The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-01-27
TEE STORM.
a "ReRl Old Fashioned" Fall
OF Snow.
ecsnes On tho Streets and on the River-Glaciers
In the Bay-Detention Of the Mails-Acci-
dents and Incidents on Land and Water
Tho Storm Throughout the Country.

vino In PERPENDICULAR Ane ana lien, as IL ured VI
the monoaly OF pelng one straight In the face, It
turned ana mixed and danced and played fantastic
tricks. but st came thick and fast dashing
Up the nostrils and into the ears and
down ones throat II one CHANGED TO have ones
mouth open until one thought the elements had
ceased TO war among themselves and come down
intent on worrying poor human nature.
Horses slipped ana fell along the streets In every
direction. Pedestrians frequently followed their ex
ample with less patience, aud then dyed behind the
mystery of fro ted glass doors at an adjacent cor
ner to find catapiasm for their wounded PRIDE
ALONG TIE DOCKS
and quays tTaffic was almost at standstu, except
an the rum shops, which were all doing thriving
business, each with its own peculiar class. Men
Duddled around the blazing stoves In these pestfe
rous holes: they hoped on leg, then on the
other: unbuttoned their coats and squeezed their
hands; Their faces frightened, for they now had
reached the in the desert. There was the man
OF commerce who came in With dash ana banging
of the doors; shock the snow from his heavy, CON-
fertable overcoat. and, after toasting his hands
little before the fire, took straight whiskey quck
to put his
BLOOD IN CIRCULATION,
and departed. There was the old, habitual 'bum,o
with pasied hand ana red-edged, oozlng eye; a
piping voice that told OF tonss long. since burned
and eaten away by liquid ire. His lace unshorn,
and The rough stubbies of a six or seven days.
growth OF tinted gray and black ana rel, thick.
stunned HAIR creeping over the circumference OF his
bloated face, marked the constitutional drunkard.
There was too, the classical man, who quoted
Virgil and Horace mot Greeley, but he OF Rome);
was familiar with Homer and spouted Shakespeare
after the manner OF Macready: who had a head
quarters on the other side of town, where he ar
rived always first i'll the morning. took down the
shutters for Johnny, swept and sawdusted the
door and took nip in payment He had, like
wise, little trick he played in strange localities
After using up the classics and eXhaustng the
supply of funny stories around the stove for MI,
he took o orlnk--of water, and fen into it.
While ne struggles and toams at The mouth the
rough crowd hold nia tenderiy. 'see il he has
any
SALT IN HIS POCKET,
JacS.n NO he antn Beat" cries the barman;
'.jerk him out the Sidewalk He Is erSed forth.
WITH and, rising from his doNny bed OF beautiful
srown mprecations come from away deep down in
his calous blackened heart.
The scene throughout the continuance OF
WEST AMP SOUTH STREETS
was most desolate. These usually busy and over.
crowded thoroughfares We're deserted, except In
rare instances, and these only helped TO make the
absence OF the Others more conspicuous Stores and
warehouses were closed and the snow chung to the
Not a vestige of human life was visible In all the
ships that crowd the docks on both sides OF the
Battery, except now end then some Southern
steamer diseharging cotton. A great forest OF
nlasts spreading mile on mile away lar the eye
could reach, with their
Rare CoRDAGE AND FoIsAgEE DECKS,
the snow driving pitilessy against the mass,
ing a harsh, discoydant noise, that made the blood
run cold with the utter desoaton Of the view,
and Went on, moaning gathering strength upon It's
way dashing furlously against the windows OF the
neighborpg houses, and tie inhabitants within,
sitting costly before the fire. thank Heaven they have
SO good shelter in this fearful storm. St. II goes
on, this
SERciLEss sSow-LApEN BLAST
OF bitter winter wind and as If passes the poor
empty howell and bare starved mausoleums nick
named tenement houses, where fire Is rarely seen,
but hungry slomacls, punched and famished faces
are IN plenty, sickness Is there lying shiverng on
the soddened straw, and the poor courageous heart
that had hoped TO see the sunshine OF the spring
time and see the trees burst into bloom and great
nature put on her holiday attire, hears Its death
kneI IN that melancholy moaning wind that comes
eweeping around the building and takes no need Of
the misery within.
THICK FOG
had settled upon the Jersey Shore completely Yelling
It, that 1t looked through the mist like some for.
elgn land in the dim distance across the water. In
The bay the Ice was serious obstruction to the
binary navigation; large masses or frozen snow
were noating down with the tide, increasing they
Went During many years
Such STORM HAS NOT BEEN KNOWN
In this vicinity. The Staten Island ferryboas had
The captain OF one OF those boats to a HERALD re.
porter who called there In the afternoon-there is
snore ferry. is said to lce-bound at Elm PARK, on
ne KIN Won Kull. Another boat OF this line, the
up ~ @ an ae
RESCUED MAN
who had nearly persisted In the effort to cross the
stream In an open boat having been struggling in
the ice, unable TO move In either direction since six
O'Clock In the morning Shortly after this she picked
bound rowb0at. When OF the lighthouse pilot boat
No. y was discovered completely embedded In the
being able to find q passage seward The Castle.
ton took her In tow and brought her to the city.
at All safe was ..snanks' mare and That was by no
means sure Gentlemen whose affairs take them
down town preferred walking to
TRUSTING THEMSELVES IN THE HORSE CARS.
Though each line had four horses to every car and
an extra man at the brake still their progress
anything but satisfactory Snow piOughs and brushes
were Kept constantly clearing the tracks OF every
line IN the city but they became nlled up again al
rernoon the few ladies' who were obliged to venture
out preferred the sidewalks to the snail pace and
face ami binding your eyes, sir SAID one lad 'is
nothing IN comparison to sitting In car, with the
air that IS allowed eh e c ses up a na ses
10 ride but two or three blocks when the horses are
ftstcu lOr au HouF nave no objection TO the horses
having a rest-I wish they could be done without Cd
sucn q day as thss eltogether-but do object TO
horse cars ana so l walk when cau.n gentle.
man on leaving the HERALD building in the after
noon noticed two ladies standing on the sidewalk
waiting for q car 10 go up town; his business
detained nm an hour, but when he came back they
were Just about 10 start and walk, one or them re.
marking, 81 tod you
WE SHOULD HAVE TO WALK
Rnd may just as well have started an hour ago. A
terrible storm The worst in many years Fright
FIJI Wont be through till daylight Arc q few
among the many transformations one constantly
heard all day through.
THE FERRyBoATS MADE no rRETEgsIoN
whatever TO keeping time, and II they did they
could not sustain II from the heavy blocks OF Ice
rushing rapidly down the river. some OF the boats,
those on the North river for instance, that ordinar
tlly make the trip In ten minutes, took more than
nall an hour, and, IN some cases. AN hour to accom-.
piish the crossing OF the river. The Brooklyn boafs
from their build. had eSa fear from the ice ihan