
extras. total OF 300 had been started out
with shovels and brooms in the various districts &C
nv
100 extra horses and carts. making total OF
80 horses and carts This VAS about D. m. They
worked all night and some of them are still at
work | went TO bed at O'clock this morning and
got up again at s. The district superintendent,
foremen of gangs. and many OF the men are working
equally long hours The usual gang allotted 10 each
foreman consists of about fifteen men, but in some
cases where rush work Is necessary. the number
@, men in each gang is increased to twenty
';-p 10 3 O'Clock this afternoon We had cleaned
ali the snow and loose dirt mud off Broadway
from Bowling Green to Fortythrd-st.. but above
that street We allowed the snow to remain at the
request of sleighriders We had also cleaned all the
avenues from Second to Ninth. inclusive. Third-ave'
in the Annexed District. We had cleaned the whole
Of Park Row and the Bowery all the streets IN
and and a sfS Streets Thirty
fourth Forty-second Ff,y-ninth and ne-hundred,
on many other streets. both up and down town
men at work with 900 carts including regular and
besides other streets. all Of which will be finished
during the night. Hester Ludlow orchard E tees.
Grand Rroolne, Delaney. Rivngton. Stanton fous.
ton. Madison, Monroe and Henry SITS, ana East
Broadway. We carrying on the work IN IN, the
PRINCIPAL streets OF Harlem and the Annexed DIS
irlct as we are downtown and, when II IS borne
in mind that every load OF snow and dirt must pe
csrtsd To one or the other OF the river fronts. II
must be conceded that remarkably rapid progress
has been made. "a. -. l.. oh
"At first we experienced some difficulty IN, oo-
tanning men. but that has been overcome we nave
now a list of 1000 men who are either native DOTH
or naturalized American citizens n we nave 1op hP
n bont naturalization the applicant must snow ms
Uapers Each district superintendent has ISL %, OF
The regular man and eligible emergency men III nv
dstrci with their home addresses. and the moment
a vstorm begins they all told TO hold thenl'
selves in readiness for work the nstan, ,s siSc
stables and the main office We now have no 'ro an
HE in getting men. and at two hours notice can
SET from 800 TO 1000 at work with an ai"p 'i
number of carts. We shall continue WORK IN an
the streets have been cleaned. and we mink that
very few will remain unceaned by to-Inorro"
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