Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-01
THE STORM IN BOSTON.
A Heavy Fall OF SnOw-Au Uncomforta.
Bile Time.
Boston Journal FRIDAY.

ADosiou JuuIHdi EFluaN.
Twenty hours before yesterdays
storm reached Boston '.Old Prob" had truth
fully foretold its approach. He could not
tell how heavy il would be, however, for the
the storm did not fully develop until twelve
O'Clock Wednesday night. All day Thurs
day the snow fell, ceasing now and then so
as TO encourage the deluded mortal out on
the street without his umbrella, only TO come
down again in heavier quantities few min
utes later. Toward the latter part of the
day the slush OF the street crossings was over
rubbers and shoes: the ped, strian would
come hurrying along the sidewalk, suddenly
run upon a narrow slley crossing, stop with
a start which threw back the tide of humanity
behind him, and then, if they were bold and
venturesome or possessed in proud owner
ship pair of lofty boots, would dash through
the deep mixture of snow and water. trust
ing in their luck not to slip on the ice be-
meath. Ii they were cautious, they would
carefully pick their way across, stepping on
the little oasis of ice mounds which lifted
their illuring surface above the surrounding g
marsh, and when they had reached, after in
tinate labor, the centre of the street. would
find a horse car coming in one direction and
a heavy dray splashing along in another and
two or three umbrellas, presumably with
men behind them, plunglng headlong directly
toward their face. Under such circumstances
few reached the opposite side of the street
without at least a short ''dash for liberty"
and wet one. Add to this the fact that
snow slides from the overhauging roofs were
most common, and the pleasure of an after
moons promenade throughfares of the city
Yesterday can be imagined. The horse cars
were running with four horse teams, and
even then found pulling hard. Plows and
scrapers were kept constantly at work clear
the tracks. The steam railroads were not
seriously impeded. as there was no underlay
of deep snow and the falling snow settled
compactly. The trains for the most part ar
rive don schedule time. At the Signal Service
Office all yesterday afternoon after three
o'clock no news could be obtained from the
East, not even from Portland, on account
of the breaks in the telegraph lines.
" If the wind had blown hard" said
the sergeant in charge. ait would have played
the dickens. The snow itse lfis very heavy and
sticks where it strikes. The vessels report
heavy weather all around. The storm, you
understand is a brann new one-in fact all
the storms we have had during the month
have been distinct and separate ones, seldom
lasting over twenty -fours in one place. The
first storm this week::started, so far as our
indications reach, from Manitoba last Sunday
and reached Boston on Tuesday. 1t then
went off toward the northeast and was yester-
day heard from off Nova Scotia, probably on
its way to England now. This present storm
started from the lower lake region. where it
developed Wednesday night, and swept down
southeast to Delaware Breakwater, steadily
increasing in force. 1t centred there about
seven yesterday morning and then travelled
northeast. following up the Gulf Stream un-
til it reached Provincetown. At p. NJ. the
barometer there stood at 2S.77. an unusually
low figure, and lower than it has ever been
here. In Boston the thermometer during
the day had been very nearly stationary,
standing at about 32. The wind travelled
along at the rate of 20 miles velocity on the
average, the highest rate, u miles, occurring
at p. NJ. In the afternoon the wind at
New York and New London, the clearing
off points, indicated northwest, and by Z.
NJ. the wind here had backed round to the
northwest. The probabilities now are that
the weather will clear and that cold snap
will follow.