The evening world., 1889-03-12
FUNNY BLIZZARD.
The Humorous Side Of the Phenom-
email Snow Fall.
Rare Good Humor That Prevailed
Throughout II All.
Pleasantries INDUCED at the Expense OF
Beautiful Snow"

But the blizzard did not down the spirits
Of New Workers.
There was q funny ~side-many funny sides
to the situation.
London, from the ponderous Thunderer
down to the "two-pair back" ledger,
growled and grumbled, and made itself
miserable the other day over two inches of
snow on the level.
But New York, buried under ayalanohes Of
the beautiful snow, laughed and tested, and
grew fat with good nature.
A little Irish Mark Tapley, on his way
downtown TO his work on q Second Avenue
L train, which was caught between Riving-
ton and Grand street stations. kept o carload
of half5trozen men and women merry during
the four hours of their captivity in midair.
He passed his old hat and raised q collection,
which he lowered from the train by Q cord
found in his handy pocket. The attention of
q m an in the street was obtained. He took
the money from the hat and In Eve minutes
attached o big pail of beer to the string.
The beer was enjoyed, and afterwards,
sandwiches, q bottle Of old pepper" cigars
and cigarettes we're elevated on o string.
There were songs Jokes. stories and general
hilarity.
This bliz. .
Knocks biz, .
will 60 down to fame along with ''Sheridan'a
Ride, The Charge of the Six Hundred
and other poems commemorative Of ocoa-
Bions.
1t was scrawled by an unsung singer. on
an amateur signboard stuck in q drift.
Another sign in q buried street read:
CLOSED Till the Resurrection"
The hotels were thrice full of
people who couldn't get uptown, and those
uptown were crammed with those who
couldn't get downtown.
"Give me ~standing-room for ono night ~
calculated q tired seeker for a place of rest to
storm-bound on her way to the bedside of a
sick friend, gladly accepted the accommoda-
ton of q chair in a bathroom.
At Curriers' Fulton street hostelry appeared
ing Of the blizzard:
"Yes! We are closed. No coal, no food
no nrthin'l"
This is so overwhelming. " said Chauncey
NJ. Depew, as If his whole New York Central
system were not paralyzed at all.
81 overwhelming that nobody swears. It
is the first accident l ever heard of which
didn't largely increase the stock of :profan-
The Liberty street ferry house passengers,
who couldn't get across the river. passed the
whole night in dancing to the music of O half
dozen harmonicas, which CHANGED to 30 in
the building, and bankers. typewriters, shop
girls, brokers. merchants and saleswomen
reeled, waltzed and polkaed with much rel
lsh.
"A job lot of beautiful snow for sale
cheap" was the tempting offer posted on a
sign set on the apex Of o snow mountain in
Fourteenth street, and in front of q Fifth
avenue restaurant was another Wanted,
1000 hands to chew snow, " and added to the
usual announcements before q florists estab-
lishment was this ironical line from a popular
song
The flowers that bloom in the Spring /
"What did you dc to pass the time away ?"
asked an EVENING WORLD reporter Of q
passenger who had been four days coming
from Buffalo to New York on the " limited.h
well, we took turns bathing in q tub in
one of the v~estibuled cars till the hot water
gave out, " he replied, lugubriously.
But the Joke over which stricken New York
laughed most heartily was o despatch from q
committee of citizens Of Bismarck. Oak. to
Mayor Hewitt, Offering financial aid TO the
city in It's distress. and the most unconsola-
BILE victim of the blizzard. according to the
most authentic statistics, was a man tied up
in the Elevated railway blockade. who said he
was sad because there was q note against him
falling due that day and he feared it would
be protested.
A s%ignboard in q snowdrift in Front street
said " We will reopen July A." but on the
morning OF Friday. March l6, the sun smiled
back the neyer-fading smile of ManhAttan's
people. and everybody celebrated st. Pat
rick's Day in Fourth of July style for the de-
liverance from the storm.