The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-08
WIyD STORM CONTINUES.

New Yorl's Heaviest Gale in Many Years. New York, Feb. 7.-As an amusement that does not find it's votaries wholly among fashionable folk, hat chasing along the public streets and around the corners of New York has become very popular sport here within the last twen- ty-four hours-when you consider the number of persons who have engaged in it.
 If the wind could have been turned into the theaters and blown away few women's large hats it might not have been considered an unmixed evil. As it is, the wind of New York has been a free coinage of profanity measure.
 The record breaking storm found it's center over New York city at 8 p. m. yesterday The wind was scooting along at terrific rate. The barometer was the particular star at that minute, 5 for 1t touched a point never before, reached since the United States weather bureau established station here. The figures were 28.70.
 But the barometer was only tempora- rily in the ascendant When the rec ords were all scanned it was found that the wind velocity was the remarkable fact in the storm. In days gone by the wind has bowled along for five minutes at the rate of seventy-three miles an hour. It has even touched eighty miles for a single minute. But during the twenty-four hours of yesterday this speed was not only eclipsed, but never for a single minute did the wind fall be- low forty miles an hour.
 Tt will be found," said Weather Fore caster Dunn this morning, "when the reports are all in, that the storm has done great damage all along the line of its course"
 By 8 o'clock this morning the storm center had advanced to the eastern coast of Maine. At Portland the ba- rometer was only 2S.S4, and the inhabi- tants of that town were experiencing the same trying condition that prevail ed in New York yesterday-a gale ac- companied by heavy rain and dense fog.
 The gale continued from the west The Middle Atlantic and the New Eng land coast were receiving it's full vigor, from forty to seventy miles an hour.
 The wind here at noon was blowing forty-eight miles an hour. Before eight o'clock the rate was sixty-five. It would continue high all day, according to MT. Dunn. gradually decreasing a the night advances.
 '"The weather here will remain fair to-day, tomorrow and Sunday" said he. ''The temperature will gradually go lower during this period, for there is a cold wave in the northwest piling down upon us."
 The storm, from which New York city is just recovering, is booming away to the northeast. It will be very severe over the North Atlantic coast for the next two or three days.
 In the immediate neighborhood of New York the atmosphere has cleared remarkably. Northwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania report slight flurries of snow.
 ''We never had any such weather in New York as that vouchsafed to us yes- terday," said Sergeant Dunn this morn ing. ''The weather, by the way, seems to be most interesting topic to New Workers" he continued q delivered a lecture at grammar SCHOOL NO. o1 last night. Notwithstanding the storm, the crowd was so great that at little after 8 o'clock the doors had to be closed be- cause there wasn't room for any more inside"
 The people were experiencing wealth. CT and they wanted to hear about it. MT. Dunn may not be an always infalli- ble prophet, but he has his lines out on the future, and that's interesting.
 On account of the late reports to-day the weather map was not out until noon.