The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-06
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

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New YORK, December 30, 1872
Editors OF the Register:
Christmas bias come and gone. and
how like q dream seems his visit. To
some . sweet loving dream, but to
others, q terrible, horrible nightmare.
Was there ever q Christmas week
before, 20 filed with accidental Trains
are wrecked, AID scores Of people
killed, mapgled or burned. Steamers
and vessels are shipwrecked, and many
lives lost. In one place roof falls in,
crushing those beneath; in another
locality q floor gives way, and crowd
ofpeople are killed or injured. Churches
and circuses hurn up and even kitchen
ranges explode, scattering cooking
utensils and killing the domestics. three
cases of this kind being recorded the
psst week. Is the week not remarka'
BILE also, for its intense eold and great
snow storms2 New York must have
a sensation, and the snow came just in
time to create an intense sensation
among those who own fast horses
Such sleighing has not been known N
years. II is true the show is too fine
and dry to afford g,od running, aud
we're the fashionsbles compelled to 60
sleigh riding in order to earn their
daily bread there would be complaint.
heard on every side, both long and
loud. But as they are riding for
pleasure" no one complains. had
the pleasure of riding behind
spanking team, q believe that
is the word). last Friday, and
although nv eyes wstered and my ears
grew cold and my nose almost froze ]
smiled and smirked with the best OF
them, and declared it was glorious; but
I thought Of an old lady friend who
used to cay she would prefer to sit in
rocking chair, in July, with her 'eet in
a rub OF cold water and the dinner bell
in her hand RI ther than to take asleigh
ride.
1t seemed as il every sleigh in the
city was out on Saturday. 1t ia eati-
mated that not le.s than six thousand
entered Central Park. As thev pass
through the park the speed is limited
to seven miles an hour, but when thew
pass out into Harlan lane the spirit
OF the race can no longer be restrained
and every one drives as fast as his
horse will 90. Several sleighs were
upset, but as the SNOW was so deep no
one was injured. Some Of the sleishs
are really beautiful, costing from twenty
five hundred to two hundred and fifty,
three hundred and even four hundred
dollars.
ON THE ICE
The ice WAS cleared at all the prin-
cipal skating resorts, both here and in
Brooklyn, and the lovers OF skating en-
loved themselves to their hearte' con-
tent. The ice is about ten inches Thick
an / in good condition.
CLEANING THE STREETS
Obi what streets we have had !!
Busines has been almost suspended,
cars have been stopped and even pedea-
TRANS have had to give in. No one has
tried to get about unless compelled by
necessity. All the carts in the city
have been engaged in carrying off the
snow that has been piled up by the
eide OF the curbstones. Every person
is compelled to shovel off his sidewalk,
and the snow in msnv places WAS five
or SIX feet deep, rendering it impossl-
BILE for any one to get to the sidewalk
unless q pathway was shoveled for him.
In the business part of the city this
surplus snow has been removed and
the streets are now level from curb to
curb.
PoSToRPICE BLOCKADE.
The accumulation OF mails, owing to
the snow storm, created such block
ade that on Saturday it required force
Of one hundred men to distribute the
letters and newspapers; they were kept
busy all night, and yesterday a new
force had to be put on to relieve the
weary night workers. By ten o'clock
last evening the coast was nearly clear.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL.
The Professor allows neither storm
nor illness to interfere with his lectures,
which increase in interest as the course
proceeds.
THE BROOKLYN TRAGEDY.
Last week the bnrning OF q church In
BROOKLYN Was recorded in my letter.
This week q sadder theme agitates the
minds Of the people. One more unfor-
tunate, by the name OF Hattie Adams,
was drowned in closed coach on last
Tuesday morning. She had been in the
company, it is said, OF several prom'-
nent public men o. Brooklyn; sbe in
sisted upon seeing one of them part o
the way home; took him to Brooklyn,
eat him down at :he City Hall, and on
her return to New York the horses took
fright, and the woman WAS carried over
the dock into the river Her body yet
lies at the Morgue Her father has tele'
eraphed that he will come Tor the re-
mains. He ia from Cleveland. Ohio.
What a Lesson the fate Of this woman
teaches! The only change would
have had in the programme, had been
the manager Of the tragedy. is this: !
would have had the politicians in the
coach also and plunged them all over
the dock together.
NEW YEARS. "
Let US turn to q brighter theme.
Ere this appears in print our peculiarly
JOYFUL day will have passed. Since the
custom has been generally abolished O.
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