The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-03
MacStay, Street Clean
ing Head, Almost
Would w elcome
One to Prove the
Value of, His New
Snow Handling
Equipment.

NJ of Street Cleaning, is praying for
the biggest storms with the deep
est fall of snow New York city has ever ex-
perienced, to come to this devoted city next
winter, not, however to make life harder to
i've for the inhabitants but to prove thai
the department of which he is the head is
for the first time in its history prepared TO
deal with such things
Like a new soldier with a spicl and span
uniform, gun, bayonet. complete fighting ac-
coutrement, who wants to have a chance to
try them on the enemy, so the Commissioner
Stels that he Is at last prepared to meet any
gtOrm emergency
AT length we are prepared to say what
we can DO, and Ii is up to the department to
make good. Last year. as everybody who
follows the news of the municipality knows,
the Mayor appointed q committee to con-
slider what the city stood in need of 20
handle the snow job. The committee recent
~ made its report. and in consequence the
biggest thing that was ever put over in the
Department of Street Cleaning had it's ac-
oomplishment.
1--WE have had n system before and many
plans, but we have not had equipment
Mayor Hyan has finally put us on the map.
Some of the Main Items
Let us get quickly to the concrete things
that give us of this department cause to re-
joice as if we had been dead and were again
alive. Contracts have been awarded for 2I2
i've ton trucks with interchangeable bodies
ard for seventy-hve 1900 gallon flushing
tanks. We can take the bodies off these
trucks and substitute the tanks
AT the same time contracts were awarded
for 100 two ton trucks, which are to he used
IN ted 1t.t. ta
use of the five ton trucks would be awk-
ward, and on short hauls. Similarly con
tracts were given out for 100 tractors. for
500 push pioughs Ito attach to the front of
tractors) and $50 ploughs to be drawn either
by horse or automobile"
AS there are 200 push ploughs now in the
department, the new accessions will bring the
equipment in this item up to 500 pieces.
on September n bids were opened for me-
chanical snow leaders. The machine adopted
is the invention of DIR. Samuel Friedman of
GO West Ninety-third street. who after work.
ing on it for sixteen years now has Il per-
fected. The Friedman is pick up and load
ing machine IL shovels the snow into con-
veyor and throws 1t into a hopper. From
thence 1t may be dumped at either side of
the street. where the work of snow removal
Is going on or trucks may be loaded from Il.
This machine will do the work OF many
laborers, said Mr.. MacStay, and in much less
time. And the Friedman machine is no
longer an experiment. with II he believes
that the city streets will never again lie in
the condition that they showed for so long
after snowfall last winter
Specifications were given out last week for
fifty large sized tractors weighing 500 pounds
apiece, intended to do the heaviest work and
for five ton weight motor trucks with rack
body, four three-quarter ton trucks for de-
liveries, and for three wrecking cars equipped
with trains. The delivery trucks will carry
gasolene to wherever IL is needed, as well az
repair parts whenever breakage occurs, in