New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-04
CLEARED FOR TRAFFIC.
Tocenty-fUeThousand Wagon Loads
of Sno1U RemoUed First Dag.

The removal Of snow begun before tho
storm had stopped Saturday. Yesterday saw
the Street Cleaning Department hard at work.
and the labor was continued throughout the
night. This morning the city will be pretty well
open to traffic. though not thoroughly clean
The main streets, particularly Broadway VIII
be cleaned we'll The ferry streets. the Wall
Street section and the drygoods centre received
the most careful attention yesterday.
The contract for the snow removal had al
ready been let 10 William Bradley. He had
thirtyfve hundred men and some two thousand
wagons at work shovelling the snow and carting
it away. while the sweeping force OF the Street
Cleaning Department was also cleaning cross
ings and clearing out cutters. Commissioner
Woodbury. was in all parts OF the city and
Brooklyn. supervising the work. He was salts
fed with the progress made. Captain Gibson.
his aid. said that considering the intense cold
and the frozen snow the work had been good,
comparing favorably with that Of previous
years.
Manhattan, is divided into eleven sections for
snow removal. with forty starting points-that
is, forty places where gangs Of men put to
work simultaneously. These men spread out
in all directions. cleaning the city In patches
These patches. however. are the places which
most need cleaning. There were sixteen gangs
at work In Broadway, above Vesey-st. Below
Vesey-st.. Broadway is cleaned by the Metro
potan Street Railway. Six gangs OF laborers
were at work in the Wall Street section at day
break. going into the drygoods section. Leon
ard-st. Worth-st.. White-st- and the cross
streets west Of Broadway
There were 300 men and $50 wagons in One
hundred-and-twenty-i fth-st In The Bronx
the contractor had 1000 men and 500 wagons
They began at st. Ann's-ave.. going east In
observation-disclosures hirty-eighth-st. and clea ming
Willis-ave. and Third-ave. to One-hundred-and
orty-siXth-st- Another gang worked north and
sixty -sxthvst., cleaning Courtlandt Morris and
fremont ayes Boston Road from Third-ave.
Mckinley Square and One hundred "A nd-sixty-
ffth-st from Union-ave. to 9oston Road
West OF Fifth-ave., Fifty-ninth-st- was
cleaned. to the detriment OF Broadway, the
contractor realized when the Commissioner got
after him and made him send the wagons to
tral Station was cleared early in the morning
In the afternoon there force OF men toll
ing in the streets around the Metropolitan Opera
House 10 get the streets in SHAPE fo- the concert
Bridge, around the City Hall and the Court
house and out into Chambers-st. were also
cleaned early and well.
Madison-ave.. LeXington-ave. and the more
important cross Observation-Disclosures Sew
enty-ninth-st.. ne-hundreG- a nd feminist One
hundred-and- sxteenth-st. and One hundred
Observation-Disclosures also cleaned. Much of
this will have TO be gone over again as the
chief object OF the department is to get away
enough snow the first day 10 permit the moving
or traffic. rather than TO have a few streets
thoroughly clean. At p. m. the snow removal
bureau reported that about 10000 cubic yards
or snow had been removed. ma king some % 600
Wagon loads This was dumped into the Hud-
son and East rivers.