New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-27
WIND PLAYS HAVOC.
FOR A SUSTAINED BLOW, YESTERDAYS
WAS OUT OF THE ORDINARY-FAIR
AND COLD TO-DAY.

Such clustering. penetrating blast from the
northwest as swept through the streets yester-
day has not visited this city in long time.
This winter has so far been mostly a mixture
of fog and warm weather. People woke up to a
different order of things yesterday morning.
The mercury was well down in the THERMOMETERS,
the wind rushing through the streets at
| railroad speed, and in fact the only thing lack
ing to make a small-sized blizzard the
snow. Pedestrians that had to pass the Stand
ard Oil Building on Bowling Green their way
uptown who had business near Nassau
and Spruce SITS. will testify to the remarkable
force of yesterdays wind The local Weather
Bureau gave the maximum velocity seventy
six miles an hour, but in these two regions,
which noted for the way breeze becomes
a cyclone in their neighborhoods, the velocity
seemed much greater. There were times yes
terday afternoon when it was easier to push a
trolley-car up hill than walk by these places.
The cheeriness of a brisk blood stirring winter
wind is not disputed, but when a continuous
cloud OF dust and dirt that the Tammany Street
Cleaning Department so considerably leaves on
the streets is blown into ones eyes and ears, it
becomes a different matter. This lack of eff
fciency was sharply exhibited by the wind Of
yesterday, and there were many adverse COM
ments upon 1t.
FROM $50 a. m. the wind blew almost continu-
ously at more than fifty miles an hour The
continued high velocity of the wind for so many
hours was, according to the local forecaster
something out Of the ordinary and 1t played
havoc with the windows and signs on Broad
way. Two large show windows of one of the
stores in the Stewart Building were smashed.
The glass in the front doors of many of the
other buildings near by was blown to smither-
Gems. The wind so piercing and cold that
many women had to turn down side streets or
get IN Railways in fear Of losing their breath
One woman, Mrs. Lizzie Rudolph, forty-two
years old, who lives at No 1921 Third-ave. was
returning from a visit to friends at No. 1,677
Madison ave, last night, and was about to enter
her own home when the wind lifted her from her
feet She fell to the sidewalk and sustained a
fracture Of the left leg. She was removed to
the Harlem Hospital.
Although good and chilly yesterday was not
the coolest day of the year or of the season. The
temperature at 3 a. m was 80 degrees, at 6 a. m.
%, at 8 a. m. "a at noon 81 at 3 p m. 49, at
p. m. 1S at 8 p. M II and at 10 p. 10 This
is the record of the Weather Bureau Their
mometer
The area of the storm was wide 1t journeyed
from the Northwest TO the coast. and on Thurs
day it was central here. After reaching the
coast it started northward, and was central yes
terday off PASSPORT, Me- While the storm was
sweeping over Canada yesterday the southern
end of it was playing havoc in this city.
Reports were received at the local weather
office last night that thirteen inches Of snow had
fallen at Montreal in the course CT the day and
three inches at Quebec, and that there were
light falls at other places in Canada.
In The Tribune OF January 20 attention was
called to a weather forecast made by Henry c.
Maine of Rochester. Mr.. Maine prophesied that
a blizzard would prevail between January %
and 81
The local weather forecaster said last night
that the storm would be some miles north of
this city this morning, His prophecy for to-day
is fair and cold. and for tomorrow fair and
warmer.