New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-27


warm. Where is The Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty TO Animals?
COLD WIND COMES WITH THE snow.
COMMERCE IN THE PORT COMES ALMOST TO 4
sTANDsTILL.
West-st. achieved another record ye,terday. It's
miserable apology for sidewalk ard still more mser-
able apology for roadway were covered with heavy
overcoming OF snow to the depth 0f twelve inches.
Ihc whole Of the space between the houses ono
side Of the street and the ferry slips the other pre-
Sented solid, unbroken surface Of dirty brown.
AZ various points the fallen snow had been heapcd I'D
high against the cubstone, and in order reach the
Central Railroad Of NewJer,cy Pcnnsylvan slips
IT was necessary to wade knee deep through the frozen
)ored masses Of filth. BY rudging ten blocks or %
along the sidewalk passenger, might find clearing
sufficiently wide to afford avenre Of escape into a
slough that only six inches or in depth but The
majority preferred 10 take their agony at one gup in
stead 0 in small doses and plunged boldly into the mre
sometime, they slipped mp and spraW led at full length
in the unclean bath. Then hey called down blessings
on the head II Tammany government I'm general and
the street leaning Departm at in particular. Ap-
parcnty the drivers of wagon, and their horses have
,en,bly given up trying t. taclIe' Weotst in
storm. There an almost entire absence Of the
customary crush aud fam and the drivers for in
way were not cusing everything is on the earth.
above the earth or under the Garth. In fact. traffic
Wc,t,t Wa, almost powcrc,s for harm. But all tho
harm # could do it did do. and in that respect moro
than maintained ITS evil ?, pdtation.
lu many downtown street, could be a deserted
tUIck wagon that had become hopeic,sly embedded
in row bank and lefr IL il, tate. II is undoubtedly
Re fact That much of the blockade in traffic on
.nowy diy j., due 10 the incompccncy incN perience
Of tho drivers. m,uy Of whom are boys fifteen Or
sixteen year, Old. several time, yesterday The Trib-
unc reporter ..w van Or wagon stupidity careeSsy
driven right into a ,n0wdrft and hOpceSoy stranded
iu c.h Of these the dlicultl might have been
avcrod by rho exercise Of little care and Judgment.
sIrcan; Jc,lnof,ky l)adcd 10 the muzzle with
fact, about the storm and explained them IN MS
customary >ucciuct and clear-cut style.
Il rcally doct know what chart will look like
when it conc, out 10 morning he said. " for
up 10 noon had lo-t connections wth Nicksburg,
Cape Ihtera> Galve-ton Corpus Christi. shreveport
Memphis New ORLEANS. Nashville and other stations.
TEi- storm, j, not quite blizzard but ii j. pretty GOOD
imitation Of one- In fact. have no hesitation in de-
,crb!ng It a. the heaviest snowfall we have had
,incc the immortal visitation Of March. loss. You
will probably be surprised to know that this snowfall
began life a rainstOrm down In the Gulf In thas
character il took a nOrtlca>fcrly direction and n-
cre,snc in force, travelled along TO Vicksburg. where
II struck the cold Then the rain foze. and be-
came .row That is simply the storms history.
Like it, two predecessors iS divided into two parts.
TIN. AREA Of snow ahe- i'm PcHn,y ,yvana. ohio. Illinois.
rcnuc>~ce Rhode Island. Massachusetts and South
Maine while south Of Norfolk it is raining heavily. In
Norfolk alone there have been two and onehalf inches
of rain. while Atlanta and Mobile have each had one
and one quarter inches.
The snow began 10 fall At , a. m this morning.
continued The sergeant and in twelve hours has given
II, ,iN uchc, nca~uremcnt. Vt th- rate We Should
pr,l,,iIy nave twelve iuc.es - snow before midnight
Durius Oh, blizzard wc had three feet Of snow inside of
twenty fonr hours. Fortunately have not had a
very heavy wind. During the day the velocity aver
a-ed about twenty ,ht miles an hour. Along the
coast the northeast breeze j, stronger. At sandy
IIool. u has reached ifty twomilc eait. while at
Block Island ;ortyour miles are reported The move
m,at Of the storm along the coast j. considerably I'M
uo!ad los TWO areas ot hi-h atmospheric pr>Nnre-the
,,r,. over Sew Brunswick and thc other over New
f,undlaud. It is possible. therefore, that tho
storm may he driven of the Atlantic coast before II
can reach tine Oulf II. Lawrence. Up IN Manitoba
ta.rr D, another biz SHOW storm which covers Mch'
,au Montana. Wisconsin and Minnesota. and i hh'P
10 move eastward. At present II appears 10 me tha'
Nc ,nall hau. -row sect all through tonight and
possibly tomorrow morning"
Yesterday Wa, not only one of the stormeSt days OF
the season. bu, it also distinguished Itself by giving
"a, Nc,, York th, lowest temperature -7'n during tho
winter. the thermometer AZ a. m. pointing u IL De
prt,~ Tai, TACT however. lost sight OF IN the
general wall aEonN over the slippery pANemeht' ana
shiny Ioad-
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vi,.- except those between Washington and Balu
,.,, v,t,. worhin. well. according 10 the report OF
e. H. MITCHELL If the wire department. VI the
Nctropolt,n Telegraph and Telephone Companys
Office, It va, ,lid that thc number of complaints IN
r~.l tn defective working had been rather less thah
on any oulluar! day.
rhc commerce of the polr came almost 10 a stand
sim during the torn ono steamer came struggling
in T., sandy llool. before sndown. No vessels went
ont ~uur berth, alongside of piers. or coed anchorage
III the bay Offered more opportunities for rational ell
o,mcnt than the hoWlng waste oI waters 'htt lay
ont side of sandy Hook Vessel, bound IN ala not dare
to approach the bar in the binding show. rain and
,., hu, L,nt nr Shore N one time the wind was
t,vlu. ,i>t, eight mile, hour AT sandy Hook In
fine ,ftrr.on the force of the wind moderated TO MY
tyo mile, an hour there. and heavy ram set H. i'e
Grrmauic of the White star Line and the Noordiano'
nf the Red star Line. were among thc 'lcHicEs Ca
pc,tcd which did not arrive.
II wa~ on the rNcl~ and the naiDor ui, ,rv , -
fall seemed most dense. most chilling Hid yS, Inoss
,,ttr curve, rcallng and whiriinS elr'leN They
we're, driven through the dr win NunEIhS s"iI' @
t6r fo,cc that drove them that they whrled i
beneath the upper decks 4! t.% IciFn T,'f I R'""s
rrt, around ;Lc Wagons and settling on the hcN, OK
the bor-c, linen, were great heaps Of SHOW on tie
lover decks of AZ ,ie boat ,c,u, Inn, only
A. one crossed the river he saw before nun .iy o1y
tLc d.ai white II nuuncrabIA pecl>. 50 bonnliinIy
lowered from above that ,cy formed Nlh.lc .eNt",r
Where ,camcr, and vessel laN Their mast, stHod up
ike hare mlc- on Iu Alpine nountan' In the
East RIVER the craft thai aprachcd ne war ncsNei,
White gayc them a wa. berth They rose up ,ud-
denly grim m the cI',ms oT; & a. ro.,,,c INV cloud, or
the rushing wld
FXpooTRE KILLS VAN hHD WOMAN.
Two T., mce,, persons. man and a woman. dcd
fom c>po~urc in the storm yesterday morning The
.,,, ,,.,s Dcuni, r'Ncill i drunken vagahoni. who
had 75out much Of ni, time on 0ackwelrs Island
il, recent years His body found ~ ,nc hallway al