The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-03
MORE SNOW; THEN COLDER
IT WILL BE WARMER TO-DhF WHILE
THE SNOW FLIES.

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Fereeaster Dunp says-New York East Es-
capped The BiizuArd That Boston EnieJod-
All Trnins from the nerth ana East Late.
A snowstorm, accompanied by heavy winds,
but not 80 violent as the blizzard that has
wrought such havoc in Boston, is expected in
this city some time this morning. 1t Ia coming
out of the Northwest, says Forocaster Dunn, but
IL Is impossible to say how much Of a fall there
viii be. From tho observations taken yoster-
day morning 1t would appear to he q heavy
storm, and Mr.. Dunn says that at that time 1t
had not fully developed.
II is going to be warmer to-day, but toward
night It will blow up colder again. A real cold
wayo is expected tomorrow. and 1t may BIO
several days before It moderates sufficiently to
make being out Of doors comfortable. Accord.
Ing to Forocaster Dunn. this city is very lucky
to have no worso results from the storm than q
moderate snowfall with q cold sequel. We
just missed the dose that Boston got, Mr.. Damn
says. The storm centre shifted just in time to
let New York Off with comparatively little trib-
.ulation.
In this city the winds were varying and Bit
ing yesterday. II wal much colder In the early
morning than II was later In the day. Between
8 and 8 o'clock tho Thermometer was at Its low
est point. 1t registered D. above zero. At 10
o'clock It was 70, and at noon 12'. II stayed at
about that point until 8 o'clock, whom 1t was
14e by tho weather bureau thermometer.
Tho wind played the usual pranks with persons
on foot at points where it always gets q full
sweep. no matter from which direction 1t comes.
Walking around Twenty. third street, Broad
way, and Fifth avenue, at Park row and Spruce
street, and at Wall street and Broadway was q
task, and the wearers of trousers had the usual
fun watching the wearers of skirts trying to
keep them down.
Traffic around the city has not been very
much impeded by the storm, although the cold
of the last two days has made IL less comfort
able. 1t has crowded the elevated and surface
cars with people who usually walk to and from
their places of business. The downtown ele-
waited trains yesterday morning were moro
crowded than they have been during the same
hours this winter. and guards and conductors
had O pretty tough time handling the people.
All the boats in the harbor, from tugs and
small sailing vessels to ocean steamers and
clipper ships. were coated with ice, those COM
ing in from sea making brilliant spectacles I'M
der the bright sun. Seamen told blood-chilling
tales of tho low ebb of the thermometer at sea,
and the condition of the various vessels seemed
There was tho usual rush to the station
Tuesday night and yesterday morning: it al.
ways comes with the bitter weather, but that
there 10 more than tho usual number OF vaga-
bonds in the city at the present time was evil
denced by the fact that in almost every police
court in tho city thore was at least half q dozen
or some other public institution. In most cases
Of this kind the Magistrates were obliged to re-
fuse to commit the no spp paitS msn as al the w work,
At the Western, Union and Postal Telegraph
every effort was being made to establish COM
munication with points which were shut off by
iished with Boston and Providence early in the
late in the afternoon. Both companies hus-
the Western Union had a train load of men
sent from New Haven for Boston at an early
No direct communication with northern New
England could be had yesterday. although
Tho reason for the disastrous effect of the
storm on the wires was that they were coated
came. The heavy winds grounded. broke. and
hopelessly tangled them, and then the snow
s 81 sos and iin sn1.sd 10 shG sesi &C e them tssa # and Tf' m aaPSs sa:
Trains on the New York Contra, the West
late ali day yesterday. The first train 70 reach
s sinse o Monday fES~ gd so inso t Ss Grand gray Il c sptlafe sss!
ton at 9 o'clock YESTERDAY morning rIdnG It left
arrival of the Bay State Limited over the Shore
line shortly after midnight yesterday morning,
from one to three hours late, which is regard.
ed as pretty S E good time n.s under tsn bot tho , sifeum,
i ssanf Boston nat at II O'clock Tuesday morning, and
was due here at 8 in the afternoon. According
to tho conductor and engineer 1t was delayed
the principal distractions were telegraph
poles, and many stops had to be made to clear
the tracks. Then. too, In the absence or 1n-
structions which generally came over the wires,
the engineer had to gFoeeed G ca9EtdioGsly; The
cleared the tracks for the trains which followed.
which accounts for the comparatively good
Superintendent Shepard OF the New York.
New Haven and Hartford road said yesterday
slightly. affected by the storm. Nearly all the
trains from the West and from the northern
were on time yesterday. An officer Of the road
said that there had been some trouble with the
hea been extremely fortunate. considering the
mail train from the West. which arrived at
late, said that tho train lost an hour and a half
coming down the Mohawk Valley and three-quar-
snow had drifted heavily across the tracks, he
said. and 1t was with the greatest difficulty
that the fires In the eng engine be,, were Kept up. as
irebox.
The conductors on some OF the fast trains
which got In yesterday had interesting tales to
tell q the troubles they had encountsred dur.
limited said that the train ran into "a snow
drift ten feet deep.two miles east of Sharon be-
fore they had boon out Of Boston an hour. They
were stuck there for six hours while q gang Of
twenty-five Italians dug them out. Tho pas
sengers, he said, made the best of the matter
and seemed to have a good time in the buffet
COR.
John McKibben, conductor Of one of the Now
York, New Haven and Hartford, trains that got
in yesterday, said that never In his recollection
had such a storm visited Boston. Traffic was
and 1t was dangerous for people to walk the
streets on account of the trolley wires, which
were down ~everywhero.
The work of cleaning the streets In this Dor.
ough and Brooklyn went on yesterday. Up to
q o'clock yesterday morning 80, O9S cubic yards
of snow had been removed from the streets in
this borough. Thirty-five hundred extra men
were at work yesterday and 5000 carts were
employed. In Brooklyn Contractor McGarry's
men were at work on about twenty Of the prln.
cipal business thoroughfarcs. The work was
progressing rapidly, the only delay being due to
the scarcity OF carts.
Gravesend Bay Is frozen over from .Gravesend
beach to Coney Island Point, and the resi-