The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-03-14
incidents Of the Great storm.

funerals were necessarily postponed IN
conse quence. The funeral of Mrs. Mar
garet Abbott, of West Amwei, was to
have taken place on Monday, and under
taker Stockton, of this city, who had the
funeral in charge, started for the house
with his team, but when two miles from
this city, although he had a man With
him to shovel snow, he was compelled to
return home.
The funeral of Hiram Scarborough, Of
New Hope, Pa, which was to have taken
place yesterday, has been postponed until
tomorrow Thursday. owing to the i'm
possibility of friends getting to the funer
al and of getting to the cemetery. The
funeral of the late Geo. L. Heath's child,
of this city, which was to have been held
yesterday, has been postponed until Fri
day for similar reasons.
Lambertville has received no mails from
beyond Trenton for two days, and the
telegraph wires being down, the Trenton
papers contain no telegraphic news, so
that our town has been practically with
out the news of the outside world for that
time. Though not long, it has put us
back for the time being to the experiences
of the days before telegraphs and railroads
and daily papers were common.
The farmers of our surrounding coun-
try have been for the past two days about
as isolated from their neighbors and the
surrounding towns, as though they were
hundreds of miles away. The drifts are
beyond precedent, and it will be several
days before the roads are broken, unless
there comes big thaw or rain.
Our public schools have held no sessions
this week, owing to the storm.
Helms, the Coryell street hardware mer-
chant, says he did good Business last
Monday. That is more than other mer-
chants can say, but his trade was princi-
pally in snow and other shovels, SO that
it is an i'll wind that does nobody good"
Prof. G. p. Hoffman, of Pennington,
took the morning train down on Monday
for Bordentown, where he teaches In the
Seminary, but upon arriving in Trenton
found that it would be impossible that
day to reach Bordentown, owing to the
snow blockade. He decided to go home
again, and got on the train that stuck
fast at Boss road, on the Pennington
railroad, at which point he was detained
until about 8 A. M. Tuesday, when he
came down to this city, and yesterday
started again for Bordentown.
If our respected visitors from Kansas,
Mr.. Ashbsl WEIGH, formerly of this city,
and Rev. ]. D. Hewitt, formerly of Rim
goes, brought with them the recent storm
as specimen of Kansas weather, we
most respectfully inform them that here
after we are willing to believe all the big
stories about Kansas without ocular de-
monstration, aud hereafter they will
please keep tteir weather at homo.
Some people who remember the great
snow storm of 1885 say that that was
greater storm than that of the first of
this week, while others think that the
recent one exceeded it, 1t is pretty hard
to Judge between the two, but, at any
rate, nobody denies that it was full
grown aud lively enough.
One hundred men from this city aud
two locomotives went down the road this
morning to aid in clearing the New York
Division of the. Pennsylvania r. r. for
travel. They expected to be gone two
days.
There have been no sessions of the
Legislature this week. The snow block
ade has prevented members from getting
to Trenton.
On the main line of the Pennsylvania
r. r. between Philadelphia and Now
York no trains have got through since the
storm. began, and the railroad telegraph
wires and those of the Western Union
appear to be useless in all this section of
the country. The Trenton papers have
received no associated press dispatches
for two days.
The Trenton Daily Emporium, in
speaking of the storm, says "The
Pennsylvania Railroad, for the first time
in many years, ceased business between
New York and Philadelphia, and no train
cached this city from the former point.
One powerful engine forced its way to
this city on Monday with light train
from Philadelphia, taking half a day for
the trip. Then the engine ploughed on
for New York, but only reached Prince
ton junction, and the hundred or SO pas
sengers are still located there. No other
trains passed through the city, but sew
eral are showed in at Tullytown and
other points near by 10 their ate mpts to
open the road to Philadelphia. The
Bound Brook route was in equally bad
shape, and at the Junction dozen trains
we're bockaded. No mails were received
in the city since II o'clock Sunday night.
The Western Union could only reach but
one Office on its wires--that OF the Clin-
ton street station. The retail trade of
the city was at standstill. and at p
M. every business house was closed. At
0 O'Clock Monday night the city was ike
graveyard half the electric lights were
out and all the places of amusement were
dark. Neil Burgess could not reach the
city to fill his engagement at Taylor's
Opera House, and as no baggage arrived
for the company at Philion's no show was
given there. The Chinese entertainment
at Library Hall was also postponed on
account of the non arrival of baggage
Great trees were blown down In every
part of the city, and numerous cases of
want were reported at the Police Station.
In the glare of the street lights last night
the city looked like deserted Western
town after visit of one of their terrible
billiards. The damage which the storm
has done so far in aud about this city will