New-York tribune., 1901-02-10
WORST SNOW OF SEASON.
,rr N THE RIVERS MAKES NAyIGA-
TION DIFFICULT

II vas one % the most disagreeabie days so far
.,is winter yesterday. Snow began 20 fall at
hout O'Clock in the morning, and continued until
:bout noon when the flakes became small and
,r,e down in sort Of icy drizzle The total fall
amounted 10 about two inches
The snow soft and slushy. and did not hard
On under the feet. As a result the pavements were
soon slippery. and covered with filthy slime made
M Of mud and what had once been snow. The
st-eet crossings little mushv strips across
vbich pedestrians had practically TO paddle their
uay Horses and wagons splashed along. spatter-
ing everything about them with the contents of the
black puddles The clouds were low. and seemed
10 pour out a light dreary fog, which wrapped it,
self around the tops Of the high buildings and
clung there making the buildings appear 10 be
steamng one thing for which people were CRATE
-u WAS that IL was not particularly cold Then
TOO there little wind blowing in cornparison
with some of the gales the city has recently ex-
perenoed.
The men who worked on the rivers had the hard
sst time and suffered the most discomfort Their
boats had great difficulty in getting about since
both the North and the East rivers together with
the Upper Bay. were fun OF ice. Looking from
the seaWah al the Battery there was nothing 10
suggest sheet Of water except the undulations OF
the surface i'm front of one The ice foe apparentlv
extended as far as the eve could reach. and as Il
rose and fell made kissing sound. The boats that
passed actually ratified such the constant
noise that proceeded from the knocking of their
propelers on the ice cakes
StiI. il easier to get through the ice than
II had been on Friday. The fact that there was
no WIND 10 beat the ice into mass allowed il 10
spread out, and il worked naturally with the
udes. In the slips, however. the ice remained
stationary, and caused the greatest inconvenience
10 traffic Few ferry boats ran on schedule time
one Chambers-st boat carried far north as
Eighteenth-st The Twenty-third-st boats were
delayed. The Erie Pennsylvania and Central Rail-
road OF New-Jersey boats were late almost without
On HRn =Faa
could get into their slips without hrst crush
ing and grinding the ice that had frozen about
the piles. The Staten Island boats were from
ten 10 fifteen minutes late
The ice in the East River was thickest along the
Brooklyn shore. The Thirty -ninth-st boats have
stopped running at night. They continue however,
TO make their usual trips by day ytime. All the
Brooklyn ferries were in operation yesterday morn
ing but they ran iIregularly. on this account
many persons who usually ride on them made an
exception and used the Brooklyn Bridge upon
wncn the traffic during the entire day Was ex-
brooklyn and the Jersey City railroad 3iers made
good time, rule.
on the whole. traffic is pretty well tied up II Is
said that over one hundred propellers were broken
yesterday. The tug Golden Rule. belonging 10 the
White star Towing Company, smashed big hole
INTO herself while ramming the ice al the pier al
SiAty ty.hiiL-si ms south Brooklyn; She was taken 10
fler % Last RIVER where she Is being pumped out
other tugs were also rather severely battered. Thsy
made no attempt 10 haul canalboats. or do any
Considering that the ocean liners and other big
boats II looked as II those vessels might be held
up for lack OF coal feet OF canaboats came up
from Liberty Island in the afternoon. that the
captains of steamships need have no fear far
their supply OF coal is concerned.
The Lucania OF the CUnard Line, the first OF
she big ships to start for the Before she let
go her hawsers several tugboats broke up the ice
around her When she put out into The stream she
became surrounded with body OF ice. which
caused her much trouble. She proceeded 10 Quar-
antine where, on account OF the heavy snowstorm.
captain Dutton stopped for one hour. The IIucania
passed Sandy Hook in safety later on.
Commissioner Maggie set his men 10 work at
cleaning the streets the had
stopped falling. The Commissioner said that he
would call ON the Uvalde company if he found IL
necessary 10 do so.
George Dressler, laborer, sixty-twO years old,
rf No SoS4 1hird-ave, was found at One hundred
sno-thirteenth-st and Third-aVe. about noon with
his hands and ears severely frost bitten. He was
taken 10 the Harlem Hospital in ambulance.
Snow fell yesterday IN almost all Of the States
east OF the Mississippi Valley, except the New
England and extreme Southern States. The cold
weather OF the Northwest has spread south and
southeast. The temperature is from to Is degrees
below zero IN sections Of South Dakota. wyoming
Colorado and Nebraska. Zero weather prevails in
Southern Kansas and as far south as Central
The weather to-day VIII probably be fair. with
brisk northeast winds. shifting high winds from
northwest