Evening star., 1947-12-29
New York Transport
Is Nearing Normal;
Storm Dead Now Is
BY the Assoeioied Press

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portation links in the New York
metropolitan area hurdled their
greatest test today as millions
struggled back to their Jobs for
the first time since Fridays dev-
astating snowstorm hit the East
Coast from Maine to the District
of Columbia.
Deaths in the storm belt rose to
at least 73.
Railroads, with the exception OF
the Long Island, reported COM
muter traffic about normal. The
Long Island, which was almost
completely out of service Friday
night and early Saturday, man
aged to bring its trains in today,
although they were subject to de-
lays of more than an hour in many
instances.
The Hudson g. Manhattan Rail-
way announced that service on all
its. lines had returned to normal at
2 am. today, including that between
Newark and Jersey City, which had
been cut off by the storm.
Most Arteries Cleared.
In the city most principal arteries
had been cleared by thousands of
workers laboring in day and night
shifts since Friday and using 2,181
pieces of mechanical equipment
The snow removal force totaled
about 10000 men today.
Side streets, frozen solid by be-
low freezing temperatures through
the night and morning, were slip
petty and treacherous for pedes-
trians and those intrepid motorists
who brought out their cars.
In outlying areas, the record OF
25.8 inches of snow that fell here
Friday remained almost untouched
and drifts were piled as high as
5 and feet.
The death toll by States was:
New Jersey, 81: New York, 20;
Massachusetts,, g; Connecticut, g.;
Pennsylvania, 2; Rhode Island, q;
New Hampshire, 2, and Maine, l.
Many fatalities were attributed to
heart attacks induced by over
exertion in clearing snow.
Subway Lines Normal.
Eugene G. Schultz, city markets
commissioner, reported deliveries Of
food were good" and warned the
public against fpaying exorbitant
prices for food"
All subway lines were operating
normally, but bus and trolley lines
still were crippled in many places.
Mayor William O'Dwyer made a
radio appeal last night for all able
bodied men to help "get 99,000,O 900
tons of snow off the streets OF
the city.
Unofficial estimates of the cost
of snow removal in the city ranged
from s3,00O,OO0 to 100000.
There was an increase In flight
schedules as runWays at La Guar
dia Field were cleared slowly, but
full-scale operations were reported
days off.
In suburban Westchester County
State troopers of the Hawthorne
barracks, wearing snowshoes, hauled
toboggans loaded with milk. bread
and other foods to snowbound resi-
dents yesterday.
Marooned Motorists Rescued.
In Brooklyn, city snoWploWs
cleared through high drifts yester-
day and reached lit families iso-
lated for three days in 4sparsely
populated section near Floyd Ben
nett Field.
A New York park department
bulldozer cut a path yesterday to
the Hutchinson River drawbridge
In the Bronx and rescued occupants
of 20 automobiles who had been
snowbound in 6-foot drifts on Hut
Crimson River Parkway for day
and half.
Patrolman Clement Marino said
most of the persons were out-of-
towners who preferred to remain
with their automobile and luggage
Illdll W vain
through the snow to seek shelter.
About $50 cars in all we're marooned.
The motorists frozen isolation was
broken by occasional trips to the
drawbridge shelter where the oper-
ators gave them coffee.
Among those had been on the
parkway since Friday night were
Chief Machinist Mate Henry M.
Morrow and his wife, Anne, OF 1910
Eads street, Arlington, Va.
Some shortages of fuel oil were
reported, but officials said no fuel
famine was in sight because roads
were being cleared.
Sunny and colder weather was
predicted for today, with tempera-
lures in the upper 20s.
Police Commissioner Arthur w.
Wallander announced that police
would start today tagging the hun
dreds of automobiles left in the
snoW-filled streets,