The Portland daily press., 1896-03-17
ANOTHER NIGH WIND.
A High Wind and Drifting Snow Last
Night.

It Was Hard Railroad Men. Tramps
and the Life Saving People-It Made
Home, Sweet Home Pleasant and the
Streets Completely Otherwise.
There wasn't great deal of wind last
night, that is not when compared with
other storms we have had this winter,
but what there was did it's best. 1t was
AZ active as a ward politician the day
before eleouion, as Industrious as street
gang while the boss is in sight, and as
constantly in evidence as Populist
statesman.
Outside the storm was very thick. At 8
O'clock Captain Trundy OF the United
States life saving station was called over
the telephone and said 1t was very bad
and thick night outside.
He said that before the nigh t shut In
he failed to see anything OF the coast,
and that no vessels were anchored under
Richmond's Island. There was ample
warning given of the coming OF the
storm, and the white wings OF most OF
the schooners were furled in some secure
har Dor before night.
But Captain Trundy isn't the man to
take things for granted, and SO last
night, as during all other especially bad
nights, the coast line was patrolled. and
the work was well done. The men OF the
life saving service must he ready at all
times. Possibly they will not be called
this season to send their life boat out
through that white line of breakers they
have passed SO many times but they
was hard night for Captain Trundy
and his men, for the storm was thick aud
the wind was high out there on the Cape
Elizabeth coast.
And it was a wild and hard night fol
!, the railroad men. 1t isn't an easy thing
to navigate the hurricane deck of a
freight car such night, and even less
) pleasant tolbe brake beam passenger.
If the railroad men had hard time oft,
the tramps, their passengers. found il
still worse.
Last night as every other bad night
this winter, tramps made their way tc
J the police station and asked for shelter
Their condition is always bad enough,
but a heavy storm makes it still worse.
They came in as is always the case such
nights after the arrival of the freight
trains. How they managed to cling to
J the cars, between the cars, even under
the cars, nobody but tramp knows, but
/, LII o1ir
Sometimes, not always, their dull eyes
will brighten at the question, "Do you
want support" but commonly they know
that "supper" will be only dry crackers
The snow plows kept the streets In
good condition for the electrics, that Ii
here in the city, but 1t was hard work
The Cape line had as always the worst Of
it, for their exposed territory. WAS just al
much given to drifting last night as ever
"Do you find it easy running" was
asked, and one of the motormen replied
J aNo," and then shouted back, but WI
get there" That might we'll be taken by
the line itself as it's motto.
"Where is your hardest running?' wal
asked of another man on the same line
: and he replied, Everywhere" HI
probably didn't recall General Phi
Kearney's ''there's glorious fighting
; along the whole line," but he had muci
the same experience.
1t will be found this morning tina
most of tho streets drifted badly las
night. Astonishingly few people wer'
out. AS a convincing argument in favo
of the superior attraction OF home, th'
storm was better than a series OF sermons
The wind wasn't high, but the snow wa
light and whisked about recklessly, piled
up bore aud there and generally managed
to get in the way.
1t will very likely be found to be sal
interrupter of communication with thu
country towns. Railroad men will FIND
every cut solidly piled with snow, ant
there will be work for the section gangs.
/ And in the midst of the storm the new
of the death of kid" Madden was told
) and the bright boy, and promising bal
, player was recalled by hundreds. 1t will
be a long time before Portland peopl,
. will forget the boy they lovingly referred
to as ''The Kid"
1t was wild night even in the harbor
There was thick fog that seemed tt
fairly rest down on the water, and th,
harbor itself was very rough. The schoon
| ers tied up At the wharves strained badl,
, on their ropes, and probably considerably
damage was done to some of them, TO
they scraped badly against the timbers
One thing the storm will do, and that i
t help the lumbermen get in their supple
to their camps, or in some instances t,