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 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, while others were private trucks with a special plow attachment fitted for

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