The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-28
Evening World Investigator
Finds Conditions Deplor-
able in Manhattan.
MONTH MORE WORK.
Street Cleaning Department
Depending on the Sun to
Finish the Job.

Nearly one million dollars Of the
cily's money has been dumped into
the sewers to melt away with the
snsw q . fortnight ago. And there
70 every prospect Of $2.7So.ooo Of good
@oasv being thrown In on top OF
that before Manhattan. Brooklyn and
Ne Bronx are emancipated from the
snow plague.
esventy.two thousand. elk hundred
and twenty-five dollars has been
poured into the snow sewers for each
Of ths eight days Of snow removal.
AnA unless the sun shines continually
for many days and the nights are
warm Il viii be another month be-
fore the streets are restored to clean
iinsss. Hurry up. spring!
A. Commissioner Fetherston. the
new head Of the Street Cleaning De.
csvemewt, ssta heiplessly In his omoe
and assures an army Of reporters
ana . much larger army OF angry
citizens that I'VE are doing the best
~ cant" the city struggles under
mountain OF snow. Ice. rubbish. gar
baGe and general nth.
Commissioners Jefferson has asked
the Board Of Estimate tor $bsl'ooV
"a nay for the 0rst eight days work.
And the city will still owe about
$4,000 to pay for the work done w
until last night. The Commissioned
10 praying for . double powered sun
from now on.
An Evening World reporter made
an extensive tour Of Manhattan yes
terday, the fourteenth day since 49,
900 mon and $500 trucks began re-
moving the snow" Neither Brooklyn
nor the Bronx was taken into con-
sideration-oniy Manhattan. where
the work OF the street cleaners" has
been centred.
SNOW REMOVAL TRUCKS NOT
IN EVIDENCE.
One cannot conceive Just how fear
full street conditions are until sucr a
tour IN undertaken. Ever section
Of the borough was visited-on foot.
in surface carr, elevated trains and
ON q Fifth avenue bus. And It 10 .
solemn fast that tho reporter saw
scarcely dosen snow removs!
trucks. Perhaps II was fate that he
always Wa where they amt"
q. slipping and sliding and siosh-
>>~~.su~> 40 As,Am tha hAa w
franc streets-where one would sus..
psUt an effort would have been mad
to have the streets inhabitable-and
lodging In and out among miniature
mountains Of dirty. mud-stainsd
snow; Aghting for the pedestrian's
rigat Of way on sidewalks filled with
heavy horoe- drawn wagons, auto
trucks and taxicabs that found II
Impossible 10 plough their tortuoua
wsy through the snow drifts bank
ing The streets from gutter to gutter:
carefully eluding veritable oessp0ols
Of aith dsoaying between piles Of
sn0w that once was virgin; hasten
ine away from the piles Of garbage
dumped into the choked streets be.
.ceuso wagons could not force theiI
W. over the usual routes: steppins
unsuspectingly into mudholes. and
< leasing across rivers and lakcs Of
rnushy snow-indecd. the way Of the
investigator was hard.
There was just ono saving grace In
tho whole situation. The sidOwalki
are cleani 80. one wonders why the
city doesn't practice what It breaches
stern policemen have made thsil
rounds since the plague Of snow
stunned tho city. forcibly recalling
TO househoiders' minds the law thai
makes It necessary to clean the side
walks. And everywhere citisens have
labored detsrminediy and consist
entity; and. having oDsyed tho city,
laws, they stand on their cleansst
paysments and view with wondering
eyss-mirroring also anger and 70
sentiment, that unauestionably the
were not getting a square deal-th'
Horrible condition Of the streets tina
soomingly the city has not even Is'0e
10 clean. And they sadly conciud'
there il q vast difference between
citizen and q city.
Having hardly survived the tril
through the east side, TRANSFORMED
into a busy. snowladen Siberia, tn
reporter came to Fifth avenue AnS
Forty second street - wondsrf u ~
clean In comparison with parts o
parker New York. and sought Supt
0unther of the Snow Removal bu
reau. He was asked to explain.
Z ..vNG ARg poiNo THE oesT WI
( CAM" ECHOED.
"Ws are doing the best We can.
>, IN echoed, and then he turned hastil!
~ distract the callers MIND ant
I 6ashed Q newspaper clipping.
"Read that" he said. proudly.
me clipping detailed terrible con
Aitions In the streets OF Newark. Pile.
hiSh With snow and garbage" Nsvarl
h who're big Hili" Edwards. Nev
\ YerK'S former Street Clsening Con-
,nissioner. 70 holding fortn. -!
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