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Show II THAW RESULTS I IN TINY FLOODS Street Crews Kept Busy, Housewives Complain of Cellar Damage Diminutive freshets In almost every section or the city have given the rtty street department ;t strenuous day - Before office hours this morning ov- i t ib telephone came complaints to j 'iimmlloncr Arthur Larsen and i Street Supervisor George Welch. They t Immediately assembled an imcrKrncy j rrt w and started to check up on a i few of the calls. Reshl. nts fr. rnthe vicinity of Fowler Fow-ler and Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth streets. Thirty-first and J-f f r- son. all along Thirty-second strt. i-hlnitton and Twenty-first street, j Adams and Twnty-eiijht h Btreot and t. other sections of the city whre the excess drainage from the ben h pours j on to the lower levels, kept the telc,- 1 phone lines to the city hall busy all j. morning 1 Miss Annls Brown, secretary' toVom- J mlssloner I .! n .1 m.- n-rl H- 1 ill' J md Informed tbr- complainants that :'l , the men were already on the job and doing wh.it ver they could to allev- 3 late the Eltimtlon. ! 1 The sudden thaw has brought on ' conditions that disrupted th' street Ml department machinery, but Commit- W I sloner larson prODllflM full CO-operH- Hj Hon of his d i irtim nt In remedying 9 the situation. 'm Hoiiswivim rnmplniner that tho 9 floods had filled their cellars und Jn J some Instances had damaged thelrl M stores of bottled fruits and plrkles. |