New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03

square yards, while contractors in GER
tain areas look out for 3.3O4.OO9 square
yards. Street railways arc accountable
for 3.i20,237 square yards. Household.
ers arc expected 10 clear their side
walks.
Traffic Tied Up.
The traffic situation all over greater
New York. and in the adjoining New
Jersey section, was, Of course. much
affected yesterday, but not IS much as
would have been expected. for the
various transportation companies had
looked after their interests very thor
oughly. SWcepers we're kept moving
Ger all the tracks. beginning early yes.
tcrday, Just as they were on the Penn
Sylyania, New York Central and New
York, Now Haven railroads. Surface
cars ran a. short intervals to keep tho
rails and slots clear Of ice. The Sec
ond az. elevated did not shut down a.
usual, but ran trains all night.
IAprc5s trains without passengers
we're run on tho Third ~. elevated line
OH slE instead Of : twelve minute
Roadway. I'm The BronA, tho Union
Railway COMPANY had twelve snow
ploUghs AZ work.
~ W. 'I'l'S vi INC bTOllCA wires II
this borough caused some trouble
shuttle trains were kept running in the
subway between 10th and 137th sts.
and Dyckmsn st. and 2i2d st. on the
Broadway division. and between 1f9th
st. and Bronx Park on the BronA line
Tho Fifth Az. Coach Company hitched
eiGht-foot SNOW plOughs to some OF the
big buses. and managed to keep Riy-
crsjdC Drive and Fifth az. above seth
st. open.
Brooklyn Hard Hit.
Brooklyn suffered more than any
other OF the boroughs on the transports
ton problem. The West End and Culver
lines were tied up AT midnight Monday
and the Bay Ridge line south OF ldth
,t. also stopped. Trolley lines were
broken down almost everywhere. The
Il. +. 7. kept swecpcrs at work from the
time tho storm began. but overhead
wires were constantly in trouble.
Although trains kept tho elevated
systems in fair condition, wherever the
lines ran on the surface their efficiency
was impaired However, the only sur.
face line still out Of commission whcu
the rush hour began yesterday morning
wse the Sixteenth Az. line, which Vas
tied up at Graycsend az. because OF
broken wires.
Traffic across the East River bridges
was in bad shape. On the Brooklyn
Bridge only l6j cars could be oper-
atcd between : and 5 a. M, when the
schedule calls for 257. On the Will
ismsburG Bridge but 155 cars we're
operated a. against the usual pa.
Great crowds were accommodated IN
the various shelters and lodging houses
Of the city night before last and hun
dreds Of others we're turned away. The
storm drove the poor and unemployed
IN scores to these Ravens Of rest. The
Municipal Lodging House sheltered
1910. Of whom thlrty-cight were
women and slX were children. The
annex held 696 more.
More than ninety women were taken
care of at the Salvation Army Shelter
House, in the, Bowcry, and more than
one thousand were fed at the Army
home yesterday morning. About the
same number received coffee and -olls
at the Bowery Mission. Because all
men had rushed to shelter who could,
Fleischmsnn's brea! line at Broadway
and 10th st. had but two hundred call
ers.
Rush TO Obtain Work.
Necessarily, when the storm broke
the unemployed hurried TO try TO get
work in the snow removal forces. Many
wer, registered. some Of them veal
encd by privstion and malnutrition, but
hundreds Of others had TO be rejected
because the lists filed up so soon.
A ve~y high tide was registered IN
the Hudson; in fact, so high 1t feoded
the Erie terminal in Jersey City, and
passengers had 70 pass along elevated
waihs to reach the tube stations and
ferryboats. The water spread INTO Pa
vonia Az. and the waiting room and
lunchroom at the terminal. Tic tenn
porarv walks broke adrift az the tide
rose and had TO be replaced BY others
a high level.
"The work of clearing the streets or
fine hail and sleet has been much IN the
nature Of fire drill was Mr. Fether-
ston's final comment last night. ut 50
happens that this, our first test OF the
new system of snow removal, is eX-
tremcly difficult.
Every man who registered turned
out for work, and there were a few in
stances, chiefly in Brooklyn, where the
number OF men who were anxious TO
work was so great that II was neces-
ssry 70 regulate the lines by the help OF
the police. There was no disorder, how
ever"