The evening world., 1914-03-04
Reporters Fail to Find "Army
of Workers." but Do Find
Thoroughfares Blocked.
mitchell IS SATISFIED. "
Less Than 1 Per Cent. OF
Streets Cleaned, but Mayor
= Doesn't Worry.

with q great majority Of the streets
still 30 heaped with snow that traffic
Is almost impossible, with the cutters
running water like mountain torrents
and the crossings resembling minia-
ture lakes. with the sidewalks slush
or recovered thoroughfares which
make walking a thing of danger as
we'll as discomfort, Mayor Mitchell
| got back to-day from a pleasant
jaunt to Lake Placid In the Adiron-
dacks and announced:
THE streets OF Ne& York are being
cleared Of snow In q most satisfac-
tory manner"
The announcement came after a
Ave- minute chat with Street. Cleaning
Commissioner Fetherston and the
Mayor spoke as though he were proud
Of him. Having been out Of town
since the start Of the storm. the
Mayor got his Information OF condi-
/ tons here from what Commissioner
Fetherston told him and what he OBJ
served travelling from his Riverside
Drive home to his office in City Hall.
II In not known whether or not these
observations were made from a sub
way train.
Wall OF PROTEST COMES FROM
ALL OVER THE CITY.
Simultaneous with the words Of
praise and satisfaction from the
Mayor comes a wall Of protest from
most Of tho other residents Of tho
town. For there are hundreds Of
streets in all the boroughs which not
only have been neglected since the
last storm but which have yet 70
feel the first touch Of shovel. pick or
broom since the first Of February's
blixzard. eighteen days ago.
Evening World reporters made tours
Of inspection to-day through several
miles Of streets In the central part Of
town. Throughout their course they
saw scarcely more thaa two dozen wa
CONS removing snow and not more than
$50 men. They couldn't hnd any one
who knew where the rest Of the 10000
supposed to be cleaning the streets
were working. nor where the Thousands
Of wagons were busy.
One route was through Thirty.
eighth street. from Broadway to
sixth avenue, and In this short block
q reporter passed from q region fairly
cleaned Of snow to street heaped
with snow piles, with only the car
| L. pIn nd vnytth In nd lOo
water twelve to fourteen inches deep.
. which had to be passed through be-
fore one could reach q car.
THREE TRAFFIC eLockADEs IN
THIRTEEN BLOCKS.
Throughout his journey up Sixth
avenue conditions remained the sam,
, as he rode to Fifty first street. wher,
block Of traffic. the third encoun
. tered in thirteen blocks. caused hin
. TO alight.
The first was at Forty first street
where q coal truck. using the track
because the street was impossible
held up the cor for seven minutes
while It's driver tried to turn Oh int,
3 the snow piles and let the car pass
Il gave opportunity, however, 70 -
2 that Forty. 6fst strsst wac almes
: spetlsssIy clean and the surpriss %
2 easionsd BY this sight wee doubles
E when Il was discovered, . nemen
! later, that Forty sseond street., pr
: haps the towns main eresstew
: strsst, was Just about - Uttered .
| "a "a L. "A ~
+ Two wagons and forty men were q
work, and from the progress the!
: were making It appeared a. though
n they might get that one blocl
!. cleaned by nightfall. There WASH
v q man nor q wagon In the street b
: tween Sixth avenue and Fifth.
= In the afternoon. however, severa
y gangs Of men and az many an MT.
r. wagons appeared In FOrty-secon'
o street and strenuous efforts wer
. made to clean the thOroughfare from
z Broadway to Madison avenue befor
Q dark.
l. At Fifty-first street seven car
70 were lined up behind q stalled true
n and The Evening World man wade
10 through deep slush and water to tn
70 west sidewalk and walked throug
y to broadway. The street was file
;" with snow. most OF It having bee
there apparently since the frs
I storm. But Broadway was clean q
far as Columbus Circle.
4 CONDITIONS TERRIBLE AloN'
SEVENTH AVENUE
Back to Seventh avenue walked th
n reporter. Conditions there wer
ne worse even than In Sixth avenu,
" The cutters were not dug out and
n. was impossible to cross the thorough
T. fare and not get wet almost to tn
n, knees. Women made no effort I
no cross. preferring to walk q doxe
T. blocks. or whatever might be neces
sary. to find q cleared crossing.
A surface car carried the invest
gator to Fffty-third street and the
e west through that thoroughfare. b,