. Engineering and Contracting . tiacting for March 3, 1920. The Steam Shovel in Snow RemovalWork steam shovels gave effective service in several easterncities in removing the snow due to the heavy blizzards oflast month. In Springfield, Keystone traction steamshovels, used on snow removal work, were run in 12-hourshifts right through the 24 hours. The same type shovel alsowas used in New York City. In the latter city the AnoracEngineering & Contracting Corp., which with other organiza-tions was impressed into the service of the city in its snowremoval emergency, moved its Keystone grade
. Engineering and Contracting . tiacting for March 3, 1920. The Steam Shovel in Snow RemovalWork steam shovels gave effective service in several easterncities in removing the snow due to the heavy blizzards oflast month. In Springfield, Keystone traction steamshovels, used on snow removal work, were run in 12-hourshifts right through the 24 hours. The same type shovel alsowas used in New York City. In the latter city the AnoracEngineering & Contracting Corp., which with other organiza-tions was impressed into the service of the city in its snowremoval emergency, moved its Keystone grader from an up-town excavation job to the business district and placed it atwork loading snow into trucks. The first day it was impos-sible to get an adequate supply of fuel tor the grader, thehauling conditions were so bad. It also was impossible tokeep the grader supplied with trucks fast enough to keep itbusy, so that the first day it was idle about half the time, butnevertheless removed about 272 yd. (city measurement) of. Digging Out Broadway, New Yorl< City. With a Steam Shovel,snow. Traveling conditions did not improve the second dayand while the number of trucks was increased, the graderstill was not working to capacity. As the snow was graduallyremoved and hauling conditions improved, the output of thegrader was correspondingly increased, until February a maximum output of 4.{9 yds. (city measurement) wasreached. It should be stated here that the measurement by the cityof trucks for the snow removal, allowed what is called a heapmeasurement of 6 ft. over the top aiea of the truck. Mostof the trucks have been filled at least 2 ft. over the top area,for which no allowance is made in this measurement by thecity. The contractors consider that the grader took the place ofat least 50 laborers during this entire work for snow removal,even considering the time lost through unforeseen difficulties. Predicts 10,000,000 Motor Vehicles in U. S. by End of 1920.—Statist
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