The evening world., 1904-01-15
Evening Worlds Plan to Clear
Pavement on Near Side of All
Streets Where Surface Lines
Pass Put in Effect.
DEMAND THAT ORDINANCE
BE PROMPTLY PASSED.
Commissioner Woodbury. San
guine that He Can Induce In
terborOugh Company to Do
the Work Without Ordinance.

Responding quickly to Mayor McClel-
ianis orders hat the plan of The Even
ing World to clean all street crossings
one cars length from the crossing be
put into effect at once, the street
cleaning department concentrated all
its forces on the work last night. and
to-day passengers can board and alight
from cars in every part of the city
without stepping on great heaps of dirty
SNOW and street refuse that has been
duH9ped on the street.
10 carry out The Evening Worlds
plan Street = Cleaning Commissioner
Woodbury. did not attempt last night
or yearly to-day to remove any now
from the centre of streets or from the
pilb in the centre of blocks. The'force
OF men will attack this snow as soon
as2rhe Evening Worlds plan has been
carried out to the letter.
The condition in which the street
crossings were when Mayor Mcclellan
took a hand and ordered Commissioner
woodbury. to Il the crossings cleaned
only emphasizes the necessity to force
the street-car company to clean all
crossings of snow one cars length from
each crossing. The. strcet-car company
is N position to do this with compare
lively little difficulty.
After the snow is removed from the
rails n piled up in great heaps at the
curblng the street-car company al
sit. back and see the city. at the city's
VI expense, remove the snow. The
street-car company enjoys immunity
from all expense after its own tracks
hnnta hppn Rlpp rod md the cnnNy nllan
unfor the taxpayers to remove.
Popular approval already demands
that the ordinance be enacted. If the
burden of cleaning away the banks OF
snow thrown up by the car compa-
MES is to fall upon the Street Clean
ing Department. it will lbe crippled. to
the detriment of the public comfort
and he sacrifice of partially cleaned
streets even. This. ut least, was the
opinion expressed everywhere. 1T was.
asserted that the great thoroughfares
would have to be neglected. II the
STRENGTHENING Department were forced
to clear the crossings a cars length
~all.over the city.
Major Woodbury's Order.
This is made clear by the wording OF
the order Issued by Major Woodbury.,
which reads as follows:
lnasmuch as n recent ordinance
has been passed and approved by
the Mayor requiring hat surface
cars stop on the near side of the
streets to take on and discharge
passengers, n which ordnance liz
to take effect on the 18th inst,
II Is hereby directed hat in future
snow storms and also the present
o~ne-should 1t remain on the streets
to that date--be cleared of snow on
the near sid of all streets whore
surface lines pass, in order that pas
sengerc may alight from n enter
the rear platform without being sub
Jected to discomfort due to the con-
dition of the streets.
District Superintendent will see
that this order is thoroughly un-
derstood and enforced.
JOHN M'GAW WOODBURY..
Until the new order of Commissioner
Woodbury. went into effect It was not
known that his department was pre-
pared to aid the car companies to
the extent of clearing the crossings
forty feet back from the curb. The
day following the initial publica tion in
b Evening World of the demand for