The evening world., 1920-02-07

1a1nss q Rsardon. President Of the
unftoa states Trucking Company,
who had chartered The city Into
twthtg sonea Seginnihg - 1tth Street
ara tha NoF1h River ana running
Douth q he Battery. thence 10 south
gtrpct 20 Fourteenth again.
Ento each % these Eones Mr.. Rear
don was sending gangs Of forty men
ana nftsen TRUCKS. checking on the
territory 70 as TO avoid Duplication Of
eH6RG
mere was little effort AZ cleaning
streets IN the business section OF low
E Manhattan. A few shop keepers
on Nassau street. between John and
Funon Streets. cleancd the street
aua gutteTu. A Broadway gutter
We opened IN front Of J. p. Morgan
q Company's offices at Broad and
Wnl street The Curb Market was
cu19notsd over three inches OF closely
pacled ice. Above and below on
Brord ana wan Streets the snow was
plIea - impassable heightA
On lower Broadway there was no
attempt 20 remove the snOw from the
contFe q tha street, where ashes and
cf48fs have been thrown IL may be
sse6FAi days before the frossn mass
iseemOvod.
CLEANING The CAR TRACKS ON
UPPER BROADWAY.
Between S4th and &3d Streets on
Broadway the New York Railways
Company has q large force cleaning
IN tracks and the prospects are they
va be cleared by night. Hotels
cleared their pavOments by steam.
Ttb crossings az sd and Broadway
are being cleared as fast as possible.
y Manhattan and the Bronx traf-
ne conditions improved. In the Bronx
vehicle tranlo was dihBcult and the
polico reported 100 automobiles aban-
douOd In the snow drifts. Similar
reports came from other parts Of the
eitG
CITY Ialand Was showed under and
without milk or morning papers.
u Brooklyn the Street Cleaning
Department reported that tho re-
sponse TO the appeal sent out by
Mayor HyiAn for volunteers had met
With few responses. Frank Kelly,
representing the United States Truck
ing Company offered seventy trucks
ana thirty men. and Il was reported
that the Bush Terminal Company
wAa prepared TO loan the city 500
laburers until Tuesday night
The 6ifiiOulty IN obtaining labor
and trucks were tremendous, said the
Deputy Commissioner. who added
mat be bad engaged seventy auto
trucks and forty hOrse-drawn trucks
for work this morning and that not
one % them showed UP.
Three hundred labOrens employed
by the city removing snow In tho
Greenpoint district mutinied this
nnnrnlng when ordered 20 load snow
On trI1clxA They were being paid
any oents an hour and contractors
were paying OUher workers seventy
@ght cents an hour, they told Mr..
Laura. adding that they were willing
20 BcEaUe the snow into piles, but
they would not put Il on trucks.
Another gang St work near the
Borough Hall. took similar stand on
similar grounds, ana were per-
mitted 10 have their way.
Traffic conditions in Brooklyn
were much improved and officials
said that they hoped to get the sur
face lines back 70 normal before
night
IAbore4s smUSOyed by the Queens
bOro Highway Commission were sent
20 dig out the hearSe Of a funeral
which had LEFT Jamaica Thursday
night and had become stained in a
MDW drift on F'ogarty's Hill, between
JImAioa and Flushing. The Queens
bro Contagious Hospital was reported
q be without coal to-day. Efforts art
bang made TO tunnel through the
dtanttA
In other sections Of the otty the
coal situation Is returning TO normal
according 20 reports Of A. T. Hardin
Fuel Administrator, and the officials
q me TidCw0ter Coal Exchange. Fue
is bang unlOaded al the New Jerse!
terminals. and danger OF any serious
shortage has passed.
E48s SNNSS NStN 10 WOSFN mOht
ENCOURAGING.
The euel situation as Il applies h
the pIiblic utility corporations wa
more encouraging. The Intertborougl
reported nothing alarming and tn
b. r. T., an ofiicial said. was ''gettin,
along from hand 20 mouth" Tn
b. r. T., Il WAS said. had a tWo-dayi
gunpiy Gu h1hd now, with more 4
sight az tidoWaAer.
J. W. Llsb, Vice President and Gen
eral Manager OF the New York Ediso
Company, said that his company hR
received two additional shipments q
coal from Hampton Roads, maxim
a very material addition to tn
glrppiy."
The milk situation was reporte
muCh worse to-day, with little chanc
that conditions win he any better "a
morrow.
staten Island was again withou
lights last night. due TO broken wire
Tho arut milk In forty-eight hour
was reostVed at o'clock yestsrda,
but no bread has arrived for twenty