New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-09
ARCTIC BLASTS LET LOOSE.
4 STORM OF NO MEAN SIZE.
DUNN WHO OUGHT TO KNOW. SAYS IT'S
BIGGER THAN THE BLIZZARD OF 'SS.

DUNN, WHO OUGHT TO KNOW, SAYS IL
BIGGER THAN THE BLIZZARD OF 'SS.
VAST AREA SWEPT BY THE ICY ELEMENTS
MUCH SUFFERING IN THIS CITY-BUsINEss
PARTIALLY SUSPENDED. TRANSPORTATION
SERIOUSLY HAMPERED AND THE MAILS
DELAYED COMPLETE DISCONTINUE
OF THE GRUMBLER ABOUT THE DE-
CADENCE or wINTER-rr MAY
BE MILDER TO-DAY
Not since the 9Th OF last November has this
town received such a general shake-up. 50 to
speak as 1t got yesterday. 1t experienced re-
| form movement in weather circles which was
simply overwhelming in its effect. 1t wasn't so
much the quantity Of the snow that fell as It's
| inability finally TO decide upon its resting place
| lf 1t had settled down like respectable visitor.
! no one but Colonel Waring would have seriously
objected to It's presence but IT was ever.astngly
| up and doing" Drifts that should have stayed
quietly in one pa e did nothing but chase them
selves up and down the streets till the eyes and
! ears and souls Of the unhappy wayfarers in the
| city were distressed The uneasy snow blew
| off the roofs into the streets and then from the
streets up against the buildings. From these
| points or vantage II SWOOped down again upon
the passer-by who got II in the neck in a
majority Of cases. BY nghtfall the ghost-dance
Of the snow was measurably over; not because
| the snow its frolicsome partner. the wind.
were tired. but because each feathery crystal
and icy globule had at last gotten wedged into
some place so tightly that It could no longer
pursue its mad career.
| The wind was bOisterous and irrepressible.
1t hirted with the vlrgin-white snow out
rageousy. II impudently knocked off the hats
of peaceabe citizens and brutaliy shouldered
weak women out OF its path. 1t rendered itself
liable TO injunction by delaying the United
States mails. and blew ferryboats out OF their
courses. 1t stopped work on the tall buildings
and browbeat the police till they fled for refuge
to barrrooms and doorways. And through it AL
1t cut every living thing 1t met with an icy
razor Of b,terest cold.
DUNN TALKS ABOUT IT.
And tho author Of all this riot and uproar,
! Elias t. Dunn boss Of the county weather ma
| chine. sat up I'm his lofty office and gloried in
| his work. He claimed that yesterdays storm
the most stupendous piece OF weather let
loose on his unfortunate constituency during his
whole adm nistration. and tabulated statistics to
| show it's superiority the blizzard OF lSSS.
| Tho table was as follows:
Yesterdays
blizzard. storm.
SNOW ...........2 fee, ,..............'.'.' inches
Tenr~ra'urc. dcEs above. l deg below
Arcs..............ioo miles radius 900 miles radius
So that in everything but mere quantity Of
snow yesterdays storm beat the record. It ex-
tended all along tho Atlantic coast from Florida
| to Newfoundland from the Mississippi Valley to
away out N the Atlantic. The temperature
| hardly got above degrees In the city through
| out the day and the crowds around the street
! thermometers had to get magnifying glasses TO
| nnd the mercury. which had almost disappeared.
Al Woods Hole. Mass. :he weather-station was
blown into the sea. and at Cape Hatteras the
Office was almost entirely disabled. The frost
| line extended down TO the lowest tip OF Florida
! and encompassed all the States west to and in
cluding Texas. while the zero line straight
from Central Texas to New-York.
BUSINESS HALE PARALYZED.
The effect Of this carousc Of the elements in
! New-York was 20 half paralyze all business I'm
the transportation line North River ferryboats
took from two to four hours for each trip. They
were at the mercy of tho ice and wind. East
River boats were hardly less uncertain. Going
To staten Island was like embarkng for Europe
| The elevated roads We're go hampered that their
service was cxecrabe. and people who intrusted
their lives and nlckels To the company never
knew whether they would arrive or be indefinite
Is blockadcd somewhere between stations and
! have to camp out in the refrgerator-like cars
! During tae busy hours stations were )ammed
with waiting people. and the OCCASIONAL Trains
were loaded - the gates
The scvere cold reduced the s.eamlng power Of
the locomotIves greatly. and the added resistance
| OF wind and snow and stiffening lubricants rem
dcred IT almost impossible FOR hve-car trains to
| and y
a half to Harlem was better than the average
| time made.
Tho surface lines were more less blocked
| The cable cars ran pretty regularly. but the
snow was so drifted and piled In the streets that
| trucks were unable to get out Of the way, ana
| the cars moved at "A snail's pace In consequence
All horse-car lines doubled up their teams ana
reduced the number OF cars one-haH An au'ah-
tage which the surface cars had over the ere
waited lay In the fact that their patrons coud
always get out and walk when hopeless DOCK
adc arose. The elevated railroad passengers
blocked between stations were Ike rats caught
| I'm a trap They could do nothing pu' swear
| The trolley lines Of the lIuckleberry road hau
| nearly all their cars stalled at times Inc ohe-
| hundred and thirty-hfth-st. line ala almost "o
business at all. The Westchester ""'' "e'e
blockaded in the morning. but 200 men opened
way through the drifts. and cars ran all DAY o."
reduced schedule
THE SUBURBAN TRAFFIC.
The suburban steam lines were all running ne
| hind time. and many trains were "oa"uo'''
The Jersey roads doubled up their trains so as ~
get the power of the two engines Tor one Tram
and the lines running into the Grand Ceh'ra'
station struggled along with only few cars 10
| the train.
The same rule was finally adopted on the eie-
waited roads and orly four-car trains were run
where five cars are generally used. S"i'ches
were frozen. and hard was the driven s"o"
| by reason Of the continuous hammerihg IL re-
| ceived from the wind that when wedeeu III
| against the rails. both on elevated ana suriace