New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-19
NAGLE STARTS WELL.
UVALDE COUPANY HELPS HIN
TO BREAK A RECORD.
CONTRACTORS MEN REMOVE MORE
SNOW ON FIRST DAY AFTER FIRST
STORM OF SEASON THAN WAS
EVER DONE BEFORE.
RECORD UP TO LAST MIDNIGHT IN MAN
HAITIAN AND THE BRONX.


Cost of same 10 the city. About $4,000
City sveepers nf work About 1soo
City carts i'm About 100
Contractors shOveIIers at wOrkAbout 3-eoo
Contractors carts in use. About 25oo
Weather forecast for to-day-PartIy cloudy,
stationary temperature, decreasing north
west winds.
BY the dweIers in this city snow is regarded
as either a delight or nuisance. Thousands Of
pleasure seekers spent yesterday getting all the
delight they could out of the sleighing. while
other thousands. under command of the
Street Cleaning Commissioner. Percival E.
Nagle, and the new snow contractor, the Uvalde
Asphalt Paving Company. did all they could to
abate the nuisance. From early morning till
far into the night they at 1t. and by
midnight reported that they had cleared about
sixty miles of streets and had removed about
ffty-fve thousand carloads of snow. thus
breaking all records for the first day of the first
storm of any season. Mr. Nagle naturally
proud of this performance He had reason to .
congratulate himself that we'll organized staff
had been left to him. and that he did not begin
to chop off the heads Of the experienced hold
overs from Warnings time before the snow over
took him. The UvaIde cOmpany's force was also
a strong prop for him to lean on, and it did not
fail him at any point. Sunday is a difficult day
on which TO get laborers to apply for work in
large numbers. vet superintendent Sargent man
aged to get about thirty-nine hundred shoveIlers
and about twenty-five hundred carts out. Many
of these carts bore their owners names and ad-
dresses showing that they had come from va
rious towns Long Island. from Jersey City.
Hoboken and even Newark and Bloomfield.
M
Mr. Sargent has advertised for ten thousand
able bodied men to shovel snow at 50 a day or
- cents an hour. and expects to have an army
of not less than four thousand at work to-day
AT this rate he hopes 10 have the job completed
by Thursday.
The following streets had been cleared By 9
p. m:
Broadway from Fifty-ninth to Whitehall.
Fffth-ave-. from Waverley Place 70 Twelfth
St: from Forty third-st 10 Twenty -nfth-st-,
and from Fifty -seyenth.st to F1fty-ninth-stt. St
Ninety-second 10 Ninety-ninth, from One-hun-
dred- d-and-tenth to One-hundred- d-and-sixteenth.
from One-hundred- -and-twenty-nr 10 One-nun-
dred and thirtieth, from Southern Boulevard 70
ne-hundred-and -forty-thtrd, and from One
nundred-and-11fty-n ninth to One-hundred-and-
Forty=second-st, from Depew Place TO Sew
Sixth-ave from Thirtieth to Thirty -foIrth-st-
Liberty-st. from Broadway TO West-st-
Cortlandt-st.. from Broadway to West-st-
Maiden Lane, from Broadway 10 Nassau St
Nassau-st.. from Maiden Lane to Wall-st
Rivington-st. from the Bowery TO Ridge-st
Chambers-st.. from Broadway to Park Row.
Bowery from Houston-st- to Third-st-
Sprfng-st from Broadway TO Crosby-st
Vanderbilt-ave.
Depew Place.
Madison-ave.-Se -Seventv-second-st. TO Eighty
secOnd-st
acknowledgements twenty -hfth-st. = Third-ave.
TO ColumbUs-ave.
acknowledgements -tenth-st-East River to
Thrd-ave.
One hundred and thrty-eighth-st - Madison
ave 10 Third-ave.
TweIfth-st-Broadway to Fourth-ave.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to FOurtsenth-st.
Fourteenth-st.-UniOn Square 70 Fifth-ave.
Irving Place-Fourteenth-st to Fifteenth-st
Thirty Observation-Disclosures to Eighth-ave.
Longacre Square.
.-Forty-second-st. TO Forty-third
ST.
Eighth-a ave.-Forty-seventh-st to Forty-ninth-
st. and Fifty-sixth-st- to Fifty -ninth-st-
Park ROw-Anne-st- to Frankfort-st-
TryOn Row.
Mail-st.
New-st.-WalI-st to Beaver-st
Wall-st--BrOadway TO Pearl-st.
After that hour the energies OF the night
force were concentrated upon Fifth-ave up
town and upon two downtown districts. These
consisted of the Battery to Twenty-second-st.
on the west of Broadway and the Battery TO
Sixth-st. east of Broadway These include the
principal ferry streets. and it is hoped to have
them clear this morning.
NAGLE KEEPS BUSY
ANY one who watched Mr.. Nagle yesterday
would be likely to admit freely that whatever
his faults are he has not a lazy bone in his huge
body Starting in at I a m, he did not knock
off work until after midnight Here and there
he rode all day. watching the disposition OF his
own men and also Of the contractors force.
Whenever he thought a change Of plan desirable
he ordered it. One of the contractors district
superintendents who demurred about making
each of his gangs seventy-hve strong was told
so emphatcalIy that although the UvaIde COM
pany paid him the Street Cleaning Commits
sioner his actual boss that he almost treua-
bled as he hastened to obey. About o'clock IN
the afternoon. when it was seen that Broadway
would he finished before Is o'clock without
doubt Nagle determined to clear Fffth-ave.. at
least from Fifty -nnth-st. down Thirty third
st. before morning. and urged it upon the con-
tractor.
The contractor feared that the jaded shovel
lers would not stand by him. but eager was
Nagle that he offered 500 out of his own pocket
to be spent for refreshments among the show
ellers who would continue at the job till Fifth
ave was finished. and this had the desired effect.
Broadway merchants will get a pleasant sur
prise this morning Their sidewalks have been
cleaned for them from Fifty-ninth-st down
This was done by the sweepers OF the Street
Cleaning Department. beginning at a. m. and
working in advance OF the contractors men. II
these sidewalks had been left until this morning
| Broadway would have 10 be cleaned all over
again.
The scheme on which the mems pay tickets are
issued is such that no one can collect them even
IL he should hnd big block OF tickets. Several
blocks were lost yesterday. The loss was re-
ported and when these tickets are presented ir
they are presented no payment will be made on