The evening world., 1914-03-04

tween mountainous heaps Of snow. to
Ninth avenue. Across this artery of
up and downtown travel was erected
a snow barrier six feet high. 10 that
whatever traffic sought TO go south Of
Ffety-third street in Ninth avenue
had 10 follow the car tracks.
To the north conditions wore 40
bad end from FORTY. second s'rsst not
. cleaner nor Q wagon had been en-.
eountsrsd.
F1fty-nin.h stree, was cleaned out.
side Of Roosevelt Hospital, hut the ave-
nue. resembled chain of snow topped
hills Every side street was filled from
curb to curb and the snow was piled
In such heaps that wagons could
scarcely struggle through II.
Broadway. where Columbus avenue
crosses II. was clean. put more snow
was encountered at sixty FIRST street
on the return trip and there a gang
Of ESQ men and u dozen wagons or 90
were at work. Supt. II. +. Gunther
had announced early in the morning
that the whole east side OF Broadway
north OF Columbus Circle would be
cleaned Immediately. but II wasn't. The
do the job In week.
ONLY A FEW MEN OF "oREAT
ARMY" FOUND At WORK.
A single wagon and half a dosen
men were at work in Columbus Circle.
where the work was supposed to have
been begun and they hadn't made an
impression on the accumulated snow
Of two weeks. South Of the Circle
broadway was clean TO Times Square.
where three or four iron scrapers.
horse drawn, were being operated to
haul the snow to a sewer manhole.
where 1t was dumped out OF sight.
From snowpile to manhole. however.
the scrapers dropped more than half
Of their loads. DO that the net result
was to scatter the carefully gathered
snow all over the pavement.
So much for the progress Of the
work In the central section OF the
town. What has been accomplished
all over Manhattan was showed by
the red lines on city map hung In
Commissioner Fetherston's once.
The red lines show what streets have
been cleaned.
SOUTH OF WALL STREEI A
WILDERNESS OF SNOW.
Wall street has been taken care Of.
South Of that 10 q wilderness OF un-
touched snow. Cortlandt street. from
Broadway 70 Washington street, has
been cleared. So has Nassau street,
from Liberty street TO Park Row.
Chambers street. from West Broad
way to Broadway. has been made
presentable, but the surrounding
streets. all big important business
thoroughbred. have been untouched.
to Broome, Delaney street from
Clinton To Lewis, and Stanton from
Clinton to Tompkins have been Wis
| tied by the contractors men.
From there they jumped over to
| Fifth avenue and cleared from Four
teenth to Sixteenth streets. leaving
the whole section of the town be-
\ tween utterly neglected. Later Fifth
avenue from Sixteenth to Nineteenth
streets was gone after: then sixth
avenue from West Eighteenth to
Twenty first street.
LESS THAN I PR CENT. OF THE
erREEre CLEARED.
| The other streets finished by the
contractorS-see II you can flud yours
among them ?-were: Sixth avenue
from Twenty third to Twenty-sev-
enth street. sixth avenue to Thirty
fourth street and then up Broadway
to Forty second: Firth avenue,
Thirty fourth to Thirty sixth street !:
Broadway. Forty-sixth TO Fiftieth
street., Fifty third to F'iny- fifth street.
Sixty fifth to Sixty-eighth street,
Eighty first to Eighty-sixth street,
and Ninety-fourth to Ninety ninth
street.
The countless miles Of streets else
where have been untouched.
When II Is taken into consideration
that in the neighborhood Of 10000
men have been working" pretty
steadily. assisted In all car line streets
by electric sweepers, II will be seen
that not even a decent dent has been
made in the snowstOrm.
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