Year: 1874

CONDITION OF THE STREETS AFTER THE STORM.


The two snow-storms of last week falling
pavements generally uncean, with the effects OF tbe
partial haw OF Sunday and yesterday reduced many OF
the streets condition embarrassing to travei ana
unpleasant to the eye The dgent ransgression OF the
city ordinance against sprinng salt in the streets by
some OF the car companies did much TO promote TINS
result many thoroughfares Down town the passage
OF many horses and weaden teams churned the sho"'
and in the wider streets scattered evenly, that II
was not very serious impediment, though the snip
ping OF wheels and the unstable footing OF beasts OF
burden were common evils In crowded streets OF
less width such as Fulton and Beekman, the
clearing of snow from the sidewalks packed
10 deeply in the roadway, and there was much
painful struggling for big wagons In consequence
Lower Broadway was compacty covered IN the morn
ing and the distractions 10 vehicles were not Serious
but the rising tide of travel with the increasing warmth
made It, late in the day, adhesive mass of mud and
dissolving snow, with the peculiarly repusiYe color
characteristic Of great thoroughfare on such
occasions. Above Canalst. there were considerable
ridges Of snow and alongside OF the cutters and the
snow In the middle space deeper Further up where
the cartracks lie its state was far worse The ridges
passed into mounds Of mud upon snow high enough to
check carriages and alarm seighdrivers. Indeed, all
the streets with tracks In them were dhcut Tor etheI
wheels or runners. Between the tracks was the bare
pavement but the free space was not large enough to





ciently wide TO crowd sleighs upon the piles
Of snow The the street the higher these piles
and the greater the ohstruc0ns. All the scanty roads
east OF the BOwery and west OF Broadway which the
car the lower part OF their course might
well have been marked "no thoroughiarc." where
there is double track in little street-as, by the IN
scrutabe wisdom OF State Legisatures,s not lnire-
quently the vehicle would have almost as Itte
chance tropical jungle In the wide avenues the
nearly bad, the snow Is rarely heaped
so high to of roadway outside the car-tracks
But even Madson-ave. above Fortyfourthst. is any


thing but attractive TO either seghs or carriages with
its mud the tracKway and swelling snow heaps on
each side AS to Fifthave and the broad stretches OF
road in the upper part of the island there was no aut
10 be found. The little too soft for swiftest
slelgrding and the number of carriages IN FltthaVe
was large; but there enough snow to make IT gala
day with the staDekeepeTs, and the ring OF countless
sleighbes made merry upper Manhattan ali the after
noon and evening. =,


In walking yesterday there was not so much to dis
compose in driving, except at the crossings Inc
sidewalks for the most part well cleared, but u-
happily just far in places 10 make the foot
hold very precariOus. number of pedestrians were
unpeasanty surprised 10 find divers cOahOe covers too


smoothly cleared for safety few feeble bands OF La
bOrers be discovered in various parts OF the city
who were evidently appointed 10 clear certain crossings,
aud who a desult0Iy sort OF and with KIND OF
individual independence Of effort which distracted their
labors were aiming do Nevertheless, almost all
the crossings upon busy thOrOughlaTeS were hope
lessy impossible ladies', and decidedly unnyl'ing TO
!