The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-01-30
The WEATHER.
Three or -Four Changes in One Day--Th
streets, line Fc e1les and Other Places.

Three Four Changes in One Day-The
streets, line Ferries and Other Places.
When the gray OF the early morning Of YESTERDAY
had been disspated 4 pleasant sun fell over the
streets OF the city, and for time pedestrians be-
leved that the day would be fine. But as the hours
waned and the snow came down IN large sticky,
trembling particles and liicd up the gaps made by
the feet OF horses The streets and by the feet OF
men and women on the sidewalks, anxious weather
gazers began to believe that the storm was to con-
tnue all day and that silsh and Stop would be kept
under foot as scourge for the next two weeks.
This sort OF weather, which citizens have en-,
dured Tor the past three or four days, is essen.
italy decetful. The arrowy sleet and binding
snow make the pedestrian impervious to all under-
meath his feet, and he punges blindly ana madly
into
ouAGMIRES OF sLUsH AND SNOW
with recklessness born OF utter despair Those
terrible circular iron covers, that are only hidden
In the walks by thin coating OF snow, make iG
dangerous for life and limb to traverse any distance
in this weather. In main thoroughfares the snow
is massed In morasses ut every street corner.
and In some places IL Is deep enough to
reach the knees OF wayfarers and In what
Dan Bryant calls the "out squrts" of the city
the streets and roads are about difficult to pene-
trate as the Rocky Noun tans when Fremont made
his march through the sierras: for last night the
it, while the streets were almost impossible fOt
horse or man, calling to mind the stanzas OF the
poet
All night their rocky bed
They saw the stars march slow;
The wild Sierra overhead,
The deserts death below.
The Indian, from his lodge Of bark,
The gray bear from his den,
Beyond their camp fires wall Of dark
Glared on two mountain men.
And how was IL with tie poor car drivers, most
abused OF men They passed the hours OF the
night Juggling, cursng and swearing ana pulling at
their hOrses' mouths in mute despair until early
dawn, with frozen, wet feet, eating their meals on
the cars out OF cold dinner kettles, without
even drop OF wbiskey, and having to
turn round corners with . sudden strain or
brakes with mute feroclty, through long hours Of
the nightt One might carry the analogy and hEeR
these men who receive but two dollars and twenty
five cents Tor fifteen hours work TO the mountain
plOneerS:-
The wind. are Wild, tn. :, way i T. drsar,
Lo Icy ridge and rocky spear
Blaze out In morning. Hghtl
Around and in the ferry houses, along the watcc
side people stood waiting in sloppy pools for the
arrival OF the boats, when made their way against
obstacles OF ice ac.o ss the river while the way.
farerS uttered
MALEDICTIoNs AGAINST TIE WEATHER.
On old canal boats IN the docks at CGentieS
slip hard-headed looking boatmen popped In
and out with cooking untensils, slipping in
newspaper offices small boys and small girls in
tatteis absorbed the heat from the steam Boilers.
vents with shivering eaerness painful to behold,
Some Of the city parks are allOst impossible, put
efforts are being made 10 clear the larger ones OF The
impedlments TO travel.
The following record viii show the changes in the
temperature Tor the past tSenty-four hours in com.
par1son with the corresponding day OF last year as
Indicated by the thermometer at HudnuLs Pnar-
macy, HERALD Building, corner OF Ann street.