New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-14
THE CITY STILL SHUT IN.
FOOD AND COAL RUNNING Low.
THE MILK SUPPLY EXHAUSTED AND
PRICES RISING.
NO TRAINS IN OR OUT EXCEPT ON THE PENN
BYLvANIA RAILROAD.

blLtANlA 6AlLROAD
| TELEGRAPH WIRES STILL DOWN AND TELEPHONE
CONNECTIONS UNcERTAIN-THE ELEVATED
ROADS CLEAR AGAIN BUT NO SUR
FACE CARS ABLE TO sTART-
MANY BELATED TRAv-
ELLERs.
When the New-Yorker gazed out of his window
on Monday morning and saw something Of O
storm: when he gayly sailed forth and then
bied him homo after being tossed about like a
piece Of paper in whirlwind and after serving
as a silhouette in several sttings In various snow
drifts, he admitted that he had got q new expe-
rience But he was equally sure that he had the
last Of it. He had, read o good deal about the
blizzard and he was aware that the strange
monster played fast and loose in Dakota and other
Western wilds but he equally sure that one
day In New-Yorll would be all tho blizzard would
dare to squander. At least he hoped So Con
seQuently the Now Yorker went to bed on Monday
night good deal shaken up but conscious Of the
superiority Of New-York over the rest of creation
when backed up by the blizzard.
LAUGHING BEFORE NE WAS OUT OF TnE DRIFTS.
Yesterday morning the New-Yorxer smiled and
said to himself /" Ilal - when he rose from his
bed and saw that the blizzard had seemingly de-
parted, leaving huge heaps of snow in his wake
and general Generalization. But It was only
when the citizen of the metropolis sailed proudly
and detiantly forth that he gave himself away.
lie first found that the surface cars were no.
where, that the surface tracks had been smothereu
by the whitening breath Of the blizzard, that
solemn hush had fallen on the activity OF the
CITY, that there was no roar from the wheels Oh
pavement and rail; that heavy express wagons
pondcrOuS mail vehicles, laundering lcc-waSOns,
tumultuous vcnders, clattering milk wagon, inc
voice Of the ragman, the cry 0f the " ole close
fellow, the rush of the cabmen ana the DaDei Oh
al oh
tumultuous vendors. Gathering milk wagons, INC
Was it the Sabbath Day? No, il was Tuesday.
1t was no ordinary silence 1t was not the
stiffness of the tomb for hundreds or beings were
going about. Men with shOvelS were tossing snow
hither and thither, vehicles were passing by
There was, in short, panorama or 'actlFity on
scale Of momentous quetude. what could IL an
mean? Every man lelt uncomfortable lie
stretched his muscles and went through the ordl-
nary functions Of eXstence-or tried to-and yet
nothing was exactly natural In consequence
the Newly Orker felt PECULIAR.
THANKFUL FOR THE ELEVATED ROAD.
The frst the most salient thing upon Garth
or just above it-whch gave the New Yorker q
natural sensation was the elevated railroad. The
horse cars were stuck in snow drifts housed
in stables and the surface tracks showed hope
lessy under for the day. save for stretch In
Fourthave., but the elevated road was running.
What relief was that, my brethren The ele'
waited road did not seem exactly natural; It's
wheels were stiff In the bll1azrd; trestle and Its
trucks gave no cicll-t-a-click response to the
wheels stiff in the blizzard's breath ana lts
but, thank Heaven, the cars were goingl 1he
blizzard-strickcn New Yorker piled himself upon
the Elevated road in tens, In hundreds in droyes,
in regiments. He was ticklei to death to IND
that there was such n thing as an elevated road
he was so tckled that he preferred to stand to
sitting. Bless the stars the Elevated road was
running every branch and the New-Yorker
look sour when he had no seat
AnOur THE ONLY CoNsoIIva FEATURE.
Yet the Elevated road offered eNw-York shout
all the consolation she had yesterday. Men rode
down town to business in the morning and they
had all the air Of beings who expected to do
something From noon until l o'clock they rode
back again.
stayed at home. These, If they were hears,
had an idea that the blizzard was bull' and
might toss them uncomfortably high And those
who were bulls" had hectic fear that the
blizzard was bear and would hug them TO
death. -
Consequently the bulls" and the " bears" did
not go down town numerously They, stayed
at home and let the messenger boys declare ,f the
Stock Exchange closed at noon, II necessary The
grain and produce man did liewlSise, and naturally
the brGr % had TO ems s
dead door-mat, the attendance so slim that
even petroleum refused to flow and metal was rs
chilled steel The exchanges closed at at noon, 40 NO
for when the bull' and bear" cave IN together
they are in desperate struts
THE RAILROAD EMBARGO.
Passenger exit from and entrance into the city
was as dead as on Monday; even deader, for no
train with passengers arrived and none departed.
From the Grand Central Station force Of 500
Italians cleared one track as far as Mott Haven,
and relief train sent to transfer blockaded
passengers returned without an additional occu-
pant. The passengers had already reached the
city by sleigh and by elevated trains. The snow
was ifteen feet deep over the main tracks above
the tunnel, and against this the energy OF shov.
ellers Is to be directed to-day.
The prospects of the Central OF New-Jersey'
the Pennsylvania and the Erie remained unlm-
sion existed among the officials OF the New-Jer-
sey roads that cattle had been frozen to death in
With the lack Of passenger transportation was
united failure in the receipt and dispatch OF the
mails The only relief In this direction to be
hoepd for is from the shovels OF the Itaiians
MILK AND COAL FAMINE THREATENED
The scarcity Of milk and coal in restaurants
and hotels gives a taste of the power OF the bliz-
zard. In downtown restaurants there is milk
enough for to-day: tomorrow. ut present rates,
coffee and tea may be had with sugar. The coal
supply will last q day or two; then, II the bliz-
zard wills it, tea and coffee may be had in tho
leaf with cold water.
The blizzard hos given such a setback to the
litigous fever that jurors were scarce in tho
Court House, and the noses OF lawyers so blue
that the judegs-who had issued their own man,
damus to the blizzard (tempor,ryl-adojurned
case after case until the will Of his Honor tho
Blizzard could be ascertained.
The Club houses were gloomy. The cluo man
realized that the demon Of Dakota glOres over
high living and the club man, therefore passed
the day and the evening unpleasantly.
The schools of the city were closed early In the
dav "A few scholars here and there appeared But
the teachers more CHEEKY, remained almost all at
home and SO the schoOl-house was left abandoned
for the most OF the day.
Even the vessels coming into port bore testimony
70 the inferior character Of the New-i York blizzard
They had had no bad weather until on Sunday
nj ght when they got of Sandy Hook. They then
struck something worse than cyclone.
A CHURCH STEEPLE THREATENS TO FALL
MANY PERSONS AT CLAssON-AvE. AND MONROE.
ST WARNED BY THE POLICE.