The New York herald., 1872-12-31
TEE SNOW AND SLUSH.
The Miseries and Delights Of the
Snowy Season.
Discomfort and Disaster on the Down
town Streets -Jollity and Jubilee
Along the Avenues.


rtreets-a mantle that has become rather dirty
nom long wear. II sticks deep and gritty in the
car tracks anu continues TO impose extra teams
on the cars. It strikes IN with clammy chlliness
unprotected legs and clings with glue-fke ten
aciiy to women's CATERS, making the feet wet and
rosd and breeding by contrast colds In the head
Pedeetrianism on the sidewalks is not disagree
able, provided no streets are TO be crossed; but
sn nearly every instance the heavy snowfall has
acHed the efforts Of the crossing sweepers, and
even Broadway, the great street OF the city,
ahoagb- not entirely closed, is
A SNOW TBoRouGHPARR.
laundering wheeled vehicles continued to plough
and plunge through the salty sush, cutting up the
slippery surface, 30 that runners are half the time
scraping gravel, and thus the chief business
sthoroughfares unified either for sleighing or
wheeling. The Jehus OF the Broadway stages with
frozen faces and feet, arc kept warm only by the
ssery mpetuosity with which they ning slang and
profanity at other equally cumbersome vehicles, or
by the heated abuse they shower upon the heads OF
the policemen. There IL q continual jam In Broad
way, the cutters, stages, express wagons, coupes
and dozens OF other vehicular varieties being
: crowded together by che narrowed area OF the
street until they tie themselves into knots that no
policeman, unlearned in mathematics can unravel.
sometimes the
JEBu BAs HIS JOKE
unusually clear yesterday about Eighth street
when stage driver hailed o policeman, with
whom he had had q contention every day since the
snowfall.
.Isay, cop, there's block up there; what am
20 doYn
"a block p" says the ''cop," raising nimselfto his
iuii height 'I don't see no block. Where f'
"Why, Stewards blockn
Nov you drive on, young fellow, or ysun be
took inn
This ls the only way the stage drivers can get
their fun out OF the weather. We may sympathize
and cOndole with the horsecar driver on his
pitiable condition. but never word Is heard re-
gardng the stage driver, who being compelled to
sat, high up on his perch where the wind con have
look % out p for PASSENGERS SEM rs and and make axe change, '
is infinitely more to be c0mmiserated. The car
ana a. WITH n@
driving four horses but the stage driver has moth
ing do but trust to merciiul Providence to
his toes and nose TOm the frost.
In the cutters oa every avenue and street In the
city stand
averaging i've feet in height with width at the
base OF about four feet. A patient calculation
might inform as how much water all this would
make, and what sort OF q deinge we are keeping
bottled until a sudden thaw empties it upon
peared, and except for the mere pail
fus which the Police Commissioners have had
cleared away, the whole snowfall Of Thursday
and Friday remains piled up in our streets, tenn
pOrary dam to . yet uniformed Niagara which is
rain or ssep shine But rsi' in sadton 70
these great snow banks every AOusetop is car
peted three and four inches deep with snow, and
over many cornces miniatu glaciers hang, over
arching the sidewalk and threatening to come
down, like the Cottonwood mountain avalanche,
OF their own weight, ~ any pment Some Of
these have presented such dangerous appearance
that the police have had them Inlled down, and
the heavy "thud" with which tAc neecy mass
struck the sidewalk indicated PLAINLY what dam
age this soft, carpety snow might perform upon
etrnCted to have housekeepers lco& to the
SNOW Oh THEIR HOUSEHOLDS
Al once. The heavy weight Is stra lning upon even
unusually strong rafters, and with the thaw that
may come the leakage. which might be OF service
the already numerous discomforts OF the season.
The railroad snow ponghs continue to rattle
20 with Tour horses ane an MISUNDERSTANDING load of
rsssengers Tne packing g IN 91 passengers mas
BURSTING OUT AT rnx,R SIDES
and IL would seem uo be only mereiful to the car
ttsef to unbottom At. or loosen its bands in some
way, as a glutton DOES after dinner. When elastic
1ars come into use, there will be some excuse for
through the passengers ON the rear platforms,
yesterday, by the ycon0nctors with the force
one had to stir i'a the pa about ike cannon
ball among the tenpiHs Move forward there
Let persisted wo 0ar tae
damsels into the clothe. pEess. II never see such
people. Git forward the us1lp Close to the stovei'
and the patient freeborn NAanericans whose fathers
'nt' about q three-cebe STAMP Mughed ana
squeezed themselves into tithaner dimensions and
moved forward.
THE sLErGHN 3 ,cARNLyAL
continued, as IL has been shnce Tbureday, some
what improved by the bca ang down VI the snow
and the consequently smoo thersurtace IL is stlll
unsatisfactory seighing, however. Inc gritty
snow clogs the runners, tno neavy ioads cut
through II to the paveme p on Flftn avenue,
while 1t offers a very l. tesome surface for
means at its best. In the Par. it Is even worse,
the snow being too deep ana W uneVenly 9rnted
dor any good time. With all these drawbacks
however, Old sporting men sa ylnesieignlng mas
not been SO general Tor at least eix years. Every
oBe.who can command box .H plSHnehhandles; h,al
and An animal TO draw it, is oat tsltn robes and
iurs persuading himself that ITS tbnuy iun."
FIFTH AVENUE,
At three O'Clock yesterday aftern YOU. was n scene
Tor 81 ARTIST blessed with an eye 70 tcongonerated
Aolors and brilliant iAacies II pi fsented as lar
ward G Or richly colored robes, f'n, headdresses,
giitterng bells mufred bodies, 10 Wgning faces,
% cracking WHIPS 1 and asry sssea Seoice was allowed
the avenue The Fifth avenue stages "ere turned
aside and had to pursue neir route ais:
across the great tnoroughfaIe through the rushing
stream Of vehicles. Amcng the pleasure tafers
Portland cutter, having lns vile beside him MRS
Union Adams, With her lanrt,y ns magndcent M
! kOriliard, who drove slasping ptvr Of bay: In
Futland cutter; j. ,. Lawrenc e, similarly outtlted
Fr ID Could In cutter with apoRg evening IoAn,
Mms. vf over a spanIiSg mouse -coimeds.eam; gily
BOr9t \ tue racer, WIG urOSc a S0J iSse u1y ~ =
Cntter Jerome Stivera with MIS- bay nf Dexter
cntter: General Reno .behindIA peweKu roam
Others NSwn on the read in SocloA cucics anu
among bn Nness men, few tahNems ana splke
teams we, out, and the new IQfsia3 bNls lent
novelty 10 Ne,equipments
IN THE RARK -
shA ron ,,,oa. vue takers dashed ink1iseSmnately
ahcnt ., tho sQaslTays or stopped Cor = moment
10 watch the ey yptions Of the skaterson me AXE
IInominyyi o,e {iarlem roads presenting rare
,,sgvsst 10 the "n i nnkeepers along those famed
resorts The sely to lsst wGek w %nIoye 3, mSIe
yT, t,, anu - & Wm @ ear yaally fne seiglring In the
meantime for lear O, NGortingencies it Is WEB icr
~; ~ " " ENJOY ~ now - viii be packed into that
lev hardness sU Consistent vsh smooth giding and
true sleghing sport.