Evening star., 1925-01-31
SNOW ELIMINATION
CAMPAIGN MAPPED
Plan Calls for $685. 900
Worth of Machinery and
$125,OOO Labor Cost.

Washington needs $233, 900 worth OF
mechanical equipment and an annual
appropriation of about $125,0OO for
labor to handle snow removal work
properly.
That was the conclusion reached
yesterday afternoon at conference
of the snow defense committee or
ganized by the Commissioners to de-
termine how far the District should
go in snow removal The meeting
was held in the office Of Engineer
Commissioner Bell, and he will lay
the conclusions before the Commis-
Sioners for action.
Steps will be taken by the city
heads to get from Congress the nee
eSsary funds for next Winter.
Plan of Attack.
Under the program outlined yester-
day the city would muster a force
of S55 laborers and clear 12O miles
OF streets. The plan of attack to be
storm follows:
Removal of all snow from the
downtown area, bounded by Fifth.
Seventeenth d and l streets.
Opening of lanes for traffic alongside
all car tracks and removal of the
snow from the moro important car
track streets only.
Opening of wide lanes for vehicles
on the main traffic arteries outside
the congested section.
Opening of cross-walks in resi-
Dental sections.
Needs In Equipment.
The mechanical equipment to be
asked for will include the following
Ninety-five motor snow leaders, TO
take the place of laborers who are
10 hi
ment IN Warrington; motor fush-
ers, with plows attached; 10 scarf
fiers for breaking ice; motor trucks;
s graders to be attached to tractors
already owned by the city. 1t was
pointed out that the trucks and flush
crs would be useful for street clean
ing operation throughout the year
when they are not needed for snow
work
1t is proposed to have the equip
ment go into service as soon as two
inches of snow is on the ground. 1t
is estimated that under the proposed
plan it would cost 900 to handle
q, six-inch snowfall and that the work
Of removal would be completed in one
week.
Car Tracks Chosen.
The car track streets from which
it is planned to remove the snow are:
NJ street, in Georgetown; Seventh
street X street and Florida avenues;
U and Eighteenth streets, Fourteenth
street, Seventeenth street, Connecticut
avenue, Mount Pleasant street, H street
from Fifth northwest to Fifteenth north
east; + and G streets northwest from
Seventeenth to Twentieth streets;
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
Pennsylvania to Virginia avenues; T
street, Dupont Circle to Wisconsin
avenue; Dumbarton avenue and
Twenty-eighth street, and Wisconsin
avenue, Canal to r streets.
On the following streets plows viii
be used TO open traffic lanes: Six
teenth street and Alaska avenue, for
the entire length: Florida avenue
Sixteenth street to Massachusetts ave-
nue.: BIadensburg road to District
line; Benning road; Eighteenth street,
u street to Connecticut avenue; Mas
Eachusetts avenue, Ninth street 10
District line; Wisconsin avenue, T.
street to District line; PennsyIvanla a
avenue and Bowen road southeast to
District line; Nichols avenue south
east: New Hampshire avenue, dupont
Circle to Sixteenth street, Canal road,
entire length; Sherman and Ne"
Hampshire avenues to Georgia ave
nue.; Rock Creek Church and Blair
roads to District line; Park road
Sherman avenue to Fourteenth street
Maryland avenue northeast only; be!t
road. Western avenue, Rock Creek
Ford and Military road, and Long :
fellow street, Sixteenth to Cohcoru
avenue. This list may be addeo 10
or changed from time to time