New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
Thousands Get Pleasant Sur
prise by Quick Change
in Weather-Street
Cleaners Have
Easy Task.

The weather certainly n2d mop oH
It's fast one yesterday, to borrow
simple, chaste phrase from the sport
ing department. Between :he sun and
cur celebrated Department of Street
Cleaning most Of the snow that en-
tered on Saturday to gloom UP Easter
had departed ere curfew's sweet chimes
had sent the children of big city
scurrying to their downy couches.
1t was with no hopeful thoughts Of
the morrow that our merry villagers
retired on Saturday night. Ten inches
of snow and n high, strong wind are
not, one takes it, conducive to a belief
that the succeeding eight or ten hours
will see what is called in the East a
really pleasant day. Doorways and
window lodges were piled with snow
that the wind had blown upon them.
But an! When morning, in its con-
ventional manner, broke over the city
yesterday the scene was one for word
painters to rave over. Happy cutters
swelled with streams that sparkled in
the warm sunlight. The milkman,
chanting his gladstone lay, beamed with
JOY as, ever and anon, he'leaped lightly
from his vehicle with the bottled Easter
greetings of the bovine.
Smoke drifted laziy through the
chimney from the old kitchen range
and waited out message that the city
was at peace. The worn-out weather
vane on the backyard clothes pole
scarcely stirred, so gentle was the
breeze. Paterfamillas. NoX Populi and
Constant Reader shook themselves out
of their pajamas and, after a suitable
change of garments, ventured through
the downstairs portals to toss the
blithesome white flakes into a sleeping
neighbor's front yard. Here and there
Brooklyn conductor. his brain dulled
in revery, rang up fare.
All Happy-Even the Cat.
The early automobilists chugged their
cars through the slush, the while they
sang of the wonderful weather. The
querulous cat awoke under the bright
ening suns strong rays and old Rover
rolled out of his slumbers and tried to
figure out the approximate whereabouts
of the family's Sunday roast. Birds
carolled.
II was with feeling of joyous sur
prise that the heretofore disconsolatc
householder raised the shades and
gaZed out upon the (see above scene.
The night before he and his relatives
by marriage had spent many weary
hours plucking the heavy overcoats and
furs from their nesting place amid the
fragrant camphor. Here was a regular
spring day come Unexpectedly. Here
was opportunity 20 wear that adored
Easter necktie, brand new from Mat
teawan.
The morning wore en-. The churches
that had anticipated small congrega
tions were we'll tilled as though not an
inch Of snow was showing on the
warming sidewalks. Detected florists,
who, on Saturday night, did not know
from where they would get their next
Virginia ham ard eggs, Southern style,
opened up with light he. rts.
The favorite Sunday promenades
were soon as lively 1T! the dame Of
fashion and the gentleman who has TO
paw for il as on other delightful East
ers And the parks, j. which employees
had been active for hours busting
off the flowers. were soon swarming
with gay-spirted representatives Of
the so-called human race. Save for
an occasional heavy overcoat or set OF
winter furs the pictu-, was not much
different from what it would have been
had Saturday done its weather duty
well.
Street Cleaners Busy.
Shortly after the sun rose 10000 men
were busy in all the boroughs shovel
ling. piling and tossing the snow into
wagons. Commissioner John 7. Feath-
erston and his aids had this unusual
number OF workers out early, all fear
ing that the weather forecaster's dec
claration that yesterday would be cold
was an indication that the day would
not be warm and helpful to the street
cleaning idea.
Rut-and one betrays no confidence
in saving so-the sun, in the full glory
of cheering warmth, injected itself
into the proceedings and made the
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