New-York tribune., 1921-02-22
City Machines
Conquer Storm
I'm z Hours
$50 Tractors. ITO Trucks
and 10000 Men Open
Up Traffic and Prevent
Big p roperty Loss
New Blizzard Due To-day
IL Deaths Reported and the
Body of a Girl Baby l.
Found i'm Snow Bank

New York City waged mechanical
war against the full force of winter for
the first time in it's history yesterday
and won the battle in record time
Within twelve hours after the cessa-
tion of the terrific snowstorna, one OF
the worst in twenty years, practically
every artery of travel within the con-
fines of the Greater City was open to
normal traffic. 1t is estimated the
cost of the snow removal will be
81, 100000.
Into the fray against the thirteen
inch fall of snow the city moved for
ward more than 100000 worth OF
mechanical equipment ranging from
the modest plow to the power driven
snow remover and loader. Back of this
irrespective of the auxiliary forces
brought into the fight by the various
railroad companies.
In the first breathing spell after the
encounter it was found that the big
snowfall had resulted directly, or in
directly, in twelve deaths inside the
limits of the city and several others in
nearby towns. 1t han failed, however,
TO cause any serious tie+up of traffic,
or any great property loss, despite the
fact that in many places the snow,
driven by forty mile-an-hour gale,
drifted to great depths.
An UnsoIyed Tragedy
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great storm came to light when the
body of girl baby was found in the
snow beneath the elevated structure at
West Fifteenth Street and Railroad
Avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday by John
Minguarro, of 1886 Neptune Avenue.
No sooner had the first flush of vic
tory settled upon the forces engaged
in battling the effects Of the storm .han
the intelligence corps of the Weather
Bureau issued warning that another
blizzard moving east from the Rocky
Mountains might envelop the city
to day.
In three instances there were cases
of tie-ups in the citys transportation
systems, but these were only of tenn
porary nature. They occurred on the
open sections of the B. r. T. system in
Brooklyn On the electric division of
the Long Island Railroad and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
On the B. r. t. system the open cuts
on the Brighton and Sea Beach lines
were seriously affected by the fact that
there are no covers on the third rails.
The wind drifted the snow in the Sea
Beach cut and isolated trains there
for some considerable period Sunday.
but normal service was resumed again
at noon yesterday. The Brighton line
also went into normal service ahout
the same time.
The trouble on the Long Island Rail-
road was caused when some Of the cleo
trio trains became stalled during the
storm. Strenuous work by the COM
pany's employees, however, resulted in
clearing all lines in time to resume
normal service by the rush hour last
night,
Freight Traffic Halted
On the New York e. New Haven all
freight traffic, with the exception of
perishable matter, was discontinued,
while. the full forces of the company
were engaged in clearing the lines.
The New England sections of the road
were seriously crippled, especially on
Cape Cod.
1t was on the streets of the city,
however, that the most interesting
battle against the snow was fought.
Along the main thoroughfares of Man
haitian $50 tractors of the caterpillar
types plunged into the snowbanks
either pushing or pulling plows, which
cut wide swaths into the snow and
opened up lanes to traffic. In addi-
tion to these, ITO powerful five-ton
trucks drove plows that flung the
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