The Jersey City news., 1898-11-28


cry street line was completely blocked
shortly after eleven O'clock and was iiot
opened to Bergen avenue until SIX e'ciock
in The morning We couldn't open It at
all to West Side avenue until 5;3e O'Clock
this evening, when we managed 70 set
a carsthrough as far as Bentley avenue
We started one snow plow down Mont
eomery street at three O'Clock this morn
ing with two cars behind It TO force u
along. 1t was wrecked before it got 10
the foot of the Hill, and just managed 20
reach the ferry. No other cars coutd
get through We have not run the Hen
derson street line at all since LAST nisht,
We kept cars running over the Erie
street line all night in order to keep the
tracks clear We had to run two cars
coupled together as one could not get
through. The Newark and New York
over the Plank road was closed down
altogether from one o'clocksto 4.3O o'clock
and after that hour the cars did not run
on anything like schedule time.
ssOn the meadows we did not experience
much difficulty, as the wind swept the
snow from the tracks across the open
country, but in the city it was different
We sent two cars up Grand street short
ly after two o'clock in the morning One
of them was derailed at Manning avenlls
and the other got stuck at Pacif1c ave
nue.. The cars would be forced from the
tracks by the snow The Turnpike cars
to Newark ran all day on a single track
from the Five Corners to the Hackensach
bridge, and we had TO send out two cars
together The snow on the south track on
West Side avenue beside the Pennsylvania
Railroad wall was eight feet deep and It
will be some time before we can clear It
away. The Bayonne line has been rum
ming pretty well today, but we have 70
keep men constantly at work clearing the
tracks. The first car on the Turnpike
road was two hours late in getting
through this morning We have kept
cars running on fifteen minutes headWsy
on all the lines today although there
have been but very few passengers. lthas
been necessary to keep the cars gong ~
order to keep the road open. we nave
had a large force Of extra men al WORK
ever since last night.
Inspector Hart did good work on sat
urday night IN raising the block on the
JSreenville line The newsboys who con-
gregate around the ferry We're kept busy
last night clearing the snow out OF the
switches and tracks in the car she'd 1t
would become packed again so as to stop
the cars almost as soon as it was re-
moved, and the boys, about ten in NUM-
Der. were kept busy all the evening.
Considering the difficulties experienced,
things went pretty smoothly on the Penn
ssv,yania Railroad. Two hundred men
from the freight yards and nearly i've
hundred men who weresfurnished by con
tractors were sent out on Saturday night
to clear the tracks and the greater part
of them were kept at work all day yes
terady. No snow plows or sweepers can
be used on the Pennsylvania Railroad be-
tween New York and Philadelphia, as 1t
is a four track road, and the snow
would be swept from one track to
another. All the snow has to be removed
with shovels The tracks between Jer-
sey city and Newark were kept fairly
well cleared There were several delays
caused by derailing of locomotives. one
locomotive jumped off the track three
times while on the elevated structure Sat
.urday night An engine and several
freight cars were derailed by the snow
In the Waldo avenue yards. The longest
delay in the arrival of trains yesterday
was forty minutes At the train Dispatch
ers office last night it was said that
everything was in good shape.
William Allen, twenty-three years old,
of No. 127 Grand street, was picked up on
Exchange place Saturday night with both
feet badly frozen. He was taken to the
City Hospital.
George Book, forty-two years old, of
Monmouth and Fourth streets, was found
unconscious in Hamilton Park shortly
after midnight yesterday morning, suffer
ing from exposure to cold. He had been
drinking heavily. He was taken home.
Charles Shopp, seventy-eight years old,
of No. rs Atlantic street. who was en-
ployed as a butcher by his nephew, Henry
Hohorst, of Monticello and Communipaw
avenues, started to work early yesterday
morning He struggled through the snow
drifts as far as Bramhall and Jackson
avenues, and then he fell exhausted.
When help came he was dead. The storm
had proved to much for his failing pow
ers. The boy was taken home.
Trucking between New York and New
ark, by way of Grand street, Communi-
paw avenue and the Newark plankroad,
was practically brought to standstill on
Saturday night. Heavily laden trucks
were stalled all along Communipaw ave-
nue., and exhausted horses fell on every
block. No less than four sets of horses
were overcome and fell in front of the
Communipaw avenue police station on
Saturday night. The drivers of the trucks
were compelled to put their horses in
nearby stables and hire other horses to
drag the loads to Newark Some of the
wagons were left standing in the street
all night, and one, one of Mahoney's ex-
press wagons, stood on the Communipaw
avenue Hill until one o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The drivers of the trucks suf-
fered almost as much as the horses did
Patrelman Connell found Thomas Nc
Cormack, early yesterday morning, lying
in the street at Pavonia avenue and kelso
street, half covered with snow and freez-
ing to death. He was taken to St. Fran
els Hospital in a patrol wagon
Every passenger who rode on the troll
leys to the ferry this morning firmly
made up his or her mind to rise hereafter
an hour earlier in stormy weather in
order to get to business in time In
fact, the conductors frequently advised
irritated passengers to start an hour
Thousands of passengers this morning
were made gpnprallW fITlpornf rf-fa flle nv