The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-14
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l%'stroets, Nong that side the pedestrian could
walk on bare Tagging. but IL he wanted
10 cross he had to get through supws
drifts nNe feet deem. and II his design was
10 enter a house on tho north side. his best
chance was TO stand outside ard howl until
somebody lowered n rope to him. Central
Park Afforded a study in snow designs. Dur
ing the afternoon three or four turnouts no.
cupicd by fnrrch mummics drove in tha
Park, presumably for pleasure. There was
also n party OF youths in sweaters aud sotf
trousers who ioundered along the buried ways
with every indication OF enjoyment. After all.
recreation Is not a wordo OF restricted definition,
It must be said that New York took the hlin-
card In good part. IRON the number OF per-
sons abroad one would infer that "a considers
BILE portion Of the population turned out iust
forthe iun Of a good nght with the clements
Any ono who did got all that was com.
ing 10 him. in the language Of lighting. II
was a b%ufreting storm II there ever vas one,
ard the less unprotected hide one presented to
its blows the better he got along. There was
one class OF men not out for fun, tho plumbers.
Forthcm it was no holiday. Bursted winter pipes.
g~nspipes out of order. and the oyer-troubling
furnace Kept them hustling from morning to
night. According TO the unofficial opinions 81
the police there was an epidemic Of drunk
enncss yesterday. which took a Troublesome
form, us the favorite Authorization of tho
lrunkHrd seemed to be that this was the ba,my
month Of MAY and that he would now immedl-
ately seek slunber on yon NOISY bank.
wherefore it became the policcman'S
duty to hoist him out Of the snow.
drift aud pilot him to the nearest hotel.
Two adhcrents of the principle OF inner
warmth to combat outer cold met on Fifty
ninth street late in the afternoon as they were
struggling toward home and greeted each other
with tho surprise invariably evinced by every
sane man when he discovers another appnrcnt-
ly sane man out in such n storm. Then said
tho first man:
How did you get here ~
Il got here. said the other. like the Rocky
Mountain goat. ! lcapcd from jag to Jag"
The first man pondcred for u moment. then
his face lighted ur.
"Oh, Yes" he said. joyously. Il stopped in
every other suioon along the wav myself.
There's one on the corner. Come along
They got II ~favorinE breeze aud were waited
in at the door. INory cars and bar uptown was
crowded all dav, aud the hotels had such a
rush of business that some of them set UP
cots in tho halls. In brooklyn tho pop
ulace turned out in considerable num-
bers TO see what ihc storm was like.
Brooklyn's sidewalks. however, were some.
thing to wonder about ruriicuilrly as TO
where they we're located. The chief as
poet Of The streets was :, trodden space in the
middle W TIA "urving rimrarls Of snow EXTEND
lug from th" si",p iinr- nhout ten feet out.
Occasional italians with snow Shuvels cams
along aud invited themselves tu dig oiit ihs
siiewalh at 30 cents per excavations. which was
cheap ~ Tia" price. but useless. as tho wind
fiilci The slar" in Immediately There was \
time daring the afternoon wheG the snow in
BROOKLYN did it, failing like Whitcomb Eilnys