The sun., 1902-11-29
WIND.SWEPT SHOPPING CROWD
AND 4 WONDROUS DISPLAY or
HOSIERY NEAR THE FLATIRON.
Remarkable Eject Of q Gale About the
New building on Number Of Things,
Including = Pumpkin and Twins-T1p
That Black Spars Are lnfashiOnablc

Wind northwesterly. fresh to gale, and
winter hosiery signals displayed from
Twenty-siXth TO Eighteenth street, was the
weather report yesterday from Fifth avenue
and Twenty-,hird street. and many shop
pers reached their home ports last night
with stories Of distress ii the gar as well
as at the bargain counters.
The windstorm was worst for the shop
pers at Broadway, Fifth avenue and Twenty
third street, where the Flat iron splits the
wind and throws il south in two parts to
Twcnty-second street where the halves come
together and make a cyclone. Most shoppers
rounded the point of the Flatiron under
practically bare poles with the lover rig-
ging slashing about in a whiir Of white
above.
The storm revealed to dustleSs eyes, IL
there were any. the fact that there is pi az
ticaliy nothing this winter ia solid black
Stripes prevail. up and down, for almost
everything over $50 pounds, and round
about for smaller craft, Many garter
buckles are Of solid metal. enainelled IN
red and white.
Every shopper who hasn't yet left off
the openwork stockings or ia waiting for
Christina for somebody to give her pair
Of high shoes was sorry. She had a blue
nose. features pinched 10y the cold and too
much vibration from shivcrs.
Most Of the shoppers were carrying heavy
cargoes of Christmas goods, One. in sable
lost her whole deckload of parcels, which
were swept into the street by an angry
gust Of wind She got just as angry as the
gust when her gown tried to follow the
parcels and peering over the hem Of her
skirt at one tall. lean bystander, with far
seeing eyes, exclaimed:
you re every bit as fresh as this wind -
every biti"
TIE bystander. unabashed. continued
to stand right in that corner where he had
been anchored over two hours. Finally a
policeman suspected him and told him to
blow down the avenue
You're a sassy constabl =. said the by
stander. I'm a friend Of Mr.. Paii, k
Shecdy and he'll have you br, h.
But another st blew the man away
b, fo.e he could & t the cops number.
The policeman at the / l"-nty-third street
crossing told how his club had been bent
almost double 10y tie wind Wien he held
il up to warn re, kcss cab driver
Bnt Wnal ndpIfhvu 70 my CluD, Sill
the cop, wasn't marker to what hap
pencd TO a pumpkin man was coming
down Broadway carrying very big pump
kin. left over from a Thanksgiving raflle.
When he reached Twenty-thlrd street the
wind blew that pumpkin right out of his
arms. II struck on the north edge of the
Flatiron and split in two. One half was
carried down Broadway and the other down
Fifth avenue.
But at Twenty-seconi street some
thing still more remarkable happened.
The wind does all sorts of things behind
the Flatiron. There several columns Of
hot air come up from the sidewalk vaults
and mix with the cold air, There was
great suction to-day and the hot air Of
Twenty-second street drew in the south
bound gales from Broadway and the avenue
and brought the TWO halves of the pump
kin together without losing a seed. The
man could have got the pumpkin again
just as well "a not only he had chased over
to Lexington avenue TO catch his hat
Almost the same thing happened TO
two little twins blowing down Broadway
just ahead Of their mother and Quarrellng
over corn balls. One had pink corn ball
and the other a yellow on" and each was
mad because she wanted the others color.
While they were boohoong about IL the
wind picked EN- up and the Flatiron sep
arated EN-.
But that hot air suction in Twent y-second
street was still blending the Broadway and
Fifth avenue gales and drew in both twins,
When their mother found them they we're
in each others arms whirling around in a
terrible eddy and throwing of showers of
popcorn by centrifugal force. ! know that
centrifugal IL the right word because
made grindstones before | was a cop"