New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-03
MIR. MCCARTNEY EXPLAINS.
HE'D HAVE DONE BETTER IF HE COULD
HAVE GOT MORE CARTS.

-rATs WHY HE HASN'T CLEARED AWAY THE
=, sxow-soMr PROGRESS MADE YESTERDAY
a MAGISTRATE SAYS THE CoMMIs-
sIONER SHOULD RE FINED
Tho Street Cleaning Department stu work
removing snow from the OF the city yester-
aav and Commissioner Mccartney said he had
nearly two thousand men and over fifteen hundred
carts employed in the work. Speaking OF the
progress Of the work. Mr. Mccartney said: III we
had not been hampered by inability TO get moro
carts we would have done much better service.
The Department Is only allowed TO pay s. day
FOR cart and have been unable TO hire
many carts could use. for the reason that
.he owners OF many Of them have asked enormous
prices. and would not work unless they were paid
IN many cases high so and s2 day. We
have worked all the could with the num-
Der % carts we had. l could get double the
her OF men, but I cannot get the carts. In refer
sncA 10 the money end, had $4,000 when the
@rst snow came. This was fund.
We are not hampered for money. but in
need O, more carts"
Reports received by Commissioner Mccartney
Yesterday were 10 the effect that on Thursday
2Ssis loads OF had been removed from the
streets with the work Of 1927 men and the use 81
IN carts. At the Soldiers Home in East FIJI
.eerth-st. Il stated yesterday that lo+ dis
charged soldiers OF the were AT work shovel
ling snow ir the streets. They who have
heen unable 70 get other employment since they
were mustered out OF the service The superin-
,enGent Of the Home would not say where the men
were at work. as they did not wish TO be disturbed
IN their work BY having TO answer questions. Some
81 the men parts OF uniforms. and the ma
FORTY have campaign hats.
Bernard McCrush. forty years old driver Of
.now cart who lived in observation-disclosures
a, near First-ave. run and killed by his
own cart. at Amsterdam and One-hundred-
and. e,ghth-st., yesterday morning. McCrush had
turned 70 get out OF the wsy OF passing car, and
MS carr was tipped by snow pile, throwing him
out He fell under the cart and wheel passed
over his head. crushing Il badly. He was taken 10
TIE J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital IN buggy
bv the foreman having charge OF the removal OF
The snow. and died st the hospital few hours
nier.
Douglas H Robbins district superintendent OF
the Street Cleaning Department. has resigned his
place He had a long attack OF pneumonia last
winter which left HIM weak that his duties
during the present great demands Of the Depart
uent work have become arduous that his physi-
cian advised him 10 give up the place. Commits
sioner Mccartney accepted the resignation with re-
luctance saying that Mr. Robbins had performed
splendid service during his term Hugh Angler.
assistant superintendent for the Fifth District. has
been made acting superintendent.
A letter from Mayor Van WICK. requesting m
the piers between Cana-st. and the Battery. was
discussed AT a meeting OF the DOCK Board yeeter
ceived a letter from Commissioner Mccartney
showing the need Of dumpinspaces in the lower
part Of The city II further said that II was need
less put the in carts when II could not be
dumped az once and that the Transfers were Cd
Jecting. Secretary Burke Of the Dock Board called
UP the telephone a number Of steamship COM
panies 20 ask their permission. Many OF the
steamship companies granted permission. ana
Others promised il they could arrange II
conveniently.
Magistrate Pool. IN the Harlem Court. yesterday
described the condition Of the streets OF this city
as disgraceful and said the street Cleaning COM
missioner ought to be fined This said in con-
7ectiCn with the arraienment Of young man ar
rested for driving horse and wagon on the side
walk The Magistrate said the man could not be
blamed. as the streets were filed with snow. The
prisoner was James Canbro, of No 400 East One
hundred Land twelfth-st. He driving his horse
and truck on the sidewalk at observation-disclosures
eleventh-st. and Pleasant-ave. on Thursday night,
when James W Healy OF No. 81 Cornelia-st., As
tor.a Long Island. a Waterman. saw him and had
him arrested When the Magistrate was told of
the nature OF the charge he said:
This is no kind OF charge 10 make. Tho man
couldn't drive any other place"
There are eighty feet of driveway there for
:T3ut there was snow there" said Magistrate
Pool.
Yes" said Healy but other horses and wagons
were being driven through f."
Il don't blame the man at all for not trying to
get through. He couldn't do II. This IS not the
man who should DO arrested and fined. II IS the
Street Cleaning Commissioner who should be fined.
The city is IN most disgraceful condition. The
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