Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-17
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THE Err ATTIC BLIZZARD.
1t Roams at VIII and Calls NO efIFS
it's Home.

1t R0aEls at VIII and Calls NO GIiE&@
it's Home.
Chicago Times: Ii is necessary that
nature assert herself occasionally IN or
der to remind humanity Gifts feebienese.
This she did in the late awful storm in
the east. With ous meteorology,
weather bureaus and signal stations. we
had become concerted. Too many oil US
had absorbed the notien that it WAS
Belencs that rode upon the whislwind
and guided the storm. Bat science
hides from the bl Zzatd when men are
fro zen to death 10 snow-drifts on Broad.
way and the greatest city Of the CON
tinent Is buried as if it were a mining
mountain village. II is now said that
"the peculiar geographical position of
New YORK IS responsible tor the dread
EfHi condition of that city" But it is
not proposed to desert New YORK any
more than Dakota. There is no geo.
graphical position that will protect any
city or territory from every sudden and
phenomenal display of nsture's forces.
ALI that has been written about the
blizzard blasted" territories of the
northwest might well be repeated about
ANOW vi VIVIAN R&otO M huCus
The blizzards of this winter were
tects will pass away, retarding t~he,grouth
OF New York no more than that oil
Dakota. This is a world OF billiards. Of
various kinds, under the earth's surface
as well as over it. They have invented
a machine in California which foretellf
earthquakes, but it does not stop them
l. III - -. "a X. - a 49, l---A AA-k L.
blizzard and earthquake have never
come at the anne time in the same place
A cyclone cellar is still available in Da
kota, as the balloon is in South Carolina
Ii these great forces ever do conclude
to make q joint attack on this little
world OF ours it will be we'll TO listen fol
that trump which we are told Gabrie
stands ready to blow.
The peculiar geographical position o
New York is Aos excelied in the work
for purposes OF trade and business. i
seems intended by nature for the site o
d great cosmopolitan, metropolitan CITY
It's base is solid rock, Navieable waterl
almost surround 1t. 1t IS not dificnlt o
defeneoi in war, and is we'll placed for al
1.-THE arts and avocations of peace. Th,
solemn and slow old Dutehmep who frs
settled there and called it New Amster
dam knew they would eve need an!
bikes and sea walls to keep out the de
luge, and they had never heard OF bliz
yards. They bnilt stockades against The
Indians and forts against the English
kept one eye seAwsrd for buccaneers on,
another Ply m%onthward wondering 18th,
Pilgrim fathers, where are shsy? J" bu
they dug no Cyclone tunnels, There il
no guessing what they would have don,
IL they could have foreseen the blizzard
but probably they would have gon,
back to Holland and written editorial
against the t'blizgard blasted" country
They would have no doubt asserted tina
no religious persecution was as bad o
the freezing blasts that swept over tina
acoursed region, which w6s fit only TO
Indians and pur;tans, and never ough
TO be admitted to any union, either 'tas
whole or as two states.
Many cities have been located aftel
mature consideration with the eypecta
tion that they would become large cite
and endure for ages, constantly CROWN
in greatness by reason OF their sitet
In nearly every instance time has de
Yelopsd some great mistake, HemethinI
overlooked. Peter the great was q geni0
and an ~autocrat. He located st. Peters
burg. building thirty thousand houses th
first year thereafter, and ell with re
ference to making it the capital of 81
empire which should endure forever. [
is a city of palaces made to order, Blu
the wisdom Of its loea ion has beef
questioned for q hundred years and j
stiil doubted. The citizens still dreat
the inundations which threatened an,
damaged il q few years ago. II is doubt
full whether men could locate cities an.
better than what We cali seciden
locates them. II is impossible to fore
see what new channels the currents c
commerce will pillow out, what inven
tions man may make. Alexander couI
not have foreseen the seven-mile canno
that not long ago battered the clty. b
built any more than the first Knicker
booker could have iorseen the Dos
blizzard OF the century bowling dow
Broadway.