The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-17
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BEAUTIFUL SLUSH.
jersey City Streets in the
Worst Condition on
Record.
'REDEEaING FEATURE. TRoLLEYs
Car Traffic Hardly Interrupted
Mishaps Of the Baby
Blizzard.
REDEEaING FEATURE. TRoLLEYs

II the city's condition was bad yester-
Gay. 1t is simply awful today. Water,
water everywhere, and with it sogzy
snow. The few carts which were nor
taken to New York to help out Con-
tractor Tate and Colonel Warins have
been in use since yesterday afternoon.
zIhey have. made but little impression
upon the condition Of the streets. except
at the Junction, where the street has
been WeA cleared from curb to curb
This, the heaviest fall of snow Of the
year. did not interfere seriously with
railroads. trolleys or telegraph and tele-
phone lines yesterday. When it turned 10
rain, at 2 P. M, and began to freeze
to wires Of all sorts, some trouble was
anticipated by the different companies.
None was felt however The Western
Union Telegraph Company's morning re-
port showed the wires O. K. everywhere.
Tne rain continued until after 10 P. NJ.
Ihere was not enough of it to clear
away all the snow. and it melted the
heavy coating all over the city suffi-
GENTLY to transform it into a sloppy mass
s1hoe,top s1asp high on every crossing or un-
cleaned sidewalk. To make walking
were choked by the snow, and pools
from six inches to foot in depth formed
q. az rne curo on almost every street cross
rubber boots Rubbers and oyershoes
gave no protection, and their wearers
siumped drearily along with futile hops
ana Jumps through pools and puddles.
inducing pneumonia and grip with rha
greatest reckleSSness
Snow and slush lay two or three inches
deep on trolley tracks despite the sweep
ers. which had cleaned them SO thor
oughly. Sttll they did not seem to be
erected by the state of affairs. Those
dld not seem to be affected to any ex-
tent by, the presence of the liquid mass
upon the rails. Newark bound car
ton. burned out and came to a dead
stop as result of it at about 10 p NJ
4 large number of cars were stalled be-
We're carrying the members of the FolIr.
Hundred Club to their dance at the New
York Bay House. These were stopped
with the others. and the calls, protests
and jokes of the occupants made 1aizht
hideous in the vicinity q
The streets throughout the city are So
scarcely make their way throneh therI,'
On those streets whereon trolleys run
the , drivers turn the horses into the
fire should break out TIT the 'esuHT engines = and
trucks would encounter great difficulty
In reaching it. Fire-plugs are buried be-
would have to be clessed G before for aus stfesTn Tn
could be brought to bear on the blaze
few casualties resulted from stkss
storm yesterday.
A. horse attached to sleigh ran away
street and Central avenue At Zabris5
kie street the Sleigh upset and the two
occupants were thrown out but fell IN
q snow bank and thus escaped injury.
The horse was stopped by a citizen
The roof of stable at Beacon and
Oaklands avenues fell in with a. crash,
which Drought people living within d
radius ofsfotir blocks to the scene, think
ing that an earthquake had come. The
weight. Of the snow on the roof caused
the collapse. Several horses that wers
In the stable at the time escaped with
out injury.
n The ice on the wires on Hoboken ave-
nue. near the top of the HILL caused
about ten minutes delay last night on
the Summit avenue line of the North
Hudson County Railroad
. 10y storekeepers along Central and
summit avenues We're complaining last
night about the North Hudson County
Railroad sweepers. In many cases tha
Storekeepers had removed the snow from
In front of their places of business to
enable wagons to stop in front of their
DOORS. Shortly after the snow was re-
moved, a sweeper drawn by four horses
came along and undid in few seconds
what had required hours Of hard lsbo1
on the part of the storekeepers. Fa