The New York herald., 1879-01-05

during which the trips were made, during Friday.
showing grand total of 800 trains:
Hours No. Of Trains. Hours. No. Of Trains.
GA. ~ to 2 A. M...... II 3P. NJ. to 4P M...... %
sAM tosA. NJ. lG iPM tosP N. % %
9A. NJ. to loA. NJ. % 6p NJ. to ~ NJ. 20
10 a. n. to Il 4. NJ. lls 5p.M. tosp NJ. i
II II \; \ to u M.... IS N. to gPi NJ -
Up NJ. to 2P NJ. ~ l0P. NJ. to II p. NJ. IL
2P NJ. to 3P M...... 10 II T. NJ. to II P. NJ. Is
SLIPPERY
great many mshaps have occurred to persons in
gona up to and coming down from the stations of
the Third avenue IL road since the recent storm
The stairs at all of them are more or less icrnsteu
with ice and frozen snow and even with the greatest
caution is apt to slip and, losing ones balance
tumble to the hard tiagstones below. gentleman
thus fell on Friday and was informed by the person
who assisted him 10 his feet that he had rendered the
service, at the same place. TO five or six others
during the same afternoon. At Forty-second street
the stairs steep aud lofty, and misstcp when
near their top would be very likely to prove
fata.. They are very dangerous condition.
The same j. true OF those al the Battery which are
winding, and thus are doubly perilous BY law the
company is bound to cover the platforms ut its sta
been fully complied with if construed i'll the most
liberal sense and the question might be raised
whether the stairs are not properly part of IN, he
should he sheltered from the freezing rain and snow
AT present it is great risk for any lady to trust her
self. with her feet clad in narrowsoled and high
heeed Shoes such treacherous asccnts these
sure to be in wintry weather.
on RIVERS
On the rivers there considerable ice, but
mostly III places that intercred little with travel.
Harlem River was almost free from ice and from
water as well, for the long, strong west wind had
blown ont so much OF the latter that the steamboats,
were obliged to land their passengers from their
upper decks-a thing which rarely occurs. The Kills
were jammed with ice, and the dock of the huge
steamer Maryland. at Port Morris, was fun that
she lay at the opposite shore loaded with
freight that should have been discharged in the
mornine unable to make her landing. He'll Gate
clear and the channel to the Sound as far AS the
eye could reach unobstructed. The cove i'll As
all linus
the East River filled with cakes of
ice that the ebb and flow of the tide
had both left The river from the Bat, Bat;
the boats ran with few interruptions all the fer
ries that side of Gotham. The water. however.
was unusually low and at of the ferries loaded
teams were not allowed to cross for several hours
lest it should prove impossible to land them. The
wind and tide had carried the ice away from that
channel, and the troubles of the Long Islanders
over at least for the time Off the battery there
a very considerable field of floating ce which lay for
some hours swaying to and fro, and interfering
what with tile traffic on the Staten Island ferries On
Staten Island there some trouble, but mostly
account of low water The ice field at the Battery
was in the afternoon carried down the bay.
The western side of the city not fortunate.
On the ferries to New Jersey there was little
delay though at the Liberty and Cortlandt street fer
ries the boats almost regularly. In two or
three instances 1t said that an hour was con-
sumed in trip ordinarily made in fifteen minutes,
but this not the rule. The effects of running
through the ice on the previous day plainly
visible the most of the ferryboats which had the
copper their hulls damaged more or less and their
wheel buckets broken, some of them badly At the
Chambers street ferry boats were kept running all
through Friday night though some OF the trips were
very long OF Fifty ninth street sheet of ice extend
ing almost across the river lay for several hours,
but was at length broken by the wind and tide
INCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
Besides the two deaths reported in the morning at
the Coroners Office great number of frozen fingers,
and reported, though not entered ex-
cepting in some of the hospital records few falls
on the slippery pavements happily unattended
with serious results, and the damage to life and limb
was on the whole less than New York might reasona
bly, have expected. The accidents to the shipping
while not as serious they might have been, were
very numerous As the Wall street ferryboa Clinton
left Brooklyn at eight A. NJ she was forced by the
ice against y schooner anchored the slip. The
schooners prov broke the shed covering the gentle
men cabin the Clinton. making a hole about four
feet square. No on board was hurt, and the
Clinton made the trip without further accident.
WALKING ON THE ICE.
number Of foolhardy persons, among them
policeman in uniform, ventured some distance from
shore on the treacnerous surface presented by the
jammed up blocks of ice, but so far rs known none
met with the fate they might have expected. The
policeman was seen fully furlong from the foot of
Barclay street but the officers on shore did not know
why he had gone out. man, prudently carrying a
long balance pole, to go out from Cortlandt
street in the morning and walk to lighter near the
Jersey shore. Two men walked out apparently for
amusement from Chambers etreet nearly to the open
water in the middle of the river but returned SAFELY
Three boys. who ATTEMPTED similar feat near by.
were carried down the river considerable distance
on large cake of ice and were picked up by tug.
The rise in temperature, which hailed with
great delight and which will probably end the cold
snap steady during the day. the rise being from
degrees above zero three A. NJ to % above
at three p. NJ Later in the afternoon it grew colder
again, but such severity OF cold followed as on the
previous night.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
There is vacant and exposed lot of ground on First
avenue between Eighty eighth and Eighty ninth
streets which covered in by high bank of snow
during the recent storm Yesterday Officer Hughes,
of the Twenty third precinct, while patrong his
post had his curiosity aroused by espying what ap.
f. 1a tha laav nj "A man ha1
above the III the centre of the plot of ground
referred to. Upon investigating it was discovered
that man had been caught IN the storm ana frozen
to death. The body was removed to the station
house and subsequently identified as that of Thomas
Mccormack, recent inmate of the Poorhouse on
Margaret Caughlin was found dead in a shanty yes
tertay ut No 3l2 East Forty street from
posure and cold.
Mrs Kenny, residing at No. $50 Hicks street.
Brooklyn found her four months old baby dead by
her side at four O'Clock yesterday morning. lt had
kicked its covering of and frozen to death.
TROUBLE AMONG THE sHIPPING--A STRANGE
SIGHT on THE NORTH RIvER-ocEAN STEAM
SHIPS FROZEN IN THEIR DOCKS -TUGDoATs
MAKING FORTUNES
large number of ocean steamships were delayed
by the ice which so choked up the basins and docks
that many unable to get their cargo board.
the ice preventing the lighters from approaching the
ships sides. Many of the steamers on the
North River were actually frozen in, which is
thing that rarely occurs TO ocean steamships. The
loss in a ships delay is enormous that of Euro
pean vessel being about $1,000 day and OF coast
wise steamer about $500 Added TO this is the incon-
venience to passengers and the public in general.
The following is an account of the steamers pre-
vented from sailing yesterday by the icc
The steamer Anchoria. of the Anchor line. for
Glasgow. was prevented from sailing by the delay in
her cargo. The lighters loaded with grain could not
reach her ana the vessel herself firmly frozen
in the dock at pier AZ. number of tags tried to
free hef from the ice, but IL is SO dense at
this point oi he river that sho is not likely to sail
before Monday. The Alsatia, of the same line, s
frozen fast at her dock and it impossible for the
freight barges to get near enough to unload. She
has been laid until Monday.
The steamer Ashland, which was to have sailed yes
terday for Florida, has not arrived from Philadelphia.
and 1t IL supposed that she has been frozen In the
trip. Her cargo is OIL the dock ready for shipment.
The steamer Greece, of the National line is lying,