New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-07


wa only with the greatest exertons that they sue
ccedcd in reaching the scene Of action. Only those
lfree engines with g,sd-sized wheels could be 90,
Along with any degree Of haste. The wheels Of the
small engines became cogsed up, and it was only with
the ndomtabe perseverance, possessed by our firemen
that they could be got to the fire. It should be the
duty Of the authorities To provide sleds OF suitable d
meD-ons to every engine and hOse carriage IN the city,
The sled could be- stored in the house and arranged
that the engine or hose carriage could be rolled upon
II in f. " moments The fremen would then be able
10 get along with comparative and reach the fire
at an early moment Al present they nearly exhaust
their strength in getting their apparatus to the tre
ard are rendered almost unfit for duty. Let this mat
ter be looked to-that free horse may not be ridden
to death.
TIE CITY RAILROADS.
The city railroads are blocked up. Not single car
was running in the city and omniJuses never run
on Sunday. there was but one mode by which people
could travel and that was by firing up their own en-
gines of locomotion. II little more tiresome
than railway stage riding, bat after all, perhaps
quite as healthy. We suppose an attempt will be
made to-day to dig out the city rail tracks.
THE RAILROADS oUT or TOWN.
The storm laid an embargo nearly all railroad
trains in this latitude.
The Harlem Road expect to make an attempt about
noon to-day to send train out.
On the Hudson River Road the train which started
from Albany at : p m. on Saturday arrived here yes
terdav II reached the Fort Washington cut at , a. m
Yesterday with three engines, where the train stuck
fast. After three hours of Intellectual attempts to start
the train Mr. NJ. L. Sykes r., the superintendent OF
the road who was on hand came down TO the city
with sleigh and sent up four additional engines The
train came down in fine style, with seven engines and
four passenger cars train, carrying the mail, will
90 out Mt noon to-day The President, nr. s. Sloan,
started las, night with three engines for Poughkeepse
The Ncw-Haven Road il in a similar condition, the
Boston train which was due at III p. III. on Saturday
arr, ing Yesterday at 5 p. m. Thi- truin at a. IN
Yesterday morning stuck fast half mile beyond
Williomsbridge and did not start again until p III.
The four car loads of passengers, including dozen
ladies remaining meanwhile in delightful state OF I'M
certainty. The tedum of that suspense was relieved
bv crackers and cheese from Wliamsbrdge furnished
nv the Company regardless of expense. The mail
train went out last night from Thrysecond street at
the usual time.
The Erie Road is a good deal blocked up on the
eastern section The train which left Buffalo at a. M
m Saturday. met with no obstruction until within ss
v, N~NNN'N@
II was due at 10 D. m on Saturday. No train had
reached the depot in jersey City yesterday up to 10
oc;>ck last night One train in the cut at Ber-
oen olI nplt Last evening two or three trains were
tbere whiting bi;dered by of them being off the
trock. IT IL probable that before night the trains
upon this road will be moving and the road open its
whole length. The telegraph is working through
The New-Jersey Railroad train which left Pbi,ade-
u l. o. Satn I'd nuot
at III o'clock to point within the limits Of Jer
sey CITY. nearly mile from the depot, where the
track is fenced in The mails and passengers left the
train there and il remained until this afternoon, when
il reached the depot The train which left jersey
CITY for Philadelphia reached Burlington, where it
was obliged to come to halt. The train which let
Jersey City at o'clock last evening had arrived at
brunswick at o'clock and the train from Phila
dolphin had then reached the same point. Both would
reach their destination at midnight.
SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR.
We cognizant of several cases that came to the
knowledge of visitors Of the poor late Saturday
evening that were heartrendng. In one case it was
with no little difficulty that the visitors threaded
lcue dark. snowy alley IN Wooster street, and up
cracked slippery stairway to cherries rvoIn where
they found an elderly woman of the old Knckerbocker
stcck-a worthy industrious widow until unable to
work and then Dependent on widow daughter, who
within few weeks has been confined with disease
of the heart, until herself and mother and pretty
little girl were, at the commencement of this storm,
without food or fuel or any resources but charity,
which they were very unwilling to ask.
Another widow with large family was found in
Hudson street near St. Johns Park, confined to her
bed with infammatory rheumatism, in garret
through which the snow was drifting over bed
scarcely sufficiently covered to protect well person
upon a mild night, much more a sick one, through
such q terrible snow-sorm. Hundreds OF such tam-
lies should be thought Of to-day.
The money paid the snow-shoyelers will much of it
90 to aid needy class Of city laborer but the widow
and her little children cannot go out to dig snow-hey
must be dug out, or perhaps perish where they are
Corfired in their cold rooms.
WORK FOR THE STREET COMMISSIONERS.
A thousand men should be put to work Immediately
TO level down the great banks OF thrown from the
sidewalks, and to clear the CUTTERS before they are
frozen up be ond the power of reasonable labor to
open. There are also miles of sidewalks along vacant
lots houses occupied by tenants who cannot or VIII
not clean of the walks All these should be cleaned
at the public expense. Many back yards VIII be IN
terrible condition when the snow thaws and basements
occupied by the poor who are too poor to dig them
selves out will be flooded and health and llie sacr'
feed. Every one OF these should be visited to-day
and steps taken to clear them of the mass OF snow
Mayor Wood could not do wiser thing than to order
Oh ocer to visit every tenant house in the city before
night
The SNOW cARSVAL.
To-day there will be great snow carnival. First,
the harvest of the w-shovcers II i. difficult to