The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-15
WEATHER MODERATlNC.
At the Same Time the Great Eastern Cities
Arc Almost Isolated.
RAILROADS UNABLE TO MOVE THEIR TRAINS
No Mails Received in New York
Orange aud pineapple Crops DAM
nEed-rcopic Frozen TO Death.

New York, February 1.-THE people OF
New York today enjoyed The hrst sun-
shine since Friday. The city is stu cut;
OFF from railroad communication. Last
night the New York Central ceased send
ing out trains. On the New York, New
Haven and Hartford no through trains
are running. The Pennsylvania railroad
Is still tied up and communication with
the South is entirely cut OF, Traffic on
the Long Island raiiroad continues para
lyzed The New Jersey Central Is snow.
bound and on tho Erie only suburban
service is attempted. No out of town mails
were received,
New York feels the effects of the storm
on its food supply. Last week eggs cost
% ocnts5 today tho price Is 50 cents per
dozen. Butter has jumped from 20 to 30
cents; chickens from Is cents per pound
10 20 cents; oysters, from 81 per hundred
10 Sl.60; potatoes from So per barrel TO
A.25; milk from s cents per quett to IT,
cents; beef is from . to cents per pound
higher.
The warehouses are full of flour. but
the deep snow now makes the delivery
nearly impossible Many factories have
shut down for want of coal.
After Saturdays half holiday and the
suspension OF business on Sunday and
Monday today's street traffic was trcmen-
douS with the result that there were block
AIDES everywhere.
Tho snow contractor estimates that up
wards of $4,000 loads of snow were re-
moved from tho streets up 10 6 o'clock to-
night This means about 10000 cubic yards
and an expenditure OF over sci 900.
AT 6 o'clock night force of about lS0t
mon started TO work with about 1000 carts
At midnight tonight the thermometer
on the tower on. Broadway registered II
| degrees above zero and the temperature
was rising rapidly.
| The railroads running into thn Crane
Central station did not make much pro.
gress today In restorisS order ont OF tho
| chaos into which the blizzard had plunged
Them. Five hundred men were strngglinf
with great drifts in the Grand Contra
| yards all day and late tonight it was an
nounced all the tracks we're clear Th,
New York Central continued 10 be tiet
up all day as far as incoming trains were
F.! concerned. The great drifts thirty miles
south OF Poughkeepsio were too much fo
| the snow plows and the trains We're masse'
at both sides of that point in large Mum
bcrs.
The railroads which have terminals !,
| Jersey City are much crippled. The Penn
sylvania did nearly all the business tha
was done. No train arrived from the ives
or south during the day.
! In response to the piteous cries for aid
that went up from many sections OF tn
city Governor Roosevelt has ordered thu
| opening of the armories of the Eighth
Ninth. Twelfth. Sixty ninth and Seventy
first regiments for the shelter of such por
tions OF the homeless Door as might talk
refuge there.
The armories ordered thrown open ar
very large aud in thickly populated por
lions of the city
The city finds itself unable to bury II
unclaimed dead This is in great measur
due to the icebound condition of the Eas
river. which has made 1t impossible 70
several days for the steamers Of the chart
ties department 10 make their accustome
trips TO the city cemetery on Harris island
No buriais have taken place since las
Tuesday.