The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-07
The Snow Storm ON sunday-secmes In the
City.

The Snow Storm Sunday-Seenes In the
City.
On Sunday morning the sky overcast and, meteoro
logically speaking everything portended a storm. At
noon the began To fall in light flakes By the time
the fashionable portion Of church goers returning
from their places Of worship the ground was
veicd with snow carpet The ground not Ia a con-
dton to warrant the superstition that the snow would
have any permanency terra rma, owing to the late
mild weather term At three O'Clock in the afternoon
the city presented very pleasing appearancethc trees
the public squares the tops Of the houses, and The
nccs and stills Of their windows all over the city, were
tipped with snow-tc trees in the public squares
exceedingly beautiful appearance, and the sight truly
grand. New Workers improved the opportunity for sleigh
ride by bringing their ast" teams and slow teams,
IN fact any kind OF teams long they could Jog along
before pair of The livery stable Offices
were overrun by applicants for seghs indeed, not
mcety Of the demands could be suppicd tho prices
offered and prices demanded were almost fabulous
Towards night Broadway presented very lively scene;
the merry slegh bells jnglng the horses of the
horses were seen beorc the many beautiful seigbs that
were MED with joyous and smiling faces Of both sexes,
peepng out rom among costly sleigh robes The Bloom
inGdnlc ard Third avcnno roads hcd with scghng
parties, the horses driven nloBg furious rates Tho
shalr way houses in those drives well pa,ronzcd
At night whenthe sleigh riders returning home they
made the air reverberate with the merry songs and huz
zss and when Of the happy ehus would essay to
speak their voices betrayed them, and established the
fact concusvey that they had been mbibng something
stronger than yen qr colpe' ING city RAILROAD cars
were somewhat incommodcd by the snow on Tie rails;
hui II had fell 10 the depth of two or three
inches, four horses wore placed before each car
BY this means, combined with tho aid OF
/ snow poughs, the trips wcrp kept I'M with
ioorable regularity Although the snow storm made the
vista the rivers rather hazy and Thick yet tho vgant
eyes Of the orryboat pilots were enabled 70 sufficient
y TO guide the craft TO and fro in safety re travel
the ferries, however, very light In many instances
the boys amused themselves by rolling up huge masses Of
snow and at various points the entire carriage ways
completely barricaded. The older boys and not few
men, csorted the dangerous practice Of throwing snow
balls, although The police we're busy IN arresng offend
Tho churches throughout the city very thiny
attended, owing, no doubt, TO the inclcmoncy Of tho
weather At eight O'Clock in tho evening the mercury In
the thermometer at The freezing point and the snow,
which had fallen to the depth Of four inches resolved IL
self into sushy subetancc that made very unpleasant
10 pedestrians. The temperature Of tho atmosphere from
tho time tho storm commenced grew mdor by slow DC.
groes and by nine O'Clock NJ night the storm well
nigh spent should the weather continue 10 moderate
rain storm may be expected