The Jersey City news., 1902-12-12
SLEET, SLEET
EVERYWHERE
Last Nights Rain Freezing
as It Fell Makes. Walk
ing Dangerous.
RAFFIC BLOCKED
All Trolleys in the Horss-
shoe Ware Greatly
Impsded
]. RAFFIC BLOCKED
Sleet, sleet. nothing but sleet
Makes If awfully hard TO keen on one

Sleet, sleet. nothing but sleet
Makes it awfnlly hard to keep on ones
feet
Such was the condition of affairs that
faced every pedestrian on the streets this
morning 1t was th meanest old day
Of 1902. II drizzled all night. The dfiz-
zle froze as fast as it fell. Everything
was slippery If you grabbed a mans
arm to keep from falling you found ever
6the arm Of his rain coat slippery. No
man or woman or child who had business
ON the street but who was sadly incon-
venieneed If stray cat was chased
BY a dog it found itself cornered in the
attempt to climb a leatless tree and was
obliged to fight it out. Workmen on their
way to work ''grinnedn and bore it.
School children stood in droves waiting
for cars whose motormen We're busy some
blocks away breaking out solid ice cakes
ont of the frogs and switches, while IN
other cases trolley cars were stalled by
fallen horses.
Some people wore rubber shoe cover
ing. Some other people believe that rub
ber goods put people under ground.
Payements are supposed TO be built on
slant for proper drainage. In some cases
this morning the pavement seemed to be
at an angle of forty-fve degrees. Some
merchants invariably have ashes sprin-
kled in front of their stores, despite the
inconvenience caused by customers who
besmear the store floors. In the residen-
tial districts some splendid housewives
sprinkle ashes in front of their homes out
of pity fer pedestrians.
No man or woman walking on an icy
pavement knows what moment he or
she is going down, and visions of being
picked up unconscious with broken
limb and awakening in hospital under
such conditions are by no means idle
speculation.
bemeaning their hard luck, what about
the life Of the telegraph and telephone
and trolley car linemen.
LINEMAN'S MISHAP.
This is fast age. Big business con-
Germs are depending upon the agility Of
the ice-slieathed poles, heavily gloved, il
is true, but their Yery gloves interfering
with their agility. This morning a troll
ley linensan climbed ladder to the top
of trolley car. near the Palisade ave
nue. station, to 6x something that had
gone wrong with trolley feed wire.
The motcrnaan nnwittingiy started W
the car just as the hSeG.en had reached
the last rung of the la1der. He was
dressed in overalls, rubber boots and
he was weighted by mang pounds OF
iron in tie way of p.nchers. etc, poked
around his belt. The ladder fell and de
spite his chlmsily gloyed hand he made
a grab at something" and he held on.
His business calls for just such emer-
sencies." said one of the score Of en-
tIrusiastic spectators.
TROLLEY TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
Traffic On the trolley cars through the
Horseshoe last night and early this morn
ing was irnpeded greatly. Ice formed
around the trolley wires of the Grove
Henderson, Eriestreets and Summit av
enue line sothick that cars had TO use III
more than double. time in making trips
D:flieallty was experienced OH the SUNNI
ayersie lire more than anywhere else
The trouble was ascending the hill a
the head Of Ninth street. Condition.
we-e 80 bad here that eour IL five car.
nad to be connected to make the ascent
TROUBLE on GROVE STREET
On the Grove street line, in addition
70 the trolley wire trouble, the motormeI
we're bothered getting off cars to oper
switches every second block.
Miiknlen on their way to the Erie and
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western