Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-03-23

Monday, as was to be expected,
the snow drifts would have rapidly
ceased to be any obstacle. The
rise in the temperature this after
noon made speedy inroads on the
snow left here in shady places.
SLOW WORK IN RAISING THE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF FOOD
Loss OF LIFE.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Several
thousand men, aided by horse and
steam appliances, have been hard
at work for the past twenty-tour
hours trying 10 dig New York ont
from under the snOw.drift. They
have made much progress, but the
herculean task is not yet accom-
plished. The sun was shining
brightly this morning and the
weather had moderated. Later in
the day a general snow and mild
thaw visited the city and continued
until 3 o'clock this afternoon. 1t
did far more work than the hired
shoyellers in relieving the city OF
the super6uous snow. Tonight
the sidewalks are clean but wet,
and the drifts that have obstruct-
ed railroad travel are dissolvlng.-
All of the railroads are still block
AIDED, and most of them will not be
able to move any trains out of the
city before to morrow or the next
day. The Pennsylvania road has
opened a single track from Newark,
and hopes to be open clear to
Philadelphia before morning. The
Jersey Central has been dong a
small amount of local passenger
traffic between Jersey City and
Newark all the afternoon. The
New York Central and the Erie are
practically hopeless. President
Depew said that no attempt would
be made to run trains IN or ont oil
the city oyer the Central tracks be-
fore tomorrow. The principal
efforts of the New York Central
men to-day have been devoted to
getting it's stalled trains into the
Grand Central Station. The New
Jersey Central got train through
from Bergen Point to Jersey City
this morning. They had several
hundred coal handlers from Jefier-
son docks at work clearing tracks
at from so to % cents an hour
Several street railroads began to
run this afternoon, and others Will
follow. The elevated roads are in
very good condition and have been
running the regular number OF
trains on time. Since yesterday
morning snow.shovellers have been
at work almost incessantly clear
ing the sidewalk and roadways in
the principal streets. In most OF
the streets the sidewalks are walled
in by snow banks from five to eight
feet high. The reet-cleaning de-
partment calculates that two feet
of snow had fallen on the level up
to this morning. That, they say
makes about 80, 900, 900 cubic yards
in this city, and if it was all shov
elled up and carted away there
would be about 100000 cart
loads.
FOOD SUPPLY RUNNING SHORT.
The inability of the railroads tC
deliver freight in this city has cut
of the meat, milk and vegetable
supply OF New York, and there is
danger of serious Inconvenience tC
the people OF New York from
scarcity of such supplies. The
principal marketmen, stated thi
morning that there was less than
weeks supply of meat here. 1t II
almost impossible to get anything
but condensed milk. One hote
paid fifty cents a quart for the las
fifty gallons a dealer had. Coal i
bringing Sl5 ton. There is plent,
of it in the yards in New York AM
Brooklyn, but the difficulty i
to deliver it.
Next to the grave problem o
supplying the community Will
provisions from the outside is tha
of moving what is on hand. Al
yesterday and to-day the wholesale
butchers were unable to deliver
even small lots Of meat except a
extortionate prices for carriage
The New Jersey suburban towns
are also reported in danger oI
something like famine. In thes
places laborers are comparatively
scarce and no deliveries are mad
by tradesmen. The butchers, milk
men and provision dealers who rel
upon New York or the interlo
country farms for their supplies ar
nearly out of eatables, and hun
dreds of families are living on tn
. little stock remaining in thei
, larders.
OF the five or six thousand Ne
York business men who left tf
nearer New jersey suburbs for Ne'
York early Monday morning tn
majority reached the city tn
> morning, coming from Newark b
q the Pennsylvania. The blockad
was most complete on the Dell
= ware, Lackawanna and Western
The few trans which went o
$ beyond Newark we're stalled IN tn
noodows. where the situation wa