New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-19
HEAVIEST SNOWFALL or THE UINTEE.
TRAVEL DELAYED IN TIE STREETS AND OF THE
ELEVATED RAILROADS.

TRAVEL DELAYED IN TIE STREETS AND or THE
ELEVATED RAILROADS.
snow is good angel among the elements which 20
10 make up the weather At least it Is If there i
anything In the theory Of scientists that weather
effects peoples moods and that rainy days lead to
suicide. Most people feel good naturcd when Their"
ar, biz piles Of snow every hand. No matter how
slow the cars run or how much one might be joNticd
or delayed. most people seemed be happy yest"r-
day. \ foot OF in New York street means
three feet AT the curb stone and the boys had a
happy time building snow forts and running sl"d,.
one didn't see that in Broadway, where SNOW was
only another name for discomfort, but in the side
streets where trucks and street were Scarrer
and the snow not yet mixed with the dirt Of the
Unceancd streets, the children rcvelled. TIL" awk-
ward attempt, of youngsters. who knew little of
hcatlul country winter sports. TO build the forts
they had heard about, would have been pathetic
had it not been laughabe. They enjoyed II rs
well the onlOOkcr, there WAS room for
SORROW.
The snowstorm OF Yesterday morning the heaviest
Of the winter, and among The heaviest since the biz
| zard Of four wears ago. ON Thursday evening the
| fakes began 10 come down. They piled up on top
of each other all night and breakfast time The earth
| had thItcen-nch cOvcrlct above her. Then came
the days struggle with The Obstruction The street
ear companies had fOrcsccn the difficulty soon after
the snowfall began, and long before ii ceased HAD
accumulation OF Even then il was hard enough
| 10 run the cars. The crOss-town lines ana many Of
the lines In side streets with four horses. This
enabled them 10 make fair time but a. the cars were
lnfrequcnt they everywhere filled 10 Ov,rtowin2
| In Third ave. good time made bat i'll Broadway
the delays were maddening four-hor,c team Is Eng
fish and stylish but would be worse than useless III
| Broadway, as crowded as ii was yeetrday ana the
company WAS wise enough not TO that plan. though
BleeckcrSt and Broadway cam, along with >ringr
of horses which helped 10 block the street owing
70 the the streets, Broadway became
the thorOuehfae for vastly more than H. sharr OF
trucks and this DELAYED traffic to euch an extent thdi
some three hour, behind their schedule time
| when they were taken of at night.
The elevated railroad trains were DELAYED somewhat
i'm the morning and were consequently crowded more
| than usual 70 make the discomfort worse. on the
West lines The trains all car shorter uiah
| usual
Commissioner Brennan. Of she street Cleaning De
paItmeut decided that II useless to try 20 clear
| ovav the snow during the day and contentcd himself
with keeping tie cIossw,llho clean. At night, carts
wer sent out 10 clear the main tOrOughiaicN. Inc
| JOY Of the acrpoOn was somewhat dmmcd Though mol
entirely botted out by fine drzzle which was rather
the settling of the mist which hung over The city than
a genuine rain.
When asked to eNplan the storm which he had
raked up for parting winter salute Local f3tGh.
| Officer Dunn said There is SHOW all over the 'h''u
state, east of the ohio and Tennessee valleys anu
| from Virginia 10 Maine. There l. rain son'h al '"
| .ina to Florida West OF the Mississippi the weather
il generally cle;J. The storm centfe l. over the NJ
antic ocean, just east of Virginia and North 'aln"
| II is moving northeastward. All along The coast hEh
winds prevail, together with dense fog HE "ef"e
temperature New York To day Wa - degrees ana the
| lowest was 20 degrees. ~ sandy Hook this morning
The wind WAS blowing about twenty six miles IN h1ur
| and al Block Island a. about forty IN" aV'l'Sr
snowfall North Of Washington has been about %',
On Iauarv Il we had SIX inches OF snow and on Jan
nary lG eight Inches. The Il lr1n l. now m"N.ht h'I
| east. IL Will lie clearing In The morning Gnu 'hc ""'
will be fair and sunday Will be warmer