, 1888-04-04

hlIleS WcF" covered IN CaUS, hundreds of
miles were covered on foot. An attempt
was made to charter a tug and survey
the days dOings in the barber, but the TUG
boat captains refused to so out at any
price. Then the city editor had a happy
thought and sent forth a brigade of snow.
shoe-rulners who ran down some of the
most piQuant and curious news of the
day. 1t was a great day for the Faher
tend and, If the prayers Of that industrious
creature be answered, the like of it will
never be seen in many a year.
The cause of the storm? Why, bless
your heart, there were causes enough adj.
vanced by the weather-wiSe to explain 4
dozen cyclones. The managing editor.
who spent much time looking out Of his
window in the expectation of seeing ST.
Bernard dogs r~eScuing lost travellers with
the aid of neat little barrels of 'B. b"
brandy, vintage 1910, hung about their
necks, says the arrival Of Barnum'S circus
undoubtedly dId it.
An OId darky, who was a passenger on
L about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, had
a more ingenious theory. Else lived six.
ty years, gemmen,' said he, cam lived
yearabouts an | ntbber see sich a stohm
btfo'. l knowed somepin was abb ewin',
though, las Saturday, when l see so many
womenaShOppin' on one ob 'em, gemmeu,
actually had the impotence to carry a pa
rasol. Dat settled it. We're gwine to hab
trouble, says |, an here she be-"
The serene and gentlemanly young
scientist who represents the Government
in the pinnacle of the Equitable Building
explains the storm more simply. On Sun
day. he says. there was a storm c~entring
in the Lake Region and IL second c~entring
in Georgia. St0rm signals and cold sig
mails were ordered up on the Atlantic
coast. Both Of these storms had business
it this neiGhboUrh0od and they met by
chance and tried to talk the matter over,
but could not come to an agreement. Re
SuIt, a clash and a GOODNESS, and the only
hope for New Workers was the probability
that they would 90 out to sea together
still discussing the question upon which
both held such pronounced opinions The
fall Of the telegraph wires had cut off the
Signal Service from adviceS in the dirpc-
ton of Washington and this had prevented
the department from notifying New York
rrS what to expect. No Sunday pre-
dicrionS were received at all. Local indi-
cations were for colder weather. At 3 pm
two feet otsnOw had fallen.
Old New Workers say that not within
the memory OF the present generation has
New York known Of a storm in which
business was 50 Thoroughly paraIyzed as
Ivy that Of yesterday. Nor do the Signal
Service records show any such combina,
tioH Of wind, cold aud snow. II have been
thirty nine years on Fulton street said
that Stluch Old merchant, John BroSnan
yesterday, "but I never knew such a day,
as this The tifries were prolific of cold
weather AMI storms, but they could not
equal his. remember, in 1851, the ice
in the East River WAS 50 strong that heavi-
" loaded teams went from the foot Of
Fulton street in New York to Fulton
street in Brooklyn. Two or three years
later Henry Ward Beecher and a party
started to cross the river on the ice, but it
broke away with them and they were car
ripd Some distance down the bay before
being rescued. But in noue of those storms
and in none that have occurred since then,
has business been so completely paralyzed
This room iSan illustrations"
Mr.. BIosnan was eating at the time i'll
one of the most popular restaurants on
Fulton street. He was the only guest in
the room.
M. GLADSTONE AND The PLAN OF
CAMPAIGN.
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