New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-15
REMOVE SNOW QUICKLY.
Western Trains Late = Hospitals
Report Little Suffering.

inspector Charlsworth of the Bureau of Snow Re-
moval said last night that 10000 square yards of
street surface had been cleaned up to $50 o'clock.
ana that the $500 men and 1,SOO wagons and carts
engaged in continuing the work last night estab-
lished night record, far as numbers
cerned in the history of the snow removal depart
ment
Last night attention given to the East Side,
the important crosstown streets which not main
arteries of travel and the avenues along the
IRENE East and West sides. 1t was expected that
before this morning the piles of snow heaped
the curbng on streets reported as cleared would be
removed.
The Bureau OF Snow Removal yesterday sprinkled
sand over the glazed and slippery surfaces of the
cleaned streets and as a result the traffic of the
crowded thOroughfares moved more quickly and
fewer accidents occurred to the horses.
Throughout the day William Bradley, VINO has
the contract for the removal of snow, kept work
Ing as quickly possible nine thousand men and
twenty-five hundred carts. At noon the main
streets and the financial and drygoods districts
We're practically cleaned.
The storm, through the State. Ohio Indiana and
Illinois, has delayed express, and through trains
from the West to such extent that the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad gave out
a continuous series of bulletins yesterday. report
ing that every through express train was any
where from hour to several hours late The
Southwestern Limited was four hours and thirty
five minutes late.
Despite the cold the city hospitals have had few
cases of frost bite other suffering from cold.
Bellevue, which is the centre for such cases, has
had only three frostbiten patients and Gouvernour
Hospital. where such cases are generally frequent
has had only one or far this winter. Even
the police stations have had few appeals for re-
Left
Il can't understand it at all, said the night man.
ager of the City Lodging House, First-ave. near
Twenty thirdst., last night 1T seems TO me that
either it must be the good times or else every
body has discovered some way, this year, TO get
out of the cold. Why last winter we averaged fifty
destitute women u night Last night, which
very cold one, had only fifteen Before
the cold spell nightly average of men two
hundred and fifty. Last night We registered only
70 men"
This decrease in the number of male inmates
however. the night manager able to explain.
According him many of the shiverng, half
starved men who came to the lodging house last
night and the night before refused become in
mates when they were told that they could 20
cents an hour shovejng snow for the contractors.
Last night ! gave SLOW tickets to fifty men. and
after eating hearty meal here fOrtify them
against the cold they went out cHeerfully to work.
and did not back for beds. When these poor
men can earn money they generally object to sleep
ing in free beds
Tribune reporter ut the Olive Tree Inn. Twenty
third-St., First-aVe., pay institution, where
beds 10 cents 20 cents and - cents night,
told that fifty men who had shOyeiled had
spell the Olive Tree Inns nightly average 500
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