New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Car Tie-up Worst
In Manhattan,
Surface and Il almost
at Complete StandstiH;
Many Thousands Walk

Storm conditions were worst on the
surface car lines in Manhattan, ice
clogging the slots of these lines and
high banks of snow making efforts to
move cars practically impossible. Only
a few cars were creeping along the
Madison Avenue, Broadway. Lexington
Avenue. Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth avenues lines, while practically
no cars were running on the Eighth,
Fourteenth, Twenty-third, Thirty
fourth, Forty second, Fifty ninth.
Eighty-sixth, 10th, 116th, 125th, 135th
streets crosstown lines
The paralysis of the surface car
lines on the East Side and the almost
complete stoppage of the Second and
Third avenue elevated lines left this
very considerable section of the city
practically without TRANSFORMATION.
All the bus lines in Manhattan were
in operation, although in many cases
the buses were able to make only slow
progress in bucking high banks of
snow.
Trains Hours Late
AT the New York Central Offices it
was said that while the service on the
electrical division was practically nor
mai. all trains from the West were late,
IN some instances several hours. At
the New York, New Haven e. Hartford
offices similar report was issued
Several discarded storage battery
cars which formerly ran over the now
abandoned Twenty-eighth and Twenty
ninth streets crosstown routes served
East Siders in good stead when they
were put into operation over the Grand
Street line by the Third Avenue Rail-
road Company. The channel rail was
frozen, in some places snow and ice
being packed in the slot to the very
top, and it was impossible for any of
the regular cars of the Third Avenue
company to ply over the Grand Street
route. The storage battery cars put
into operation were jammed to their
full capacity on all their trips.
At both ends of the Grand Street
on one end and the East River on the
other-fooded the slot with water for
two blocks
Bronxites going to Manhattan before
8 o'clock in the morning had to use
either the subway or the New York
Central Railroad. Although the eIe
waited line in the Bronx had not actually
suspended operation, it was useless to
try to get anywhere on that transit
line between the hours of 4 and 8
O'Clock.
Subway Congestion Great
Ice which gathered on the rails made
1t impossible for the trains to make
any progress and passengers who did
make an attempt to get to business by
getting into the trains left at the first
opportunity and focked to the subways
and the New York Central stations.
This caused great congestion on the
railroad and underground route.
Trolley service in the Bronx was
not noticeably impaired save for the
added congestion on the lines at 149th
Street and Third Avenue. However.
traffic was held up for eighteen min.
utes in the morning when the rear
wheel fell off large auto truck and
the truck was stalled at the crossing.
vehicle out of the way and traffic was
resumed.
The steep hill on Lexington Avenue,
from 102d to 103d Street, known to the
residents Of that section as Duffy's
Hill, proved serious stumbling block
to the Lexington Avenue surface line.
1ce-coated rails made it impossible at
times for cars to negotiate the sharp
grade at this point.
The attention of the Street Cleaning
Department having been confined to
the work of snow removal for the last
two days, heaps of garbage and ashes
have accumulated on the streets in the
congested tenement district on the
upper East Side.
Snow removal proceeded slowly in
The Bronx. Deputy Street Cleaning
Commissioner James Brown had $50