New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-25


80, =, gir,. The bridge tho Harlem xver AZ
nes'n VI q che onIv means of communication bet"ooo
sss.,,or Is,and and Mott Haven. Thousands Vi Pc
- uvtpg In the annexed district cross
daily Between the hours OF anu
ar uorning the traffic is the greaeest, su
It is seldom that the are oa seamng up
aver signaed for the drawbdge 10 pe ope PEN a.sed
central pna ,Se nal was given to close the bridge Inc
machinery would not work Inc sngi.es t INT 70 no
the ss crowd on the bridge approaches increased
rapidly and became impatient commodities of
sSs bridge procured number Of small o1 sns
and carried several hundred passengers a "nsd MN
,sp.ly frozen stream One Of them, at-Dotome S
pai ont from Mott Haven Win at the oars and four
One of the men stood IN tne Nov te over
s AIDE Of the boat The little sk was cspsiSe As
the accident was sSSng in the water
one of the passengers girl sank, immediately ana Wa
not observed rose 10 the surface and was about
snEing again when Albert yedetto the SridgsEeepe1T
sepseed her The girl was thoroughly chilled and ALMOST
drowned and it some time before she % was
scionsness When she did, she said that ner name waS
Alice Dolan She was taken her home in East O1e-nun
dredand rtyfth-st The men who were rescued went
In the meantime the bridge remained open and was
moi until O'clock after two boats mao assisou
me oranSry machinery OF the bridge that the draw was
finally closed. IL then ascertaned tnat iaISe pu
he lower portion of the bridge the cold weather
had broken one OF the small wheels upon VIM" 'n0
rests.
ROOF CRUSHED IN.
The roof Of large two-stoTy stable, at One-hunureu
and the Old BlOcmngdale-roau was
borne down so heavily by the snow thai al l'oo p "
portion of the north wall OF the building feh' aso
part of the roof tell and smashed the rear hau Oh an
adjoining one-story frame house William oates, snoe
maker the little house with his WIFE Iney ool
were In his work shop IN the front part OF the Duus
and escaped injury Henning, thirteen years oo
who lived in rear house, was uresnhe up up
taI he WOW Was caught by the rafters aud
crushed the groond She received bruises or 's %
and limbs but II s thought that her injuries are not seI
ons The hnuse occupied by Oates damaged TO the
extent Of 800 II is owned by Paul sehonha OF msst
-eighth-st Tbs stable was ouit
In ls44 for the Blooinlngdale stage line It's Walls
Of brick The roof was OF ,ns Sg %anhsttan
Insurance Company. 1t condemned several years
SfG ss Sns CS sssa Occupied
capenter and the res: has been used as Pc sSout
500. No one was In it when the roof feh.
MAILS GREATLY DELAYED.
combination OF circumstances made yesterday pc
cuariy unpleasant day for the Post Otice employees
Besides the trials Of the carriers In trampng through 1he
slushy streetn there difficulties for the distributing
clerks usual Christmas business game late this year
most Of the cards and packages not being received uni
Yesterday The cards could have been handled with
ont much trouble. had IL not been for the do
laws caused by the storm. Mails were delayed
from three TO eleven hours. The Pittsburg
train due at 1890 D. Sunday did not arrive until
1901 a. IN. yesterday. The philadelphia train, due
at a. nl was five hours late The morning train on the
New England road only an hour late but the spring
field train due at 720 did not arrive until Ito p n
aud the Providence mail still longer delayed
me morning mails Pittsburg seven and eight
hours late and one of the NewYork Central trains was
ak hours behind time To the tronble caused by the de-
layed mails added unusual rush OF BUSINESS caused
by the arrival x steamers the mails trOm which were
received the Post Office within the two hours trom
20 pm. The steamers the General Werder from
bremen the Orinoco from Bermuda, the acapulco from
Panama and South America, the City OF Berlin IRON
Liverpool, the Saratoga nom Havana and the Holoeln
from Brazil Many OF the clerks were eompehed 10 "orK
all night TO clear UP the work of the Office
The mail due from the east at O'Clock p m arrived at
ESQ., The doe at $50 was not IN at midnight south,
ern mails che Pennsylvania Railroad due at l9 ana
6:IO were not In at midnight The mail over the New
York Central due al 440 arrived at Clio; one nne
at 1850 arrived at 915 due at GAS arrived at 1880
road due. at 6:33 and IL arrived together at
7:2O d. d., eight and twelve hours late. The
through mail from San Francisco and the far West
due as 2 e R RsG pS Innder said sh
have been in the Hew-YoTk Post Ohce for
twenty-eight years, and have never seen such an
Is has been passed through to-day On shorpaid Christ
$500, which means $1,000 letters. We have sent
out to the stations uptown 75 sacks at
time. The Christmas presents seem to run this year to
autograph albums than anything else, though silk
Of line many tons Of mail matter in this Office
Christmas presents of sort We shall be able To
deliver 1t all Tomorrow morning 49,, ,
ages on their way. through the mails
lost their wrappers and found their to the in
quiry office OF the Post Office. fine copy OF Goet6es
Faust" given by Sadie TO friend lost Its way ana
ia under the care Of Superintendent Jones' Artistic cards.
some of them OF value had fallen out OF the wrap
pers or had directions which only friends OF the sender
will be sent 10 Washington and advertised that they
may reach their destinations by next Christina