The evening world., 1894-04-11
High Tide Causes Trouble at the
Ferry Slips and on the
River Front.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER.
Farmers Unable to Get 10 This
City with Their Mer-
chandise.

This is pretty fine April weather, I
don't think" was Weather ForeCaster
Dunns greeting this morning. Then he
gazed out of his back window at the
weather machines, which were buHzing
away fifty feet above him on their big
iron tower, and sighed.
II can't stop 'em. either. until I hear
from the South. and every wire Is down
In that direction"
At IL o'clock Mr. Dunn could not even
give New Workers the comforting assur-
ance that the worst Of the storm had
passed. The meagre reports received
at the local weather bureau this fore
noon tended to show that New York
Is in for about as uncomfortable a day
as 1t has experienced for many year.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon 1t was said
at the weather clerks office that the
wind would, during the night. change
from the northeast to the northwest, and
that clear weather might be looked for
to morrow.
Added to the snow and rain was a
high wind from the north and east,
which hummed along at the rate of
forty miles an hour. At Block Island
the wind measuring machines registered
a velocity of fifty-six miles an hour. and
at Sandy Hook the Indicator pointed to
the number which showed that the
northeaster was hustling by that point
at the rate OF sixty-four miles every
sixty minutes
THE high winds" continued Mr.. Dunn,
ARE blowing along the whole coast OF
the Middle Atlantic and New England
h,,, Of
storm is that not a drop OF rain or n
flake of snow has fallen north OF New
York. Even Block Island and Albany
are dry as chip.
From what l can learn this morn
ing the storm looks as II 1t was still
south OF US, with the storm centre "A
little to the west. There is a nasty fog
all along the coast, too. which makes 1t
bad for vessels at sea.
New Workers may get a little salts
faction out OF life by looking backward.
Last April there was snow and sleet on
the 7th from 8 A. NJ. until P. NJ.
Previous April storms.
ION April Is. 1892, we had snow, and
| April 3. Of the previous year. there was
quite a heavy fan. However. the entire
| exceptionally cold
The wind and snow have played havoc
with the telegraph wires OF both the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
| Companies.
Many Wires Down.
| Supt. Humstone, of the Western Union
| tions. but that owing to the lack of com
| munication he could form no idea OF the
full extent OF the trouble. All messages
for the South and West were received
i OIL IA Loot n a
Manager George H. Usher OF the
| Postal Telegraph Company, ran his
hand through his iron-grny locks and
| wires were working.
He said that wreck of some freight
cars between here and Philadelphin had
| New York and the Quaker city.
| All Western business was interrupted,
he said. but North and East the wires
messages South and West were told that
they would be taken subject to delay
ed by the storm. At least that was what
the Superintendent OF the Malls, at the
Post once. said AT 10 o'clock.
| All the mails had been coming in reg
| was, however. big Western mail due
at Il o'clock. which had not yet been
heard OF owing to the fact that the
| wires were down.
| Steamers Delayed.
There are several big transatlantic
liners which should arrive to-day.
| The White Star steumer Majestic
J should have been sighted At an early
/ hour this morning; also the fretght,r
Taurlc, OF the same lire. Other steamers
which should have put In an appearance
to-day are the Britannia, 90 days ont
from Sunderland the CIrcusGia.- - days
out from Glasgow; the Croft, from
Dundee, 90 days ont; the Pontiac, Han
del and Kolga, out Is, 90 and q days re
epectively from Gibraltar; the Lyd!an
Monarch, from London, y nayH out,
Red Sea, from Barry, % days out,
| 1t is thought. however, that the steam
ers are lying off shore until the storm
ahatcs, and Will then all come stringing
in to port.