New-York tribune., 1899-02-16
BREAKING OUT IT'S LINES.
THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD GRADo-
ALLY REstMING BUSINESS.
4 RAD CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN LONG ISLAND
crrY-MERcHANTs PUT ~ BIG PROTEST.
rRoLLEY.cARs RrNNING IRREGuLARLY.

4 BAD CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN LONG ISLAND
crrY-MERcHANTs PUT ~ \ BIC PROTEST.
rRo1LEY-cARs RI-NxING 1RREGULARLY.
The Long Island Railroad has not yet succeeded
IN onening its lines through 10 the terminals IN
Greenport and Montauk. The other lines OF inc
company nre all open and running as nearly on
schedule time as the ice IN The East River wiz
nerrnit as the delays 10 the forryboats delay mo
trains The snowploughs are working on 'n'
main line trying TO open track from IHchsF'"o
10 Grcenport As far as llcksViilc trains "'' '''
in both directions over single track Ihe so"'"
shore line is open to Patchoguc. and the plough IS
working eastward This line was expected 10 DC
clear Yesterday but o; the most powerful
ploughs in the service Of the road "hich wa -
nc,tod to have worked westward from sag h'r"or'
and TO have reached Patchogue ms soon as inc
plough from the west reached that point, II i"S'
under twenty feet Of snow in the cuts In the Shih-
necock Hills. There are three ehs'"V' WIN
plough and all dead.
The north shore line IS open. as are also 'he
Oyster Bay branch and the Flushing ana Nocha""S
branches 1t is thought the worst Is over u'''S'
another dry snow sets in. , c,...
Troliey-cars began to move IN Long isi'iu .t,
yesterday with some regularity on some y, AZ.
i,ee but others are still closed or are so pau'S
cbol,ed with snow that although cars are pelns
onerated over them there Is no regularity anu w
service is almost useless. 1t Will he S''''"' '
before all the lines are opened.
v4rnon-aye In Long Island City. Is 1T a pau 'o''
di,ion Tho merchants cleared of their sidewalAS
and boaned the snow into the street The new
work. and Queens County Electric Road cleaned us
four or five lines Of tracks in the street ana Pne"
the snow taken from tho tracks into the guI'e'S'
In some instances the piles are fifteen leel H'e".
and are ridges extending along both Sides OF
the street from near the ferry TO Jackson.avc
All business is brought TO standsun pS tici, or,
Jackson-ave is almost as bad. Other streets are
almost impossible. ., -. t1tcb
Jobn p Madden Deputy Commissioner or Hlsn-
Uays had q sorry day yesterday ana tue poiHt
bardmcnt Of protests became so great that ne ltci
from the borough and hastencd TO Manhattan, win
the announced intention OF uyhS 10 oottiIa Stv'V t
from the city government to clean the snow nom
tho business streets I'm Long Island Clty. Iherc IS
not a penny available for this purpose III the
borough. 49,. r.. l,....t.
Several business men were waiting for Comfnis31
sioaer Madden yesterday morning when he reachei
his office They wanted to know why hundred5 ol
thousands of dollars was being spent IN Mahhdt-
tan. Brooklyn and Tho Bronx 70 clean the streets
while they were left to waow hopciessy IN snow
and have their bufncss-placcS barrlcaded bellihl
SHOW piles fifteen TO twenty feet hlgh. IheF Hau
even heard that little Richmond had money 10
President Bowey Of Queens has forwarded 10
Albany the text Of the bill which IS 10 be introduced
by Senator Norton relative to queens Borough
being without any method or means ~ relieving
the poor ,ii the poor Of The borough now nave 10
go to Brooklyn and lay their cases before Commis-
sioner Smis before obtaining relief
The bill provides for charity commission Tor
the borough. The members are 10 serve without
ex-onicio president Of the commission, and his
secretary IS to be its clerk. Both must serve with
out further pay than they receive from their
present Offices