New-York tribune., 1908-01-31
BY CITY CLUE.
Ne1c Sno5c RemOUal System Crit
cised-COLd Ham pers Work.

The Street Cleaning Department got several
jolts yesterday in its efforts to remove the SNOW
The first came with the intense cold Inc heapeo
snow ready to be shovelled to the carts. was
frozen into lev masses Picks had be used to
break il I'D into removable chunks. and this made
measurement of the contractors loads exceedingly
difficult The second came in the form OF letter
from the City Club charging that the new system
was in a large measure failure and lntirnauns
fraud in the allotment of payment The third was
a thoroughly friendly reminder from the sewer
Department that the sewers were not the proper
places for the deposit Of CONCEALED moisture ol
any description.
The Street Department had about 800 trucks at
work and the contractors employed about leo"
with 200 men The progress was not RAPID EafIs
in the week Foster Crowen. the Street Coflfilis
sioner said thatl the streets woulC De ceaF o.
STOW by Thursday. Late yesterday ne "oulo mo- mo-
say when they would be cleared Ihe let'eT from
the City Club charged after reviewing Ile re-
quirenents of the contract, that;
First-Thougn the rules require that all wagons
bear labels indicating their capacl.l, ll,' tbe
dumps at 18th Street and 41st street East River
second-The capacity label employeo @ cIIbic con
s j, rs sres 6oVe1eT is in sucf small type
fhat az'S cannot m be read few from the wagon
Third-Nether me wagons nor mo ~ their proper
identification when disputed quesu999smr qu9 he oi
arise that the wagons al least snou!a Pc ori4.e
the mai hasis for payment for the loads hauled.
driver and turned in by hlIf as ~ eo- he
letter corresponding the letter on te 49, ne
drives. Many instances were h9tgu pa a. = SfnrL.a-
At (1ol1verneurs Slip and al the dumps al NJ
Street East River and 4Sth street. North river IN
which the letter punched upon the s-s cards wss
EiE- ore aaen5 was observed which had on one
side an i label and the other a = WLl4e- the
ricL.at carried by the driver was punched as Z
p1ftbNTn some cases wa CONS were, dumped al one
wharf and the ticket punched al another N one
noted the driver sent a1oIaer man ~ - @ IL
wagon The foreman in this case puhcIleo lile
ticket with no personal knowledge that loao o.
S;vrENIr some ca ses tickets were not punched at
ali for the lack OF dump foreman IN these cases
the drivers stated 10 our lIlseC 10 -
not know where or when their TICKETS were 10 oe
seventh-In one case. at 18th street and the East
River a driver was observed carrying TWO lickeLS'
the second Of these was not. however, punched IN
the presence OF the clubs Inspector: ,z
Eighth-Or Sunday. January % II was ooseTEed
the city appeared 20 have been raised unlIorfnIy
one letter over the capacity alloNeo 10 e1lL @ Cl.
6sz- before IF this attempt 10 allow more
literally for snow piled above the top level OF the
wagons submit that such a method ceud not
s0ces thus made were bound 10 be Of gratuitous
nature.
NJ Croven said that while there might be
faults they were fewer than in former years and
that II would be impossible to cheat the depart
r7ent under the new system much as under the
old He also said that the system Of measure
roent was as perfect as careful calculation could
make it The wagons were numbered in such
v-av that they could not be mistaken. and that
carts dumped at wharf should be checked at
another was almost inconceivabe. ne said
The Sewer Department had frequently com
yIsfned Of the misuse Of sewers by Jne men en-
Moved bz the snow contractors. Yesterday there
were Two complaints from East 18TH street and
from East 5lst street