New-York tribune., 1903-02-18
SNOW AND HIGH WIND.
THE COLD WAVE HERE.
Trains DeIayed-S2OO. .OOO for Re
mOUgHg Fail Of ~ inches.


the cold wave was here to stay. Freezing tem-
perature is predicted for to-day and tomorrow.
and fair weather with it. In the severe storm
which ended yesterday morning % inches OF
snow fell
Local traffic was not greatly interfered
with yesterday as was expected. The elevated
trains We're somewhat delayed IN ire roTninS
but it was due 70 the SnoW in the atr "nion
made the trainmen run slowly S~eepers we're
kept running Monday night and ~ day Eest''
day on the surface roads. and little delay "aF
experienced until late in the afternoon. when
the teamsters were in evidence in The wholesale
district Frequent delays were caused 6y trucks
especially on West Broadway. where the snow
piled high on the sides Of the road, leaV-
ing only the car tracks for all the traffic
The prospect for cleaning the streets quickly
was spoiled BY the announcement or con-
Weather The usu1l programme of warm daF
following a snowfall cannot he relied upon hy
the Street Cleaning Department and the con-
tractor twenty-five hundred started clear
ing the snow away in Manhattan at o'clock
yesterday morning and a thousand carts wefe
used About five hundred carts and seven hun
dred and fifty men were working in The Bronx
and the same number in Brooklyn The fult
force of sweepers of the department was en-
gagged yesterday in opening the cutters and
cleaning the crosswalks. Broadway and the
principal ferry streets were opened up first, ana
the men then turned to the other main thor
oughfares running north and south Last night
large force worked in the financial district
The department complained of the usual short
age of carts Before daybreak yesterday the
snow removal stations were thronged with men
applying for work. who received shovels ana
were sent to join the different gangs. 1t is said
that it will take five days to clean all the inn
portant streets of the city
The walking was particularly bad yesterday
morning Pedestrians who thought they saw a
good place for footing were often unceremonl-
ously forced to change their minds by a suddent
slipping Of the dry snow and the ice under
meath The wind aided by the high velocity
that had been prevalent throughout the night.
wbistIed about street corners. and caused a con-
stant banging of window blinds and shutters
JapftOrs and tenants of houses started out
from II O'Clock to midnight on Monday armed
with shove1s and brooms to clean walks in a lui
in the storm Many walks were cleaned at TINS
time but all for naught, when daylight ar
rived they were as thicky covered as before
the sudden luIl being only forerunner of d stili
heavier fall of snow. and the walks had to hsi
cleaned all again
According to Contractor Bradley it will cose'
the city about 100000 to have the snow re-.
moved This large estimate is based on the
nrospect of continued cold weather and no
thaw
FoRECAsTER EMERY ON STORM
This is the worst storm in years" said Fore
caster Emery yesterday. 1t is because OF so
much snow falling in so short space OF time
1 cannot remember instance when such an
amount fell as quickly. The snowfall is greater
than all that came down in the months of Janu-
ary and February of 1901
The blizzard began with the southwest storm
moving RAJ apfdIy northeast Monday afternoon AZ
night il was central in North Carolina. and this
morning the storm centre was off Nantucket
High winds accompanied the storm all along
the coast Rain fell in the southern attitudes
sro,,- and seet in central ATTITUDES, and snow all
tbroupb the north The rainfall was very heavy.
and the same is true of the snow from the north
eastern portion of Pennsylvania northward. In
Washington the total precipitation was Los
inches most of which was rain. In Phtlade!-
mia 6S inches of snow fell This city got the
greatest share of the fall. North of here even
less snow fell. In Albany only three inches fell,
and in Boston seven inches
The snow here fell foundation Of half
sIush and half zee and bei-s dry snow. packed
we'll. It drffted. owing to the high wind. hut
there were few bare places. Coming as it did
with the Geld wave. a check 20 the grip epidemio
is expected by giving the dry cold that had been
hoped for.
An the surface roads in Harlem and Ths
Bronx with the exception of the Union Railway
were running q little behind schedule yesterday"
morning The latter road was not running at
all All ears were packed. and many persons
,,ara obliged to walk almost down to the Har-
1ern River from certain points Traffic on ths
Williamsburg surface lines was seriously af-
foc+ad Conditions We're especially bad at the
Broadway and Roosevelt ferries The crowd &C
,-e,ic,ss and surface cars i'm that vicinity UaT
the worst i'm years SO dense was it that thS
reserves of two stations. the Bedford-ave- ana
the C1vmer-st. were ordered cut
In Prook1vn traffic was not tied ND 20 any
.raa, extent The suburban points suffered
chiefly. and from some of them no cars ran 'o
BROOKLYN at all in the early hours
Through trains on the railroads were Ir'nf
one. 10 four hours late in arriving Dun INC
suburban trains as rule. ran nearly ON tlme-
-rtc offect of the storm on the New-York CEN
trail and New-York. New-Haven and Hartford
r,adz WAS severe The Twentieth Century Linn
irod due at the Grand Central Station al '-'T'
Yesterday morning was four hours late mo
Adirondack Exp1e due at S:,~', was nVe hours
tate and the Chicago Fast Mail. due at I'
O'clock was four hours late The Boston eA-
presses were nearly -four hours late
suburban trolley and elevated tVaulc yeSt0'
day was 10 a great extent hanpeIe'I "V''0ii
and Southern trains on railroads terminating III
1..sa,- e-frv were from one "a two hours late
....,or,,a,- norn,nr The Piytsburg Limited. on
thA Pennqvlvania. due az Jersey CITY NJ -
m did not reach there until 1-siJ Ihs
C,,,esoraake and ohio train. dUe AT l-~it- was
,r4s5 10 he especially late The lehigh at
- trair due at 102S did nor reach Jersey
CIV until 122o The commuters on. the tf'e
ro,d suffered long delays Trans On me I'VE
system were from one to two hours 7te, AZ