The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-27
OH, The BEAUTIFUL 2
A B1izzardlet on Ice Arrives
Fresh From the Western
Weather Works.
SLUsH REIGNs SUPREME
Just a Little Damage to Trolley
and Other Wires in the
New York Vicinity.
TIE SOUTH ALMOST CUT OFF
Wind and sleet Prevail From
Canada Almost to the Gulf
Cold Next.
TIE SOUTH ALMOST CUT OFF

Cold Next.
NEW YORK, Dec. q, 1Ss4.-More dls-
agreeable weather than that which
greeted New York when ii awoKe TINS
morning would be hard to imagine. Inc
city was today the centre OF storm
that for the past two days has peeh
wiggling its way up along the coast
from the Gulf of Mexico.
If reached us last night when, at D
o'clock. the snow began TO fall, ana
high northeast wind came with II. Ihe
winds continued blowing and the sho"
kept on piling up until, al O'Clock thls
morning. 10 inches had fallen rms
would by no means have been bad mad
it not commenced to rain at 5;4o +. M
and continued it all the morning SO
steadily that at 10 o'clock the total water
fan. rain and snow combined. was l.Sl
inches.
The storm, the centre of Wn1cn
has a radius of about 500 miles. extenos
over all the States east OF the
mississippi 1t is everywhere attended
with heavy snow and rain fails, ana
along the coast with dense fog Hlgn
northeasterly winds prevail over the
whole of the storm-swept region. o1l
Sandy Hook. at 10 o'clock. it was dow
ing a hurricane, the wind raging at oo
miles an hour. At Block Island bS miles
per hour was its velocity; at Nor1olk'
50; at Hatteras 4S; at Wilmington, 40;
at New York. 3S.
These winds will. according to Ser
geant Dunn, continue only during the
day and then they will shift around to
the northwest
RAIN AND SNOW.
From every portion of the storm-swept
region come reports of snow and rainfall,
the mining UNI being half an inch. New
York had 1s1 inches of waterfall, nearly
of snow; Block Island. 2.46; Washington,
LIP; Philadelphia, 1.30; Hatteras, LA
There is a severe cold wave over the
Northwest and lake regions. and the
temperature this morning is below zero
all over the West north of Iowa and
Nebraska; below freezing south as far
as Mobile and east to Savannah.
Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts the
Temperatures are slightly above 30 deg.
Fahrenheit It was 81 deg. in this city
at ten o'clock In Boston it was "a deg;
at Albany, IA deg; at Chicago, Il deg;
at st. Paul, u deg. below zero; at More
head, Mimi, 1S deg. below zero; Bismark,
Oak, "a below zero; White River, 40
deg. below zero; Key West, 60 deg.
Fahrenheit.
FORECAST
Observer Dunn gives this forecast this
morning
eve will have rain and snow today,
fa11orro5 NV oIaar oafhpr fhis evening
and tonight. It will be fair on Friday
and Saturday. It is going to be decided
ly colder, with a cold wave.
.aThe temperature will fall twenty de-
grees by tomorrow and will remain cold
for several days The high winds will
continue from the northwest. The storm
is moving eastward over the ocean,
The Weather Bureau has danger sig
nails flying all along the coast They
anticipated considerable damage as the
result of the storms severity.
That the city may expect lively wealth
er is evident.
STREET CLEANING.
The Street Cleaning Department an
nounce themselves ready for it, how
ever.
CommissipnerAndrews mustered his full
of getting rid of the snow. The work,
however, was considerably aided by the
rain, as it rendered the snow of such
consistency that it simply flowed off
when the cutters were once cleaned and
the sewer gates opened.
The principal trouble was where last
nights high winds had drifted the snow
up into formidable heaps that the rain
failed to make much impression upon.
These had to be carted away in many
instances.
The street cars were running all right
on all the avenues and cross streets.
This was due to the prompt work of the
companies in getting out their sweepers
last night and keeping the snow off the
tracks as it fell in a very light and
consequently easily handled condition.
Traffic today was not impeded by the
storm 1t was the pedestrians that suf-
fered The sidewalks were all the morn
ing covered with slush, snow and ice.
The damage TO telegraph wires has all
been south of Philadelphia. All wires
are down between Philadelphia and Har-
risburg and between Washington and
Lynchburg.
MAJESTIC MAKES PORT.
The Majestic of the White Star line
managed to get inside Sandy Hook just
as the storm made its appearance. The
weather was so thick that she was
forced to stop.
She was anchored in the lower Bay all
night, and made her appearance at
Quarantine early this morning.
Her passengers would have been land
ed last night but for the binding snow
storm. Her trip-six days, seven hours
and twenty-three minutes--is, when the
weather is taken into consideration.
good one.
on Saturday she weathered q heavy
gale and was compelled to slow up.
Her run on that day was $50 miles
The weather was rough the entire
trip. She had head seas on every day
but. Tuesday On Wednesday she passed
some floating wreckage.
FIsHERMEN ESCAPE IT.
The owners of boats in the fishing
asst were all down around Fulton Mar