New-York tribune., 1899-02-15
IMPROVEMENT or STATEN lSLAND'
TRAINS BREAK THROUGH THE DRIFTS AMI
TRAFFIC Is PARTLY RESUMED.


co,siderablo headway has already been made on
staten Island toward restoring the streets ana
idovaIlxs to their normal condition. and resuming
trarc An army OF men started carly yesterday
morning and before long small paths had been
cut through from houses to sidewalks ana from
sidewalks to streets The electric railroad COM
many which was compelled to cease operating It's
i,res bv 10 o'clock on Monday morning. opened
s,ng1o tracks In places and by evening was run
,ing cars at irregular intervals between Tompksns-
ville and Fort Wadsworth, distance Of about two
miles
The raptd transit road succeed in running trains
hourly from St George to clifton. on the Eas'
shore and TO Mariners Harbor on the North
Shore before noon. Only one track was open'
however. and then It was necessary TO use two en-
gines with each train Of two cars Late IN the
afternoon a snowplough worked It's way through
TO Tottenvllle on the up track, and returned with
n passenger train 10 CIlttoh' "HeIe N'""e0 ""'
made to the other ira, k
Two freight engines stuck fast IN a huge
drift near the electric power-house' in Livingston
where they remain completely buried IN snow
rvervbody was compelled 70 walk to the ferries
but the usual number of commuters was on hahd.
Two or three men, who evidently had mad pre-
vlous experience made excursions on snowshoes'
and were thus enabled to defy tho snow, IN Which
others were hounderng in places
The Midland Electric Railway Company, as far
as can be learned. has made no hcadway toward
hopeiessIy blocked The loss to the companies
viii aggregate 500 a day each. -,
To add the misfortune caused 9y the me snow snow
of Inc island on Monday but in each instance the
fremen responded promptly and the occupants
OF the buildings were at no time IN any SIejt Pc
sonal danger Late Monday evening fire broke out
in three-story tenement-house In Jersey-st. New
Brighton which. being In a thicky settled part,
aroused considerable alarm for a time Two hre
Companies. with the aid OF the falling snow: PUT
ont the flames. At 80 o'clock yesterday morning
an alarm was turned in from a house In Hamilton
park occupied by Charles II. White: As IN lhe
other cases. tho flames were soon subdued. Inc
damage was slight. o., ,--.
The electric light plant at Livingston IS IN danger
OF a shortage of coal and wagons were used an
during the night Monday 10 cart coal Tor the
building General Manager Swinarton states mat
no has enough for a day or two. but II no more
can be had at the end OF that time he Will be- en-
tlrelv without coal They have large room at the
plaut with a capacity for over two hundred TONS
but were short when the storm set In.
The residents Of the high districts are stu WITH
out water and will probably be I'm that condition
FOR several days. Some of the milk dealers are not
making their usual rounds. and the families thus
situated are compelled to drink melted Ice Ferry
boats have been running with considerable rcgu,
larity and by tonight II Is thought that most OF
the lines Of the Rapid Transit and syndicate com
panies will have resumed their regular schedules'