The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-14


has been raging since Saturday night
increased in violence to-day, becoming
a thorough blizzard. Snow fell all day
and is still coming down. a bitter
northwest wind drifts the snow in
clouds The street cleaning depart
ment, after struggling 36 hours to clear
the principal streets gave up entirely,
even surrendering Broadway to the
wind and snow The surface railroads
run snow plows over the roads at in
tervals and maintained a service, but
the cars are not heated and are not
we'll patronized. The elevated roads are
running, but trains pay no regard to
schedule time. ~>-r
In the suburbs, where the wind has
free sweep, the drifts are from five to
ten feet high, streets railroads have
stopped altogether and suburban
steam roads are blocked. Many neigh
boring towns are cut off from New
York altogether Few trucks and de-
livery wagons We're seen on the streets
o-day floating ice cakes in the river
hinder the ferries greatly. Few per-
sons ventured from their homes to-day
unless obliged to do so. Courts had to
be closed on because of the Geld and
the special Lincoln day celebrations
and the theaters were thinly at
tended.
To-day was a legal holiday with the
banks and exchanges and an enforced
one in the business districts generally
AS there was no shoppers the big
stores closed their doors and sent the
clerks home. The streets even in the
theater district are almost deserted.
Mary Goodwin of Brooklyn, aged 81
years, was frozen to death on Sunday
An unidentified woman was found fro
zen to death in a hallway on Forty
seventh street in this city on Sunday.
She was thinly clad and had evidently
sought shelter from the storm.
Fears are entertained that Mail Car
riers Palmer and Hawkins of the New
York office have been drowned. The
two men left Hart's island for City ISL
and on Thursday morning to deliver the
mails. They were in small boat, and
the high wind that was blowing and
the floating ice made it impossible for
them to control their craft Six men
in a larger boat who attempted to res
cue them We're unable to do so, and it
is feared that the light boat was car
ried off into the sound and perhaps
crushed or overturned.
On Saturday, when the thermometer
was three degrees below zero meas
urements of the Brooklyn bridge were
taken of the trusses and other parts,
to find out how much the contraction
has been. In comparing these figures
with those taken last July, when the
thermometer was 80 degrees above. it
was found that the difference was 14@
feet.
None of the Atlantic liners from Great
Britain and the continent, that regu-
larly arrive here at the end of the week,
have yet been sighted. The passenger
liners due are the American liner Paris,
nine days out from Southampton. which
was due on Friday: the Cunarder Et-
ruria, eight days out from Queenstown;
the French liner La Bretagne, nine
days out from Havre: the Anchor liner
Anchoria, is days out from Glasgow:
the Holland American Spaarndam, 1S
days out from Rotterdam: the Ham
burg American liner Pretoria, Is days
from Hamburg; the North German
Lloyd liner Gera, IS days out from
Bremen; the White Star liner Nomadie
(freighter) 13 days out. and the Gym
ric, 10 days out, from Liverpool.
Freight steamers whose voyages are
growing uncomf0rtably long are the
Shields: Deike Reikmers, % days out
from Havre: salerno, 26 days out from
New Castle. England, and the Catania,
is days out from st. Michaels.
The Almida, IS days out from Shields,
has been about given up as lost with
all on bGard.
No doubt a large fleet of steamers
has arrived in the vicinity of Sandy
Hook bar and is waiting outside for
the blizzard to pass.
The marine observer laconicaIly re-
ports nothing but blizzard"
All the charitable institutions are
taxed beyond their resources, owing to
the sudden demands made upon them.
OF the $1,000 destitute families in the
city. as estimated by Blair, supern-
tendent of the outdoor poor nearly all
are either freezing or starving to-day.
The continued storm has handicapped
all efforts to aid and the blizzard of
to-day has necessitated complete sus-
pension.
The thousands of poor Jews, Italians,
Greeks. Syrians and Armenians. who
make a living by selling fruit. confec-
tiOnery and other small articles from