New-York tribune., 1903-01-26
PROMPT4TT4CK ON SNOW
Woodbmy Erpected to Haze I'M
poYtant Streets Clean by Morning.

Commissioner Woodbury. of the Street Clean
ing Department said to a Tribune reporter last
evening:
We expect to have lower Broadway, from
Twenty-third- down; the ferry streets, the
financial district. the Fourteenth-st. square and
the Twenty thrd-st. square clean by morning
Pine, Wall and Cortlandt sts will also be
cleaned. Ten electric scrapers are at work
They are Just the thing for a light snow. though
useles in a moist, heavy snow
This is in no way hard storm to handle
The removal is done by the contractor, William
Bradley"
This is the fourth snowstorm that has struck
us on the Sabbath day when 1t is peculiarly
hard to get force Of men at work SATURDAY
night is payday for truck drivers, and from
then till Monday morning it is almost impossl-
BILE to get hold of them
SNOWFALL FIVE INCHES.
Yesterdays snowfall was five inches II
ceased at $40 p m. The temperature ranged
from u to 27 degrees. The street cleaning
forces 500 strong. worked throughout the
day. At p. m. Mr.. Bradley took command OF
the white city with force of 800 men, These
worked continuously till > m. to-day, when
their reports were handed in to the various sub
stations. At a M. they will resume the work
Cloudy weather. with temperature like that
Of Yesterday, is promised for to-day.
MANY SLIDES IN USE.
The city yesterday was full of boys sliding on
long. narrow strips of ice One of the best shdes
in town was in front of Judg1 Benjamin Holl-
mans house, at No. 271 Seventh-st Most OF
the children of the Eleventh Ward seemed to be
narforroing there But the finest slide in town
war lust west of the City Hail, where the nil
stones toward Chambers For full seventy
five feet the slide could be maintained, with an
accelerated movement, ending abruptly IN tne
gutter At the halfway point in the side a
vouth had stationed himself, who made 1t his
Measure to trip each boy as he went gliding by
This he called acting as brake.
In Riverside Drive from Ninety-second to
Ninety -fifth-st, there is gentle MIL on WHICH,
a score of sleds were used.
The storm made itself felt on transportation
All through trains on railroads terminating in
Jersey CITY and Hoboken were delayed in reach
ing their depots yesterday. on the Penn
svIvania road Train No. "a. the Palm Limited
from the South. due al 3.53 was thtrty-fiTe
minutes late. Other through trains were less
fortunate The Southern Railway Train NO DO
due at 12:31 p. m, was three hours and Iorty-
five minutes late. The Southern Railway Train
No GS due at 1:30, was two hours and forty
five minutes late; the Atlantic Express Que at
3:25 was three hours and thirty minutes be-
hind. the Florida Special dua at 40 three
hours and thirty minutes late Local trains ran
closely to schedule time.
The harbor Yesterday morning was thick with
haze and the fine snow compelled the pilots OF
all craft to order slow speed Ferryboats ana
the Sound steamers we'll as the small boats
plvirg between the harbor points were not run
on schedule time and they crept into their slips
and docks cautiously. Not until late In the
afternoon was the atmosphere clear enough TO
permit the boats to resume their normal speed
and run on time.
ONLY one accident reported in the day
That was the grounding of a small steamer on
Romer Shoals. Her name could not be learned,
but it is supposed that she was freighter ply
ing along the coast. At high tide in the after
noon she foated without the assistance or tugs