The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-02-14

make living by selling fruit, confae.
tionery, and other small articles from
push carts and stands have been driven
out or business altogether and brought 10
| the verge Of starvation.
! Persons employed outdoors. In buiIdIrr,
and track laying. have lost empIoymsn,
| temporarily. They number many rbo7.
sands and some OF them will swell the lr'
| OF destitute. At the city lodging bogss
| $40 persons we're housed last night n
| these 26s were men, Y were Wcne3 su5
| the remainder children.
| The task of keeping railroad trains 4,
motion was almost horculean. Particular.
ly Was this the case with the lines rgr-
/ ming out OF the Grand Central station.
win each hour the severity Of the COZ.
/ dltlons Increased, and those I'm charge 81
uLe work were reluctantly compelled ri
admit that total stagnation OF traf
stared them in the face.
| Ihe outgoing morning trains got ur
Ger headway In fairly good shape. bs
/ once out Of the train sheds their trouble
/ began. Switches, blocked BY driiHr-
snow tardiness in operating signals. 81
casioned by operators waiting until it.'
were sure that tracks were clear u.
( gether with the arrival OF trains in r
regular order and at irregular tlues mail
PROCESS slow until after the Har..
River was crossed. From thirty miug'
10 two and a half hours were thus D.,
by outgoing trains.
SNOW Drifts on the Tracks.
The inbound trains had the same co-I
diuons 10 meet in the yards. after r.aatI
ing the city limits one 10 three non
late The new Central trains had srga
drifts 70 contend with almost al tho val
. from Syracuse. All the plows and SWEEP
ers available were pressed into -.rgIr
and they partially succeeded in keep i
the tracks clear. The high wind hgs
ever. soon drifted the snow back onto t
tracks
The New York New Haven and Har
FORD officials ascribed the delay in ge.ts
their trains through 10 the difficulty Il
getting them through the Grand CeHrL
yards They said that many oS The u5'r
ing trains reached WoodlaWu only 'aaE
ty-fye or thirty minutes late. bat Poi
from one 70 three hours getting 20 ir1-
that point.
1t was stated that the old Colony p !
press. westbOund. vas stuck ln "a go
drift somewhere east OF New Have"
tnat all trains on the New London
vision were having much trouble TIE
hcials Of both raass declared sf { o.
mat no through trains mad been a'e
doned. bus admitted that the local ssr'F
wss badly dsmoTalIzed
Ihfpiiss % people who CROW led 40.
rooms asking when trains EnI.l
part Tor various points iG sefy
Instances were able 20 80 -ail-. o..
answers. When told that Cgl'.f
~ the existing conditions vas 20 ''+
yected tonight OffclSls OF lie r1dl"
that u WAS likely that traffic would Es"
TO a standsth before to-mOrroa-
Losg Isiaad Road stops Tranie.
Tonight orders were issued 20 slr1ff
All operations on the main line
branches of the Long Island ksiircaa
ul the storm sUbaldrj. SIp-rlrt ne
Potter said lt ,-N-s useless 10 a-teUft
90 anything as they could not move
wheel or work 4 switch -n such fes
blizzard. The lssl train on inc 80
Shore division left LOrg Island nly
Flushing al z.E p m. Bgt t~o TRANS
held gp b. snow drifts.
Drifts nearly ten feet high were f.'''
lent throughout the Island. and ne
b.ew the suOw On che track aiHo'.
fast a. the p.OHs could remove D.
drifts In the ShinneCOck hills are rri'."
20 be twelve feet high. and the .al-
tions are that the road will not D. ~
Tor several Iaya
All oT The Sound steamboat arc Z
up Dy rne storm. and % was sr-0-'
that none OF ths Fail River StuI.1k
90 NOTw ten lines would venture 90 -
trips unti the storm cs@ses and iEe q
trance To- Hell Gate Is free frOu ss
AFFLICTED AND JNFOKTtSArR srFFs.s
ffasa sfigat- i's@ss-a. aloaa psitsa. t51isl-. :
frft- ilss vitality. ysficaceis. Sc. u~at =
ertifsgnisls sad tu1k. '-frafh. ~ 40 PEI -
ftssi ~ D. "a = ca e.. Fhi's3rFas
Positively ,Ae oEig specialist 10 - si.s. 8