New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

livery tosug hau 10 pc picked, cx-
PINNED Mr. Hart. cit has been much
more than simple problem of shovel
iny."
Coantless Accidents
There were countless accidents and
some fatalities but the wonder is that
tiferu were not more. Streets in which
normally green and scd streetcars
clang from block to btock, with pas
sengers filling the body and clinging
like flies TO the vestibules. were almost
empty of vehicular traffic yesterday
and cars were not running at all The
burden fell on the subways and ele-
vated lines.
Down the center of the streets
toward subway and elevated stations,
for which the surface lines are "feed-
ers," tramped heavy-footed process
sion of workmen. stenographers, Office
boys, Office girls. clerks, employers
and employee alike. In every line of
industry the days activity was delayed
from one 20 two hours after the
normal period.
On the elevated lines trains were
run on three- minute Roadway to keep
the tracks and third rails from acquir-
ing glaze of ice. Officials of the
New York Central and Long Island
railroads said operation Of their COM
muters' trains had not been iuterfercd
with. Commuters who arrived in
town late Tor the most part had been
delayed between their homes and the
railroad stations.
Drug stores, cigar stores and other
places where there are public tele-
phones We're packed last night with
persons posse sing vain idea of com
n:unicatng with their homes, by telc-
Thopp = trr lat, ion hat fhDN xro,,1I ba
late TO dinner.
Service oH the ll6th and 125th Street
surface car lines was attempted last
night. On other lines little effort was
being made to run cars. The Broadway,
Madison Avenue, Second Avenue and
Eighth Avenue lines were tied up prac-
tlcally all day from one end to the
osaer. Cresstown lines were not max
ing any visible attempt TO run.
Bronx Conditions Improve
In the Bronx last night, after a day
OF almost complete paralysis as regards
street traffic, cars were running with
something akin to regularity. The
Jaion Railways Company had several
sweepeFs along the main thorough
iafus.
The Long Island electric train run
ming from Pennsylvania terminal to
day because the high tide and snow
and ice had made the long trestle
across Jamaica Bay impossible.
At Northport, L. l., last night an
empty train was held up by snow that !
had drifted across the tracks until
members of the train crew and volun-
teers With shoveis had cleared away
the obstacle
Thomas Finney. forty-fve years cd,
of 1905 Mary Street, Elizabeth, N. j.,
while directing the section gang of
which he was foreman in their efforts
to shovel a snow drift from the tracks
Of the Erie Railroad. was struck and
killed by an express train shortly be- |
fore noon yesterday.
Trains from the West were from one
to five hours late The Pennsylvania
Limited arrived from Chicago five
hours late. Trains from Florida were
rs much as fifteen hours behind sched-
uie. Train crews reported heavy snow
and sleet storms al along the lines.
Wires were down, and i'll few places
the tracks were piled with snow higher
than Il mans head
Job Hedges. receiver for the New
York Railways Company, issued
statement last night. saying that the
company was making every effort to
clear its tracks OF snow and resume
service. He said the infiuenza epidemic
was TO blame tor Il shortage OF workers.
Milk Deliveries Crippled Ger
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
had maintained service at about so |
per cent OF normal, although the crowds !
which fought to ride OH the few cars
tnat .scrceched along tine rails thought i
The officials Were altogether 100 san
guine and expressed fervent opinions
that were 90 ner cent profane.
In the William burg section during
the peak OF the load" period last
might the troliey service showed some
lmprovement. williamsburg Bridge
was so badly congested with trucks and
wagons that g. single truck required
ABOUT two hours to cross the bridge.
One tract. OF the Sea Beach terminal
81 Coney Island was showed in so that
IL WAS necessary to arrange shuttle
service between Coney Island and
Kings Highway over the single track
one hundred snow plows we're kept in
oner"tion on the surface lines of the
B. Il. r.
Milk, bread and newspaper deliveries
i IA all parts OF the metropolitan district
were delayed. Parts OF Staten Island
were entirely without milk yesterday.
The municipal bns lines were operating
almost normally.
The entire north shore of Queens was
deprived Of surface trolley service
from midnight Wednesday, and the
New YORK. x Queens County Railway,
the Manhattan 4 Queens Traction Com
pany, and last night the Brooklyn
Heights Railway Company had not sue
ceeded in opening up their lines. Only
few cars operated over the Queens
bore Bridge from Long Island City.
All travel was confined to the elevated
lines on the Corona and Astoria extern
sions and the Long Island Railroad.
The elevated lines kept fairly we'll up
to schedule and the Long Island ran
all of its trains. but they were from
one-haif 10 an hour late. The conges-
ton on the lines was very great
Factories C1ose
Workers in hundreds of factories in
the Long Island City district we're car
rIed to and fror. work by automobile
trucks provided by employers. Several