The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-14
WlNTRY GALE CLOGS TRAFFIC.
VARIEGATFD TRAIELLING on
SIXTH AVENUE ELEVATED.
Net Much Snow and the Weather Not
So Cold a. II Is Going 10 lie To-day.
WHEN the Storm Centre Passes and
the Northeaster Turns Northwes tcr.

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Whon the Storm Centre Passes and
the Northeaster Turns Northw ester.
A brisk northeaster, permeated with
singing sleet. slightly clogged the wheels
Of the several boroug!s yesteI day and gave
tho city, particularly the wooded suburbs.
an old -fashionsd wintry ASPECT, Much
Of the delay in surface-csr traffic was caused
bv trucks whose drivers found driving
through the slippery sieet slow and hard
on the putting horses. The drivers turned
into the tracks and engaged in language
with the motormen that almost melted the
sleet. Electric snow ploushs KEEP; tho
rails clear in the evening, when the trucks
heavily laden with holiday goods. had gone
out Of commission.
The Sixth aveLue eleve ed electric cars
he'd vsrieg gated time. Steam motors were
used alternately with electric trains, halt of
the latter being equipped with brushes
There were several delays. one Of about
twenty minutes in the early evening, not
due. the dispatcher at the Battery laid, to
the storm. The electric trains on The Third
avenue line. more than half Of which have
brushes for the third rail and oil sprayers.
were delayed only slightly,
Last night the Sixth avenue elect rio
trains which have been equipped with the
steel brushes were run under half the usual
spced for fear OF fuses blowing ou' A
motor train that started from South Ferry
for Harlem about o'clock last evening"
60; within few feet o. the Bleenker street
station, whore fuses blew ont AID tho train
became stalled. After waiting for fifteen
minutes many Of the passengers walked
~ the Grand or Blocker street stations
and took surface cars.
The passengers on a train stalled AZ
Spring street held an imrromptu meeting
and forced all the trainmen with the eN-
ception Of one TO go up to the front car and
argue with the mOtorInan about The block.
Then the Passengers compelled the lone
guard TO signal the downtown train. There
Is only few feet between the uptoTn
and downtown tracks at this point, aud the
passengers by the exerC Use Of little aero
bate skill jumped to the downtown train
The won IN found Il little difficult. but
they got there On the downtown train
they rode TO the Grand street station.
The blockade lasted for nearly an hour.
ana line OF St He'd trains extended 10 Parh
place. Most of them were deserted before
the blockade ended. The motor train was
finally patrhe up well enough To crawl
along to Harlem, with the stalled trains
proceeding at a snails pace behind it.
~ wan tir MI Toll SNii
had a costing Of ice in some plao ~, and
that the trouble was not due 10 the fine snow
that was falling.
A blockade that did not last as long &C.
CURED on the downtown track at Fifty
third street and Six u avenue about 8 l.. NJ,
when tic current In the power rail- was
ehvH>cii cuited and set FL y 10 he oii-sOakei
ties Fire engines put out the blaze.
The storm that caused Tie nortneaster
10 swnop down this way originated in the
southwest. II was central in Tennessee
on Friday. and after swirling through Ken
lucky and West Virginia got into Pennsyl-
va ia Yesterday The centre Is due here
at or's 4 l. morning.
The sleet that fell yesterday measured as
snow combined with the slight snowfall,
formed snowfall" Of 81 inches. Up 10
$50 p. NJ. when the fall ceased for while
and the mercury dropped 70 81 degrees from
Is degrees three hours before. the wilma,
still from northeast, was then blowing
twenty-sever miles. The Official prophets
said there might De intermittent snow or
s,eet the rest of the nj ght and In the morning
and that the wind would get around ~ north
west and probably blow a gale, senjing the
temper AZURE down ten degrees or more
With the exception Of few local trains
all the trains arriving at the Grand Central
Station last night were from an hour 10
FIVE hours late The Chicago Limited. du,
at $50, vas FIVE hours and thirty minutes
behind It's schedule The Eastern Express
was two hours and forty minutes lat. and
the Albany local vas two ours Ovel due.