New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-27


quired to make all the necessary repairs
The NewYork. Lake Erie and Western also
suffered severely. the area OF damage eX'endlh@
as far west as Port Jervis. At o'clock. how
ever communication had been established De
tween Port Jervs and Paterson. The greatest
destruction occurred. though, between Paterson
and Jersey City, and there were no wires 1hab
could be used over that portion of the road up u
a late hour Yesterday.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western had
somewhat similar experience. but at the general
offices of the company it was said that the officers
were entirely at sea as to the extent oi V"e
destruction. .
was asserted that that road had suffered only u
a trfng extent and that all the repairs would
be completed in short order.
: PENNsYLvANIA'S LOSS.
There was rumOr among railroad men that the
Pennsylvania Road had suffered more than any
other, but at the telegraph Office Of the road IN
Jersey City this report was Tdiculed. 1t was In
deed frankly admitted that the telegraph service
was completely Frustrated. but Of the officials
remarked that if any other road in that locality
claimed to be any better of. the assertion was not
in strict accordance with the truth Why it's
the worst anybody ever heard Of" said this
Official 1.-THE wires were that big and MS
thumb and forefngcr marked off a space as bl-
a crosss section of the tail of an enraged omcat
The trains are running as usual. because our
operators are trained for such emergencies. Dut we
never had such an utter paralysis of the telegraph
service before. We think we have the best rail
road telegraph service in the country, 100, Dut To-
day we got our messages here by rail-
ION the north side of the track we had our
own poles. with nineteen through wires wh liG
the Western Union poles on the south side carried
ffty-eight wires. We had two wires on their
poles and they had two on ours but they were
all borne down with perfect imparll@, I,, 10
at was the stIciost snow ever known, ne
continued and 1t was the dead weight thai Droke
the wires There was high wird too; nut on
the high ground, where IT had free sweep, 'Ilc
4 nj
calities. The ruin worst between Jersey wv
and Newark. II is utterly impossible to say now
Princeton Junction and Trenton cighty-scvcn are
down. while more than forty are gone between
Trenton and Bories. Even where the poles are
still standing, moreover. the cross-arms are often
gone and the tremendous weight Of the snow Is
shown by the appearance of the breaks. In some
cases the croSs-arms in falling carried away pieces
of the pole with them while IN o,heis ,he ctIS>
arms broke of sharp right between the pins that
In repairing railroad telegraph lines speed, OF
course i the prime object. and the wires are sup
ported where The poles are down. in any way POS
siplc This temporary reconsiructiCn c'| w.
pushed rapidly, and OIL the ROADS Will PIu"IuN
have wires ready for temporary Use early ''''S'
DESTRUCTION BETWEEN ALBANY AND NEW
YORK.
The MANAGERS of The West Shore road report tha'
the storm caused few delays in the running "f
trains. and the delays that did occur we're from
snow The elects OF II storm wore not fr!t on
their road above Albany. Between ALBANY ana
Ncw-York all wires were down for some hours an"
a number Of poles fell No accidents occurred
from the falling Of t.e poles, and trains ran as
usual As an instance e tie regularity with
which trains run. they SAID that ''e
express. that leaves Buffalo for New-l oIK chch
dav AT 4 D. IN. arrived yesterday at 80 4. NJ,
exactly on schedule time. Men were put at "oIh
on the wires as as they were derahSeu' anu
they were all in order again before noon yes'cr-
None OF the roads that centre at the Urand
Central Station suffered any serious INJURY rom
the storm except the interruption OF co3hullcn-
tion bv wire There were some Slight delays on
the New-York New-lIaven and Hartford roal, ana
il was D. IN. yesterday before the first wire com
was established. Men were still AT work at lac
hour last night getting the other wires oil the
on the NewYork Central and the Harlem roads
large gangs OF men were at work repairing wires
all day yesterday There was no U1uo c, now,
sfSRa Of Wires on the
| Central were all right last night beyond rough
kcepsie, and from New-Iork TO Croton., Srrhi-
Gus efforts were being made TO repair thc oIeak
between Croton and Poughkeepse. There was
no important delay in the running of trains now
ever. -
ITS EFFECT on THE EXCHANGES.
The speculative exchanges Of the city-or what
is commonly called Wall Street-suiered more
complete isolation through the storm than was
experienced at the time Of the blizzard. When
the disturbances Of March l2, 1883, were feIt'
some connection with the outside world was main
tanned through the ong-distance telephone wires
Yesterday even those means OF intercohmuh ca ion
were cut of Every exchange rad It's lfAnsao
tons confined virtually WITHIN the Jour "dlls Va
the building-in other words, the trading elcHcil
had supreme sway AT the Stock Exchange Inc
transactions were even larger than on some daA
of recent dulness, but this grew on OF inc oppoi
unity afforded to professional operators 10 rall
certain stocks that largely depend upon OUTSIDE
support and TO make ventures III OtheI prop'I'Ie,
which were laDe 10 DC lhHueuccu ~ '"0 b'H'i'4
course of values.
The efforts of the Western Union and the tclc-
phone companies 10 restore service were cary
directed toward the Stock Exchange, ana as tHc
wires that connect the building with the surround
ing Offices short, any necessary repairs 80
complete the services were easily maze -, buJ iHc
private wires TO Chicago, Boston ana fhilade'Ph'
and minor places were wiped out as WIN sponge,
1t was difficult even TO communicates pF WHY VI
cable when resort was had 10 The ilanslHlsSon vi
messages between Ncw-lO anu oIher cues uas
were isolated by the Geographic brcaNdo"@ ny
the use OF the ocean wires. toI,erNdtlNc 'S'i
mates make the loss of business TO the Sloch
Exchange from outside sources on any larry
octive dav fully one-half when communication j.
cut off between New Ork and It's three principal
feeding" cities. There is always large amount
Of "arbitrale or scalplng transictOhs uohc
whom the wires are available, but the estimate
given is based upon the actual commission oil
investment transactions. =, GIL,
some sort of news driftcd into The STOCK
Exchange houses which do a grain business but
no direct quotations were received from Jie WIS.,,
although il was said that at one time the "eS'cIh
Tnion had established connection with 'hcago
by Way of st. Louis. The mails were resorlca TO
i'm MANY instances TO convey the Information ,'n'
dors On hand had not or could not, be executed,
even when communication over the regular wires
was restored subject to delay" Az the rIGdnGe
Exchange the usual statement OF the visible
Mnrir ~ Grain was imperfect, because OF the
innpbbty of the wires to carry the necessary m
formation and the Cotton and other exchanges
suffered from the same cutting Oh OF coi"'ii""i'"-
The Coffee Exchange failed to receive dlspatches
from Havre direct, but got them Dy way Vi
The Cotton Exchange received its first dispatch
from Europe half an hour behind time. VINES ~ aIso
received one dispatch from Galveston Noonc'
Vemphis Cincinnati and Boston.
wopKING ALL RIGHT