CleaningNewYork'sSnow-Clogged 

 Streets With Motor-Trucks 



Motor-trucks mobilized by city 



for snow removal dump their 



loads into Hudson River 



ON Monday morning, 

 December 13, came 

 New York's first heavy 

 snow storm of the winter. 

 When business men and wo- 

 men started for work, the 

 city's transportation lines 

 were sadly disorganized. 

 Street cars, 'busses and taxi- 

 cabs floundered through the 

 snow and took workers to 

 their offices, hours late. 



At noon, those who were 

 hardy enough to venture out to lunch 

 saw a novel spectacle. Great numbers 

 of privately-owned motor-trucks were 

 crawling through the streets laden with 

 snow. Drawn up beside huge heaps of 

 snow in the busiest streets were other 

 powerful trucks, and gangs of men were 

 speedily throwing the snow into their 

 capacious bodies. The old-fashioned 

 street-cleaners' wagons with their pa- 



One of the new motor-driven snow plows which 



did much to make the streets passable after the 



recent New York storm 



tient horses were in evidence, too, but 

 they were a minor consideration. The 

 great work was being accomplished by 

 the motor trucks. 



Through the avenues came heavy- 

 powered trucks with snow-plows fas- 

 tened to their front axles. Many of 

 these were furnished by a 'buss com- 

 pany, wliile others were private trucks 

 with a special plow attachment fitted for 



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