Evening star., 1926-02-10

tonlinued from FlrSt Pasel
melted. Mr. Mitchell forecast freez-
ing temperatures for all day tomor-
row. however.
The storm was not general and was
confined 20 but a comparatively small
area in Maryland, West Virginia,
southeast Pennsylvania and the Dis
trict. with scattered storms still
sweeping the New England Coast, Mr..
Mitchell said.
Record for Depth.
The heaviest snow last year was
7la inches, which fell on January /
and 2 The fall last night, in fact.
was a record for depth of a single
days snow since 1899, when there was
a fall of 12 inches in one day Of
four days storm. which brought the
total depth to 2012 inches. The 1922
storm. of course. holds the record for
total depth, at o7 inches.
The Street Cleaning Department.
which had been keeping in constant
touch with the Weather Bureau to be
prepared to launch into snow-removal
work, almost slept through the storm
last night because the Weather Blu
reau fooled us by not predicting the
storm" according to statements made
by officials Of the Street Cleaning De
partment.
Assistant Supt. OF Streets Costigan
was awakened at / o'clock this morn
ing. however, and Immediately set
about routing out employees Of his de-
partment to attack the fast -piling
drifts The first gangs of workmen
were augmented by groups from the
Surface, Water and Sewer Depart
ments, and by 4 am. nearly 500 men
were at work with 80 snow plows.
Method of Attack.
The cooperative method of attack
on the snow, planned by street-clean-
ing generals and engineering cX-
perts, through which the efforts of
the street car companies equipment
and the city's We're united, was EN-
ployed. Plows of the city force fol-
lowed behind those employed by the
street car companies ana pushed the
heaps of snow from the edge Of the
car tracks back toward the curbs,
leaving a free roadway of about 10
feet. This plan was worked out to
enable automobilists to obey the ordf-
nance requiring them to stay Off street
car tracks. This prevented many bad
con gestions which heretofore have de-
layed transportation services.
The snow force alta cked first the
/ main highways which have street car
| tracks and then began cleaning the
main highways leading from the
center Of town: Sixteenth street, New
! Jersey avenue. Massachusetts, avenue,
! Tenth street, Thirteenth street and
| Seventeenth street.
| East and west thoroughfares to be
| opened first are X. NJ and Q streets.
| This work is expected to take two or
three days for completion.
Special Gangs at Work.
| Special gangs of workmen were set
to work early this morning cleaning
and carting snow away from narrow
streets in the congested business sec
ton, which have car tracks on them.
profiting by the experience last year,
officials realized that 1t would only
cause more difficulty to shove the
snow against the curbs in and G
streets downtown and ordered it
| carted away.
Piles Of snow also were being re-
moved from in front of Government
departments this morning.
Two lanes were opened on Thir
| teenth street between F and I streets
because of the width Of the street.
Both the Capital Traction Co. and
| the washington Railway and Electric
Co. reported today that they had suf
| fered no tieups either last night OF
| this morning and declared service had
been virtually normal. Only one de