The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-15
TEMPERATURE ON THE RISE
New York Once Mere Enjoys street
Traffic, Hut Suburban Trains
Hacked

NEW YORK. Feb. li-With clear skies
and warmer weather New York started
10 dig Itself out OF the snow this morn
Ing, by noon the mercury had reached
- degrees at-oye zero and there was not
cloud iu the sky After Saturday $ haIf
holiday and the suspension OF business on
Sunday and Monday, to-days street tra{-
&c Was tremendous Wita the result og
blockades everywhere.
The snow contractor estimated that up
wards Of 500 loads OF snow Were re-
moved from the streets w 20 o'clock
tonight Al o'clock Il night force ~
about 200 men started 10 work with be-
tween Sc and 100 carts. All the night
force was practically concentrated on
Broadway and il was expected this thor
oughfare would be cleared by the time OF
opening OF business tomorrow from Forty
second street TO the Battery. The Their
momeIer tonight on lower Broadway re-
corded Il degrees above zero and the tenn
perature WIS rising rapidly.
me railroads running into the Grand
Central station did net make much prog
ress today IN restoring order from the
chaos into which the hlizZard had plunged
them. " lille their officials were very
hopeful that they would 90 able 10 estab-
iish some kind % train service tomor-
row. they were obliged 20 admit that no
through trains had passed over their lines
since Monday. Five hundred men were
struggling with the great drifts in the
Grand Central yards al! day ana late to-
night IL was announced THAI All the ,rackz
We're clear, The New York Central con-
tinued TO "a tied up ell day rs far as in
coming tF1Afis were concerned. TIE great
drifts thirty miles south OF PouEhke-pzle
were too much for snow pIows and trains
were ufassed on beth sides Of this point
In large numbers.
At p. m two trains for western points
were sent out. IL was announced that
OTHER trains were 20 ne started later
The railroads which have terminals fn
Jersey city are much crippled The Penn
sylvsni3 did nearly all the business that
vas done. NJ train arrived from the
~eSt or south during tae Gay. A. the Jrr-
seY Central depot tonight IL was an
uounced that the Rad was open this side
% N2Hrh chunk The officials said the
Tuad would p open on al divisions to-
morrow
Tho tAhigh Valley road dispatched. but
Teretyed 80 trains
The first Through out-of-town mail TO
reach re pos,o1iCp since Monday rnorrfn Z
arrived RI 80 o'cioCk tats afternoon II
was through rs3a from paston which
Should have reached tH}s city a. 20 O'Clock
MoutsF evening Shortly aft.~ noon A
01a1 vas received from Philadelphia
~ a. O'Clock mai f0- ph'laie}pHa and
Nay stations RaS dispatched TIE FIRST
rnsit far the Nest over she New York Gem
tral was sem out at rs o'c}ock to-tgef
ard ~ the same boar the first mali for TIE
The . O'Clock rain on the perusv wanna
.aas t0e arst raU ever that rolge fo~ the
WesF
More than . 40 persons we're fc9 =. the
Salvation Amy headquarters on -Four
tenth street today About - persons
were fe1 II t'ee XaF1ous has ~ - army
Tn she city, The headquarters han and
a3 - taa army halls ia the cfty were
thrown 0p@n 10 the poor ten St.