New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

the storm, the loss being estimated at larg
um.
EFFECTS IN AND AROUND NETWORK.
| MANY DOWNTOWN THOnOUGHFAREs IN BAD con
| DITIoN-woRR OF THE STRENGTHENING GANG
GOOD sLRIGHTNG IN CENTRAL PARK AND OF
THE DRIvEs-TRAINs DELAYED ON LONG
| ISLAND.
The streets of New-York were visible yesterday
! in spots Squads of street-oleaners were at work
early IN the morning. cleaning off the sidewalks
| and the openings into sewers. but a thousand and
one wagons and trucks in the buster parts of the
city Undid the greater part of their work Broad
! way covered. from the Battery to Union-square
| with black-loonBg mixture of dirt and snow five
| or six inches deep. The cross streets downtown
were almost impossible and bOckades were fire.
| quent all day. Heavily loaded carts kept getting
stuck fast in the mud horses continually fall
ing down, causing much profanity upon the part of
their drivers and the drivers of the teams impeded.
| South and West-sts. were in wretehed condition.
particularly near the ferries This was especially
the at Fulton Ferry, where, in crossing the
Streets pedestrians were compelled to wade ankle
deep in the sush.
Toward noon the snow began to melt, Pools Of
mud soon formed in the streets, especially near the
walks, and accideEts to pedes trians became
Il
old men were tempted to throw snowballs. A few
minutes before O'Clock sleepy looking man, about
fifty years of age. attempted to cross Broadway
near the st. Nicholas Hotel he was neatly dressed
IN black. lie had on a handsome Oyercoat and on
his head was silk hat. He reached the
middle of the street safely, but there in
his haste to get out of the way
of an approaching omnibus. he made misstep.
His right foot slipped, his left followed, and he
landed at full length on the pavement while his
silk hat turned several somersets III the mud.
He picked himself up with some difficulty and made
his way to tine sidewalk where he aUathematized
the streets of New-York III general and Captain
Williams in particular.
The streets on which there are surface railways
comparatively good condition, as the rail-
road companies had their sweepers for cleaning the
tracks out early in the morning, ana force Of men
at work removing the snow.
Captain Williams said yesterday to TRIBUNE
reporter in reference to the work of the Street
Cleaning Bureau: " We are very much delayed in
our work because there are not enough places where
we can dump snow. There arc now nineteen or
twenty places set apart for this, but need ten or
twelve more down town. We have asked the Dock
Commissioners for them, but they say that they
not give them to us. They say that the piers
we have now the only ones under their
control. The others leased, and
II we want to use them, will have 10 make |
special ARRANGEMENTS with the men who control |
them" Five hundred men were set to work last |
night at o'clock cleaning Broadway. There were |
also forces of men at work Fourteenth and |
rwenty-thIrd-sts.
Uptown. however. the snow was thoroughly en-
Dyed. Riverside drive St. NlchoIas-ave, the boule-
Yards, and the drives in Central Park were crowded
yesterday afternoon with sleighs and cut
ers of all descriptions. The greater part
# the peasure-seekers chose Central Park
or their drive. aud during the afternoon there
vas an almost unbroken line of Slegbs going up
Lhe drive IA Central Park from Ffty-ninth-st. and
FIfth-aVe. A great many visitors to the city took
THIS opportunity of seeing the Park. and the hack
men and livery stables dd a rushing business
Everything on runners was brought out. One man |
iroye an enormous sleigh, with eight seats. with
gheh ne did rushing business at 70 cents
head for a ride through the PARK. Most
riverside drive and St. Nicholas drive to Central
Park in the afternoon were W. Vanderbilt,
Robert Bonner and Sidney 7. Nichols. At 3 o'clock
handsome sleigh. drawn Dy TWO powerful horses,
ntered the Park On the back seat sat an old man
arefuiiy wrapped IN handsome robes and
With sealskin cap drawn down over
;, s ears. There .eToo goes sammy ,Iildenp
within hearing prIcked up their ears and followed
he Sage OF Gramercy Park with their eyes as long
3 the SclGn was N Slght. lDcre was skating
he lake, the ice not having been swept Oft. There
2as curling match on one OF the smaller lakes. | q
Owever, and tins was covered with excitable
who were brandIshng broOms, and at I
empting TO talk English, To the great amusement
a crowd which had gathered TO watch them. |
Two slelghs ran into each other yesterday after
Oon III Seyenth-ave. at One-hundred- and -elgh-
eenth-st. The occupant OF one, John w. HOgen- |
amp, OF the building firm of John W. Hogencamp L
Co., of No. 130 West FiftyF Flftb-st. was thrown
nc and seriously injured about the head. The b
f.. | II
Ogencamp was cared for by his friends. v
Very few vessels arrived in port by way of Sandy ;
look yesterday, as the storm of Sunday drove all I
ward bound vessels seaward as measure OF safety
nong those which did arrive the sailors report that
re o,o storm storm ,hD9 was :, very tedious and 7
ltienug. The sailors climbed alOft over frozen
nj snow-covered rigging, aud 1t was with mach y
hicuty that the sails could be handled With The p
nd hOwling and whistling through the rigging, g
ld IN many instances carrying the sails clean from
srds and other spars, and with the seas breaking
er with great force and freezing as tuey struck,
e sailors worked alofJ at tying rcefponts III tho tt
rge sails and furhng Others at the risk Of life. Ia
leh WIS the experience of the bark Henrck lbsen, W
hch arrived IRON Rotterdam, and of other vessels 81
hch lost sails al
1 lie weather authorities had predicted bad weather
r several daysj hence many cOastlnR vessels 81
NAMED III port and those ut and close 10 the II
asst sought shelterlng harbor. The only fears OF 81
sses going ashore along the Jersey coast were d,
nceTDIng those from the West Indies or the Med- ~
rranean ports, and IL s thought possible that some W
ecks may have resulted and that information Is 10
layed from want Oi quick communication, az was Da
@ with the steamship City oi Vera Cruz | er
sses from Europe aud from the eastward found dc
possible To work of he coast, and probably got '"
far to the eastward that those close to orG Sat al
day NAV De several days in getting back.
lots of rver and ferry boats on0unce the storm "
most tedious to them Tor the past four years. ba
e short ferries did not meet the same diff ultles sc
annoyance of navigation as the longer ones. II
hOugh they found it necessary 20 he exceedingly du
itIous. At times II was impossible to more IN
m "A bonts length AWAY 50 dense was thc SLOW TO
st the ferries made their trips with consider la
% irregularlty. Ia
reporter of fHE TRIBUNE visited the United tlo
ties Signal Station, ON the Equitable Building at ne
80 last night. by the latest official report tho ri
ometer stood at 90 10 which "a fall of .07 IN Be
ht honrs The thermometer registered 36J-a ba
of - The relative humidity was I'll per cent, lee
the wind was west with "A velocity of : miles th
hour The nveroge t,,nueroture vesterdav 40 | to