New-York tribune., 1902-01-30
THE CITY SNOW COVERED.
COMMISSIONER wooDBURY's FORCES TO
BFGIN CLEANING IT THIS MORNING.


THE touch necessary to give New-York the
snnearance, as well as the feeling, OF winter,
vas applied yesterday. On Tuesday the tenn
,,erature took tumble and the cold driven
.r-o,,gh the streets by the wind, so that every
avenue seemed like an icy cavern Yesterday
,oorning at $50 o'clock It began to snow. II
noued with such determination that the Street
Cleaning Department felt justified in proceeding
srnmediately with plans for cleaning IL up.
In the course Of the afternoon II was an
,ounced in a special dispatch from Washington
.bst the snow would continue to fall all night
,nd fall heavily For some reason not explained
nv the Weather Bureau the white flakes ceased
+o fall before 3 o'clock. At that time about
-wo and half inches had been registered by
fbe instruments on the roof OF No. 100 Broad
wsy but tn the street 1t looked as If there were
more.
An odd circumstance connected with the storm
was that during the first three hours of its
progress the temperature dropped from Is de-
erees. recorded at 1870 a m, the maximum
temperature for the day. to 10 degrees, re-
corded at ! p. m, the minimum.
Delay to traffic was the chief consequence OF
the storm. Everywhere horses strained WIN
their loads. even when these loads had been re-
duced much below their usual dimensions Ihe
snow ''balled' up their feet, and they could not
grip the pavements At times strings OF troiley
cars could be seen crawling along behind
wagon. which the horses could hardy aras
along. These stoppages of traffic were especially
numerous the up grades.
On the driveway OF the bridge the horses mao
al especially hard task Blocks were or ire
nuent occurrence, and in one instance trainc was
stopped twenty minutes by the fall or a morse
which dFa wing truck loaded with proouce
toward Brooklyn. In many cases the anlrnais
pppeared to be afraid TO pull. This caused many
delays. One car took nearly an hour TO make
she round trip from Brooklyn and Manhattan.
About O'Clock in the afternoon well dressed
s7ouug man who refused to give his name
slpped in front Of moving trolley car at the
hIrdge entrance, and saved from being run
over by being dragged from the tracks by two
men lust as the fender touched his body.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals ordered the horses on twenty coal
wagons back to the stables, and shot four which
had been badly injured by falls.
In the harbor IL was thick in the morning, but
she ferryboats were not delayed seriously.
The Street Cleaning Department will have six
hundred extra carts and seven hundred extra
men in the business district and in Broadway
between Astor Place and Forty-fifth-st- Special
contractors have been ordered out to work
broadway below Astor Place. Kavanagh d Co.,
Of Queens will handle Broadway from Astor
yesey-st. TO the Battery, the gap being cleaned
nv the department. John F. Maillie, the snow
contractor, will be assigned to work in other
narts Of the borough. Along Broadway it is the
Intention Of the department to clean the side
zxeIks as well as the streets. Two snow meters
viii be placed in the open space at the north end
~ Cooper Union tomorrow, and their capdbil-
.ties viii be tested. BY $50 o'clock last evening
the Street Cleaning Departments force had piled
ali the snow in Broadway ready for Its removal
ty the contractors this morning.
Several injuries from slipping were reported