The evening world., 1914-03-05

under the collar since Tho Evening
World on Tuesday printed photo
graphs Of the singular cleanliness Of
the street In front Of Boss" Murphy's
house In East Seventeenth street.
With . red-hot -Tammany admin
istration. the watchword Of which 10
"eniciency." such incidents require .
whole lot Of explaining on the part Of
Commissioner Fstherston.
On Tuesday morning an ofacisi Of IN
avtsnsos<is company IN wsst sixty.
fourth street called up SUIT. Ounthsr
and offered to put twelve big auto
trucks into service. Fully . half hour
Of haggling followed while the red tape
was being unwound IN order to permit
the trucks TO be put into service. II
was given out later TINT these trucks
would clean Sixty.third street imme-
However. late yesterday after
noon that same street looked as though
II had hot been touched. Apparently
the trucks got lost In a tangled sea Of
red tape, for they were not visible
among the hillocks Of snow. And Sixty
third street, Mr.. Gunther had ex-
planned, rs . FIRE street and must be
cleaned Immediately"
A contractor "collaboratinE' with
the department in its snow removal
stint smiled afably when the sun be-
ran 70 shine Tuesday morning, and.
site declai alton that "a couple Of days
will 80 the Job DONE" added that II
the sun kept up another day he would
eot out Q battalion Of old. fashioned
ploughs and attack the caksd Ice Gov.
erin6 the streets. But tho ploughs are
not visible 70 the naked eye. lie had
said that "the leo has TO let 90 at the
bottom. you know--then II will be
easy" Apparently the Ice has not let
so at the oottom--nor on top. either.
ooiNo UNNEceseARi WORK
FOR A BLUFF.
Fifth avenue was given early At.
tention and for many blocks shone like
newly Furnished mirror. And here
II was plain why some of the I'm
portant cross streets were still impas-
sable. Scores of men were to he seen
yesterday afternoon diligently chop.
ping and picking and shovelling at u
thin layer Of Ice In the middle Of clean
Fifth avenue above Forty-second
street. The Ice did not retard traffic
In the least--uut II rather spoiled the
beauty Of the nsw-washed asphalt.
Evidently the mon doing this uselesa
work were not needed to dig even Z
cowpath through some OF the other
clogGed thoroughfares.
When the days heightened into
weeks after the first big storm and
there was no apprsciable relief from
the snow burden the department. CON-
planned that Il was impossible 70 ge'
enough teams and trucks. People are
wondering now why II was impossible
TO get them somewhere during the
three weeks or more that the feeble
cleaning work went On; Ut course
they would have becn costly. but theii
presence would have cut down ths
cost of the big work, which u nov
running into the millions.
Daily statistics are givcn out b,
the street Cleaning Department con
earning tho number Of men ont
trucks at work. But ono who makei
thorough tour becomes sceptlcal
II II, 1000 mon. or oven $4,000, and $50
trucks are at work cleaning UP tn
streets. they are not visible. Hunt
Ing for such an army Of men AM
trucks ought not to b hard prob
CONDITIONS ARE WORSE o.
LOWER EAST oiDG.
Conditions Of fiith on the lower ems
side arc even worse than last week
The same old scenes Of snowbank
covered with garbage. ashes and rub
bish are presented. And In other sec
lions similar conditions exist. includ
ing the upper east side, the upper an
lower west side. Even In West Nina
ty.sixth street--to cite one example,
tho street between Broadway an
Amsterdam avenue 10 Uttered wit
ashes, hundreds Of tin cans and a
kinds Of rubbish. And In front q
one house 10 . discarded and rust
iron cot!
Many residential cross streets nes
Fifth avenue. In the "miillonairc a.,
trict." arc unusually well cleaned. tn
snow being placed In neat piles 8
automobiles have no dimculty
reaching the curb. But less fortu
nate people In other streets ca
scarcely be reached by tradesmsn
Il the streets were impossible b
! fOre the last st I'm. after two week
work" they are impassa ble-plus nov
The sun seems to shine In vain. an
the efficiency Of prayer seems doub
ful. II takes an optimlst to sec n
laugh In the little Joke. why II II
Street Cleaning Department."
WILL TRv 70 FORCE CAR CON
PANlgS TO ACT.
I'm going to give the car compar
lee q days time for the removal I
every three inches Of snow" sal
Street Cleaning Commissioner Fetf
erston to-day. 1T they don't agrt
10 this, we'll ace II we can't ind
way to force them TO-"
; The Commissioner will meet repre-