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The evening world., 1902-12-05
SURFACE CARS
SLOW IN

III storm had no effect on the Brook
lyn elevated roads, but with the surface
lines trafic was slower and suffered
many delays. In outlying districts the
snow banked up on the tracks and the
trolley wires became coated with ice,
making II difficult for cars to move.
Schedule time was not attempted.
on lines running out Of the city the
number Of cars was reduced. More
thar half OF the cars were taken from
the Bergen Beach line, and the same
was true with the Coney Island and
Bath Beach roads. .
Supt. Clark, OF the Brooklyn street
cleaning department, said this morn
ing that ne was prepared to re-.
move the snow from the streets
as soon as the storm stopped.
For the very worst kim of a storm he
can call out about 1000 trucks. with
more than 1000 men. For an ordinary
storm he said hat loo trucks and 5000
men would be SUFFICIENT, To prevent
fraud no has arranged to pay trucks 81
a day and demand a certain umber of
loads from them.
During a half hour in the morning
the trolley cars on the Bridge were
blocked by Ice on the trolley wire, but
the cars were moved as soon as the
ice was removed,
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BAD IN THE STREETS.

The snow became so heavy that vision
was limited to a short distance. Side
walks became blocked, thus adding 10
the Inconvenience of the thousands who
20 from their homes TO their places OF
business In the morning.
The Metropolitan and Third Avenue
companies sent out all their snow plows
to keep. the surface lines open. and the
elevated, which had been blocked by
sleet and ice, now found Itself being
buried with snow. The first real storm
OF the winter had come with n VEN
geance.
About the chasm-like streets In the
sky-scraper district the wine carried
the snow in miniature cyclones. which
hurried the pedestrians along or re-
tarded them. drove vehicles against cars
and caused confusion everywhere in the
big city.
The storm was especially bad on the
horses, that slipped and struggled under
heavy loads, making little Roadway.
In the downtown streets there werA
jams Of trucks and the surface cars
were frequently delayed by. animals
that could not keep their feet and fell
At that hour n locomotive cleared the
downtown track on the Third avenue
road, and twenty trains followed Il into
the City Hall stations, all crowded and
coming together.
In BROOKLYN the elevated roads oper-
ated by electricity were not %inconven-
fenced by the storm because they have
no Tenders about Their charged rails.
Consequently the shoes OF the trucks
moving over the rail kept It clear.
Schedule tim was made there.
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Crew of R. F. PettigreW Taken
on Board Charles H. Sprague
in Heavy Sea off Cape Hat
teraS.
REScUERs RIsKED LIVES.
Great Hole Had Been Pounded In
Side Of the Water-Logsed Yes.
eel, and She Was About to Sink
When Help Came.
Especial to Tho E,,sirv world.)

PORT CHESTER. N. Y. Dec. 5.-The
Charles H. Sprague. a three-masted
schooner. entered the Port Chester har-
Dor this morning, after an ~eventful
voyage. during which 1t rescued ten
men from a water-logged vessel in mid
ocean.
The sprague, which is 26O tons burden.
was off Cape Hatteras on Nov. 10 when
she sighted the schooner r. f. Petit
grew, water-logged and about to sink.
When Capt. Harper hove to alongside
the Pettigrew the vessel, which was
heavily loaded and bound from Savan-
nah, Ga. TO Portland. Me-. was almost
filled with water. which was pouring
through big holes made by heavy seas.
With great difficulty the crew were
taken aboard the Sprague during a
heavy sea, which threatened at every
moment to send both vessels to the bot
tom. Then the Pettigrew was aban-
doned and later burned by a passing
steamer, as she was a dereIict and a
menace to travel.
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STALLED BY II STORM At
1o4TH STREET I'M COLUMBUS AVENUE

early to-day walking along Amsterdam
avenue, near Sixty-eighth street, clad
only in a ragged shirt and threadbare
trousers with his bare feet exposed TO
the icy pavement. He appeared to be
happy. for he was whistllng I'm the Good
Old summertime and doing a fancy
step with his half-frozen feet.
When arrested and taken to the West
Sixty-eighth street police station he was
almost blue with cold. He told the SER
geant that his wife used all the money
he could carr buying things for her
self and left him nothing to buy shoes
with.
While he was discussing his wife's cru
city to him she appeared In the station
house and asked that her husband be
retained in the custody of the police.
She said he had started to go out in
the storm, and after trying peaceably
to restrain him she had seized a snow
shovel and hit him over the head with 1t.
The sergeant could not refrain from
smiling at the complaint. but on being
asked to have her husband sent to
Blackwell's Island he refused very pos
itively, remarking that Hirsch had al
ready suffered enough. The daughter,
w..o arrived n few minutes later. also
tried to have her father committed. but
her plea was In vain.
The police hin Hirsch Is suffering
from temporary insanity.
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BRONX HAD
A HARD TIME OF 1T.

The first L train to come out of the
Bronx got across the Harlem Bridge ut
7 o'clock. 1t was loaded to the very
guards with passengers. 1t was an hour
and a half before the next train got
across.
The New York Central got the over
flow which the trolley cars couldn't take.
1t was said that the road carried In
more persons on its suburban cars than
1t has since the 1883 blizzard. when
every kind OF local transportation COM
pany was out OF business. It took one
train n hour and twenty minutes to
get from One Hundred and S%ixty-ninth
street to the Harlem River. The ordi-
nary running time is thirty minutes.
One OF the worst features about the
te-up both in the Bronx and Manhat-
tan was the persistence with which the
ticket-sellers continued to dispose OF
tickets. The City Hall station was so
damned with passengers from Brook
lyn at 100 o'clock this morning that
the police interfered and refused TO al
low any more persons to mount the
stairs. The poor people stood there In
the biting wind and singing snow, as
they did for that matter on every sta
ton in town. waiting for the trains
that moved not at all or so rarely that
they made no impression on the great
crowds.
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device which would scrape the ice and
snow off of the third rail in front Of
the shoes which pick up the current,
he said he believed hat uch was true,
but did not believe any OF them had
been delivered.
ais II not a fact that in planning for
the third rail the company neglected to
plan for the device to keep the rail clear
and that that negligence Is the cause of
the present Inconvenience to the
Dublic2"
Now, really, I did not know the pub
lie had been put TO any Inconvenience"
This was tho first severe test OF the
now third rail-. The Second avenue line
was the first to be equipped with cleo
trio motive power, their first rains
starting last April. The Third avenue
began running electric trains soon after,
but II was not until August that ali
trains were included.
The first electric trains on the Sixth
Avenue line ran only TO Ffty-elghth
street In September. In October tho
third rail was extended to Harlem
and since then work has been going on
with the extension of the third rail- to
operated exclusively by steam.
At s A. NJ, to-day the weather condi-
lions were at their worst. The tenn
perature fell several degrees and the
rain turned to snow. The wind fresh
ened and the weather assumed the pro-
portions Of a blizzard. In a half hour
an inch Of snow fell, forming a crust
on the slush which had already covered
the city
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V~ICE-PRESIDENT SKITT
K ACTIVE A N

At the Offices of the Manhattan Rail
way Company there was muoh worry.
Vice-President Skitt. who Is the active
manager of the system. was out on the
road somewhere. trying to have the
trains moved, and the other oficlals
connected with the operating depart
ment had been sent to various points
to work under his direction.
Assistant superintendent Grape was in
charge of the office. He seemed greatly
astonlshed that there had been a tie-up
of all the lines.
Now, really, you know" he said.
this Is the Hrst / heard Of 1t. Has
there been a delay? / do not think 1t
could amount to much. oh. heavens. no;
the third rail is an immense success, and
while OF ourse installing and operating
IT. costs us a great deal more than the
old way, we are determined TO sacrifice
divldens to give the people a lne serv-
ice.' While Mr.. Grape was talking he
was employing scores OF men. who were
IN the hall waiting. n was sending
them out to work under Mr.. Sldtt and
his aides In clearing the bloekadeB.
When4t Was ~Hugeested that the com
pany had CONTRACTED Tor Z mechanical
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MUCH SNOW, NO COAL IN
COUNTY.
Special to The Evening world.)

WHITE PLAINS. Dec. 5,-Al trolley
cars are being delayed by icy rails.
During the gale which accompanied the
snow storm about a score of telegraph
poles were blown across the Harlem
tracks at Fieasantville, stalling the
Chatham train No. 10, loaded with com
muters, for some time. The storm
caused many lawyers and jurymen in
attendance at the December term OF the
Supreme Court to be late in reaching
tho court,
Tho sudden drop In the temperature
has caused much suffering among the
poor.
1t is impossible to buy coal In Mount
Vernon, New Rochelle. white Plains
and other towns. and It Is feared that
many will literally die from the lack
OF heat. In Yonkers thousands of poor
factory hands are suffering from the
child.
In Mount Vernon Mayor Fiske Is urg-
ing a plan TO cut down all the old
trees and distribute the wood among
the poor.
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tongs and decorating his left arm. The
wound bled profuselv and he was taken
TO Roosevelt Hospital, where his arm
was bound in a tourniquet.
Eugene Rey, thirty-four, of No. i02
East Thirty-seventh street, fell on the
sidewalk in front Of No. 17S East Eighty
fourth street. and fractured his right
knee cap. Flo was taken to the Presoy-
tertan Hospital
Alice Keekan. sixteen years old. was
swept by a fierce gust of wind and
thrown against a frame building at the
corner of Grove street, Jersey City, this
morning, Her head was cut. She was
taken home.
Fritz Adler. twenty-seven years old.
an eXpressman of No. 2la bloomfield
street, Jersey City, was driving down
Broadway this morning. and when OPP
poslte Rector street, was blown from
his seat Jack into the wagon by a heavy
gust of wind. He was rendered uncon-
scious. but revived by an ambulance
surgeon from the Hudson Street Hos
pital and went home.
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That 7 per cent. guarantee of the In
,erborouRh Rapid Transit Company on
The Manhattan Elevated stock didn't
look A particularly good hin for the
subway people to-day. Based on the
change of motive power from steam TO
electricity on the L." the guarantee
must have given them the shivers when
they awoke to find the third-rail system
~ complete failure in the face of the
Sho@storm which settled over the city
last night.
There haF never beer such a collapse
OF elevated transportation since the
famous blizzard of 1888. and this snow
storm Is only a baby. People asked
themselves II a little furry like this can
put the whole system out of joint, what
rs Eoing to happen when we get a real
live snowstorm7 Unless the officials of
the IL" can obviate these difficulties II
Is certain that they will have to go back
to steam.
At 9 A.. NJ. the Manhattan Elevated
Railroad officials were aware OF the fact
that their third rail Is not proof against
sleet and snow.
"A the storm grew in intensity. trains,
BAObN u NlNAh ibt viii DhobNA6VlhG A.
first found great difficulty in moving
and finally all OF them were compelled
TO abandon the attempt n they were
literally showed in.
As the third rail carries a deadly cur
rent OF electricity II was the desire OF
the officials to so protect It with fend-
ers that employees and others woul not
step or fall on II. A continuous board
AkAakAa - A,aL -llA 80 NhA all
SO that 1t extended two inches above
the rail.
The snow and sleet banked into this
groove and formed a coating in many
places an inch thick. 1t was impossl-
BILE for the shoe or dog attached to the
car and which slides along on top OF
.hs third rail TO pick the current up
through the layer Of Ice, and the trains
came to a stop.
It Is only fair TO say in their be-
half. however. that the storm caught
them unprepared. They have been
afraid that 1t would come and do more
or less just what 1t has done. They
have out a contract nov for snow scrap
ers for the ploughs which conduct the
power from the third rail into the motor
cars, but tie contract was let so recent
ly that there has not been sufficient
time In which TO make deliveries.
Some OF the ploughs were fitted to-day
with little brushes. but the sleety char
acter OF the snow made them useless.
They slid right over the Ice which
formed on the rail. This ice. together
with the snow which drifted into the
gully formed by the protecting guard
OF WOOD all along the steel rail, pre-
vented the feeding Of the current into
the motors, and made the road almoss
useless Cor fve hours.
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BLINDED
~FERRYBOAT PILOTS.

The ferries were also delayed by the
heavy fall of snow, which rhade river
navigation as dangerous as though there
were a fog. The pilots In the wheel
houses could scarcely see thirty feet be-
fore them. Fog horns were blowing all
over both rivers and the signal bells at
the ends of the ferry piers were kept
ringing all day to guide the travelling
beetles safely to their slips.
The Sound steamers got in practically
on time, although some OF them were
ooliged~to slow down, not so much from
the binding snow as from the rough sea
kicked up by the high wind, which
ranged around forty-tive miles an hour.
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White Star Liner Buffeted by
Seas During Entire Voyage
and the Passengers Were
Ordered to Remain Below.
ALL NIGHT AT QUARANTINE.
Trip Completed Without Accident to
Mar II, and Singers and Other
Musicians Gave Daily Concerto
sIowest Voyage Of the Ship.

From the time she left Queenstown
until she tied up at her pier to-day the
White Star liner Teutonic was buretod
by northwest and southwest gales and
towering head seas. The time of the
voyage was seven days. IS hours ana SO
minutes, about the worst ever made by
the Teutonic.
Few OF the passengers had the nerve
to venture on deck. and on some occa-
lslons, notably during the second day
out, the officers gave orders that the
passengers should remain below. For
tunatelv no accidents marred the voy-
age, and among the eighty FIRST cabin
passengers there was such an array OF
singers and musicians that daily con-
certs served to while away the tedium
of the long trip.
h storm that is sweeping over New
York to-day was encountered by the
Teutonic yesterday evening Off Fire I'D
and, and was the ~iercest oAthe voyage.
1t was dark as pitch when the steam
ship arrived at Sandy Hook and the
mailboat came alongside to take on
2,0SS bags of mail.
Transfer or Mail Exciting.
The driving storm of sleet and snow
shut out the view OF light and the little
mailboat was bounced against the tow
erlng sides of the big liner with such
force that 1t was feared she would be
stove in. The transfer OF mail was one
of the most exciting Incidents Of tie
trip. d
From Sandy Hook the Teutonic felt her
waY uD the lower hay and the NarroVva
to Quarantine, where she lay all night
Her trip up the river this morning
was made under difficulties similar to
across the ocean, and it was a relieved
crowd OF passengers hat iled OF the
pier Into the snowstorm.
Albert Palmer, a seaman, from his
experience on Dec. 8 is known oil the
On that date he was sent to make O
%tarpauHn fast over the forward hatch.
While at work he was picked up by q
width OF the deck. just as It seemed
sea came aboard and bufreted him. back
aEasc. Three or four times he made the
wave to wave. until he managed to
secure a grip on a ~stanchion n hold
on until rescued. Beyond A wettine and
a scare he sustained no injury.
Comes Here to Live. 4,
Mr.. A. Brandt. formerly one of the
most popular purSers on the White. Star
line, has determined to become q citfzen
Of New York. He said when he came
OF the Teutonic to-day that he 10 about
to start a Bodcga in the Tenderloin..
A Bodcga is a hotel on the English
system, with a magnificent tap o
in which all liquors are drawn from the
original packages In sight Of the GUS
toner. Mr.. Brandt believes that the
Englleh system, with the addition of
ali American improvements in hotel con-
struction and management, will mako
his place one of the show places OF the
city.
The evening world., 1902-12-05
~HACKENSACk MAN
FORETOLD STORM

The more It SHOWS to-day, the more
people have to fume and fret and swear
at the delay in cars, the happier is the
Hackensack weather prophet.
He predicted snow to-day. The Gov
ernmen sharps played safety and said
there might be snow, With them It was
snow ''6r rain" The H~ackensack fore
caster, who r~ejoices in the anne OF A.
j. Devoe, played snow hard and won.
He is not an unamiable man, but the
jealousy OF his profession makes him
glad to see Forecaster Emery fall down.
SO that II 1t SHOWS twelve inches he
will he twice as happy as If 1t SHOWS
but six.
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WIRES
DOWN

New York's telegraphic connection
impaired by the storm. East OF New
York the snow and wind had swept
down hundrsds OF miles OF wire. and 1t
vas almost impossible 10 get connso-
ton by telegraph or telephone with
New England points.
The service was also badly impeded
throughout all New York state, whore
a great deal of snow had fallen In the
last twenty hours. As far south as
Washington there has been heavy slee5
which has proved disastrous to the
wires. and ali that section of the coun.
try, as well as that TO the west OF
Washington, is badly crippled.
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cnILTI.- q ~ WONT HAPPEN AGALM.

81 "There has been an unavoidable delay In delivery OF M devices
which ar to be fitted to each motor car for keeping contact rail clear
of sIeet. The apparatus is now arriving in quantity and will no doubt
be installed, before another storm. in sufficient numbers to prevent
delays"
From his high perch in the skyscraper at No. 100 Broadway Forecaster
Emory expressed the opinion at noon to-day that the storm would keep
all over.
& An inch and a half of snow had fallen 1T that hour according 10 the
Goyernment guages. This is not much for New York, and probably II
kicked up more fuss than yer any storm of its size, owing to h IL
roads state of unpreparedness for it.
"This storm was predicted yesterday" said Mr. Emory. storm
signals yer set all along the Atlantic coast. and they will be kept SET
for the wind is forty-fve miles al hour and will probably keep up. AT .
nclock this morning the temperature in New York va "a degrees, pt
the thermometer is going down and 1t will get below freezing. Tomorrow
il will be considerably Older and cloudy. Il
"The storm is very widespread in its extent South of Washington 1t
ts raininp North Oft there and al far up al Portland 1t is showing. The
temperature in New England ranges from freezing to Il above zero upI
the state 1t is colder than here. For instance, at Bnghampton 1t Is 10
degrees above zero.
"Temperatures In the West and South are rising to-day, but In Mon
an a nw cold wave has been born and temperatures have fallen consld-
erably. In some parts Of that State it is IS degrees below zero
Mr.. Emory said that on Dec. 2 and 3 Of past year there 10 a storm OIL
almost Identical proportions. 1t didn't make half the socal uss owing u
the fact that the e. road was then run by steac and ws not tied up In
the least.
lAhout 1 o'clock this afternoon the weather cleared up somewhat and
traffic conditions in the street improved, but the high wind continued and
the cir became much colder. ,.
/omcials of the az" reported that they were resortns to the use of their
old steam engines very largely. BY this means and ne Improvement III ue
weather the tcup was practically conquered.
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LAY WOUNDED IN STORM.
Found In Area of His Home-PoIice
wink Mnn shot HImnelE.

Harry Frlnk, twenty-five years old. re-
siding with his parents at No. SIS Mon
roe street, Brooklyn, was found in the
area OF his home early to-day with a
bullet wound in his head. Mrs. ENrlnk.
hearing screams, ran downstairs and
discovered her son lying in u pool OF
blood N the rain beating down ON him.
Surgeon Sharp. of st. Mary's Hospital,
who was called, located the buLet under
the young mans scalp and removed him
to the hospital.
When questioned by his mother as to
the cause OF the shooting Frink would
not reply. The police are Inclined to
believe II was an attempt at suicide and
are having him watched. tbs condition
10 not considered soriouA
The evening world., 1902-12-05
VESSELS IN PERIL
OFF CAPE HATTERAS.
tspeol,l 70 Tho evening world.)

NORFOLK, Va. Dec. 5.-The Virginia
N Carolina coasts are to-day storm
swept. All telegraph wires to Capes
Henry and H%at6eras are down, and no
word can be had from these points
where shipwrecks usually occur during
such storms. There are great fears for
all shipping at sea.
The wind blew sixty miles an hour
here this morning. doing great damage.
The evening world., 1902-12-05
BIG STORM SWEEPS
OVER MANY STATES.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 6.-Raflroad
service in ali directions is badly crippled
and telegraph me telephone wires are
Frustrated. Throughout the anthracite
coal region the fall OF snow is reported
to be very heavy and 1t Is drifting
badly, necessitating the shutting down
of many collleries.
George ~sherverton. driver Of an ex-
press wagon in this city. becoming con-
fused by the snow. drove his team into
a trolley car and received injuries from
which he died.
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DUE
TO SLIPPERY TREETS.

Patrolman George Haphmaker, of the
West Sixty-eishth street station, who
lives ut No Sss Ninth avenue, fell on
the 10y stoop at No. 42s Columbus ave-
nue., tracturing his left leg. He was re-
moved TO Roosevelt Hospital.
As Matthew McSweeney. 'thirty-seven
years old, OF No. cal West Forty-hfth
street, was leaving the house e. No. 4sO
Columbus avenue. where he had been
delivering ice. he clipped on she pave
ment n fell landing upon his Ice
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EMPIRE A
COVERED WITH SNOW,
Especial TO The Evening world.)

Albany, n. Y, Dec. 5,-From Mon
tauk Point to Buffalo the State of New
York Is covered with snow to-day. The
storm began here early this morning
and is still In progress. The surface cars
are slightly impeded. but the company
has employed hundreds of extra men.
who are keeping the road open. All
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Cold Wave I'm AInbnmn.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Dec. 5.-A cold
wave reached Birmingham yesterday
and caused a drop of 30 degrees in tenn
wind, rain and snow. The wind Is re-
ported to have done considerable dam
age west of this city. :
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schenectady Snowbound.

rs SGi u aNda TAP n; ~; pee 9;w
had fallen here. The local trolley SER
vice was badly crippled and cars on the
interurban divisions extending into Al
bany and Watervliet were greatly de-
layed. The eastbound trains on the
New York Central Railroad were sew
eral hours late, but thus far the west
bound service is being maintained as
per its schedule.
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Schooner Ashore Near Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. Dec. 5.-The schooner
Il. Herbert Taft, which sailed yesterday
for Port Tampa, is ashore in Patapsco
River on Bodkln Point. Tugs have been
sent to her assistance.
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Killed in a snowsIide.

BAKER CITY, Ore, Dec. 5.-A meagre
snowslide which occurred at Cornucopia
last night. No details are obtainable,
except that two miners were killed and
The evening world., 1902-12-05
STORMS IN ENGLAND
AND ON CONTINENT

LONDON, Dec. 8. Bitterly cold
weather continues to prevail through
out the United Kingdom. Gales and
seas interfere with the channel trafflc
and there have beer many minor casual
ties among the shipping.
The fall OF snow Is geneSal, including
the channel islands, which is almost I'M
p~recedented. Londoners expect skating
Sunday. Similar conditions exist on the
continent.