The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-16
BLIZZARD, JR.
Heaviest Snow Fall for
Many Years Visits This
Neiehborhood.
FULLY FOURTEEN INCHES DEEP
Vail From the Storm Delayed
Citizens Of Greenville
and Bayonne.
Traction Company and Railroad
Companies Not Much Hamp.
cred By the Storm No
Carts Here.

Snow began falling yesterday morning
at little after IL o'clock. All day long
and all night long it fell. with but feW
breaks. piling UP its soft fakes slowly,
but stead ~ until it lay this morning
more than d foot in depth on field and
paved street, on cottage caves or on the
tin rocfs of high business buildings. On
the drives Garfield avenue and the Boule-
ward. il came TO cheer the hearl of the
lover of sleighing, but on the principal
streets it meant extra work and plenty
Of it for the superintendent of the Con-
solidated Traction Company
What an amount Of beautiful scenic eff
feet went to waste tnis morning! The
lady of the mouse thought morosely of
the bargains advertised in yesterdays
1Oe-page newspapers. and the pater fami-
las said something besides his prayers
when his eyes rested upon that immacu-
late blanket decently covering earth's old
bare bones.
On every trolley car that left Green
vile this morning there were many who
vowed 10 move into New York by May l.
They were newcomers and had not yet
become used to the climate of that very
exposed portion OF the city. The old resi-
dent were rubber boots today tucked up
his trousers from eighteen inches to two
feet at the bottom, waded in great satis-
faction whittier he Lsteth dry shod.
The snow was really very harmless, be-
cause the wind was low and the atmos-
phere quite warm. A little more wind
would have blocked trains. trolleys, ev-
erything, including wires of all kinds
AS it was. little or no trouble was ex-
perienced The trolley smeepers were
sent out before the snow had become
very deep and kept the tracks clear
from that time The work was excel
lently done, and scarcely any delay was
experienced.
Trucks. whose drivers found the space
between trolley tracks far better for
their horses than the high snow on either
side, delayed not a few cars on Grand
ard York streets this morning. The
longest of these variations from the
schedule We're one or two stops of if
tenn minutes or less. There were no
wires down and no cases of fuses burn
ing out It is safe to say there never
was more deceiving storm in this
respect, though gigantic in proportions it
was quite cherubic in effects.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was not
hampered at all by the storm If the
fall mad been more rapid. or if what d.h
fail had drifted ever so little, there
would undoubtedly have been trouble;
but that did not occur. Other railroads
had little difficulty, though few West
ern trains were reported a trifle behind
time Their tardiness varied from five
minutes to nearly an hour.
The storm was a Widespread one, which
extended from the New England States
clear down to Key West, Fla. It's centre
lay over the Lake REGION the Middle
Atlantic and the New England States.
From Maine to Philadelphia snow was
falling everywhere. South of that it took
OF spring flowers. Westward the storm
extended until it bathed everyone be-
tween the Atlantic seaboard and the
Mississippi Valley. Across the Father OF
WaIees all was serene.
AT 10 o'clock this morning fourteen
inches of snow had fallen. Then the
temperature ran from Is degrees at Buff
falo to 76 degrees at Key West. Here
in Jersey City it stooG- 1t 80 degrees.
Our street railroads were more fortu-
care over there were much delayed. es-
pe:cially below Twenty-third street, where
they were most needed. Both horse and
parsicularly slow. They travelled up
most urabroken. 1t was like the moving
platform at the Worlds Fair in effect.
The cars on the. Brooklyn Bridge were
delayed, as usual. Few people walked
over All who could afford 1t waited
patiently in the depots at either end
until they got a chance to ride. In City
was given to the otherwise strictly bust
ness aspect Of the neighborhood. The
white tufts. Each Erass plot was spot
less white; each pathway a sloppy trod-
Its drives were almost entirely, deserted
Un.ess it rains New York's streets will
bors. who are less favored in the matter
OF street cleaning. Colonel Waring thinks
it VII cost $1,000 to clear the PRINCIPAL
place to Twenty-third street was at
tackled All Jersey City's spare carts
contractor out Of his difficulty, so that
when Mayor Wanser called on the con-
tractors of this city for carts none were
On the river there was some difficulty
in navigation. but the ferryboats ran
back and forth with gratifying prompti-
tude. Down the bay matters were worse.
Craft of all kinds and sizes crept care
fully along, with their shippers ever on
the lookout for an accident.
Those who parade in honor Of st. Pat
rick tomorrow will find the walking very
bad. Rain viii clear the streets, but il
experience is bound to be an unpleasant
one The sons Of old Erin have walked
through as bad weather on the 18th Of 4
not likely they viii finch at thls:
There is plenty of snow in .Hoboken,
The old-fashioned horse cars running
between Hoboken and this city had two
today Two drivers were on each car
and took turns in directing the four-ir-
hand The elevated e ss and and ground trolley