Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-16
DOWN IN NEW YORK.

Scenes at the Grand Central Depot
 Trains TzoyIRg-HuEe Snow Drifts
 Near New EROcheIIe-Th1ngs in New
 York After tho Blizzard.
 Last evenings New York Sun said;
 The Grand Central station presented a more animated appearance this morning than it has for the last few days. Car wheels were actively revolving and trains were nov ing on sll the roads leading into this point.
 A few trains came and went during the night and the first train to roll in was Chi~ cago express. It was due at the station at 6:45 yesterday morning, but it was past 7 o'clock this morning before the hundred or more weary passengers were safely landed.
 This train is known to the railroad off cials as Ne. and was held at Syracuse for twenty-four hours.
 When an Evening Sun reporter visited the station the chiefs of the three companies had not put in an appearance.
 President Depew was not there. Neither was Superintendent Toucey of the Central, nor Superintendent Turner of the New York and New Haven road. There were very good reasons why MT. Turner was not on hand. He was and has been for two days showed in somewhere on the road, and is now supposed to be working through huge snow drifts above New Rochelle.
 Every body had personal "reminiscences to relate. One scrap was iterated and reiterat- ed, and it was: q started out Monday morning--." More than that was seldom heard and more was unnecessary. The re- suit was the same in ninety nine cases out of one hundred.
 The Fourth avenue railway, that pio- neer blizzard breaker, began to move cars yesterday, and was to-day joined by the Broadway, Twenty-third street and Tenth avenue lines. When the first Broadway car went down it was cheered by the street la borers and the one or two struggling pedes- trians who had yentured out so early.
 In one of the prominent uptown saloons last night gentleman came in and ordered glass of milk. It was served and drank. Then the gentleman asked the proprietor to sell him quart for his little girl baby. It was kindly refused, the saloon keeper saying he had very little and needed it for his trade. Then the customers eyes lighted a minute and he ordered another glass. Leaving it untouched on the bar he ordered another and another until five glasses filled with creamy milk stood before him. Then he bought bottle, put into it the contents of the five glasses, and went home to his little girl. His arguments were conclusive. Many simi- lar incidents occurred.
 Wagons having meat and groceries flew hither and thither before o'clock, showing plainly what strain had been put upon New York's households. The bright morning cleared everything, and servants and house. wives opened windows and brushed from the lodges the accumulated snow that hith erto they had not the courage to attack. In the hotels the West Shore road had blizzard extras posted around, stating that it's trains had started and were running on schedule time.
 The suggestion made yesterday that pri- vate trucks be volunteered to clear away the snow seemed to be followed out, for many furniture and dry goods trucks were going through the streets heavily laden with snow.
 haiV a1n Broadway is clear. At the squares and rail- way iuctions crowds of laborers are busy, while the Bowery is perfect hive of work men, and the mellow vowels of the Italians contrast strangely with the thick tongued brogue of the Irish foreman.
 Advertising genius has risen to the oeca- sion and every snow heap is surmounted by an advertisement. Many other signs are prom inent. The iollity that has marked New Workers throughout the trial has found vent in quaint and curious signs. On Broadway just above Thirty fifth street broad shell is stuck into the bank of snow that hides the opposite side of the street. On the board are miniature statues of Mitchell and Sulli- van in fighting attitudes.
 In the back of the latter is @ tag read ing ''Toe plueky to lose" while Mitchell is ornamented with the motto "Too weak to win"
 Above an empty denijohn, surrounded by dirty collar, is basis for the sign, "Cem- missioner Coleman is dead" All over this pile are spread little signs, and the crowd around was much denser than the one that stood at Barnum's ticket office yesterday.
 Uptown s1eighs are the order of the day, but below Fourteenth street the ubiquitous hanson is very much on hand.
 Locomotion is no longer the exception, but happily the rule. Most of the sewers are open, the fire hydrants are all thawed out and Yo da rnrooaha ah1a and Nau VarLIc oun and only blizzard is slowly sinking into state of 'demned moist unpleasantness, un- der foot at least.
 The best work possible is being. done, and that best is very, very good.
 A true wilderness of snow was Central Park yesterday. Everywhere the snow king had extended his dominion. Great and small drifts abounded, some three feet, some five feet, some over one's head. The lake, still frozen over, was plain of snow. Instead of the merry jingling of sleigh bells through the drives of theSpark, as is usually heard after belated sleighs, out for business and not for pleasure, at long intervals, crossed the park.
 The nenagerie has gone through the storm remarkably well, and no deaths di- rectly due to the weather are reported among the animals. The thirty or forty peaeocks which are accustomed to live and roost among the trees in the ranble during the winter were rescued by park keepers and removed to place of safety. All the bears, protected by their shaggy, warm fur, dig not mind the storm in the least.
 The few people who ventured into the park amused themselves by pelting the balls of fur with snowbAlls, the recipients of the favors standing the fusilade very philosoph- icalIy. The two small Malayan bears seem- ed to enjoy eating the snow, and many of the visitors employed themselves in heaping up quantity of this cheap and economical food in their cages. None of the animal houses were open to the public during the day,