The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-23
100000 FEET
or SNOW REMOVED;
100000 Left
Commissioner Hopes to Get
Aid From Rain and Sun
to Clean Streets. 4,
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR.
Fetherston Fears Garbage in
Streets May 1mperil Health
Of Community.
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR.

BIG BILL EDWARDS,
WON'T you PLEASE
u COME BACK?
Al TIE Battery aud IN Sptoscm DIS
tstcts to-dav complaining citisews stsck
st0Ws Nearing the oboCe words IN the
sRoso 1iJes.
One million cubic feet Of snow has
been taken from the streets os Man
haitian. Brooklyn and the Bronx since
Feb. II. Commissioner John r.
Tsthsrston said to-day. But-ard
here the New Yorker gets an idea Of
what . sixteen inch snow fall means
to the mstropolis-thers are three
million moro cubic feet to be 70.
moved!
More wagons. men and horses were
cleaning away the Icy piles in Man
hattan's uptown streets to-day than
on any day since Mr.. retherston
started out to clean shop. Mora than
1880 men, 5000 horses and $500 carts
are engaged In tho work. That the
streets have not bean cleaned u not
due to the antiquated equipment. ~
has bssn stated. Commissioners Fsth.
erston said to.day. Neither are FORM
or Commissioner Edwards's contracts
at fault-ail together. The present
snow contracts. which were drafted
and signed last July. when there
wasn't much snow hsrsabouts
provided only for . six inch fall.
Had the contract makers foreseen
the sixteen inch fall and provided
accordingly the snow would have
bssn moved within three days.
WORRYING ABOUT THE FILTH
IN THE srRGGTo.
I'VE are doing the very best pos.
sible." said the Commissioner to-day.
II am not worrying half ~ much
about the present condition Of the
rity's streets a. the condition they
will be In after the snow II gone. In
many sections OF the city accumula-
lions Of nth. ashes and garbage
threatens to impsril the health OF
these communities. shall 30 before
the Board Of Aldermen soon and
urge upon that body an ordinance
requiring owners Of property to zee
TO It that no garbage. ashes and the
like are thrown on the streets In
front Of their premises and providing
. penalty for the same.
I'm times like the present. the ashes
and garbage accumulate faster than
at other times. When We are busy
with the snow. the ash man falls tc
ct around and people got careless
and begin throwing things into the
streets"
|, Commissioner Fetherston said thai
, more than $1,000 square yards o.
. streets have been cleaned each da,
since the fall. But he added tina
: needed to clean away the streets o
; the three borOughs at that rata. Tn,
! main hope Of the department. he said
,, 10 for rain and sun. These two agen
4 Giles are the fastest and best SNOW
> rcmovers.
4 ALL DEPARTMENTS TURNED u
i TO HgLP.
: Mr.. Fstherston stated that he hA
. received extensive aid from the Park
Sewer, Fire and Bridge Department
He also explained that every cubi
=. foot of snow 10 measured by the bur
. eau Of Weights and Measures. unde
/. the supervision of COMMISSIONS
a John q. Walsh. and that the Depart
|, ment Of Finance again checks tn
|. loads. so that there 10 no chance o
y error.
He told Of an experiment with a
|. electrical apparatus now being mad
by the Edison Company ON Eas
Twenty-second street.. Some geniu
has prepared y "snow eater" wit
electrically heated pans which tn
= Inventor claims viii consume sno,
y IN fast as twenty men can shovel
!. on to the pans. A report Is to b
mado to tho Commissioner. IL tn
~ invention comes up to promises mad
70 several may be added to the city
VI equipment.
10 The Commissioner added that ne,
= year would ma the citys snow RI
m0val scheme equipped with spul
from the surface lines to river pier
~ % that nyt cars hlSSd on tho dowr
v. town streets may be led up to riv,
ID tracks and dumped into the rivers.
~ The main forces Of the remove
I'm centred about the Washington Heix,
70 dist.t tets to-day. The sewers are he,v
d. used In this district without prote
a from the Sewer Department beoau
" Of the heavy drop from the heigh
~ down TO the river. In other locaiiti
Mr.. Fethasston stated that the Hew
Department had Knocked attempts
dspodt the SNOW In the city's sswe,
".