New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-26
THE CITY BURIED IN SNOW
AFALL OF NEARLY SIX INCHES.
THE EFFECT on TRAVEL AND ENJoYMENT-TRAlNs
AND MAILS DELAYED.

The city seemed half buried in snow yester-
day morning when IL awoke and prepared to celebrate
Christmas Day. The uptown streets and parks were eA-
tremely pretty and interesting when viewed rom inc
windows Of comfortable houses Inc Siee'
cars went jlngling up and down through
chasms OF snow and great numbers OF haruy
pedestrians could be moving along against DacK-
ground Of long white piles at the curbstones Inc seeo
lost all It's beauty however and was anything put iter
estng TO the pedestrians themselves slush relghed SUI
preine on all the crossings and most of the Sidewalks
The street cars were dragged painfully along by their
four steamng horses through the three or four nehes
OF churned snow which covered the tracks,
Occasionally a great sweeper went cacHng oVer
the rails but little good accomplished In this way
as there no longer any space left into when tne
mushy could be swept The condition OF the streets
grew steadily 1t became warmer. The number
Of pedestrians small for Christmas Day. and there
were few travellers the elevated roads or on the sur
lines nearly everybody preferred to do his cee
brating within doors.
The sky was cloudy all the morning.
but did not have a threatening aspect Shortly
after o'clock in the afternoon, however, few flakes OF
snow came down In hesitang way, as II ashamed to
add insult injury when the suffering city was already
such straits But presently the snow began gathering
fresh courage and by $3.50 o'clock it came whirng down
in dense clouds Of huge white fakes The wind from the
northeast rapidly and blew at average OF thirteen
miles an hour, driving the binding clouds OF snow
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farers with constantly increasing fury.
As the night settled down rapidly the sormbeaten
city the prospect began to look serious The depth OF the
falling snow increased with astonishing rapidity and
people began wonder when the thing would stop, and
| II the city would not be completely buried before
| morning. The snow too deep for the
| swecpers TO be Of any use on the street
car lines, and the snow ploughs were sent around
with little avail as the fell back again behind them
upon the tracks from the high banks that encroach
ing and more upon the rails. The fact that there
was little travel IN the streets by trucks and wagons
saved tho street railways from serious trouble. The
horses needed extra urging was, and the often
travelled for blocks of the rails II there had been the
usual truck travel the could not have been kept
| from the tracks, there would have been serious
blocks ut nnumerable corners, and the
car travel would have been well nigh
suspended The fresh heavy fall Of snow did not inter
fere with trains the elevated road There were no de-
lays and the frequent passage of trains all along the lines
kept the tracks clear The travel throughout the day
light and especially the late afternoon and the eve
| ming.
About 7:3O o'clock the storm began abate and by
o'clock the had nearly ceased falling Nearly six
! inches had been added TO the depth OF the white
drifts and piles in the streets. The
moist flakes chung to the trees IN
the parks aud made pretty sight under the bright eec
ric llss The numbcrlcss teeSapn teepn r, anJ
looked like huge skens Of white yarn stretched between
tho high poles.
FAIRY-LAND IN CENTRAL PARK.
In the upper part the city the worked wonders
While was falling passengers the elevated trains
looked out a dmlyseen landscape where all the IA
mnlar objects were transformed into something rare
and strIngc." At the high turn at One-hundrcdand
tcnth-st seemed 10 be riding In the midst OF cloud
Around nothing could D" Int the falling ldkes and
the earth FAR below could be only family made out mn
was when the snow was falling ,hickes but toward lgn
landscape to be- seen The snow, beng wet cluug,
! everything Central Park was transformed into FAIRY
land. livery tree had S lcaicss branches ana sapies
trunk covered with the pure white aud every bsh wore
1.-THE bloom OF snow instead OF nower II cung to IN,
Obc,k changing IL to column Of white IL piled ltsc
M I'm fountains and statues. Everywhere, above
%as snow The shnnties which are collected her,
| and there In little villages on the rocks IN th'
looked ike mounds OF earth covered with snow Across
the North River the lower Palisades doomed up like grea
upon The snow with dayor; the day before the
had cleared the ice on little ponds In many OF inc Inoceu
pied lots and had looked forward 20 days good skating
The stopped this and they tried 70 console them
selves by thinking OF the additional facilities Shch III
extra snowfall would afford for sliding down hi'
OFFICIAL RECORDS AND REPORTS.
uulnu,'s thermometer made the following record 70
itself: a. NJ. 325 IL m. $780, $50 y. M, 32' p N
81: . p m, 80. The maximum temperature %
the previous day had been 81 and the ayerag
OF that days temperature was consderabI
below that OF yesterday. At the sigma
Service Station, the Equitable Buildding, the MAJ
imum temperature recorded yesterday was 3l' fr0I
hal rSey csy from % if' w al ' eSad 70 NdA
York. There was light snow at few points IN the eA
and fair from as many places as cloudy In DakOt
aud Minnesota the temperature ranged from 81 above
5oo; at Albany, 1926 at Chicago. 32oi a
Cincinnati 35 at Nashville 49, and at NewOIlean'
ga Late In the evening the weather was clear III Bunl
and Ptteburg and fair and mild In Detroit storm signal
were ordered up at Milwaukee and at Grand Haven an
Indington Mich A storm centre was reported IN ia
kotn, with sOuthcrly winds shifting To Westerly wmd
Captnin Raire Of the Tenth Precinct said last nigh
that serious danger might arise from the covering
due mainly to the railroad companies who, in clearn
their tracks, have the thrown upon the hrcpluSs
sLEIGHING UP THE ROAD.
A stream OF slcghs poured up Seycnthaye. yesterda
morning until it met the nsurmountable obstacles
'Gabo" Cases and Barry's. Then 1t was turned bac
and poured its reucnt tide down tho avenue again an
through the Park Colonel Frederick D. Grant came VI
driving three OF the Arabian horses presented 10 III
father the General by the sultan They were harnesse
= three abreast and attached to haho
& some Russian sleigh Frank Work drove ba
mare. CAPTAIN Jacob Vanderbilt drove Boston and
: W. Britton drove his sorrel horse star David bonnie
was behind colt by Belmont shepherd Knapp was O o
with double team driving sam llill ana the cnesihl
mare Haze. Colonel Kip drove Lady GrlswQI I'd
light cutter william Kip drove the p w mare rph
, drove Bud. Isldoro Cohnfcld, the owner r,o,S
was vas OGS IN orses hSy Bonner drove
| bay mare. David scott behind the brown mar
Kate, and Frederick Vanderbilt drove his new mar
| Nickel William H. Wikens drove double team, con
| ssting OF q black horse and II brown horse. -, ~,
| Formerly Mr.. Vanderbilt aud his friends maze IhSo
| road house lust across MaC0mbs Dam Bridge, thei
| Headquarters when out driving, and Mr. Work ana ID
| friends stopped at Barry's. Now every one stops
BarTys and then drives the bridge 10 case
/ As soon ~ the SNOW began falling yesterday the slegl
p ing ceased II was the general opinion that the slo
was lust what was wanted to increase the excellence
? tho sleiehng "Ahw remarked one man, = t i,
s. | lust what we wanted. IL will make the slelgnh
rather heavy at first, OF course but TINS ~ ~ WI
- snow, and II It win only freeze little ~
IS | will be lust right" There number OF falhll
3 | seighs cleaning with black and gorgeous W.T.
II | red piumes The drivers and footmen nuiSu ii, !
- the eyes I'm fur, the bright costumes OF th
ladies' and the robes Of costly fur that covered thei III
housekeeping horses with their cleaning hahessSs, ~
. went 10 make nm an attractive picture they dhshe
" along over the snOw.cOycred drive OF Central Park
n STREET CLEANING WORK IMPEpEp'
Tho snoyy storm Yesterday was well calculated to di