The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-15
WOODBURY. TACKLESTHES SNOW
UNDER 4 BRIGHT WINTER SIN
AND 4 FULL MOON.
Fail Five Inches. which Means sSO.OOO
cubic Yards ~ n Cents Yard
Lower Broadway, Ferry streets and
Money Market Cleared Before Sunset.

Lower Broadway. Ferry streets and
Money Market Cleared Before sunset.
The nasty weather of Saturday was fol-
lowed by fine winter Sunday with glow
ing sun lighting roads in All ideal condition
for sleighing and giving place at night to
a cleaning full moon. The range OF the
mercury was from IS to %.
The snow fall, which continued until 3
O'Clock yesterday morning. was five inches,
according to the reports of the Weather
Bureau
Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury.
tackled the snow with such good results that
when night came the business part of
Broadway, the cross streets leading to
ferries and the streets in the financial
district were clear Of snow.
Commissioner Woodbury. said last night
that he had been on the street since A. NJ
and he felt that it was pardonable for him
10 feel slight pride in the days work.
Broadway had been cleaned from the Bat
terry TO Forty-second street in twelve hours
and that was a record he was willing to
stand on.
Fifth avenue, upon which a great deal
Of work was done yesterday, will be- en-
tirely cleared up by tonight and by to-
morrow night or Wednesday,, unless there
il another snowfall. DIR. Woodbury's first
snow job for the winter will be over An
other northeast storm il on It's way ard
threatens more snow to-day.
All OF the snow removal work ia being
done by the department, as William
Bradley, who has the snow contract for
this winter won't be ready for work for
another week.
T.. ,
department Commissioner Woodbury. had
about ar many more men at work cart ing
and shovelling There were about 2, 900 carts
and trucks in commission, including the 800
carts Of the department Shovellers get
81 day. The pay for carts is s. so and for
trucks H. II was hard work vest .r,lay
10 find men to do the prk. because il was
Sunday The force will be greatly increased
to-day.
The following streets were cleaned YES
terday from curb to curb by the Metropoli-
tan Street Railway Company, which hid
about 1000 men at work: Kivlugton, De-
lancey, Fourteenth, Twenty-third Thirty
fourth, Forty-second, Ffty-ninth and
Fourth avenue between Thirty-second and
Seventeenth streets.
The snow WAS removed from many q.
he principal streets in Brooklyn On
Fulton street, Atla.ic avenue, Court street
and F1athuSh avenue the work was done
by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
The department had charge of cleaning
other streets 1t il hoped thai all the main
streets will he cleaned to-day
According to the new system for snow
removal which will go into effect as soon as
Contractor Bradley is ready, the city is
divided into eleven snow districts. with a
total street mileage OF lS5 miles, or 6,OO0,OOO
square yards. Every inch Of snow fall means
about 10000 cubic yards of snow to he
removed. at the rate of Is cents a yard
The old way was TO pay so much for
every carload, figured at the rate of 389.
cents a cubic yard. That old system was
were various ways in which the city mi ght
be cheated by dishonest foremen or carte g
II was possible. for instance. to make the
city pay twice for the same load
DR., Woodbury. has done away with all
that Nothing is left now to estimation or
guesswork or the honesty of an individual
workman. The Commissioner knows his
square area Of the whole city, and Of every
section and Of every block He will get
his third dimension. the depth of the snow,
after each storm, from the United States
Weather Bureau, and all no has got to do
Ii to multiply his surface area by his depth
and know just how many cubic yards he
must pay rs cents apiece for.
No block il to he figured on in paving
the cont ractor until il is entirely free from
snow. and there ara provisions in the con-
tract TO guard the city against overpay-
nient in case thaw or rain reduces the
cubic measure Of the snow before the con-
tractor removes IL.
The average fall Of snow in this city
for the last eighteen years is 1927 inches
The smallest was inches in the winter of
i900-0i, and the greatest, II inches. in
is02-e3
There was no hitch in operating elevated
trains yesterday and very little trouble
on the surface lines
All through trains on the New York
Central were from thirty minutes to two
hours late on account 81 the snow. Sat
urdays east bound Empire State Express
got in over four hours late. The Lake
Shore Limited yesterday was over two
hours late AT New York and the New Eng.
land Express. which runs from Boston
over the Boston and Albany and the New
York Central's tracks was ten hours late
In getting to Albany and was still in trouble
late last nipht