Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-04-07
Our Letter.
FROM NEW YORK.

has been the all absorbing topic here IN the east
for some time past, and know more about that
than most anything else just now, am sure you
will allow me the privilege of airing my knowledge
when it is based on actual experience Beng
RIGHT in the midst of it, I saw and heard a great
deal more than some of my friends at distance.
A blizzard is something of which
Man wants but put little I,tt,e here here below
It came as thief in the night. On Sunday
night March 11th after listening to the patter of
the rain for some time, all temperate New Workers
retired to rest, little dreaming what the morrow
would bring. Imagine the CONSERVATION OF the
uptown business man, when on throwing open his
easement he behed the snow lying two or three
feet (not inches) deep, and learned that not car
was running, and there was no possible chance of
getting down town without footing it or paying
from ten to twenty dollars for a cab. Many bust
ness men residing in Jersey, Brooklyn, and ada
cent Cities made no effort to get into the city, 1t
was more than useless as the streets were abso
lutely impossible, the wind blowing tiercely, and
the snow coming down in such binding sheets as
to preclude the possibility of seeing three feet in
front of one.
All day Monday the storm ragged with unabating
on a level and six and seven feet where it had
drifted. Those who had braved the storm in the
early morning were forced to abandon all hope of
spending the night at home, if they lived any dis
lance, or pay an exorbitant price to the 'cabbie"
Many proprietors of large business establishments
sent their young lady clerks to the nearest hotels,
while many of the gentlemen were forced to re-
main at their places of business all night, there
being no room for them in convenient hotel
That was one time in the history of New York
when the down town hotels and boarding houses
were literally damned. The Oldest Inhabitant was
forced to admit that such an experience had never
been his. He doubtless did it reluctantly, it be-
ing wrung from him by some remorseless reporter
Yet it was true that rarely if ever, had New York
been so completely showed UNDER so, in order to
be truthful, he must for once lay aside the boast
that this was almost as bad as such time some
years back, and say he has never seen anything to
equal it. He must indeed have been greatly cast
down when he muttered to himself: "This 18th
of March obviously ends my usefulness; what
chance does the Oldest Inhabitant have of retain
ing his standing with his fellow men, if from the
ample storehouse of his retentive memory he can
not produce March day that was more richly
ehoo"eu WIN lhclemehcy InaA any March clay OF
the present? Great Scott how that blizzard does
blow! must say this beats any March storm /
ever was out in. All yes, lnger superauous! I
have outived my function. Old Probabilities has
exhausted his possibilities on this day. It takes
the blue ribbon. I'd better get out" However.
ne will probably return during the dog DAYS and
brow beat younger generation with references to
the unparalleled heated spell of '37. But it will
on y need chance allusion to March 70, 1888, to
make him as silent as the ct" in depot.
Owing to telegraph wires being down and no
trains moving, for several days we had no com
munication with the outer world, and the postoice
officials had little rest. At one time it was
feared there would be coal and milk famine, but
as soon as the roads were opened up these fears
were allayed. In the meantime there had been
much suffering among the poorer classes on ac-
count OF the scarcity of food and fuel. By those
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